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  1. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's too late for a faithful adaptation, nobody will allow indians to be graphically slaughtered en masse in a movie today

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      dall e ai soon enough

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        it still can't even do fingers right

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          give it a few more years

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Its a story about a group of mostly white guys being little better than animals. How would this shit not be possible in today's climate?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        because of what i wrote in my post

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because the indians are depicted equally as cruel

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Fair point, the noble savage is a the most ruthless whitewash that hasn't been called out.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ballad of buster scruggs did that and nobody complained.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I admit not all directors will be comfortable with adapting Cormacs nihilism about human nature in general as that is the wrong opinion in currently thing land but there are some pretty blackpilled directors i think would do it. lars von trier, claire denis, the guy who did The Road, gaspar noe, the guy that did Snowtown, The Lighthouse vvitch guy, all come to mind

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            The Road is white pilled you realize? Either way I'd go with Sean Baker, he seems more in line with Cormac of all the directors working

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              how is it white pilled? seemed bleak to me? at the end some pedo finds the kind and viggo dies? been a long time since last saw it

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ebin bro just ebin

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              I admit not all directors will be comfortable with adapting Cormacs nihilism about human nature in general as that is the wrong opinion in currently thing land but there are some pretty blackpilled directors i think would do it. lars von trier, claire denis, the guy who did The Road, gaspar noe, the guy that did Snowtown, The Lighthouse vvitch guy, all come to mind

              the guy who did The Road is directing the upcoming BM adaptation: https://deadline.com/2023/04/new-regency-cormac-mccarthys-blood-meridian-john-hillcoat-1235340998/

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                oooph, gonna be le dark with a watered down pallet

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                He also did the proposition which is a pretty grizzly western, he’s a good fit for BM

                Get Nick cave to do the score and it’ll be Kino

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                might as well make it with AI

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            The movie version removed all the best parts of The Road, frick everyone involved in that movie.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Because the indians are depicted equally as cruel.

          Also, see The Searchers

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Also, see The Searchers
            Too old.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            They were a specific, small group of troglodytes and the main native American character in the movie points out what freaks they are

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          They are generally delicted as cruel, but there is a bit where The Kid and I think the priest are fed and given shelter by a tribe for a night before moving on. It doesn't make all native Americans out to be noble, but it doesn't make them out to be all savage either, it just acknowledges some tribes were much more warlike than others, and even though it focuses on those ones, it doesn't dismiss the existence of more peaceful ones.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            The same happens near the beginning of the book with The Kid but with white settlers. The Kid is starving and barely scraping by and a group of cowboys feed him and give him tools to help him survive. The book does a good job of showing there are good people and monsters on both sides.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        They spend their time killing indians and then mexians, and also women and children. Also there's lots of pedophilia and just general awfulness.

        It's also conspicuous that they have the devil in their troupe, which is very anti-progressive because progressives think the devil is a good guy. So this would make the white guys massacring indians and mexians the good guys by association, which is very politically incorrect.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >They spend their time killing indians and then mexians, and also women and children. Also there's lots of pedophilia and just general awfulness.
          the book is incredibly popular and beloved so obviously people will be fine with it onscreen. jennifer kents film 'nightingale' showed similar atrocities and that was only like R16

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >it's too late for a faithful adaptation, nobody will allow indians to be graphically slaughtered en masse in a movie today
      100% wrong
      That will go over extremely well today in a woke society
      WAKE UP

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        yeah having everyone running around calling each other Black folk sure would go over well

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          its art not a popularity contest, good lord you pussy

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            art is literally a popularity contest

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              many artists died while being destitute, what are you 5 years old or something? get a clue pal

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          yes? django unchained ? rap music and literally everything else zoomers consume?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        i seriously doubt it, it would be too upsetting to people
        also

        Because the indians are depicted equally as cruel

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          But who on earth is choosing to go to the film adaptation of Blood Meridian not expecting that content? The trailers and promotional material would reflect the rating and content. No one would be walking into it unexpectant and if they did and got all indignant no one would take them seriously.
          it would be about as impactful as the people who write opinion pieces about their moral qualms with the Saw films and GTA games.
          also who cares if people don't like it? if the movie was well made and offered an interesting take on the book then the audience who appreciate it will find it and those that find it distasteful will be filtered. There's always going to be Nancy Reagans and Jack Thompsons in the audience who wring their hands over the violence and language but ultimately who cares?

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            you're right but you'd have to have the balls to get backlash for saying Black person

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              if i were a writer i would feel unsure of how to approach that aspect of writing historical fiction. but i think if the director is competent and approaches the source material with intelligence and integrity it would take a pretty simplistic person to read/watch blood meridian and their takeaway be "white supremacy good, this is racism propaganda" - you would have to be pretty historically illiterate to read the source text that way but i do agree that an unworthy director (ie. James franco) would have handled it in a poor way that triggered backlash

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                people will get mad anyways is the issue, not even joking about "le woketards".there will be videos dedicated to being mad and talk about the n word being used and rape and all that shit. I'd use Sean Baker like I said

                The Road is white pilled you realize? Either way I'd go with Sean Baker, he seems more in line with Cormac of all the directors working

                and he'd be great but he might not be willing to do it until he has 2 or 3 more films under his belt and more respect

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                >there will be videos dedicated to being mad and talk about the n word being used and rape and all that shit
                who gives a shit about YouTubers though lol
                also i didn't see any of that backlash against the nightingale, a film which had graphic violence against aboriginal people and lots of racist language?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Blood Meridian would be the most talked about movie of the year, it's maybe the most famous novel thats never been adapted

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                We'll see - personally I think the movie will only get actual 'backlash' if it's done poorly. I don't see a faithful adaptation done with intelligence and with respect to the source material would be especially controversial except among the fringe of celebs who are obliged to get upset over everything. honestly i see it going the other way too like if it doesn't have enough violence and n-words there will be a "backlash" of online right wingers who call it woke etc. outrage will happen either way but i don't think it will be huge. maybe i expect too much of modern audiences idek

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                if they actually have the judge naked with a e-girl or even hint at it there will be soccer moms of all variety mad as frick

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            it's not about the violence in general, it's about natives being depicted as savages and brutally murdered. are you completely unaware of today's climate? the director would 100% force something in that's not in the book to make it more PC and the violence against natives specifically would be toned down

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              but they aren't depicted as being savages? the sections we get from the indians POV depict them as rational agents with interiority and motives for what they do and how they act towards the gang. the scene of the indians burning everything the gang touched, even kicking back the dogs into the fire as they try to crawl out is juxtaposed with the sound rationale from the indians perspective that anything associated with the daemonic gang must be purged by fire. like all the violence in the book it puts you in the position of the people doing it, the phenomenology of killing and doing violence in a way that i think rises beyond petty judgements.

              whereas if the book depicted the ganton gang as clean honest hardworking good folk and the indians as irrational people who do violence for no reason a-la old school western flicks, that would get called out for racism.

              imo the text of blood meridian clearly takes a realist stance on human nature as tending towards inevitable violence rationalised in different ways, it's definitely not conveying that the Indians are in any way worse than the ganton gang or society at large

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're literally putting out a new injun killing movie in two weeks...

  2. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Judge's war speech alone makes this permanently unadaptable.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's unadaptable because it reads like it was written by a 12 year old who just found a thesaurus

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Big word coming from someone who exists without my consent.

  3. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Starring Judge Reinhold as The Rein

  4. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    The freedom of shitposters is an insult to me.
    I'd have them all in zoos.

  5. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Haha bros dae post on le redscarepod? Ironically of course, frick plebbitors!

  6. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    they won't have the balls to show a scalped indian kid

  7. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why is the judge such a bad guy? Never read it

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      he judges people wrong

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      he's more a force of nature than a real human

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      He judges a book by its cover

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      He sends people to iso-cubes for minor infractions.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's basically insane and thinks that all animals should either be killed or put in a zoo since their very existence is an affront to him, and proves this at one point by buying a bunch of puppies off a kid and then tossing them into a river in front of him while his friend shoots them for target practice while pissing into that same river.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      kills and rapes kids, kills animals, all around insane psycho
      in a book where everyone pretty much kills indiscriminantely he stands out as a cruel person
      at one point he buys a bunch of puppies off a kid just to throw them in the river and shoot them (probably kills the kid after too, don't remember), at another point he takes in an orphaned kid from a village they just massacred and then after a while just out of the blue rapes and kills the kid. Lots of stuff like that

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      he is implied to be Satan

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Evil is a function of intelligence. The Judge is extremely knowledgeable, well-read, well-spoken and dignified. His understanding of philosophy and man's nature makes his willful evil more deliberate than everyone else. The other members of the gang still have some recognizable morals/principles and they have human motivations driving their actions. The Judge has none of that. He'd be a psychopath if he was human, but he's more an embodiment of evil than anything else.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        sad that someone that smart never figured out the earth is flat

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      he's the devil

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        NO actually since cormac is a basic b***h aristotlian satanist gnostic frick the judge is the "demiurge"

  8. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    how would they handle the ending

  9. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    loved the book, low expectations for the movie
    heard the guy who directed The Road is doing it, thought that movie was meh but also didn't read the book

    it'll be easy to deal with the racism without toning it down. Gratuitous use of Black person and slurs has happened before without issue. The Glanton Gang are all pretty terrible people in the book plus they all pretty much die so it's fine to portray them as they are, plus there are scenes that play right into the PC territory like when the black member kills the white guy at the campfire for being racist. The Kid is just not racist enough (comparatively) to be an antihero for the audience to root for without feeling guilty.

    it's the violence that i'm worried will be heavily censored. Such a big part of the book and it was so gross I even put it down a few times to just be like "damn", rare for a book. Scenes that I can't imagine how they will manage to put that on screen, specifically thinking of one where a guy is windmilling two babies by the legs like nunchucks and smashing their heads onto rocks. Plenty of stuff like that in the book and after seeing The Road I don't trust the director to be able to or even willing to depict that kind of violence faithfully

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      if they arent saying Black person then theres no point to the Black person killing the white guy, my Lord, do people even think anymore?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >book even features a chimpout
        Kino and possibly a reference to that one ANTIFA that got knifed recently?!?

  10. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >"Was it worth it Judge? All to end up here on this Blood Meridian?!"
    No way they capture the impact of this line

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      be honest can you breakdown the importance of the root word Mer? I bet not

  11. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >You know kid, our gang really was the Blood Meridian all along.

  12. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    the judge is uncastable

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The albino from Banshee.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        jesus frick no, is bald and pale your only criteria?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, because the rest is up to the director.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            what is this logic? he's physically described several times and the albino doesn't fit at all

            >the judge is uncastable

            face is way too masculine

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >That scene where literally the entire prison turns up to watch the MC suck that guys dick

        Man that show was wild.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Oh really?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the judge is uncastable

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Woody's a goofball, he can't be menacing.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          hes likable here sure but hes also got a weird butthole vibe

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >hes also got a weird butthole vibe
            Even more so in Out of the Furnace.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >too goofy

          what is this logic? he's physically described several times and the albino doesn't fit at all
          [...]
          face is way too masculine

          >too manly

          i think thats a good combo

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            but it's literally the opposite of how his face is described in the book

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              ok well just cast Kane from WWF then i mean youre not gonna actually get a 1:1

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                he'd actually fit perfectly but i doubt he could act the part

                He was pretty menacing in NBK. But yeah someone like Vinny D'Onfrio whose name has been floated around would probably be better cast.

                this is probably the closest you're gonna get with a proper actor

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                you realize its about the presence not "he look like him"

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                it's about both which is why i quite literally said a wwe wrestler couldn't do it. can you not read?
                and if you think his appearance doesn't matter then you're very wrong, cormac deliberately emphasizes his strange appearance time and time again in the book. he isn't supposed to look normal, it's a big part of his character

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                That can be done with a good director you dont need the judge to actually be some circus freak

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                what can be done with a good director, altering your entire appearance? whos talking about circus freaks? what are you even talking about?
                might as well cast a black woman since his appearance doesn't matter to you

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                whos your choice then, moron? King Kong Bundy is dead so you're down a man

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                again, are you fricking unable to read? i seconded vincent d'onfrio
                is he a "circus freak" to you? he has soft features, beady eyes and a huge body. he can definitely look like a "giant baby", as described
                of course you're not gonna get a 1:1, but you can at least TRY instead of options for "goofy and manly"

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                vincent d'onofrio is busy eating donuts and percocets on the set of Law & Order: FVI, you're really picking someone who's given up on acting?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                do you realize im not actually a casting agent, and we're just describing actors who would be able to portray the judge? why are you so riled up because i said woody is a shit choice?
                i think your complete disregard of the judge's appearance shows how you didn't really understand his character, especially because you think that "manly" is a good choice

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                I think Woody Harrelson MIGHT make a good choice is all, if you care that much you'd only want actors who are 7 foot tall which you clearly dont

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                and i said he makes a bad choice because of how he looks, it's absurdly simple

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                youre absurdly simple

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                let's cast the fat black b***h from precious. his appearance doesn't matter after all and she's manly and goofy

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                let's cast 6'4 Vincent D'onofrio even though the judge is 7 foot tall

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                yes, height is one of the easiest things to fix in movies. look at lotr

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            The Judge is not supposed to appear manly, he's described as having an innocent appearance. He should come across as creepy, but not so much so that him being able to win others over with his words is hard to believe, but he shpuld not come across as intimidating through his physicality. A core part of the character is that despite being well-read and educated, his sole interest is war and committing acts of violence when you would expect someone so well-spoken and erudite to find meaning elsewhere in life. That comes across in his appearance too where he doesn't look like an intimidating brute like most of the gang despite being more capable of violence than any of them.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Think he was described as being a giant albino with a babyface

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Woody was made famous being innocent in Cheers and White Man Can't Jump what are you even talking about?

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                I wasn't disagreeing with Woody in the role specifically, though I feel like there are probably better candidates out there, I just don't agree that the criteria for someone to play The Judge are that he's goofy and manly.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          He was pretty menacing in NBK. But yeah someone like Vinny D'Onfrio whose name has been floated around would probably be better cast.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'd be fine with that. Or even

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      what did you say?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dave Bautista unironically

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Imagine current-day fat Brendan Fraser CG'd to dance like Mads Mikkelsen, and that's the end.

  13. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >"Whatya thinkin bout toadvine?
    *looks at camera
    >"All the Pretty Horses."

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      *Slow typing
      >"What does Como? mean google?"

  14. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I tried reading the book but the random Spanish kept taking me out, because I didn't like not knowing what it meant, and I'd have to stop to translate it.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      That which exists without your knowledge exists without your consent.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Just a couple of hombres crossing the playa, amigo

  15. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    wasn't there an update that john hillcoat is adapting it, with cormac executive producing?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cormac is dead

  16. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    More like CHUD Meridian

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      heh funny, you replaced blood with chud *tips trilby*

  17. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    for me, its vincent

  18. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    but where was the blood meridian

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The meridian (of blood)

  19. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Voicewise Clancy Brown would be a good choice but I can't honestly think of anyone that has both the voice, the presence and the physique.

  20. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I fricking hope not.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Can’t they just let a man Rest In Peace or do they gotta shit all over him as soon as dies

  21. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Frick the Judge who plays Glanton?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      gotta be Walton Goggins

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        seconded, first guy that came to mind though I could see others as well

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Goggins is great but he's too endearingly buffoonish to play someone as vicious as Glanton.

        He can sell the racism though.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          he can just not act buffoonish

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            has he ever done a role where he's not a buffoon?

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              not yet

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      He'd probably be a lot easier to cast, The Judge is just hard because he's so alien and unusual. I like Glanton, but he's not so out of the ordinary that I think you'd need a really specific person to portray him right like you would The Judge.

  22. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    the antagonist from Heat looks EXACTLY how I imagined Glanton to look. I must have seen the movie when I was younger and remembered him subconciously

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I always imagine Glanton as looking like Lee Van Cleef.

  23. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

    What did he mean by this?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >dude what if bible but me

      thats exactly what he meant by that and despite that he'll still be forgotten in a hundred years

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