"The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner." --Cormac McCarthy

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Illinois Smith: Nov 15, 2003; Ninety-one? There are ninety other "Tiger Drivers"? Do any involve actual tigers, or driving?

mdemone posted:

"The crimes of the moonlight melonmounter followed him as crimes will."

The Harrogate parts in Suttree are easily the funniest thing he's ever written, especially his introduction.

"Somebody's been loving my watermelons."

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Illinois Smith: Nov 15, 2003; Ninety-one? There are ninety other "Tiger Drivers"? Do any involve actual tigers, or driving?

Just got informed by a random Youtube link that James Franco has directed a Child of God adaptation that should be coming out soon. The teaser trailer is just Ballard looking at the camera for 30 seconds but I'm kinda hyped for this, even if Franco doesn't look anything like I pictured Ballard in my head. Oh well.

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Illinois Smith: Nov 15, 2003; Ninety-one? There are ninety other "Tiger Drivers"? Do any involve actual tigers, or driving?

Snapchat A Titty posted:

Franco doesn't play Lester Ballard, he's played by Scott Haze.

Oh, I just assumed he was playing Ballard since he's the first name listed on IMDB. Who's Jerry? It's been a while since I've read it.

mdemone posted:

Eh, he wouldn't be bad as the Kid

Franco is 36 years old. Let him play Tobin or someone else from Glanton's gang if he has to be in it. His days of playing teenagers are over.

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Illinois Smith: Nov 15, 2003; Ninety-one? There are ninety other "Tiger Drivers"? Do any involve actual tigers, or driving?

The Crossing is about Billy Parham's adventures in Mexico and while he rides a horse for all of it and one of the adventues consists of recovering some stolen horses, his character is far less crazy about them than John Grady. You get plenty of McCarthy's theories about wolves instead, at least in the first third.

Cities of the Plain has John Grady as a protagonist again and while the main story is his doomed love for a Mexican prostitute he also works on a ranch with Billy while that's going on so you get plenty of horse taming, horse riding, horse buying and just general fawning and philosophizing over horses.

Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Feb 5, 2014

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Illinois Smith: Nov 15, 2003; Ninety-one? There are ninety other "Tiger Drivers"? Do any involve actual tigers, or driving?

Basically whenever someone wonders what McCarthy book to pick up next the answer should be "have you read Suttree? Because you really should read Suttree, as soon as possible".

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Illinois Smith: Nov 15, 2003; Ninety-one? There are ninety other "Tiger Drivers"? Do any involve actual tigers, or driving?

Black Bones posted:

Yo McCarthy thread! Getting Blood Meridian-esque vibes from the trailer for The Revenant Check it out if you haven't already

It's based on Hugh Glass. There's a pretty great Dollop episode about him.

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Near the forks of the Grand River in present-day Perkins County, in August 1823, while scouting ahead of his trading partners for game for the expedition's larder, Glass surprised a grizzly bear mother with her two cubs. Before he could fire his rifle, the bear charged, picked him up, and threw him to the ground. Glass managed to kill the bear with help from his trapping partners, Fitzgerald and Bridger, but was left badly mauled and unconscious. Henry (who was also with them) became convinced the man would not survive his injuries.

Henry asked for two volunteers to stay with Glass until he died, and then bury him. Bridger (then 19 years old) and Fitzgerald (then 23 years old) stepped forward, and as the rest of the party moved on, began digging his grave.[3] Later claiming that they were interrupted in the task by an attack by "Arikaree"[citation needed] Indians, the pair grabbed Glass's rifle, knife, and other equipment, and took flight. Bridger and Fitzgerald incorrectly reported to Henry that Glass had died.

Despite his injuries, Glass regained consciousness. He did so only to find himself abandoned, without weapons or equipment, suffering from a broken leg, the cuts on his back exposing bare ribs, and all his wounds festering. Glass lay mutilated and alone, more than 200 miles (320 km) from the nearest American settlement at Fort Kiowa on the Missouri.

In one of the more remarkable treks known to history, Glass set his own leg, wrapped himself in the bear hide his companions had placed over him as a shroud, and began crawling. To prevent gangrene, Glass laid his wounded back on a rotting log and let the maggots eat the dead flesh.

Deciding that following the Grand River would be too dangerous because of hostile Indians, Glass crawled overland south toward the Cheyenne River using Thunder Butte, a prominent landmark visible for miles, as a navigational tool. It would take him six weeks to reach the Cheyenne River. Glass survived mostly on wild berries and roots. On one occasion he was able to drive two wolves from a downed bison calf, and feast on the meat. Glass was aided by friendly natives who sewed a bear hide to his back to cover the exposed wounds as well as providing him with food and a couple of weapons to defend himself. He made his way to the Cheyenne River, fashioned a crude raft and floated down the river, eventually reaching the safety of Fort Kiowa.

After a long recuperation, Glass set out to track down and avenge himself against Bridger and Fitzgerald. When he found Bridger, on the Yellowstone near the mouth of the Bighorn River, Glass spared him, purportedly because of Bridger's youth. When he found Fitzgerald, he discovered that Fitzgerald had joined the United States Army, Glass purportedly restrained himself because the consequence of killing a U.S. soldier was death. However, he did recover his lost rifle.

There's also a pretty weak 70s movie called Man in the Wilderness. Inarritu's adaptation looks great but man, how do you have Tom Hardy in your movie and he's playing the cowardly guy instead of the badass who survives a bear attack and crawls through the wilderness for six weeks?

I know it's because DiCaprio only plays leads but I'd love to see a version of this with the parts reversed.

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