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re: Blood Meridian- Would Hollywood ever make it?
Posted on 4/19/23 at 10:35 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
Posted on 4/19/23 at 10:35 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
The Road is a great book, I held off for a long time because a buddy told me it’s too depressing but I didn’t feel that way about it. Don’t hold off just read it!
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Posted on 4/20/23 at 6:45 am to Honest Tune
Was even thinking about The House that Jack Built and it’s immense violence. If this were to be translated to film properly, it’d have to be unflinching.
The other possibility would be to make it animated and stylized. May be about the only way to cast it properly and to convey the scenery just right.
The other possibility would be to make it animated and stylized. May be about the only way to cast it properly and to convey the scenery just right.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 8:26 am to Vols&Shaft83
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Blood Meridian- Would Hollywood ever make it?
Bone Tomahawk was made so...probably?
Posted on 4/20/23 at 8:34 am to Vols&Shaft83
I think you're going to see Directors start taking chances on movies like this in the next couple of years. Everything is too stiff, too scared of backlash, and that breeds creativity that pushes envelopes.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 8:35 am to Vols&Shaft83
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Run-on sentences wear you out?
No I didn't care at all about that. It's just so dreadfully BORING. There are long, loooong stretches were not a damn thing happens. Then you'll have some fighting and scalping or partying and pillaging adn whatnot, followed by yet again excruciating stetches of boredom. They'll go pages/days of just sitting at camp at night, riding all day, then camping again at night, where nothing happens. It was a chore just to drag myself across the finish line.
Notice I didn't say that it sucked or was awful, because I can see why some people would fall in love with the style and the setting of the west. It's just not MY cup of tea personally.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 10:33 am to rondo
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Bone Tomahawk was made so...probably?
One of the incidental images in Blood Meridian is a thorn bush full of dead infants that the Comanche killed in a raid. Bone Tomahawk is tame by comparison
Posted on 4/20/23 at 10:33 am to tylerdurden24
Can Lars Von Trier make a Western?
Posted on 4/20/23 at 11:19 am to WG_Dawg
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No I didn't care at all about that. It's just so dreadfully BORING. There are long, loooong stretches were not a damn thing happens. Then you'll have some fighting and scalping or partying and pillaging adn whatnot, followed by yet again excruciating stetches of boredom. They'll go pages/days of just sitting at camp at night, riding all day, then camping again at night, where nothing happens. It was a chore just to drag myself across the finish line.
I have like 70 pages left, and I can't seem to find the desire to finish it. There's just pages and pages of minutiae, then a paragraph where someone's head gets chopped off. I legitimately thought I received the wrong book.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 2:04 pm to nobigdeal69
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I have like 70 pages left, and I can't seem to find the desire to finish it. There's just pages and pages of minutiae, then a paragraph where someone's head gets chopped off. I legitimately thought I received the wrong book.
I was in your shoes too but if you've made it this far you might as well finish, if for nothing else so you can at least know how it ends. It doesn't make up for the rest of the books' worth of nothingness but when it comes to BM it seems like a lot of debate or discussion is centered around the events at the end.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 2:16 pm to Thundercles
Mel and Vince did Dragged across concrete together too
Posted on 4/20/23 at 3:10 pm to WG_Dawg
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I was in your shoes too but if you've made it this far you might as well finish, if for nothing else so you can at least know how it ends. It doesn't make up for the rest of the books' worth of nothingness but when it comes to BM it seems like a lot of debate or discussion is centered around the events at the end.
I will... I think. Last week I spent 20 hours on planes and didn't take the book out of my bag.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 4:15 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Eggers directs
Gibson produce/screenplay
Alex Skarsguard as Judge
Gibson produce/screenplay
Alex Skarsguard as Judge
Posted on 4/20/23 at 4:58 pm to nobigdeal69
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I have like 70 pages left, and I can't seem to find the desire to finish it. There's just pages and pages of minutiae, then a paragraph where someone's head gets chopped off. I legitimately thought I received the wrong book.
If you want, I can just tell you how it ends.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 7:41 pm to Pandy Fackler
I think I know. Doesn’t the judge bust in on the kid in an outhouse and rape him or something?
Posted on 4/20/23 at 10:48 pm to Vols&Shaft83
I haven't read the book, but I feel like I have because of Ben Nichols' (lead singer of Lucero) amazing solo-album "The Last Pale Light in the West". It's only 7 songs, but it packs a weighty punch. It's sort of a concept album he wrote after he read Blood Meridian.
He's talked about in interviews how he took some liberties with some of the characters and stories, but only when it made the songs better.
Give it a listen.
He's talked about in interviews how he took some liberties with some of the characters and stories, but only when it made the songs better.
Give it a listen.
Posted on 4/20/23 at 10:58 pm to nobigdeal69
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Doesn’t the judge bust in on the kid in an outhouse and rape him or something?
It’s not nearly that simple. The ending is part of the reason it has such a reputation. Certainly one interpretation is Judge raping and killing the kid. There are some even crazier theories out there that are just as disturbing but all I can say is that it’s very much up to interpretation as to what happens
Posted on 4/21/23 at 1:50 am to Vols&Shaft83
As an aside it’s considered by some to be the greatest American novel of all time. I started it but I’ve lost the book. Audio is a good idea
Posted on 4/21/23 at 2:22 am to WicKed WayZ
damnit, yall are making me want to read it again. Probably been 15 years or so.
Posted on 4/21/23 at 2:33 am to Vols&Shaft83
I think Vincent D’onofrio would be my first choice as Judge.
Posted on 4/21/23 at 5:37 am to PowerTool
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damnit, yall are making me want to read it again. Probably been 15 years or so.
Same.
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