Query: The Thin Red Line (1998 film) features a performance by an actor.

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Ben Chaplin <=SEP=> Ben Chaplin ( born Benedict John Greenwood ; 31 July 1969 ) is an English actor .

Adrien Brody <=SEP=> Adrien Brody ( born April 14 , 1973 ) is an American actor . He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski 's The Pianist ( 2002 ) , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29 , making him the youngest actor to win in that category . Brody is also the only male American actor to receive the French César Award .   Other successful films that Brody has starred in are Bread and Roses , the 2005 version of King Kong , The Village , Predators , New York Stories , and The Thin Red Line .   He is a frequent collaborator of Wes Anderson 's and has starred in two of Anderson 's films . Both of these films , The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Darjeeling Limited , were major successes .

The Thin Red Line (1998 film) <=SEP=> The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American ensemble epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick . Based on the novel by James Jones , it tells a semi-fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen , which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II . It portrays soldiers of C Company , 1st Battalion , 27th Infantry Regiment , 25th Infantry Division , played by Sean Penn , Jim Caviezel , Nick Nolte , Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin . Although the title may seem to refer to a line from Rudyard Kipling 's poem `` Tommy '' , from Barrack-Room Ballads , in which he calls foot soldiers `` the thin red line of heroes '' , referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War , it is in reality a quote from Jones 's book which reads , `` they discover the thin red line that divides the sane from the mad ... and the living from the dead ... ''   The film marked Malick 's return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence . It co-stars Nick Nolte , Adrien Brody , George Clooney , John Cusack , Woody Harrelson , Elias Koteas , Jared Leto , John C. Reilly , and John Travolta . Reportedly , the first assembled cut took seven months to edit and ran five hours . By the final cut , footage of performances by Bill Pullman , Lukas Haas , and Mickey Rourke had been removed ( although one of Rourke 's scenes was included in the special features outtakes of the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD release ) . The film was scored by Hans Zimmer , and shot by John Toll . Principal photography took place in New Zealand , and Australia in the state of Queensland .   The film grossed $ 98 million against its $ 52 million budget . Critical response was generally positive and the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards : Best Picture , Best Director , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Cinematography , Best Film Editing , Best Original Score and Best Sound Mixing . It won the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival . Martin Scorsese ranked it as his second favorite film of the 1990s on At the Movies . Gene Siskel called it `` the greatest contemporary war film I 've seen '' .   A previous film adaptation of the novel was released in 1964 .