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Looks like there’s some forward momentum on the Hillcoat Blood Meridian project.
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Maybe now people will stop making endless internet threads to speculate on who would be the best person to play The Judge. Anyway. I love The Proposition but I just don't think this movie should ever be made. Leave it be.
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Apr 25, 2024 01:56
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Jewmanji posted:Maybe now people will stop making endless internet threads to speculate on who would be the best person to play The Judge. Yeah. It's just a better book than a film and an adaptation would require so much editing that it would be something different. I mean unless they went full Killers and made 3 and a half hours.
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Apr 25, 2024 02:07
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If anything I feel like All The Pretty Horses is due for another attempt. That seems like a slam dunk but what do I know?
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Apr 25, 2024 02:29
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Jewmanji posted:If anything I feel like All The Pretty Horses is due for another attempt. That seems like a slam dunk but what do I know?
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Apr 25, 2024 13:51
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King Carnivore posted:Looks like there’s some forward momentum on the Hillcoat Blood Meridian project. im ok with it. hillcoat is a good choice but if it sucks i just wont watch it. cant ruin my idea of the book
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Apr 25, 2024 21:06
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Finally reading The Crossing. Have you always been crazy? I don't know. I never was much put to the test before today. Hoe old are you? Sixteen. Sixteen. Yessir. Well you ain't got the sense God gave a goose. Did you know that? You may be right How do you expect your horse to tolerate bunch of nonsense such as this.
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May 3, 2024 07:46
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Having read the Border trilogy I really wonder whst McCarthy's deal with Mexico and Mexicans was. Like according to his books Mexico's population consists of 99,99% villains and 0,01% hot women that wants to gently caress John Grady Cole.
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May 3, 2024 11:02
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Uhhhh maybe you should read the books again. Every time one of the characters stops in a town someone is there to give them a plate of beans and tortillas, and another person is there to give them the lecture of a lifetime
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May 3, 2024 12:25
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I think there’s an essay to be written somewhere about our boy Cormac’s relationship to cafes. Our detached masculine characters off in the wilderness always seem to find one.
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May 3, 2024 18:09
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Proust Malone posted:I think there’s an essay to be written somewhere about our boy Cormac’s relationship to cafes. Our detached masculine characters off in the wilderness always seem to find one. ive never thought about it, but yeah they do hang out in cafes a lot
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May 3, 2024 19:46
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Proust Malone posted:I think there’s an essay to be written somewhere about our boy Cormac’s relationship to cafes. Our detached masculine characters off in the wilderness always seem to find one. The bit in the crossing where the get chicken and its terrible and they should of gotten the goat
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May 3, 2024 21:22
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All these cowboys are drinking coffee at night I don't understand how they sleep. This isn't a bit I literally don't understand.
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May 4, 2024 03:04
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algebra testes posted:All these cowboys are drinking coffee at night I don't understand how they sleep. Maybe they all have untreated ADHD?
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May 4, 2024 03:11
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algebra testes posted:All these cowboys are drinking coffee at night I don't understand how they sleep. Long days, lots of physical activity, relatively weak coffee. It’s really hard to overstate how much stronger we brew our coffee then they did before European brewing methods started popping up in the 70s/80s
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My dad used to drink two liters of green tea every night in the three or four hours before he went to bed. I think having a physically demanding job helps you go to sleep rather than having a job where you're On The Computer for 8 hours (also i bet oldschool coffee was being brewed many times from the same grounds and weak as hell besides). I just finished the first two border books and can't see him as writing Mexico as being anything other than a hard place to live in in the shadow of severe conflict and oppression in which many people still manage to be charitable and good even though they and the main characters are subject to the whims of random violence at the hands of the minority who are powerful and corrupt or just opportunist bandits. Basically everyone the characters run into has a different opinion on what's going on with the world and why so many people are useless or evil and but everyone's always written as very human and real (except I dunno how many huge soliloquys people give to strangers in real life but maybe that was more common before electronic entertainment) . It's also fun when someone has a big story about how god's creation exists in darkness and light only exists in the eyes of humanity or a guy who thinks god is unarguably real and also a dickhead who personally hosed him over and he lives in a broken building for a decade to try and prove it to everyone. It borders on being a little bit too into the idea that the oppressed and exploited can weather anything and still maintain a nobility and goodness no matter what but I guess he wrote these before cultural neoliberalism really kicked in and brought true inhumanity to humanity. I guess that's mostly the second book though, the first one is a bit more villainous but it's still mostly just evil rich people who can't tolerate transgression of the class system in which their fortune and power are entrenched paying off abused prisoners with nothing to lose along with corrupt police officials, none of the villains in the book really represent the common mexican person as much as they represent the systems of power in a country without strong cybernetic legal control over the identity and legal position of foreigners without a lot of social power to throw around and protect themselves with.
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