Who would be the best actor to play him in a film of Blood Meridian? Since it's never going to happen, you can choose a dead actor if you want.
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Who would be the best actor to play him in a film of Blood Meridian?
Who would be the best actor to play him in a film of Blood Meridian? Since it's never going to happen, you can choose a dead actor if you want.
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Me.
It’s a Reddit book, so you’d have to find a Reddit actor like Brendan Fraser.
Based. Not sure why people on here suck this book off so much.
>t. not born with a taste for mindless violence
i only kill for top shelf bussy
It's a great novel, which is why it's so popular. And because it's popular you sadsack snobs resort to calling it "reddit", not judging the work for its inherent worth but seeing it strictly through the lens of how cool it is to like it. And I agree that it's not cool to like Blood Meridian, everyone has read it, but it's a great book.
The run-on sentence is apt here, the breathless cadence is what you want in retelling a sudden orgy of violence, and still the prose manages to be rich, vernacular, erudite. But if you want violence narrated in banal ass prose just stick to American Psycho.
>It's a great novel, which is why it's so popular.
Popularity and quality are almost always inversely correlated.
>Popularity and quality are almost always inversely correlated.
This. Pro wrestling is the only medium that correlates proportionally.
REMEMBER EDDIE WHEN I RAPED TO DEATH YOUR BROTHER?
Jenna Ortega
by far the best pic, even has the baby face they describe judge having, and also comes off like an intelligent man despite being a giant
Only he can do it. Anyone else are a meme. I hate the Brando gays so much. they're clear redditors who've never read the book. his character in True Detective even talks like the Judge and has the exact same voice I figured he'd have.
Sydney Greenstreet, Wallace Beery, Ward Bond, Lionel Barrymore, Lon Chaney Sr.
Someone tldr the worst parts of this book I need the torture porn
>Glanton spat
>They rode on
>Now driving in a wild frieze of headlong horses with eyes walled and teeth cropped and naked riders with clusters of arrows clenched in their jaws and their shields winking in the dust and up the far side of the ruined ranks in a piping of boneflutes and dropping down off the sides of their mounts with one heel hung in the withers strap and their short bows flexing beneath the outstretched necks of the ponies until they had circled the company and cut their ranks in two and then rising up again like funhouse figures, some with nightmare faces painted on their breasts, riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with a peculiar bandylegged trot like creatures driven to alien forms of locomotion and stripping the clothes from the dead and seizing them up by the hair and passing their blades about the skulls of the living and the dead alike and snatching aloft the bloody wigs and hacking and chopping at the naked bodies, ripping off limbs, heads, gutting the strange white torsos and holding up great handfuls of viscera, genitals, some of the savages so slathered up with gore they might have rolled in it like dogs and some who fell upon the dying and sodomized them with loud cries to their fellows. And now the horses of the dead came pounding out of the smoke and dust and circled with flapping leather and wild manes and eyes whited with fear like the eyes of the blind and some were feathered with arrows and some lanced through and stumbling and vomiting blood as they wheeled across the killing ground and clattered from sight again. Dust stanched the wet and naked heads of the scalped who with the fringe of hair below their wounds and tonsured to the bone now lay like maimed and naked monks in the bloodslaked dust and everywhere the dying groaned and gibbered and horses lay screaming.
Nice run on sentence, you fricking hack. Only McCarthy could bore you with this degree of violence.
>A and B and C and D and E and F and G and H and I and J and K and ....
It's like a kid telling a story
>and then and then and then and then oh yeah and also and then..
MccorHACk is a midwit writer for midwits
>It's like a kid telling a story
This. How the frick did a hack like McCarthy receive such acclaim? Only explanation is that he sucked a lot of wiener at his local Masonic lodge.
You guys have no ear for prose or poetry. Or have you read any Eliot, Auden, Stevens? Can you tell me what's great about their poems? Are their poems bullshit as well? The fundamental problem here is not understanding what constitutes good prose.
He writes like a schizo talks. You don't want to listen to that shit after more than a few seconds.
>this makes redditors piss, shit and cum themselves
The book sucks
PSH
Richard WIDMARK!!!!!!
James Spader
Clancy Brown
2000's Clancy Brown would've been perfect for it between the voice and the stature.
God he would be perfect. But he’s too old at this point. Voice would be amazing.
Should have been Norm McDonald
Matt Lucas
Idris Elba
Pseudo-intellectual core
East Side Dave
Here's a choice no one has picked. Yuri Kolokolnikov. Played Styr in Game of Thrones. Guy is 6'7 and can clearly play terrifying characters. Give him a muscle/fat suit and you have your Judge Holden.
Yea I could see that, too handsome though.
Jason Luv
Would have been a kino Lex Luthor. DCAU Luthor was based on him
>DCAU Luthor was based on him
Cool, I didn't know that but I now see the similarities in demeanor.
>Judge walking around with a sucker
Jax Slayher
Bros, did the man join the judge in the end?
Nathan Jones, the Colossus of Boggo Road
He is dancing, dancing
What character is the closest to capturing The Judge? I'm not saying I'm terms or performance but capturing what the Judge stands for. Maybe Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now?
Sacha Baron Coen's Bruno. I'm not joking
Can you elaborate on your reasoning?
I could but I'd be typing up a thesis
then do it or nobody is gonna buy your nonsense
Kurtz, Ahab, Milton's Satan
>what the Judge stands for
>Aguirre, Wrath of God
>Colonel Kurtz (Apocalypse Now)
>Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood)
>Piano Player (Under the Silver Lake)
>Red Miller (Mandy)
Any Faustian/Antichrist type really. Then again picrel
>Cormac McCarthy is a Catholic
>Catholics believe God is above good and evil
and people say that Catholics aren't just Gnostics in denial
jackie chan
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Need to get someone whose got an unnerving baby face
Yeah
The judge smiled
read another book
I'd rather see Juaqine Phoenix as Suttree and the guy who played Rorschach as Harrowgate. Just a drunk paddling around on the Tennessee River and getting fricked up in Knoxville. I can see Juaqine getting hit in the head with that floor buffer and never being quite right after that.
>getting drunk paddling around on the Tennessee River and getting fricked up in Knoxville
Literally me
>dude they should adapt blood meridian
>dude they should adapt half-life
I don't even know which is worse. Not everything needs to be adapted.
bioshock needs a miniseries
As long as they also adapt Infinite, the best Bioshock game.
nice bait, i love all of their games but Infinite is just a worse game with a more ludicrous story, 1 has the best story, 2 has the best gameplay, what infinite needed was more exploration of Columbus beyond linear shooting ranges and the same gun system the previous games had, vigors were all around worse too even if I loved the themes of them
I've never read the book and don't really plan to, what's the deal with this homie is he a person or like a demon or something?
The judge smiled
hes the most cultured man alive (atleast in the wild west)
You posted a picture of Uncle Fester but the replies seem to think it's something else. Odd thread.
For me, it's Aegon Targaryen.
>oi, war was always here, roight? loike, before man was, war waited for him innit bruv?
no thanks but funny to think about
Why is this homosexual thread made every fricking week? Every moron reads this book once then makes this fricking thread. It's not the magnus opus of literature. Read a different book for fricks sake.
i havent read a library but ive read about 25 books that I think highly of most of them cliche classic pics, as far as Blood Meridian goes its one of my top 5 for sure which makes it likely one of the greatest books of all time. If you dont understand Cormac McCarthy's depiction of life and the universe youre not going to appreciate it but to me its massive in scope
>War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner
Judge is great but you also have characters like Glanton which are delivered with such subtlety that they can have the most minor of dialog feel like a deep exploration of the man's heart and soul
>my favorite book? well its a little hidden gem called infinite jest of course
Vincent d'onofrio would be borderline perfect
>handsome, lean, tall gigachad
>gets one fat role on a kubrick flick
>never recovers
>never gets a noteworthy role again
does this happen often in the industry?
What? D'Onofrio has had tons of great films.
He was the bug monster in Men in Black
Don't know if he enjoyed the role or not but he was great in Law & Order Criminal Intent
He's the best actor for it today
1970s Marlon Brando.
This. Brando would go all in, he would probably rape some kids to get into character too.
Billy Corgan
WEEEEEEEEEEE
unironically his voice would be perfect for the judge and hes tall too.
Rob Gronkowski, unironically
yea he certainly has the right amount of brain damage
Joie de vivre, commitment to the dance I was thinking
You guys are just posting bald men
The correct answer is
Daniel Day Lewis
DDL is more like Glanton
Apparently this board thinks that actors only ever use their natural hair for a role and cannot shave their heads.
John Candy.
Let's say God and or superman comes to confront the judge and entramos him in the phantom zone.
As the eons passed humanity becomes utopian without wars and violence.
How much does the judge seethe that he was wrong?
Utopian, no - place. No chance of seething EVER.
Ok, let's say that it's a place with no violence, everyone is extremely vegan and everyone is happy with each other and it's been like that for 1 quintillion years.
Also God is real and no other sapient aliens exist or will exist except humans.
What does the judge say and feel about that humanity
>everyone is vegan
thats worse than war, Judge would be laughing at that nonsense
But it would also mean not even animals are being killed for food. Literally no violence.
Are you okay?
Busta wolf.
Directed by Mel Gibson
Produced by S. Craig Zahler
>S. Craig Zahler
A very bloat maxxed Jack Black. The height issue can be shot around. Or bring back Phillip Seymour Hoffman from the dead.
Mel Gibson needs to be Glanton. Make Costner play a villain for once as ex-preacher actual villain corrupting the kid Tobin. Get Christian Bale on doing his Hostiles thing.
He could do it.
Another reason why it shouldn't be adapted to film. Brando and Apocalypse Now are the baseline.
Tall enough. Mismatch between the voice and him getting hulked out could be disturbing.
>Mel as Glanton
Pretty kino.
I wonder if he would actually do it, or would it go against his Catholic views or something.
If you've looked at Mel's filmography lately, he will literally do any bullshit he can get because he is trying to make money to fund Passion of the Christ 2.
Dragged Across Concrete was an excellent film a modern noir classic
I agree, but it was also 6 years ago and he's been a sea of shit since then. Look at 2022, he did seven fricking movies.
>actual villain
do people really think the ex preacher was a villainous character? I thought he was morally grey but so was everyone
I always thought he was fighting for the kids humanity against the judge, but people have pointed out how weird he acts when the judge is hunting the duo in the desert. A lot of contradicting info and he is multiple times referred to as hissing and I believe at one point he described as being coiled.
why does the judge suddenly start hunting them at that point? they were allies not long before that and Kid didn't do anything to warrant the reaction, was it cause of the preacher? the wojak image of the Judge in the desert is the exact reason I chose to read the book
The kid didn't give the judge his gun when he offered him the money. He was also not committed to the judge's philosophy.
Because the game is over, the gang is destroyed there are only three dancers left, the kid, the expriest and the judge.
And there is room only for one beast onstage.
Oscar winner Brendan Fraser
Good choice, but I can never not see Herc whenever he shows up in a kino.
Herc cant act for shit how could he possibly pull off such an enigmatic figure like the judge? has he ever played a real bad guy? and dont say Tulsa King
Marlon Brando
He could do it
if youve read the book youd know these guys have no chance at pulling off a character like Judge, every one of these threads you get so many shit recommendations its insane. The ones I didn't link are either good pics or actors i havent seen in much.
What standards do you hold for an actor that could play the role?
they need to be able to play an enigmatic villain, ideally one that is fat and towers over people, anyone can shave their head bald, Judge is a charismatic figure bottom line so the actor needs to seem like someone that could intellectually talk circles around anyone and like a switch you never see coming turn into an aspect of chaos
is my pic
mostly based on True Detective
>fat
>tall
>bald
>can act
You're right. Impossible
Glenn Fleshler was born to play the Judge
>tall
>fat
>baby face
Bald Peter Steele
Mike Judge
Tom Noonan.
Dean Norris
Only Sam Hyde actually has the menacing temperament, physicality, and intelligence to pull this character off.
Sam Hyde can menacingly suck my dick
Is he jerking off?
stellan skarsgard
jocko.
Pure kino.
Read the plot synopsis on wikipedia last night and honestly I don't see the appeal. It's a fairly mediocre story that masks its blandness with senseless violence and sex. Oh well at least it was an easy read knocking one more book off my backlog.
I recommend reading the plot synopsis of In Search of Lost Time next. Perhaps that one will be more to your liking.
>popular youtuber makes a video on a book
>suddenly everyone on the internet has read it
Who was the youtuber?
nick mullen
shave him and fatten him up
so what happened at the end? the mc got raped in an outdoor toilet?
He got straight out murdered, yes.
The point of the last scene is that whatever happened was considered too gruesome to show in a book that had not till that point strayed away from showing brutality. So he would have to have been super raped and super murdered.
I assumed that he got raped and murdered, then his dead body got stuffed into the outhouse hole head first.
I read and enjoyed Blood Meridian before it was adopted by the tasteless mainstream horde. I'm always ahead of the game, it's kind of crazy. My whole life has been like that.
How did you enjoy Blood Merdian? Sincere question. I thought it was unreadable.
Brainlet.
Explain yourself. McCarthy wrote it like a 10 year old kid tells a story. Meandering, pointless, not sure of the point its trying to make with occasional forays into juvenile humor. What did you enjoy about it?
Russel Crowe.
This wins right? All the others are memes and not feasible. Russel Crowe is the perfect cast and could happen in our lifetime.
That's just a fatsuit, Crowe got fat for Body of Lies and then realized he never wanted to do that for a role again so he just wears fatsuits now. Anyone can wear a costume.
Agreed
Ja?
Tom Hardy could do it being that he is a big guy
Why did the judge kill and rape the kid?
The judge saw the kid as the perfect person to mold into basically another version of himself. The problem was that the kid wouldn't fully commit himself to the judge's philosophy.
It's left up to your imagination but the way the scene is described and the reaction of the two passerbys indicates that something horrible happened.
Mccarthy wants to make the reader think all kinds of horrible shit happened to the kid, which means all the worst things that could possibly happen happened to the kid.
imo it's another christ analogy. The whole crucifixion, thorns, being betrayed, etc. is basically to drive home to readers of the bible that one aspect of the story of jesus christ is basically "the worst things happen to the best possible person".
And mccarthy wants the same kind of ending for the kid, without explicitly saying it.
>inb4 hurr durr the kid isnt christ
The kid isnt JUST christ but there are way to many similarities to christ and biblical references to pretend otherwise like the leonid meteor shower heralding the birth of the kid and the kin of his father being known as hewers of wood and drawers of water.
CGI him and hire the motion capture actor of gollum.