DDL could do it. They could work around his height by camera tricks, having him gain weight, and his sheer fricking talent. If there's one actor on earth who can act 7 feet tall, it's him.
I thought this was lost media. It would have had steadier cams in the actual movie, right? Judge would be recast to someone bigger, right?
No wonder they tried to burry this
A film based on the novel Blood Meridian will never work, and this is why.
Films about deliberate incoherence exist - see the "works" of superhack Matthew Barney, for example - but celluloid masturbation for the sake of beating its methamphetamine-injected penis to Oingo Boingo and ejaculating swizzle sauce, can only be done on a small scale. The film must be representative of something intensely-personal to its creator, in order for it to "succeed" - for lack of a better word.
Cormac McCarthy's novels are largely-unfilmable because in a sense they are the opposite of this. They are incoherent tales of masturbatory grandeur, but on a very large scale. No Country For Old Men and The Road - both of which were heavily-flawed - still worked to some extent because the respective directors of the films understood the thinnest amount of cohesion with regard to a "plot" - and I use that term loosely - and worked strongly around that.
Blood Meridian is an altogether different kind of beast. It signifies all the grotesque excesses of Cormac McCarthy's other works, but piles on Grand Guignol-levels of wankery and a pathetic attempt at "introspection" over an enormous, sweeping design that, in the hands of other, ACTUAL authors might have worked - but instead forms an extraordinarily-boring yarn of impossible, incomprehensible excess. Almost as though the novel itself was penned from McCarthy's own ink-tainted semen.
Such an "adaptation" - and I use THAT term laughably - would cost in excess of hundreds of millions of dollars, be six+ hours long, and leave you simultaneously disgusted at its attempts of sophomoric edginess, and yet unrelentingly-confused as to what the creators of the film were actually attempting to signify. It's The Stand, but re-written by an eighth grader with Down's Syndrome, high on meth and smearing himself frequently with Vaseline as he typed, giggled and blew spit-bubbles.
Disagree. Blood Meridian has a plot alright, been over a decade but it's basically they go from town to town, an orgy of violence ensues, "they ride on" , the Judge makes a speech, rinse repeat. It's like a JRPG and his monologues are the cutscenes. I loved the monologues.
Disagree. Blood Meridian has a plot alright, been over a decade but it's basically they go from town to town, an orgy of violence ensues, "they ride on" , the Judge makes a speech, rinse repeat. It's like a JRPG and his monologues are the cutscenes. I loved the monologues.
Hm.
There is a plot but I feel like the real plot is the metacommentary on human nature which is very present throughout.
>Such an "adaptation" - and I use THAT term laughably - would cost in excess of hundreds of millions of dollars, be six+ hours long, and leave you simultaneously disgusted at its attempts of sophomoric edginess, and yet unrelentingly-confused as to what the creators of the film were actually attempting to signify. It's The Stand, but re-written by an eighth grader with Down's Syndrome, high on meth and smearing himself frequently with Vaseline as he typed, giggled and blew spit-bubbles
yes. It should be a torturing 4-5 long feature of sun, sand and blood. A transcendental apocalyptic epic in scale and in production, the like of Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo, leaving a trail of extra's blood and brankrupting debt in its wake. The only director who could pull it off is too old and no one in pedowood has the balls anymore.
DDL could do it. They could work around his height by camera tricks, having him gain weight, and his sheer fricking talent. If there's one actor on earth who can act 7 feet tall, it's him.
lmao Snyder could do it like he did with 300.
I forced myself through it and hated it most of the way through but once i was getting near the end it "clicked" for me and i understood why its so loved. Im impressed he even got it published because of how hard the begining is to get through buts its worth in. Ganna do a reread at some point soon
same here. Stopped twice. The whole thing comes together towards the end.
Marlon Brando as Judge is the most idiotic idea ever. Glenn Fleshler in True Detective is the closest thing to the Judge there will ever be.
The True Detective guy fits the Judge to the letter. He even speaks like him in that show.
just stop. The bald guy from the punisher show would be better.
If you've read Blood Meridian and don't see why the TD guy is the perfect living embodiment of McCarthy's character then I don't know what to tell you.
McCarthy is heavily inspired by psychology and the unconscious.
One of the quotes made by the hermit early on is spoof on another quote made by Carl Jung. The landscapes are described as being cruel, jagged and full of life whose symbolic natures shares into Jung’s archetype of the terrible mother and terrible father, the nature of the environment helps to shape the characters and bring forth they’re more violent tendencies. Another person that shares one of the these archetypes is Holden with the terrible mother. A scene that brings this forward is the scene with him, the imbecile and Sarah Borginnis. If you don’t read psychology you won’t understand what McCarthy is talking about.
The movie (but I’d rather it be a tv show) is doable but rather than runaway from the landscapes the director should embrace them as an integral part to story.
If he were to remove the movie would be no different from any snuff film or Oscar bait.
some unknown youth as the kid >judge
Stephen Merchant. Will need to fatten up like his nemesis Rick Waller, though. >glanton
bale >toadvine
Dafoe >priest
Giamatti >cap white
Jamie Lannister
i tried reading this and gave up after like three tries, couldnt even get past the first 20 pages, does the author get a hard on for makingit near impossible to read his fricking work? theres no fricking quotation marks around any of the speech, its written like a fricking toddler is telling the story, its so confusing for no reason, i even bought two of his others books too and i doubt ill be able to read those either, frick u mccarthy.
I forced myself through it and hated it most of the way through but once i was getting near the end it "clicked" for me and i understood why its so loved. Im impressed he even got it published because of how hard the begining is to get through buts its worth in. Ganna do a reread at some point soon
>theres no fricking quotation marks around any of the speech
Kek really? I listened to the audiobook so the dude did voices for all the characters. I tried reading some pages but the lack of punctuation makes my eyes glaze over. Its good when you have someone else saying all the weird words and you can just chill. The spanish parts dont have a translation though
Listen to the audiobook. The narrator does a good judge
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The audiobook is well done. You can find it on YouTube
no offense but the idea of listening to a man speak in my ear for hours is not appealing, maybe it's just because i've never given audio books a try, but in theory, it sounds like its kind of gay, and im not gay.
The idea is to engage the reader by making them an active participant in constructing the story. You have to envision what’s happening and hear the words in your mind for it to make sense, and you can’t just skip to the next line of dialogue when faced with more than two lines of text. That you can’t or won’t do this reflects poorly on you, not McCarthy.
nah I was able to read a clockwork orange all the way back in middle school, it wasnt even the disturbing nature of the book im talking about, the way its written is a huge mess. the author full blown invents a new fricking slang type thing that the characters speak in, it doesn’t help that im not a brit either, but i was still able to read through that just fine so clearly I have above average reading comprehension, McCarthy's writing style just sucks ass.
This book is horrendous. No Country For Old Men is enjoyable because it has a story as opposed to a collection of descriptive violence that’s ultimately pointless
I’m reading it now for the first time and having seen fan art of the judge before I was surprised at how his characterization differs from what I was expecting, in that he isn’t overtly sinister or stereotypically evil.
He’s somewhat otherworldly, supremely confident, and needs an orators voice. Picrel is the closest thing I can think of to the judge “vibe” I envision even though he’s not a fat albino.
Listen to the audiobook. The narrator does a good judge
i tried reading this and gave up after like three tries, couldnt even get past the first 20 pages, does the author get a hard on for makingit near impossible to read his fricking work? theres no fricking quotation marks around any of the speech, its written like a fricking toddler is telling the story, its so confusing for no reason, i even bought two of his others books too and i doubt ill be able to read those either, frick u mccarthy.
The audiobook is well done. You can find it on YouTube
Good thoughts. You described him really well. He's a calm, charismatic, likeable guy. When they draw him as a psycho it's all wrong.
As long as we're talking fantasy casting, what about a bald John Wayne who was made up to look pale and rough? He was huge. He played a few roles, especially in The Searchers, that showed he could really act.
never gonna happen. >roycism >indians portrayed in any bad light >no women
Even the driver spoke more than the kid. It's it's made it will be a moronic marvel schlock where the judge is secretely a nazi and the kid has a romantic interest.
They need to go Thanos and make Judge completely CGI based on a real actor, since the Judge is meant to be manifestation of evil. An otherwordly force. It would have to be on par with Davy Jones in POTC 2 though and not some pajeet CGI studio.
Cont.
My headcanon is Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now, just taller, albino and even fatter.
Maybe in few years they have the technology to both replicate him and also use AI software to replicate his voice, given Brando's estate give permission.
>muscles >large hands
why do people think of the judge like this
he's a giant and slightly overweight guy with small hands and feet who has insane strength despite his apperance. he's not a bodybuilder and never was.
>muscles >large hands
why do people think of the judge like this
he's a giant and slightly overweight guy with small hands and feet who has insane strength despite his apperance. he's not a bodybuilder and never was.
See
Cont.
My headcanon is Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now, just taller, albino and even fatter.
Maybe in few years they have the technology to both replicate him and also use AI software to replicate his voice, given Brando's estate give permission.
No, stop with this. The author himself said the book is perfectly adaptable to film as is. Just cast Glenn Fleshler and make him an albino and that's it. Nothing more than that.
But its not only the appearance but his whole demeanour. For example his dance and flute should be human impossible to replicate and you can't have an irl actor doing that. The whole point is that everything that he do is "unhuman" down to how he dances.
Never once read a reddit thread about this book. Saying the greatest actor ever Brando would be good for this character is not some homosexual reddit opinion just because someone there said it once. The guy was amazing.
>Are you here for the dance, Kid? >What dance. >The dance. >What they're doin' over there? >Yes, and no. It's a metaphor, kid. >How can a dance be a metaphor? It's a dance. >Anything can be a metaphor, Kid. The dance can be a metaphor! >Even if it's also literal? >Yes! The literal dance can be a metaphorical dance as well! >That doesn't make sense. You're either dancing or you're not. >Exactly! Now are you dancing or not? >Well, I don't rightly know.
For a true adaptation of Blood Meridian it would need to be 20 hours long with hours upon hours of vista shots and traveling in total silence interspersed with very brief spurts of extremely graphic violence. Even then in my eyes the only way to do the violence justice is for every scene to be a single unbroken shot.
Trying to cut the movie down into something feature length would be totally impossible. Even if the movie was 4 hours long which is basically resigning it to death anyways it wouldn't be long enough for the full effect.
I wouldn't say totally unadaptable because it totally is possible but the scale is unreasonable for any sane director, actor, or crew to put up with. You would need a true auteur or someone completely fricked in the head to decide to accurately adapt it.
It doesn't need to be any of these dumb things. Cormac, rest his soul, said you could do it just fine in one movie if you had someone who knew who what he was doing. It's that simple.
Sure, you can adapt the baseline story but the real meat of the book is what I was talking about.
It can't possibly have the same effect if the violence is only minutes apart. The scenes of violence are only maybe 2-3 pages long at most, the prose, language, and pacing completely flip from the rest of the book which is slow, descriptive, and filled with antiquated language. Most acts of violence like the Apache attack are almost a single, massive run on sentence that dumbs the language down.
I dont get this take. I think you are getting filtered by the prose.
As some other anon said earlier the core of the story is pretty straightforward: going from place to place and extreme violence.
The challenge is as you said to to accurately portray the landscape and characters, but if Killers of the Flower Moon could have a run time of 3.30 h I can't see why a Blood Meridian film can't have the same runtime and that would be more than enough.
Idris Elba - the Black person heart
Willem Dafoe - the hermit
John Goodman- the judge
Josh brolin - toadvine
Jeff bridges - glanton
Steve Buscemi- the priest
Dave franco - the kid
James franco - the man
Written and directed by the Coen(cidence) brothers.
William Plummer as the judge
Luke perry was the kid
Timothy Chamalet as toadvine
Paul walker as glanton
Robert pattison as the hermit
Bob saget as the priest
The kid is 14 when he runs away from home and when the Glanton gang gets axed he’s 16 and finishes the novel at 45. If someone were to play him it would be an actor who is super young and at the end we switch him with someone older. A lot of the actors anons here are requesting look like they are married and have a job. None of them look like teenagers.
Marlon Brandon just doesn’t fit the role and that’s because he lacks the features necessary for the judge which is childishness. Brandon is just too mopey to handle the role.
Glenn flesher could definitely play him but his voice would be a problem. The judge is said to have a deep voice. Glenn is too soft spoken.
Daniel day Lewis could play Glanton but his acting ability comes from his speech even he admits it as much in interviews.
But Glanton is practically mute for most of the book with the only time I can remember him speaking being at the end with the ferry.
my dad as Judge
I want to be the black guy.
it should be all puppets.
This, but instead Robert Zemeckis should direct it and it should be CGI like the Beowulf movie.
Daniel Day lewis as judge
Peter Stormare as Glanton
>Daniel Day lewis
Not tall enough
DDL could do it. They could work around his height by camera tricks, having him gain weight, and his sheer fricking talent. If there's one actor on earth who can act 7 feet tall, it's him.
Daniel Day Lewis isn't subtle enough to play the judge.
who said daniel gay lewis?!
Leslie Jones as Judge
This could only work if it was written and directed by James Franco
The Judge as Vincent D'onofrio
The Kid as Dave Franco
Toadvine as Danny McBride
>This could only work if it was written and directed by James Franco
is this the hill you want to die on?
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I thought this was lost media. It would have had steadier cams in the actual movie, right? Judge would be recast to someone bigger, right?
No wonder they tried to burry this
It was intended to be a proof of concept rather than a feature. Kind of like a demo tape.
>The Judge as Vincent D'onofrio
Actually pretty based
Elliot Page as The Kid
Judge Reinhold as The Judge
A film based on the novel Blood Meridian will never work, and this is why.
Films about deliberate incoherence exist - see the "works" of superhack Matthew Barney, for example - but celluloid masturbation for the sake of beating its methamphetamine-injected penis to Oingo Boingo and ejaculating swizzle sauce, can only be done on a small scale. The film must be representative of something intensely-personal to its creator, in order for it to "succeed" - for lack of a better word.
Cormac McCarthy's novels are largely-unfilmable because in a sense they are the opposite of this. They are incoherent tales of masturbatory grandeur, but on a very large scale. No Country For Old Men and The Road - both of which were heavily-flawed - still worked to some extent because the respective directors of the films understood the thinnest amount of cohesion with regard to a "plot" - and I use that term loosely - and worked strongly around that.
Blood Meridian is an altogether different kind of beast. It signifies all the grotesque excesses of Cormac McCarthy's other works, but piles on Grand Guignol-levels of wankery and a pathetic attempt at "introspection" over an enormous, sweeping design that, in the hands of other, ACTUAL authors might have worked - but instead forms an extraordinarily-boring yarn of impossible, incomprehensible excess. Almost as though the novel itself was penned from McCarthy's own ink-tainted semen.
Such an "adaptation" - and I use THAT term laughably - would cost in excess of hundreds of millions of dollars, be six+ hours long, and leave you simultaneously disgusted at its attempts of sophomoric edginess, and yet unrelentingly-confused as to what the creators of the film were actually attempting to signify. It's The Stand, but re-written by an eighth grader with Down's Syndrome, high on meth and smearing himself frequently with Vaseline as he typed, giggled and blew spit-bubbles.
Not necessarily in that order.
have sex
Disagree. Blood Meridian has a plot alright, been over a decade but it's basically they go from town to town, an orgy of violence ensues, "they ride on" , the Judge makes a speech, rinse repeat. It's like a JRPG and his monologues are the cutscenes. I loved the monologues.
Hm.
There is a plot but I feel like the real plot is the metacommentary on human nature which is very present throughout.
>2024
>Still no Suttree movie
The author himself said it's perfectly doable but that all directors and writers today are shit. have a nice day for writing this.
>Such an "adaptation" - and I use THAT term laughably - would cost in excess of hundreds of millions of dollars, be six+ hours long, and leave you simultaneously disgusted at its attempts of sophomoric edginess, and yet unrelentingly-confused as to what the creators of the film were actually attempting to signify. It's The Stand, but re-written by an eighth grader with Down's Syndrome, high on meth and smearing himself frequently with Vaseline as he typed, giggled and blew spit-bubbles
yes. It should be a torturing 4-5 long feature of sun, sand and blood. A transcendental apocalyptic epic in scale and in production, the like of Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo, leaving a trail of extra's blood and brankrupting debt in its wake. The only director who could pull it off is too old and no one in pedowood has the balls anymore.
lmao Snyder could do it like he did with 300.
same here. Stopped twice. The whole thing comes together towards the end.
just stop. The bald guy from the punisher show would be better.
If you've read Blood Meridian and don't see why the TD guy is the perfect living embodiment of McCarthy's character then I don't know what to tell you.
McCarthy is heavily inspired by psychology and the unconscious.
One of the quotes made by the hermit early on is spoof on another quote made by Carl Jung. The landscapes are described as being cruel, jagged and full of life whose symbolic natures shares into Jung’s archetype of the terrible mother and terrible father, the nature of the environment helps to shape the characters and bring forth they’re more violent tendencies. Another person that shares one of the these archetypes is Holden with the terrible mother. A scene that brings this forward is the scene with him, the imbecile and Sarah Borginnis. If you don’t read psychology you won’t understand what McCarthy is talking about.
The movie (but I’d rather it be a tv show) is doable but rather than runaway from the landscapes the director should embrace them as an integral part to story.
If he were to remove the movie would be no different from any snuff film or Oscar bait.
Norman Reedus as the kid
Mads Mikkelsen as Glanton
Ben Kingsley as The Judge
some unknown youth as the kid
>judge
Stephen Merchant. Will need to fatten up like his nemesis Rick Waller, though.
>glanton
bale
>toadvine
Dafoe
>priest
Giamatti
>cap white
Jamie Lannister
If Steve won’t do it, get Nichols cage
The kid from Saltburn as the kid, I'm too lazy to look him up
i tried reading this and gave up after like three tries, couldnt even get past the first 20 pages, does the author get a hard on for makingit near impossible to read his fricking work? theres no fricking quotation marks around any of the speech, its written like a fricking toddler is telling the story, its so confusing for no reason, i even bought two of his others books too and i doubt ill be able to read those either, frick u mccarthy.
This is what Gnostics like McCarthy do. They frick with the mechanics of language because they hate God for destroying the Tower of Babel.
I forced myself through it and hated it most of the way through but once i was getting near the end it "clicked" for me and i understood why its so loved. Im impressed he even got it published because of how hard the begining is to get through buts its worth in. Ganna do a reread at some point soon
>theres no fricking quotation marks around any of the speech
Kek really? I listened to the audiobook so the dude did voices for all the characters. I tried reading some pages but the lack of punctuation makes my eyes glaze over. Its good when you have someone else saying all the weird words and you can just chill. The spanish parts dont have a translation though
no offense but the idea of listening to a man speak in my ear for hours is not appealing, maybe it's just because i've never given audio books a try, but in theory, it sounds like its kind of gay, and im not gay.
The idea is to engage the reader by making them an active participant in constructing the story. You have to envision what’s happening and hear the words in your mind for it to make sense, and you can’t just skip to the next line of dialogue when faced with more than two lines of text. That you can’t or won’t do this reflects poorly on you, not McCarthy.
nah I was able to read a clockwork orange all the way back in middle school, it wasnt even the disturbing nature of the book im talking about, the way its written is a huge mess. the author full blown invents a new fricking slang type thing that the characters speak in, it doesn’t help that im not a brit either, but i was still able to read through that just fine so clearly I have above average reading comprehension, McCarthy's writing style just sucks ass.
>noooo why do I have to pay attention while reading why isnt this like a marvel comic book??
This book is horrendous. No Country For Old Men is enjoyable because it has a story as opposed to a collection of descriptive violence that’s ultimately pointless
>ESL detected.
Have Harmony Korine direct it. It would be the funniest movie of all time.
Overrated dog shit. No thanks
>inb4 some fricking redditor thinks Brian Cranston would make a good judge
My casting choice for the judge
I’m reading it now for the first time and having seen fan art of the judge before I was surprised at how his characterization differs from what I was expecting, in that he isn’t overtly sinister or stereotypically evil.
He’s somewhat otherworldly, supremely confident, and needs an orators voice. Picrel is the closest thing I can think of to the judge “vibe” I envision even though he’s not a fat albino.
Listen to the audiobook. The narrator does a good judge
The audiobook is well done. You can find it on YouTube
Good thoughts. You described him really well. He's a calm, charismatic, likeable guy. When they draw him as a psycho it's all wrong.
As long as we're talking fantasy casting, what about a bald John Wayne who was made up to look pale and rough? He was huge. He played a few roles, especially in The Searchers, that showed he could really act.
suttree would work better
also his best book
this book is just an excuse to write Black person over and over
It only includes the word Black person 39 times
I pictured a giant Marlon Brando circa Apocalypse Now as Judge Holden. I wish this could have happened.
They do have scans of his head. I assume that was fine so they could use him in movies forever
Glenn Fleshler as The Judge
Charlie Plummer as The Kid
Josh Brolin as Joel Glanton
Anson Mount as Davy Brown
John Hawkes as Toadvine
And that's it. Completely serious.
never gonna happen.
>roycism
>indians portrayed in any bad light
>no women
Even the driver spoke more than the kid. It's it's made it will be a moronic marvel schlock where the judge is secretely a nazi and the kid has a romantic interest.
Marlon Brando as Judge is the most idiotic idea ever. Glenn Fleshler in True Detective is the closest thing to the Judge there will ever be.
>true detective guy
>marlon brando
>daniel day lewis
the reddit holy trinity of judge casting, all in this thread
The True Detective guy fits the Judge to the letter. He even speaks like him in that show.
>the kid
timothy chalamet
>the judge
chris hemsworth
>toadvine
woody harrelson
>glanton
john david washington
>priest
ryan gosling
>judge
The final scene will hit a lot harder
is the most reddit book? stfu already
>It's reddit beacuse... IT JUST IS, OKAY?!
Reddit likes a book that has the evil n-word???
Are they nazis?
Zendaya playing meridian and Hunter playing blood
They need to go Thanos and make Judge completely CGI based on a real actor, since the Judge is meant to be manifestation of evil. An otherwordly force. It would have to be on par with Davy Jones in POTC 2 though and not some pajeet CGI studio.
Cont.
My headcanon is Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now, just taller, albino and even fatter.
Maybe in few years they have the technology to both replicate him and also use AI software to replicate his voice, given Brando's estate give permission.
>muscles
>large hands
why do people think of the judge like this
he's a giant and slightly overweight guy with small hands and feet who has insane strength despite his apperance. he's not a bodybuilder and never was.
the real judge is the shitposts we made along the way
See
Bill gayerbakke 6'6 feet, though is old now
No, stop with this. The author himself said the book is perfectly adaptable to film as is. Just cast Glenn Fleshler and make him an albino and that's it. Nothing more than that.
But its not only the appearance but his whole demeanour. For example his dance and flute should be human impossible to replicate and you can't have an irl actor doing that. The whole point is that everything that he do is "unhuman" down to how he dances.
It's filmmaking, with the right creativity it can be done.
Never once read a reddit thread about this book. Saying the greatest actor ever Brando would be good for this character is not some homosexual reddit opinion just because someone there said it once. The guy was amazing.
Charles Bronson as Glanton
I have a vision, Brendan Fraser as The Judge. He's got the height, weight, and can make the look work.
Jonah Hill as the Judge
J Hill would rock that role, finally put that French b***h in her place...
>tfw judge holden actually existed
Stephen Merchant as the judge
Ricky Gervais as Glanton
Karl Pilkington as the kid
>turns out, lil injun fella
>Hack away you orange-headed Black person.
I THINK THERE'S BEEN A SCALPING UP THERE
>Are you here for the dance, Kid?
>What dance.
>The dance.
>What they're doin' over there?
>Yes, and no. It's a metaphor, kid.
>How can a dance be a metaphor? It's a dance.
>Anything can be a metaphor, Kid. The dance can be a metaphor!
>Even if it's also literal?
>Yes! The literal dance can be a metaphorical dance as well!
>That doesn't make sense. You're either dancing or you're not.
>Exactly! Now are you dancing or not?
>Well, I don't rightly know.
Barry as the kid. It would basically just be more like a film crew following him around irl
Dane DeHaan as The Kid
Nicolas Cage as The Judge
Directed by Werner Herzog
For a true adaptation of Blood Meridian it would need to be 20 hours long with hours upon hours of vista shots and traveling in total silence interspersed with very brief spurts of extremely graphic violence. Even then in my eyes the only way to do the violence justice is for every scene to be a single unbroken shot.
Trying to cut the movie down into something feature length would be totally impossible. Even if the movie was 4 hours long which is basically resigning it to death anyways it wouldn't be long enough for the full effect.
I wouldn't say totally unadaptable because it totally is possible but the scale is unreasonable for any sane director, actor, or crew to put up with. You would need a true auteur or someone completely fricked in the head to decide to accurately adapt it.
It doesn't need to be any of these dumb things. Cormac, rest his soul, said you could do it just fine in one movie if you had someone who knew who what he was doing. It's that simple.
Sure, you can adapt the baseline story but the real meat of the book is what I was talking about.
It can't possibly have the same effect if the violence is only minutes apart. The scenes of violence are only maybe 2-3 pages long at most, the prose, language, and pacing completely flip from the rest of the book which is slow, descriptive, and filled with antiquated language. Most acts of violence like the Apache attack are almost a single, massive run on sentence that dumbs the language down.
I dont get this take. I think you are getting filtered by the prose.
As some other anon said earlier the core of the story is pretty straightforward: going from place to place and extreme violence.
The challenge is as you said to to accurately portray the landscape and characters, but if Killers of the Flower Moon could have a run time of 3.30 h I can't see why a Blood Meridian film can't have the same runtime and that would be more than enough.
When I first watched the Machinist and saw Ivan I thought "Damn, that guy should play the Judge"
Idris Elba - the Black person heart
Willem Dafoe - the hermit
John Goodman- the judge
Josh brolin - toadvine
Jeff bridges - glanton
Steve Buscemi- the priest
Dave franco - the kid
James franco - the man
Written and directed by the Coen(cidence) brothers.
Goodman could have made a good Judge a few years ago, but he's too old now.
William Plummer as the judge
Luke perry was the kid
Timothy Chamalet as toadvine
Paul walker as glanton
Robert pattison as the hermit
Bob saget as the priest
Here comes Jacob..
The kid is 14 when he runs away from home and when the Glanton gang gets axed he’s 16 and finishes the novel at 45. If someone were to play him it would be an actor who is super young and at the end we switch him with someone older. A lot of the actors anons here are requesting look like they are married and have a job. None of them look like teenagers.
Marlon Brandon just doesn’t fit the role and that’s because he lacks the features necessary for the judge which is childishness. Brandon is just too mopey to handle the role.
Glenn flesher could definitely play him but his voice would be a problem. The judge is said to have a deep voice. Glenn is too soft spoken.
Daniel day Lewis could play Glanton but his acting ability comes from his speech even he admits it as much in interviews.
But Glanton is practically mute for most of the book with the only time I can remember him speaking being at the end with the ferry.
Mike Tyson as the Judge and Glanton
Tom Cruise as the kid
Nikki Minaj as the ex-priest
Thats all i got for ya
Only one perfect casting for Judge