>A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
Why is Blood Meridian so insanely many light years beyond any other thing of human creation? Every single frickin line is perfect. It's like something written by God.
You people need to kys. Judge is not some muscular le epic badass. He's a fat frick who looks like an albino baby but overgrown. Glenn Fleshler is the only sensible choice.
>Jon Lithgow
He is too old now. They could deage him, but gonna look like Irishman tier.
Idk why but i can picture Hemsworth. My dream casting would be Neeson, but he is old too
Look at this guy. He looks like a cuck. Lifeless eyes. Looks submissive, limp-wristed, limp-dicked. Contrast his face with McCarthy's. His eyes beamed with genius and virility. He sired a child as an old man.
McCarthy adaptation flicks are as good as their directors. The Coen bros are brilliant and so is NCFOM. Ridley Scott is haggard at this point but has genuine talent which is why The Counselor is still great, it's the second best movie here. The Road is the worst of the bunch, whole thing's just schmaltzy and lame, you can tell there's a good book underneath but they gave the material to a boring homosexual. And now this guy of all people will direct Blood Meridian? Fricking lol.
Agreed. I was really impressed with him and the Icelandic actor who put on the southern accent so well, the character who got blown away with Ledoux. They did an amazing thing with those roles.
I really hope with this they scour the US and get some actors never seen before, people with the right faces to play these roles. I recall watching that movie the 13th warrior and the most Viking looking and acting character ended up being some guy from New England, that never did anything else big and he became a doctor or something. That's what they need to go for, guys who can convincingly *be* scalp hunting cowboys and injuns in the frame without much CGI to twist their forms.
>In a world where war is… >*record scratch* >…LE GOD???? >the judge starts rubbing his head >a bunch of men are pissing >FRICKIN PISS YOU wienerSUCKERS PISS FOR YOUR FRICKIN LIVES >Old man I’ll tell you what I just scalped a good deal for horse meat >BASED ON THE OVERRATED FRICKING NOVEL BY SOME OLD FART >the guitar solo in If You Want a Cowboy on a White Horse starts playing >yeah i’m christian bale! i skipped church! >dude lol the injuns lmao! >BLOOD MERIDIAN: THE MOVIE >insert bald man saying something neckbeardish and extremely pseudointellectual >Coming 2038
Cormac is the only author whose films are better than books. His writing style is fricking horrible
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.
going to repost a couple of these from the Cinemaphile thread >*Judge walks in the tent* >"Hello everyone, that man is a criminal!" >Crowd gasps >Man faints in a womanly fashion >"Heh, I tend to do that" >*I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE WHEN YOU WALKED IIIIN" >Kid, you cant keep running youre entire life >"Maybe not, but my horse heres pretty fast" >*AAAAA* >Judge loads gun during action sequence >*AAAAA* >Kid loads flintlock during preparation montage >*TROUBLE TROUBLE TROUBLE* >Glanton, with knife: Youre not so tough are you >*Kid kicks him in the balls and shoves him over* >*AAAAA* >2025 >*AAAAA* >*TROUBLE TROUBLE TROUBLE*
Never read more than a synopsis of the book (i can't handle the lack of punctuation, i am an esl moron), but that scene is what will drive the themes really home
>Warner Bros logo >Village productions logo >Touchstone pictures logo >A24 logo >*Shot of the kid riding over a hill on horseback as the red sun sets behind him, autistically darkening* >My name is the kid. >My world is fire and blood >*Disembodied voices talking: Chaos at the Church, she was raped..., they found the body!" >*Intro riff from Black hole sun* >Shot of a tall white skinned man wearing a large black brimmed hat from the back >He turns and looks at the screen with one red eye >*IN MY EYES >*INDISPOSED* >"Its only going to get worse from here kid" >I dont care what happens to me... >*shot of calvary riding across baren desert* >*IN DISGUISES NO ONE KNOWS* >*HIDES THE FACE* >*music stops* >*Lieees the snake...* >Judge enters tent >Cut to his face as he points >"THIS MAN IS GUILTY!" >action resumes >*AND THE SUN IN MY DISGRACE* >Shot of the Calvary moving across the desert >"Youre not the only one out here, kid" >BOILING HEAT SUMMER STENCH >cut to judge >"Youre everything they say aint you >BENEATH THE BLACK THE SKY LOOKS DEAD >black screen >CALL MY NAME THROUGH THE CREAM AND ILL HEAR YOU SCREAM AGAIN >*random acts of violence* >BLACK HOLE SUN >WONT YOU COME >WASH AWAY THE RAIN >*more violence* >BLACK HOLE SUN >WONT YOU COME >cut to judge over the rock >"I told you kid, I always come back" >BLACK HOLE SUN >2024 >RATED R >WONT YOU COME >IN THEATERS THIS AUGUST >WONT YOU COOOOME
these are reposts from Cinemaphile i thought were funny. the others are good i think >red sky >opensans semibold all caps "BLOOD MERIDIAN" >white man bad >roll closing credits
>He was just an average kid, looking for some adventure >But when adventure finds him >*cuts to The Kid (played by Finn Wolfhard) getting woken up on his horse" Wait, what's going on? >*Glanton (played by Adam Sandler) is shaking him "Wake up, lazy bones! We're gonna sack this village!" >*cuts to wide shot of the Gang approaching the village (which is notably white, so as not to anger the Native American market) as dramatic BWOMMMMS play" >*Suddenly, the dramatic tension cuts as one of the villagers shoots an arrow at Glanton's crotch, causing him to cringe" >*The Judge (played by The Rock in white-face, for some easily marketable controversy) winces and goes "Ooooh, right in the Toadvine!"™ >*Cormac McCarthy himself shows up to say "Nuff said!" >...he's gonna need some friends along the way >THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN >This summer >"The kid yells "This desert is our home! We can't let the army take what's ours! Who's with me gang?" as everyone cheers" >...the west... >*shows The Kid and Toadvine (who is now played by Leslie Jones) beatboxing on their horses" >...is gonna get.... >shows the dancing bear beating up army goons as The Judge rides on his back with a rifle" >...wild >music stops with a record scratch as The Judge twerks" >*Glanton's jaw drops as The Kid goes "Awkwaaaaard™ * >BLOOD MERIDIAN, RATED PG-13 (accompanied by a cgititle screen and a guitar rif) >"The scene cuts to black" >*Suddenly, the scene cuts back to The Judge sitting in a saloon, when he hears a voice say "Hey Holden, I'm not through with you"" >*Camera tums around, showing an aged Javier Bardem reprising his role as Anton to set up the McCarthy Cinematic Universe" >COMING JANUARY 2024
>>*Camera tums around, showing an aged Javier Bardem reprising his role as Anton to set up the McCarthy Cinematic Universe"
JANUARY 2024
Somebody get the kino button, I think it needs to be pressed
>It makes no difference what men think of war, war endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. >SOMETHING IN THE WAY >MMMMMMMM HMMMMMMMM >SOMETHING IN THE WAY YEAH >MMMMMMMM HMMMMMMMM
This dude is the mayor of the county i live in.
he came to our college republicans meeting and sang a parody of "12 days of Christmas" but replaced "Christ" with "Biden" and sung about his policies.
he made us sing along
>two men open an outhouse >they reel back "WOAAAAAHHHH!" >*record scratch* >"Yeah, that's me in there. >Nnnnnnoooot my BEST look 😉 >It all began when I was fourteen" >*rewinding noise* >*ABC by the Jackson Five* >Young teen pickpockets and apple while walking, and takes a bite >Young girl voice, "KID, you're nothing but TROUBLE." >Kid shrugs at camera
hillcaot is still making it. logan is writing it. Mcarthy helped with some of the writing. both Mcarthy and his son are getting executive producer credits.
looks like it'll actually happen.
I expect it to be disappointing.
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.
i read the first three lines and that's some really weak parody right there, you don't get the spirit of mccarthy's writing at all. it's ok to despise his writing if you can pull of a competent parody but this ain't it
>he >he >they >he >they >he >they >he >he >he >they
Black person IT WOULDN'T KILL YOU TO SAY WHO THE FRICK IS TALKING RIGHT NOW
yeah it's fricking weird he posted replying to other two anonymous posters then he added I often had to re-read a few paragraphs back but he knew he will probably be shitposted by random homosexuals after writing this post
Never read more than a synopsis of the book (i can't handle the lack of punctuation, i am an esl moron), but that scene is what will drive the themes really home
you anons should try the audiobook. The lack of punctuation actually makes sense in a speaking style (where people never really end their sentences).
I tried to read the book after and I couldnt grasp it as well as I could with the audiobook
I might actually try that. It never struck me as something I need to read, but it seems to get some traction, maybe I should give it a try.
Thanks for the tip.
Seriously, this is the best pick for le Judge I have seen this far, there's something about this guy's vibe where he could definitely play a villain of uncanny, otherworldly intelligence. I hope he's really tall.
He would be an amazing judge. Plus having an amazing voice. Real menacing but I think he is too old now. It’s a shame. Maybe make up could save but idk. How old is the judge anyways?
Cowboys were often quite young when they lived off the land, I hope they don't cast too many of them as 50-60 year old scalp hunters. I would cast a younger millennial or older zoomer for Toadvine like this guy. I always pictured Toadvine as half-starved and half-insane even in his best moments, he's got to go around the entire movie with letters carved into his forehead.
INT. LAND CRUISER BOUNCING ACROSS GODFORSAKEN EARTH - DAY
Three hooded souls, their fates obscured by cloth, sit watched over by the grim cadre of East European militia. A fourth, the driver, steers this beast of burden, beside him a man of spectacles, his countenance etched with worry.
EXT. FORLORN AIRSTRIP, EASTERN EUROPE - DAY
Here lies an airstrip, casting long shadows over a city besieged by the thunder of artillery. A solitary figure of the Agency, devoid of any mark of the land he stands on, is guarded by his own phalanx of warriors. He watches as the Land Cruiser halts with a violence born of urgency. The militia disembarks swiftly.
The driver, forceful, propels the spectacled man before this Agency man.
CIA MAN:
Dr. Pavel, I’m CIA.
Dr. Pavel, a nod, his spirit frayed by the unspoken threats that hang dense around them. The CIA Man exchanges a briefcase with the driver.
BARSAD:
He did not journey here alone.
The CIA Man’s brow furrows, eyes catching the sight of the hooded figures. He addresses Dr. Pavel.
CIA MAN:
You don’t get to bring friends.
DR. PAVEL:
They are not my friends.
BARSAD:
No toll for their passage.
CIA MAN:
And why would I take them?
BARSAD:
They sought to seize what you claim. (a smile cuts across his face) They serve the mercenary. The masked one.
CIA MAN:
(excited) Bane?
Barsad nods just once. The CIA Man turns to his band of soldiers.
You homosexuals kept asking and asking for the adapted. Why? Do you like good things being raped and worn as a skin suit like invasian of the body snatchers? I hate you homosexuals so much. Thank God Hollywood will never go near gene wolfe
You homosexuals kept asking and asking for the adapted. Why? Do you like good things being raped and worn as a skin suit like invasian of the body snatchers? I hate you homosexuals so much. Thank God hollywood will never go near gene wolfe
Maybe if he shaves all of his hair and goes on a super-bulk for like two years and also invested in experimental roid treatments so he could be taller than 5'6".
I cringed too many times whenthe judge spoke, hes just alien who ruins the feel of the story. Glanton was great all the way through and has a good death. Also noway are they gpioing to film white men stomping injun baby heads.
It's like saying Diomedes >>>> Agamemnon. Yeah I like Glanton way more, he's a tangible and more heroic man and not intentionally written as a spooky Satan/Odin etc type of malevolent immortal. The Judge has moments like the story fighting the Apache but he's more critical to the story than Glanton.
It's like saying Diomedes >>>> Agamemnon. Yeah I like Glanton way more, he's a tangible and more heroic man and not intentionally written as a spooky Satan/Odin etc type of malevolent immortal. The Judge has moments like the story fighting the Apache but he's more critical to the story than Glanton.
Who should play based Glanton? >there’s only one israelite character in the book >gets out-jewed by Glanton
>I thought the price was agreed? >Until some money changes hands ain’t nothing agreed
>he calls every non-white either a >black Black person >brown Black person >red Black person
He is also my favorite, the passage with him at the campfire near the end should be used in philosophy classes on the topic of free will. the real Glanton had a crazy life too that’s barely touched on in the book (31 when he died).
no idea who should play him though, but I wouldn’t be mad if it was Tom Hardy. he can do crazy eyes
Black person
its seems racist at first then you release at the bar scene, they've all developed this bond (apart from the homosexual kid) it was all bantz.
it's but it was absolutely a brutal life and a young man's game. I wouldn't mind seeing Wyatt Russell give it a shot as Glanton. He was a pro athlete, he's been greag in the few things I've seen him in. He could rise to the occasion better than any of the other nepos probably.
He’s awesome, he did an amazing job with Suttree and The Crossing as well. Not sure why he didn’t get paid to do every McCarthy book, nobody else does them justice. Always thought it was funny how he even does the female character voices, they weren’t terrible either.
it's not that violent, it just has the most effective use of violent prose which sticks with you forever because you saw, smelled, tasted and cringed from every battle scene
If we made this in the 60's I would do Fred Gwynne as the Judge, Clint Walker as Glanton. Jason Robards as Tobin. Steve McQueen as Toadvine.
Kurt Russel as the kid, then wait like 20 years and finish production in the 80's right before The Thing. Directed by Peckinpah, of course. He was supposed to make Jeremiah Johnson with Clint Eastwood, then it when to those hacks (still kino tho).
Gwynne’s features are too sharp for Judge; Arness would be a better fit. I’d be hesitant to cast anyone else as tall as 6ft to make Judge look as big as possible, but Glanton I could see Eastwood or McQueen even though Paul Newman would be my first choice. For Toadvine, Bronson. I wouldn’t know for the fricking Kid, maybe Ron Howard?
Friendly reminder that Clint Eastwood was like 6'5 in his prime and his hands were so big that he made those 5 pound navy colts in the dollars trilogy look like normal sized revolvers.
It’s why I’d be hesitant to cast him at all, but height aside he’s very easy to see in the role of Glanton. Henry Fonda too, but he would’ve been too old.
Zhaler really made Bone Tomahawk work so well because if you cut a minute or two of footage out, it's just a pretty traditional old school Western. He used horror to make it feel fresh.
bone tomahawk was elevated by kurt russell imo. it was a great premise with great execution though. zahlher is underrated by current hollywood feminist woke crowd
Yeah he uplifted the whole project. He works good with humor, somberness, action, terror, intensity, anything. I really like Billy Bob Thornton, Woody Harrelson and others in those older generations but none of them that come to mind would have pulled off that sheriff role so well.
Dragged was decent enough and well done but the way it was written was just too fricked up and pointless, like it wasn't fun enough to be a good exploitation movie for me. I hated myself for laughing at some of the fricked up parts kek. For me, the next best Zhaler kino is Brawl.
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i always marathon them all. brawl is awesome too just the premise is too depressing. i like that in dragged at least someone profits and has a happy ending
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That's understandable. In a fricked up way I found Brawl more uplifting. If Vaughn's character would have stuck to his principles and not folded to his boss he would have made it out. In that way the story almost had a subtle moral, which is rare for Zahler.
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will we ever see another new zahler kino :O
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He says he is pretty far into negotiations for his fourth film
yeah The Road is a relatively simple narrative, I hope they have enough depth to capture this one
McCarthy's getting a writing credit but I don't know if that means he's going to be part of actually developing the screenplay or he just gets a credit because they're lifting lines directly from the book
>McCarthy's getting a writing credit but I don't know if that means he's going to be part of actually developing the screenplay or he just gets a credit because they're lifting lines directly from the book
He said he was working on the actual screenplay script (before he died)
Why did the Judge go from being part of their group to hunting them down again?
Was it just his own moral standard like with everything else of study catalog and then destroy or was there more to it?
I got kinda filtered by the last third of the book
Imo it was because the kid refused to sell him his gun, powder and bullets. Then, he outclassed the Judge, the Judge of all people when they were being chased by the Yuma across the desert and the kid pulled off those shots that no one else could. He was more adept at one thing, and it made the Judge seethe.
This was enough "mutiny" in the Judge's mind. Though if someone else has an interpretation I'd love to hear it.
i think you're view on it is good, imo, i think the kid just didnt bond well with the others. the kid never is described as taking part in the killings of he book. but he can pull crazy shots like he did so maybe he was killing but we the reader never get to see clearly the extent to which he partakes in the killings and crimes. i think the Judge being angry at the kid is for that reason. He never felt he was swallowed up in the fervor of killing and war like the others, like glanton or the Indians and Mexicans who chased them. at the bar when the kid is grown up, the judge tells him this much, that he MUST dance. the dance must be done. The kid, now the Man, refused still. He was not smittin by Holdens words, he couldn't be classified as Holden wanted him to be, and so kid had to die. all my view on it. sorry about the blog post.
Don't apologize anon. That's exactly it, what I failed to articulate. It was his almost Christian hesitance to avoid the "ritual" of blood, like the Kid just didn't hear the same music as everyone else. Everything and everyone else had a purpose in the grander order according to the Judge, except the kid. That's exactly it anon.
>the kid just didn't hear the same music as everyone lese
i think thats an important line and a succinct way of putting his character as written in the book. Ill have to use that when i describe to others my feelings on the book irl if you dont mind.
Without irony, I really meant that btw. I had thought and thought about what that speech near the end meant only partially getting it until your post. It gives the whole story into a new light.
Imo it was because the kid refused to sell him his gun, powder and bullets. Then, he outclassed the Judge, the Judge of all people when they were being chased by the Yuma across the desert and the kid pulled off those shots that no one else could. He was more adept at one thing, and it made the Judge seethe.
This was enough "mutiny" in the Judge's mind. Though if someone else has an interpretation I'd love to hear it.
You’re both right I think. It was the kid being a dead-eye marksman (superior war skill) but holding in his heart some mercy for the indians and the other gang members. He was an abomination in the judge’s mind. As far as selling him his gun and powder, the judge would have killed him no question imo. When the judge refers to Davy and Toadvine as being “in possession of the fruits of their election” is a carefully worded way of saying “dealing with the consequences of their actions” ie - in prison awaiting execution. The judge turned them both in for their bounty money and the suit and derringer pistol he had was bought with it.
He doesn’t rape the kid in the stall at the end like lots of ytube idiots say. The ghastly thing in the outhouse is the little dancing bear girl, who was now missing.
ahh yes, the sharp mind behind skyfall, lel lel lel lel lel. but whatever, writers don't matter, it's all about a director, they oversee scripts and can cut/add anything they like, on a daily basis. john hillcoat is a good, experienced director, but not prestigious enough. this film needs to be helmed by gibson, coppola, scorsese, joel coen etc.
>A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
Can we shave his head and put him in the Baron Harkonnen fatsuit
That could work
Why is Blood Meridian so insanely many light years beyond any other thing of human creation? Every single frickin line is perfect. It's like something written by God.
>he just really wanted you to see the awesome beauty and terror of the west.
You people need to kys. Judge is not some muscular le epic badass. He's a fat frick who looks like an albino baby but overgrown. Glenn Fleshler is the only sensible choice.
Produce it
>Produce it
>Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee.
Did anyone save the AI movie poster for blood meridian some anon made a while back
dunno. post it
Brendan Faser
>Brendan Fraser
I like this. He has the body for it, with a shaved head and no eyebrows, he'd definitely look menacing with bulging eyes, etc
He is going to live forever
A bold choice but by God I can see it.
>CG him to dance like Mads Mikkelsen at the end
Could Jon Lithgow play Holden?
He’d need to put on weight. I think he’s a bit too old and not imposing enough
>Jon Lithgow
He is too old now. They could deage him, but gonna look like Irishman tier.
Idk why but i can picture Hemsworth. My dream casting would be Neeson, but he is old too
Terrible choice at any age.
CONGRESS WITH A GOAT
Look at this guy. He looks like a cuck. Lifeless eyes. Looks submissive, limp-wristed, limp-dicked. Contrast his face with McCarthy's. His eyes beamed with genius and virility. He sired a child as an old man.
McCarthy adaptation flicks are as good as their directors. The Coen bros are brilliant and so is NCFOM. Ridley Scott is haggard at this point but has genuine talent which is why The Counselor is still great, it's the second best movie here. The Road is the worst of the bunch, whole thing's just schmaltzy and lame, you can tell there's a good book underneath but they gave the material to a boring homosexual. And now this guy of all people will direct Blood Meridian? Fricking lol.
Does Will Sasso have any dramatic range? Because he looks quite a bit like the Judge
here is your judge Holden.
this. he was LITERALLY made to play the judge. if they don't get glenn fleshler to play him, i have 0 fricking hope in this adaptation.
Shut up Glenn
not him man i just think his portrayal as errol childress in true detective was pretty damn close as to what i thought the judge was
Agreed. I was really impressed with him and the Icelandic actor who put on the southern accent so well, the character who got blown away with Ledoux. They did an amazing thing with those roles.
I really hope with this they scour the US and get some actors never seen before, people with the right faces to play these roles. I recall watching that movie the 13th warrior and the most Viking looking and acting character ended up being some guy from New England, that never did anything else big and he became a doctor or something. That's what they need to go for, guys who can convincingly *be* scalp hunting cowboys and injuns in the frame without much CGI to twist their forms.
>really hope with this they scour the US and get some actors never seen before, people with the right faces to play these roles.
yep that's what i've been thinking. cast a bunch of randos who display the requisite talent and fit the roles
Yep, I agree. Borderline too old maybe but frick it
>Holden refers to himself in the 3rd person the whole movie
Kino
Is he tall enough? Holden is supposed to be 6’10” or taller
Don't matter, movie magic
Leave the injuns to me!
What's his endgame?
frick the ugliest trannies you've ever seen
Break all the bucks.
>timothy chamelet stars as the kid
probably
Could be a good fit tbh just have to make him cut his hair down put some dirt on him. I pictured the kid as short and wiry
Awful posts. Truly awful.
Please fricking God no I’m so sick of that charisma vacuum hack
When he was screaming in arabic he was great.
>In a world where war is…
>*record scratch*
>…LE GOD????
>the judge starts rubbing his head
>a bunch of men are pissing
>FRICKIN PISS YOU wienerSUCKERS PISS FOR YOUR FRICKIN LIVES
>Old man I’ll tell you what I just scalped a good deal for horse meat
>BASED ON THE OVERRATED FRICKING NOVEL BY SOME OLD FART
>the guitar solo in If You Want a Cowboy on a White Horse starts playing
>yeah i’m christian bale! i skipped church!
>dude lol the injuns lmao!
>BLOOD MERIDIAN: THE MOVIE
>insert bald man saying something neckbeardish and extremely pseudointellectual
>Coming 2038
>seething midwit checklist almost complete
>Cast it
Pic related as the kid (with long greasy hair)
Also John Brolin with receding hairline as Toadvine
They should just cast an actual annunaki giant which is clearly what muh Judge is based on. Just fetch one from wherever the illuminati hide them.
Would be perfect casting when considering both his look and his marketability.
The kid?
Its weird that you can have a chin and cheeks etc chiselled out of granite and still have a weak jaw line
Because he has a really high jaw and inverted middle jawline
the kid is 15. maybe the moron who gets killed by the black guy.
the guy who played thanos should be the judge, timothee can play the kid idc
>the guy who played thanos
Brolin is a gigamanlet.
Harvey + Elliot Page
going to repost a couple of these from the Cinemaphile thread
>*Judge walks in the tent*
>"Hello everyone, that man is a criminal!"
>Crowd gasps
>Man faints in a womanly fashion
>"Heh, I tend to do that"
>*I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE WHEN YOU WALKED IIIIN"
>Kid, you cant keep running youre entire life
>"Maybe not, but my horse heres pretty fast"
>*AAAAA*
>Judge loads gun during action sequence
>*AAAAA*
>Kid loads flintlock during preparation montage
>*TROUBLE TROUBLE TROUBLE*
>Glanton, with knife: Youre not so tough are you
>*Kid kicks him in the balls and shoves him over*
>*AAAAA*
>2025
>*AAAAA*
>*TROUBLE TROUBLE TROUBLE*
Jenna Ortega as a Mexican village girl getting railed in a shockingly long and graphic scenw
Vital scene for the film, this guy gets it
Never read more than a synopsis of the book (i can't handle the lack of punctuation, i am an esl moron), but that scene is what will drive the themes really home
Oh for certain
>Jenna Ortega as a little girl getting horribly raped/guro'd by old fat bastard Holden
this but she's the underage sex slave the glanton gang had leashed to a stake
>Warner Bros logo
>Village productions logo
>Touchstone pictures logo
>A24 logo
>*Shot of the kid riding over a hill on horseback as the red sun sets behind him, autistically darkening*
>My name is the kid.
>My world is fire and blood
>*Disembodied voices talking: Chaos at the Church, she was raped..., they found the body!"
>*Intro riff from Black hole sun*
>Shot of a tall white skinned man wearing a large black brimmed hat from the back
>He turns and looks at the screen with one red eye
>*IN MY EYES
>*INDISPOSED*
>"Its only going to get worse from here kid"
>I dont care what happens to me...
>*shot of calvary riding across baren desert*
>*IN DISGUISES NO ONE KNOWS*
>*HIDES THE FACE*
>*music stops*
>*Lieees the snake...*
>Judge enters tent
>Cut to his face as he points
>"THIS MAN IS GUILTY!"
>action resumes
>*AND THE SUN IN MY DISGRACE*
>Shot of the Calvary moving across the desert
>"Youre not the only one out here, kid"
>BOILING HEAT SUMMER STENCH
>cut to judge
>"Youre everything they say aint you
>BENEATH THE BLACK THE SKY LOOKS DEAD
>black screen
>CALL MY NAME THROUGH THE CREAM AND ILL HEAR YOU SCREAM AGAIN
>*random acts of violence*
>BLACK HOLE SUN
>WONT YOU COME
>WASH AWAY THE RAIN
>*more violence*
>BLACK HOLE SUN
>WONT YOU COME
>cut to judge over the rock
>"I told you kid, I always come back"
>BLACK HOLE SUN
>2024
>RATED R
>WONT YOU COME
>IN THEATERS THIS AUGUST
>WONT YOU COOOOME
you're not good at this.
these are reposts from Cinemaphile i thought were funny. the others are good i think
>red sky
>opensans semibold all caps "BLOOD MERIDIAN"
>white man bad
>roll closing credits
>He was just an average kid, looking for some adventure
>But when adventure finds him
>*cuts to The Kid (played by Finn Wolfhard) getting woken up on his horse" Wait, what's going on?
>*Glanton (played by Adam Sandler) is shaking him "Wake up, lazy bones! We're gonna sack this village!"
>*cuts to wide shot of the Gang approaching the village (which is notably white, so as not to anger the Native American market) as dramatic BWOMMMMS play"
>*Suddenly, the dramatic tension cuts as one of the villagers shoots an arrow at Glanton's crotch, causing him to cringe"
>*The Judge (played by The Rock in white-face, for some easily marketable controversy) winces and goes "Ooooh, right in the Toadvine!"™
>*Cormac McCarthy himself shows up to say "Nuff said!"
>...he's gonna need some friends along the way
>THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
>This summer
>"The kid yells "This desert is our home! We can't let the army take what's ours! Who's with me gang?" as everyone cheers"
>...the west...
>*shows The Kid and Toadvine (who is now played by Leslie Jones) beatboxing on their horses"
>...is gonna get....
>shows the dancing bear beating up army goons as The Judge rides on his back with a rifle"
>...wild
>music stops with a record scratch as The Judge twerks"
>*Glanton's jaw drops as The Kid goes "Awkwaaaaard™ *
>BLOOD MERIDIAN, RATED PG-13 (accompanied by a cgititle screen and a guitar rif)
>"The scene cuts to black"
>*Suddenly, the scene cuts back to The Judge sitting in a saloon, when he hears a voice say "Hey Holden, I'm not through with you""
>*Camera tums around, showing an aged Javier Bardem reprising his role as Anton to set up the McCarthy Cinematic Universe"
>COMING JANUARY 2024
>>*Camera tums around, showing an aged Javier Bardem reprising his role as Anton to set up the McCarthy Cinematic Universe"
JANUARY 2024
Somebody get the kino button, I think it needs to be pressed
>It makes no difference what men think of war, war endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
>SOMETHING IN THE WAY
>MMMMMMMM HMMMMMMMM
>SOMETHING IN THE WAY YEAH
>MMMMMMMM HMMMMMMMM
BAH GAWD, KING. THAT'S JUDGE HOLDEN'S MUSIC.
This dude is the mayor of the county i live in.
he came to our college republicans meeting and sang a parody of "12 days of Christmas" but replaced "Christ" with "Biden" and sung about his policies.
he made us sing along
>he made us sing along
The collegecuck fears the Big Red Machine
Lyrics were along the lines of
>On the 1st day of Bidenmas, Biden gave to me
>1 Border Crisis
>And malarkey from the DNC
God that is based. Moreso the fact that he made others sing it with him.
Like I said, he was a pretty cool guy. He apologized for not being able to stop Californians from moving to Tennessee.
based kane dabbing on loser incels
Can't believe they let a virile healthy man be in office.
That must have been humiliating for you. Excellent.
>didnt yell "its the big red moron" when he walked in
man you must sure hate your mayor
>two men open an outhouse
>they reel back "WOAAAAAHHHH!"
>*record scratch*
>"Yeah, that's me in there.
>Nnnnnnoooot my BEST look 😉
>It all began when I was fourteen"
>*rewinding noise*
>*ABC by the Jackson Five*
>Young teen pickpockets and apple while walking, and takes a bite
>Young girl voice, "KID, you're nothing but TROUBLE."
>Kid shrugs at camera
hillcaot is still making it. logan is writing it. Mcarthy helped with some of the writing. both Mcarthy and his son are getting executive producer credits.
looks like it'll actually happen.
I expect it to be disappointing.
Cormac is the only author whose films are better than books. His writing style is fricking horrible
Bad take fren, sorry. His writing is beautiful and trust me I hate purple prose unless it's done right.
It’s bad. Uses $10 words constantly and his take on punctuation is as shit as it gets
Sorry to say this anon but you are a contrarian, a pseud, and a homosexual.
>he
>he
>they
>he
>they
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>they
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>they
Black person IT WOULDN'T KILL YOU TO SAY WHO THE FRICK IS TALKING RIGHT NOW
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.
i read the first three lines and that's some really weak parody right there, you don't get the spirit of mccarthy's writing at all. it's ok to despise his writing if you can pull of a competent parody but this ain't it
it's pasta newbies, stop getting butthurt on behalf of a dead author
no one's butthurt. pasta or not it's shit
shit's not even funny, he never used words arbitrarily like that, he had the real writer's instinct for the mot juste at every turn
He used obscure words arbitrarily all the fricking time
Shitty attempt at parody. Here is a good parody for you to learn from:
This is just as shit as the other one. A giant run-on sentence full of phrases and fragments the author uses.
You have not read GRRM if you don't find this hilarious
Get rid of those commas and add 35 and’s
yeah it's fricking weird he posted replying to other two anonymous posters then he added I often had to re-read a few paragraphs back but he knew he will probably be shitposted by random homosexuals after writing this post
you anons should try the audiobook. The lack of punctuation actually makes sense in a speaking style (where people never really end their sentences).
I tried to read the book after and I couldnt grasp it as well as I could with the audiobook
I might actually try that. It never struck me as something I need to read, but it seems to get some traction, maybe I should give it a try.
Thanks for the tip.
cormick
I always pictured this dude as the Judge.
Same. He's too old now, though.
It's better to burn out than fade away
I can totally see it. This guy's face looks noble, sensual, cruel, intelligent.
Yes, another good pick, whoever this guy is. There's an innocence to him but also grit and smarts.
Seriously, this is the best pick for le Judge I have seen this far, there's something about this guy's vibe where he could definitely play a villain of uncanny, otherworldly intelligence. I hope he's really tall.
Clancey Brown is 6' 3"
King of the manlets
He would be an amazing judge. Plus having an amazing voice. Real menacing but I think he is too old now. It’s a shame. Maybe make up could save but idk. How old is the judge anyways?
the judge is ageless. he is a giant, hairless man that has a baby face.
Maybe Idris Elba?
Actual genius idea
No, hes a perfect glanton.
kino
His name was judge holden
After watching Barton Fink, I can really see Goodman as the judge. Its basically the same character he played.
John Goodman doesn’t look or sound like John Goodman anymore.
I dont know what he looks like now, but this is how I pictured "the kid"
Me too. BTW, I have listened to the audiobook like 3 times, it is fricking perfect.
I like this guy from Dances with Wolves as Toadvine
That movie is 30 years old and he has been dead for 20, anon.
>he has been dead for 20 years
hmmmm, not an ideal casting then.
we need someone that looks like him then
Cowboys were often quite young when they lived off the land, I hope they don't cast too many of them as 50-60 year old scalp hunters. I would cast a younger millennial or older zoomer for Toadvine like this guy. I always pictured Toadvine as half-starved and half-insane even in his best moments, he's got to go around the entire movie with letters carved into his forehead.
INT. LAND CRUISER BOUNCING ACROSS GODFORSAKEN EARTH - DAY
Three hooded souls, their fates obscured by cloth, sit watched over by the grim cadre of East European militia. A fourth, the driver, steers this beast of burden, beside him a man of spectacles, his countenance etched with worry.
EXT. FORLORN AIRSTRIP, EASTERN EUROPE - DAY
Here lies an airstrip, casting long shadows over a city besieged by the thunder of artillery. A solitary figure of the Agency, devoid of any mark of the land he stands on, is guarded by his own phalanx of warriors. He watches as the Land Cruiser halts with a violence born of urgency. The militia disembarks swiftly.
The driver, forceful, propels the spectacled man before this Agency man.
CIA MAN:
Dr. Pavel, I’m CIA.
Dr. Pavel, a nod, his spirit frayed by the unspoken threats that hang dense around them. The CIA Man exchanges a briefcase with the driver.
BARSAD:
He did not journey here alone.
The CIA Man’s brow furrows, eyes catching the sight of the hooded figures. He addresses Dr. Pavel.
CIA MAN:
You don’t get to bring friends.
DR. PAVEL:
They are not my friends.
BARSAD:
No toll for their passage.
CIA MAN:
And why would I take them?
BARSAD:
They sought to seize what you claim. (a smile cuts across his face) They serve the mercenary. The masked one.
CIA MAN:
(excited) Bane?
Barsad nods just once. The CIA Man turns to his band of soldiers.
CIA MAN:
Get ’em on board - I’ll call it in.
Black folk, ain't it? Black person ears by god
jim carrey as the judge. just kidding
Please don't give Bautista the role.
i'm scared of that too. holy shit that homie cannot act
Trips of truth, that homie made an antifa movie too. I will always hold that against him
t. chud
>women, whiskey and Black folk
You homosexuals kept asking and asking for the adapted. Why? Do you like good things being raped and worn as a skin suit like invasian of the body snatchers? I hate you homosexuals so much. Thank God Hollywood will never go near gene wolfe
Bruh what happened to /ourguy/ Mickey?
>Thank God hollywood will never go near gene wolfe
Amen to that.
We get statements like this every year for the past decade
Here's your John Glanton bro
The Kid is 100% going to be black btw
That would suck. I’m sure the gang will be multiracial and the judge will be Dwayne Johnson in whiteface
He will become a supportive father figure and help the Glanton gang end racism, fostering in a new age. An America of ideals, etc.
>I’m sure the gang will be multiracial
Anon...
The one guy who isn't white is "the Black person". Face it fellas, this movie isn't going to get made. Ever.
It's probably for the best.
In an ideal world he'd be the Judge, but he's just too old for it now.
?t=59
Daniel Day Lewis as the Judge
Hunter Schaffer as The Kid
Throw in a two hour scene of full penetration where Judge Holden buckbreaks The Kid and I'm in.
Hunter as one of the naked prostitutes at the end
First, we'll need to invent a time machine so we can cast John Goodman from 20 years ago as the Judge.
its crazy they made a live action fred flintstones movie with him
macauley caulking as the judge , imo
Maybe if he shaves all of his hair and goes on a super-bulk for like two years and also invested in experimental roid treatments so he could be taller than 5'6".
Cormac MacDonald
>Glanton>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I cringed too many times whenthe judge spoke, hes just alien who ruins the feel of the story. Glanton was great all the way through and has a good death. Also noway are they gpioing to film white men stomping injun baby heads.
It's like saying Diomedes >>>> Agamemnon. Yeah I like Glanton way more, he's a tangible and more heroic man and not intentionally written as a spooky Satan/Odin etc type of malevolent immortal. The Judge has moments like the story fighting the Apache but he's more critical to the story than Glanton.
He is also my favorite, the passage with him at the campfire near the end should be used in philosophy classes on the topic of free will. the real Glanton had a crazy life too that’s barely touched on in the book (31 when he died).
no idea who should play him though, but I wouldn’t be mad if it was Tom Hardy. he can do crazy eyes
Well, at least is not James Franco
That's optimistic of you.
>Franco
He wouldn't have made The Kid black
Kurt Cobain as the KId , Marilyn Manson as the Judge
Manson nowadays would be a great judge given he's a big fat goon.
His makeup budget has doubled
Do you think he could pull off the essential dance sequences?
Bowel Movement
Brock Lesnar as Holden
i think charlie chaplin should play the judge
kid rock as the kid
Who should play based Glanton?
>there’s only one israelite character in the book
>gets out-jewed by Glanton
>I thought the price was agreed?
>Until some money changes hands ain’t nothing agreed
>he calls every non-white either a
>black Black person
>brown Black person
>red Black person
Hillcoat obviously goes for Tom Hardy. Judge Fraser, The Kid is whatever it boy du jour.
Black person
its seems racist at first then you release at the bar scene, they've all developed this bond (apart from the homosexual kid) it was all bantz.
>He thinks we´re Black folk.
Kurt Russell
I can't remember how old he's supposed to be but frick it
Glanton irl was 30-something when he died.
Worth the discrepancy for some Russell-kino
No reason the character can't be old
it's but it was absolutely a brutal life and a young man's game. I wouldn't mind seeing Wyatt Russell give it a shot as Glanton. He was a pro athlete, he's been greag in the few things I've seen him in. He could rise to the occasion better than any of the other nepos probably.
Walton Goggins.
They're going to have a hard time finding someone willing to play a giant hairless albino pedophile
Guy Pearce for Toadvine is my vote
The audiobook by Richard Poe is great, he’s a 10/10 narrator. It helps with the archaic words too.
I listen to this and try to talk like this
lol I wish I could. he beats Sam Elliot for me as a Western voiceover
He’s awesome, he did an amazing job with Suttree and The Crossing as well. Not sure why he didn’t get paid to do every McCarthy book, nobody else does them justice. Always thought it was funny how he even does the female character voices, they weren’t terrible either.
>Blood Meridian Wishlist
>Director: Paul Verhoeven
>Date of Production: 1991
>Kid: Keanu Reeves
>Judge: Stacy Keach
Blood Meridian. The Most Violent Book of All Time
it's not that violent, it just has the most effective use of violent prose which sticks with you forever because you saw, smelled, tasted and cringed from every battle scene
If we made this in the 60's I would do Fred Gwynne as the Judge, Clint Walker as Glanton. Jason Robards as Tobin. Steve McQueen as Toadvine.
Kurt Russel as the kid, then wait like 20 years and finish production in the 80's right before The Thing. Directed by Peckinpah, of course. He was supposed to make Jeremiah Johnson with Clint Eastwood, then it when to those hacks (still kino tho).
Meant for
this is the right way to envisage a blood meridian adaptation. anything after CGI was introduced will inevitably suck. peckinpah would have crushed bm
Gwynne’s features are too sharp for Judge; Arness would be a better fit. I’d be hesitant to cast anyone else as tall as 6ft to make Judge look as big as possible, but Glanton I could see Eastwood or McQueen even though Paul Newman would be my first choice. For Toadvine, Bronson. I wouldn’t know for the fricking Kid, maybe Ron Howard?
Friendly reminder that Clint Eastwood was like 6'5 in his prime and his hands were so big that he made those 5 pound navy colts in the dollars trilogy look like normal sized revolvers.
It’s why I’d be hesitant to cast him at all, but height aside he’s very easy to see in the role of Glanton. Henry Fonda too, but he would’ve been too old.
s craig zhaler is the only director who could pull this off, and he hates blood meridian.
the road wasn't bad, homeboy might do a decent job. doubt it though
Zhaler really made Bone Tomahawk work so well because if you cut a minute or two of footage out, it's just a pretty traditional old school Western. He used horror to make it feel fresh.
bone tomahawk was elevated by kurt russell imo. it was a great premise with great execution though. zahlher is underrated by current hollywood feminist woke crowd
Yeah he uplifted the whole project. He works good with humor, somberness, action, terror, intensity, anything. I really like Billy Bob Thornton, Woody Harrelson and others in those older generations but none of them that come to mind would have pulled off that sheriff role so well.
dragged across concrete is insane too. the violence in it pops off insanely well. i can still see the pregnant chick getting her fingers blown off
Dragged was decent enough and well done but the way it was written was just too fricked up and pointless, like it wasn't fun enough to be a good exploitation movie for me. I hated myself for laughing at some of the fricked up parts kek. For me, the next best Zhaler kino is Brawl.
i always marathon them all. brawl is awesome too just the premise is too depressing. i like that in dragged at least someone profits and has a happy ending
That's understandable. In a fricked up way I found Brawl more uplifting. If Vaughn's character would have stuck to his principles and not folded to his boss he would have made it out. In that way the story almost had a subtle moral, which is rare for Zahler.
will we ever see another new zahler kino :O
He says he is pretty far into negotiations for his fourth film
He announced hes making the big stone grid
I think he hates it cuz he knows that Blood Meridian kinda inches in on the niche Brigands of Rattleborge occupies.
Blood Meridian is a guy's Atlas Shrugged
We knew the bloody Black folk were after us
>same writer and same director as The Road
It'll be good but not great
So it will be the best film of the year then?
The Road was good but it's completely different from Blood Meridian. Also Viggo elevated that movie to kino, as always.
yeah The Road is a relatively simple narrative, I hope they have enough depth to capture this one
McCarthy's getting a writing credit but I don't know if that means he's going to be part of actually developing the screenplay or he just gets a credit because they're lifting lines directly from the book
>McCarthy's getting a writing credit but I don't know if that means he's going to be part of actually developing the screenplay or he just gets a credit because they're lifting lines directly from the book
He said he was working on the actual screenplay script (before he died)
Oh yeah he's dead lol
Rip
Hopefully he managed to get enough of the screenplay done that they can just fill in some blanks and get something usable for the movie.
Why did the Judge go from being part of their group to hunting them down again?
Was it just his own moral standard like with everything else of study catalog and then destroy or was there more to it?
I got kinda filtered by the last third of the book
Imo it was because the kid refused to sell him his gun, powder and bullets. Then, he outclassed the Judge, the Judge of all people when they were being chased by the Yuma across the desert and the kid pulled off those shots that no one else could. He was more adept at one thing, and it made the Judge seethe.
This was enough "mutiny" in the Judge's mind. Though if someone else has an interpretation I'd love to hear it.
i think you're view on it is good, imo, i think the kid just didnt bond well with the others. the kid never is described as taking part in the killings of he book. but he can pull crazy shots like he did so maybe he was killing but we the reader never get to see clearly the extent to which he partakes in the killings and crimes. i think the Judge being angry at the kid is for that reason. He never felt he was swallowed up in the fervor of killing and war like the others, like glanton or the Indians and Mexicans who chased them. at the bar when the kid is grown up, the judge tells him this much, that he MUST dance. the dance must be done. The kid, now the Man, refused still. He was not smittin by Holdens words, he couldn't be classified as Holden wanted him to be, and so kid had to die. all my view on it. sorry about the blog post.
Don't apologize anon. That's exactly it, what I failed to articulate. It was his almost Christian hesitance to avoid the "ritual" of blood, like the Kid just didn't hear the same music as everyone else. Everything and everyone else had a purpose in the grander order according to the Judge, except the kid. That's exactly it anon.
>the kid just didn't hear the same music as everyone lese
i think thats an important line and a succinct way of putting his character as written in the book. Ill have to use that when i describe to others my feelings on the book irl if you dont mind.
You'd do me an honor then anon.
Without irony, I really meant that btw. I had thought and thought about what that speech near the end meant only partially getting it until your post. It gives the whole story into a new light.
You’re both right I think. It was the kid being a dead-eye marksman (superior war skill) but holding in his heart some mercy for the indians and the other gang members. He was an abomination in the judge’s mind. As far as selling him his gun and powder, the judge would have killed him no question imo. When the judge refers to Davy and Toadvine as being “in possession of the fruits of their election” is a carefully worded way of saying “dealing with the consequences of their actions” ie - in prison awaiting execution. The judge turned them both in for their bounty money and the suit and derringer pistol he had was bought with it.
He doesn’t rape the kid in the stall at the end like lots of ytube idiots say. The ghastly thing in the outhouse is the little dancing bear girl, who was now missing.
More importantly, cast the cinematography / DP
Assassination of Jesse James or True Detective s1 cinematographer
Someone who can capture the desert and its psychedelic beauty is needed.
If "hack away you mean red Black person" isn't a direct line I'm walking out of the kinoplex
Same
Convinced only Lynch could direct this film, it needs to be a fever dream of insanity and visual masturbation, nothing else will do
He was weird but honestly a pretty cool guy. Hes like 7 feet tall too.
THE JUDGE
ahh yes, the sharp mind behind skyfall, lel lel lel lel lel. but whatever, writers don't matter, it's all about a director, they oversee scripts and can cut/add anything they like, on a daily basis. john hillcoat is a good, experienced director, but not prestigious enough. this film needs to be helmed by gibson, coppola, scorsese, joel coen etc.
>Blood Meridian by the Coens
>it's just Fargo without snow
I'd watch it.
Glenn Fleshler is the only choice for the Judge.
If they cast anyone else, it's dead on arrival.
unironically.