Days of Heaven as a sly remake of F. W. Murnau's CITY GIRL (1930) ?

So says Film Comment's Terry Curtis Fox, available on Youtube.

The visuals and the germ of Days of Heaven's storyline is here... what do you think?

Wild Turkey in Concord, Massachusetts - November 2010

"This November air, what a heaven to live in! Intensely brilliant as no artificial light I have seen, like a dance of diamonds, coarse mazes of the diamond dance seen through the trees. All objects shine to-day, even the sportsmen seen at a distance, as if a cavern were unroofed, and its crystals gave entertainment to the sun. This great see-saw of brilliants..."

October Moon Setting over Mount Wachuset

Female Cowbird