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Who would you all cast as the judge in a film? I’ve always pictured him halfway between bald Jeff bridges and apocalypse now marlon Brando
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Mar 30, 2023 19:14
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Proust Malone posted:Who would you all cast as the judge in a film? I’ve always pictured him halfway between bald Jeff bridges and apocalypse now marlon Brando Christopher Lloyd 
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Mar 30, 2023 19:53
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Proust Malone posted:Who would you all cast as the judge in a film? I’ve always pictured him halfway between bald Jeff bridges and apocalypse now marlon Brando Joseph Gatt 
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Mar 30, 2023 23:22
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ruddiger posted:Joseph Gatt he's got the look down. might have to make him look taller.
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Mar 30, 2023 23:57
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some guy with a deleted profile on reddit posted:THE PERFECT CAST... lol Blood Meridian produced by Judd Apatow
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Mar 31, 2023 00:34
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Dave Bautista, maybe?
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Apr 1, 2023 16:08
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It is unfilmable. 
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Apr 3, 2023 18:47
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Finally got around to Stella Maris, and found it a painful slog to get through even as short as it was. Alicia is just insufferable as a character and I found very little of what she had to say interesting.
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Apr 4, 2023 21:09
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Kull the Conqueror posted:It is unfilmable.  WSJ: People have said "Blood Meridian" is unfilmable because of the sheer darkness and violence of the story. CM: That's all crap. The fact that's it's a bleak and bloody story has nothing to do with whether or not you can put it on the screen. That's not the issue. The issue is it would be very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary.
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Apr 4, 2023 21:13
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edit: Wrong thread
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Apr 4, 2023 21:44
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I think a BM movie would be mediocre because the thing that makes the book magic isn’t the plot, it’s the prose.
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Apr 5, 2023 20:44
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Proust Malone posted:I think a BM movie would be mediocre because the thing that makes the book magic isn’t the plot, it’s the prose. you could just depict this visually and nothing about it would be terribly notable. quote:The crumpled butcherpaper mountains lay in sharp shadowfold under the long blue dusk and in the middle distance the glazed bed of a dry lake lay shimmering like the mare imbrium and herds of deer were moving north in the last of the twilight, harried over the plain by wolves who were themselves the color of the desert floor. Glanton sat his horse and looked long out upon this scene. Sparse on the mesa the dry weeds lashed in the wind like the earth's long echo of lance and spear in old encounters forever unrecorded. All the sky seemed troubled and night came quickly over the evening land and small gray birds flew crying softly after the fled sun. He chucked up the horse. He passed and so passed all into the problematical destruction of darkness. there are passages in there that i feel i could almost recite from memory after the first time i read them, but if you depicted them on screen it wouldn't amount to much. some of action heavy scenes might work. i would like, errr like maybe is not the right word, but i would be interested to see the Legion of Horribles scene. Death Hilarious. or the kid vs judge fight.
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Apr 5, 2023 20:53
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Proust Malone posted:I think a BM movie would be mediocre because the thing that makes the book magic isn’t the plot, it’s the prose.  The only way the prose would translate to the screen would be through one hell of a cinematographer. Roger Deakins could probably pull it off (or the guy who did Valhalla Rising, which has that same BM "violence as the story of man" theme)
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Apr 5, 2023 20:54
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It should start with the last scene from the book and have a voiceover by the kid "You might be wondering how I got myself in this here situation..."
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Apr 6, 2023 00:59
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ruddiger posted:It should start with the last scene from the book and have a voiceover by the kid "You might be wondering how I got myself in this here situation..." lmao
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Apr 6, 2023 01:03
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Bear gets shot *record scratch*
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Apr 6, 2023 01:22
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Apr 6, 2023 01:26
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Hell there are plenty of great films that have conjured the poetry of the desert frontier. I think the bigger issue is that it would be harder for the violence to not feel like a ‘have your cake and eat it too’ situation that betrays the story’s intention. Writing about slaughter of Indians and depicting it cinematically are so, so different. The latter feels much more exploitative in a manner that strikes me as antiquated and obsolete. McCarthy is right, somebody could probably pull it off but they’d have to be a world class auteur.
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Apr 6, 2023 03:55
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In no country, It always blows my little mind that Tommy Lee's opening monologue isn't word for word from the book, it's got part of the opening chapter and maybe from memory a later one but it works so well. Always a strange difference is the book says he sent someone to the gas chamber and the film says 'lectric chair.
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Apr 6, 2023 07:49
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I worked at a video store from 2009-2012 and I will always remember the time when a 50-something spent about half an hour explaining to me that No Country was all a dream and that none of it really happened, and I had to just nod politely rather than calling him an idiot.
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Apr 6, 2023 08:23
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I finished Stella Maris last night and it was fine and definitely had some really interesting parts and maybe needs to sit for a minute but wanted to say the passage about suicide by drowning was beautiful and dark and terrifying
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Apr 21, 2023 19:04
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HashtagGirlboss posted:I finished Stella Maris last night and it was fine and definitely had some really interesting parts and maybe needs to sit for a minute but wanted to say the passage about suicide by drowning was beautiful and dark and terrifying yeah that has stayed with me as well. best/worst part
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Apr 21, 2023 21:03
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Carthag Tuek posted:yeah that has stayed with me as well. best/worst part Some amount of it went over my head which I doubt I’m alone in, but even then the more it sits with me the more I appreciate it. A very sad book. I was more positive on the passenger than a lot of posters but I think I enjoyed this better. I can see why it was carved into its own smaller work rather than worked into the narrative of the passenger. Very sad in general but the ending especially really worked
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Apr 22, 2023 00:08
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Some amount of it went over my head which I doubt I’m alone in, but even then the more it sits with me the more I appreciate it. A very sad book. I was more positive on the passenger than a lot of posters but I think I enjoyed this better. I can see why it was carved into its own smaller work rather than worked into the narrative of the passenger. Very sad in general but the ending especially really worked i think most went over my head, but its still there my high school level thought is that the titular passenger was not on the plane or the beach or the platform, they was just in life. or death. a traveller, a passenger, same thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itb1IFy0PP4&t=102s oh also my god i hate that avatar
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Apr 22, 2023 10:21
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anyway theres no one better at writing dialogue i think, so stella maris was imo the better book. i see them before me
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Apr 22, 2023 10:27
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Carthag Tuek posted:i think most went over my head, but its still there Yeah I agree. The passenger is just Bobby who is an amazingly passive protagonist for a McCarthy novel. I think you hit the nail on the head though re: Stella maris being the better of the two. The conversations really flowed even when they went over my head, and I appreciated the times either the therapist would interject with confusion or she would remark that he appeared confused, often at places I was getting lost myself It’s okay to hate vaudeville Ben Shapiro, he almost certainly hates you too (and me, and nearly everyone else who posts on this website…)
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Apr 22, 2023 16:14
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Also it just occurred to me that the cover art is quite possibly inspired by the specific passage we’re discussing
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Apr 22, 2023 16:50
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Yeah I agree. The passenger is just Bobby who is an amazingly passive protagonist for a McCarthy novel. Is he any more passive than Suttree though? I wouldn’t say they’re much different, maybe only by degrees
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Apr 22, 2023 18:40
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Cormac has a type
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Apr 22, 2023 19:31
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https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1652006112906866689 The director could play the Judge as well.
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Apr 28, 2023 18:58
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thats a pretty good choice. The Proposition had echoes of Blood Meridian, and obviously he also did The Road adaptation which was imo excellent.
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Apr 28, 2023 19:04
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I once made the heinous mistake of tripping balls and watching Valhalla Rising. I may have to repeat that mistake.
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Apr 28, 2023 19:07
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also lolling at imagining a Refn adaptation of BM. i assume Eason means cinematography, what with nature and such, im just loving my brain giving me visuals of the judge pissing in neon colors and deep house like a balenciaga ai meme anyway tried watching valhalla rising one time and was bored out of my mind, but then i tried again another time and loving loved it. im like that a lot with Refn's more recent stuff. gotta be in the right mood, otherwise the weird meditative set piece stuff becomes a slog
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Apr 28, 2023 19:18
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I guarantee this movie never comes out.
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Apr 28, 2023 19:19
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Jewmanji posted:I guarantee this movie never comes out. oh for sure, i give odds 50:1 (no bets higher than a cent tia, im not made of money)
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Apr 28, 2023 19:21
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Carthag Tuek posted:also lolling at imagining a Refn adaptation of BM. i assume Eason means cinematography, what with nature and such, im just loving my brain giving me visuals of the judge pissing in neon colors and deep house like a balenciaga ai meme lol. yeah the cinematography for sure, but BM and VR share a lot of themes (the inhumane but human love of violence and conquest; the erosion of the band's/the gang's sense of self by both themselves and the land they're trying to dominate; the sublimation, though different in context, of the boy/the kid to One-Eye/the Judge) and VR did a pretty great job of capturing my sense of the BM vibe. Refn wouldn't have been a bad pick at all to direct, but Hillcoat didn't do too bad with The Road. Eason the Fifth fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Apr 28, 2023 19:26
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Eason the Fifth posted:lol. yeah the cinematography for sure, but BM and VR share a lot of themes (the inhumane but human love of violence and conquest; the erosion of the band's/the gang's sense of self by both themselves and the land they're trying to dominate; the sublimation, though different in context, of the boy/the kid to One-Eye/the Judge) and VR did a pretty great job of capturing my sense of the BM vibe. Refn wouldn't have been a bad pick at all to direct, but Hillcoat didn't do too bad with The Road. Yeah there are definitely a lot of shared themes there, more than i thought at first! have you seen The Proposition? its got a lot of that desolate frontier brutality
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Apr 28, 2023 19:35
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you have to cast a big tall dude as the judge or else you have to do some movie trickery to size him up. his size is a major part of his awful presence. here's one of my favorite passages. also contains the phrase "complete at every hour" which kicked my rear end with how evocative it is for such a simple statement. "He'd long forsworn all weighing of consequence" good god. also does the thing where Cormac drops one of his long run-on sentences on you and then punctuates it with a one liner. "Oh my god, said the sergeant." quote:He watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same to him.
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Apr 28, 2023 20:02
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By the way, Blood Meridian is only $2 on Kindle today if you want a digital copy of it that you can read on your phone https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-International-ebook/dp/B003XT60E0/
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Apr 28, 2023 20:15
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uber_stoat posted:here's one of my favorite passages. also contains the phrase "complete at every hour" which kicked my rear end with how evocative it is for such a simple statement. "He'd long forsworn all weighing of This is gonna be such an awesome thing to see on screen 
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