WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:39 pm
And I'm still dumbfounded that Hollywood, after making many movies based on cormac McCarthy books (The Road, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men) won't commit to his best book by far- "Blood Meridian".
Blood Meridian is unfilmable.
Movies need a beginning, a middle, and an end. Blood Meridian has none of that. It's just a group of people wandering around aimlessly with no direction or purpose (apart from the violence). There's no plot structure or cohesive elements. It's more of a diary than it is a novel.
If they tried to film it, they would most certainly have to change most of it. And then it wouldn't be Blood Meridian any more.
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:00 am
You both fucked up. You trusted me.
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:42 pm
Attempted film adaptations
There have been a number of attempts to create a motion picture adaptation of Blood Meridian. However, all have failed during the development or pre-production stages. A common perception is that the story is "unfilmable", due to its unrelenting violence and dark tone. In an interview with Cormac McCarthy by The Wall Street Journal in 2009, McCarthy denied this notion, with his perspective being that it would be "very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary."[33]
Screenwriter Steve Tesich first adapted Blood Meridian into a screenplay in 1995. In the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones acquired the film adaptation rights to the story and subsequently rewrote Tesich's screenplay, with the idea of directing and playing a role in it.[34] Due to film studios avoiding the project's overall violence, production could not move forward. [35]
Following the end of production for Kingdom of Heaven in 2004, screenwriter William Monahan and director Ridley Scott entered discussions with producer Scott Rudin for adapting Blood Meridian with Paramount Pictures financing.[36] In an interview with Eclipse Magazine published in June 2008, Scott confirmed that the screenplay had been written, but that the extensive violence was proving to be a challenge for film standards.[37] This later led to Scott and Monhan leaving the project, resulting in another abandoned adaptation.[38]
By early 2011, James Franco was thinking of adapting Blood Meridian, along with a number of other William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels.[39] After being persuaded by Andrew Dominik to adapt the novel, Franco shot twenty-five minutes of test footage, starring Scott Glenn, Mark Pellegrino, Luke Perry and Dave Franco. For undisclosed reasons, Rudin denied further production of the film.[35] On May 5, 2016, Variety revealed that Franco was negotiating with Rudin to write and direct an adaptation to be brought to the Marché du Film, with Russell Crowe, Tye Sheridan and Vincent D'Onofrio starring. However, later that day, it was reported that the project dissolved, due to issues concerning the film rights.[40]
Lynne Ramsay has expressed an interest in adapting the novel.
Hey, Man. I appreciate the overview. Thanks. At least it's gotten attention. Don't understand the squeamishness. Hell, "The Road"even in the movie version (like the book) had a couple, including a massive pregnant female camping nearby with their fire. She gave birth overnight and they saw the next day they cooked the newborn for food. How squeamish do you need to be to make a "Blood Meridian" a thing.
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:42 pm
Attempted film adaptations
There have been a number of attempts to create a motion picture adaptation of Blood Meridian. However, all have failed during the development or pre-production stages. A common perception is that the story is "unfilmable", due to its unrelenting violence and dark tone. In an interview with Cormac McCarthy by The Wall Street Journal in 2009, McCarthy denied this notion, with his perspective being that it would be "very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary."[33]
Screenwriter Steve Tesich first adapted Blood Meridian into a screenplay in 1995. In the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones acquired the film adaptation rights to the story and subsequently rewrote Tesich's screenplay, with the idea of directing and playing a role in it.[34] Due to film studios avoiding the project's overall violence, production could not move forward. [35]
Following the end of production for Kingdom of Heaven in 2004, screenwriter William Monahan and director Ridley Scott entered discussions with producer Scott Rudin for adapting Blood Meridian with Paramount Pictures financing.[36] In an interview with Eclipse Magazine published in June 2008, Scott confirmed that the screenplay had been written, but that the extensive violence was proving to be a challenge for film standards.[37] This later led to Scott and Monhan leaving the project, resulting in another abandoned adaptation.[38]
By early 2011, James Franco was thinking of adapting Blood Meridian, along with a number of other William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels.[39] After being persuaded by Andrew Dominik to adapt the novel, Franco shot twenty-five minutes of test footage, starring Scott Glenn, Mark Pellegrino, Luke Perry and Dave Franco. For undisclosed reasons, Rudin denied further production of the film.[35] On May 5, 2016, Variety revealed that Franco was negotiating with Rudin to write and direct an adaptation to be brought to the Marché du Film, with Russell Crowe, Tye Sheridan and Vincent D'Onofrio starring. However, later that day, it was reported that the project dissolved, due to issues concerning the film rights.[40]
Lynne Ramsay has expressed an interest in adapting the novel.
Hey, Man. I appreciate the overview. Thanks. At least it's gotten attention. Don't understand the squeamishness. Hell, "The Road"even in the movie version (like the book) had a couple, including a massive pregnant female camping nearby with their fire. She gave birth overnight and they saw the next day they cooked the newborn for food. How squeamish do you need to be to make a "Blood Meridian" a thing.
It has NOTHING to do with being squeamish. Blood Meridian has no continuity. It would make a terrible movie.
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:00 am
You both fucked up. You trusted me.
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:39 pm
And I'm still dumbfounded that Hollywood, after making many movies based on cormac McCarthy books (The Road, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men) won't commit to his best book by far- "Blood Meridian".
Blood Meridian is unfilmable.
Movies need a beginning, a middle, and an end. Blood Meridian has none of that. It's just a group of people wandering around aimlessly with no direction or purpose (apart from the violence). There's no plot structure or cohesive elements. It's more of a diary than it is a novel.
If they tried to film it, they would most certainly have to change most of it. And then it wouldn't be Blood Meridian any more.
World War Z was unfilmable, at least in movie format. That doesn't stop Hollywood.
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:42 pm
Attempted film adaptations
There have been a number of attempts to create a motion picture adaptation of Blood Meridian. However, all have failed during the development or pre-production stages. A common perception is that the story is "unfilmable", due to its unrelenting violence and dark tone. In an interview with Cormac McCarthy by The Wall Street Journal in 2009, McCarthy denied this notion, with his perspective being that it would be "very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary."[33]
Screenwriter Steve Tesich first adapted Blood Meridian into a screenplay in 1995. In the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones acquired the film adaptation rights to the story and subsequently rewrote Tesich's screenplay, with the idea of directing and playing a role in it.[34] Due to film studios avoiding the project's overall violence, production could not move forward. [35]
Following the end of production for Kingdom of Heaven in 2004, screenwriter William Monahan and director Ridley Scott entered discussions with producer Scott Rudin for adapting Blood Meridian with Paramount Pictures financing.[36] In an interview with Eclipse Magazine published in June 2008, Scott confirmed that the screenplay had been written, but that the extensive violence was proving to be a challenge for film standards.[37] This later led to Scott and Monhan leaving the project, resulting in another abandoned adaptation.[38]
By early 2011, James Franco was thinking of adapting Blood Meridian, along with a number of other William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels.[39] After being persuaded by Andrew Dominik to adapt the novel, Franco shot twenty-five minutes of test footage, starring Scott Glenn, Mark Pellegrino, Luke Perry and Dave Franco. For undisclosed reasons, Rudin denied further production of the film.[35] On May 5, 2016, Variety revealed that Franco was negotiating with Rudin to write and direct an adaptation to be brought to the Marché du Film, with Russell Crowe, Tye Sheridan and Vincent D'Onofrio starring. However, later that day, it was reported that the project dissolved, due to issues concerning the film rights.[40]
Lynne Ramsay has expressed an interest in adapting the novel.
Hey, Man. I appreciate the overview. Thanks. At least it's gotten attention. Don't understand the squeamishness. Hell, "The Road"even in the movie version (like the book) had a couple, including a massive pregnant female camping nearby with their fire. She gave birth overnight and they saw the next day they cooked the newborn for food. How squeamish do you need to be to make a "Blood Meridian" a thing.
It has NOTHING to do with being squeamish. Blood Meridian has no continuity. It would make a terrible movie.
I totally disagree to the nth degree. I'm not even sure what continuity issue (are you sure you read the book?) you are talking about. Starts around 1858 East of San Antonio at the Railhead. Go into N Mexico, didn't realize they are on the Comanche Trail. 1,000 plus Comanches ride over a hill returning from their yearly Mexico raid and massacre a good portion of them. The remainder get a contract from the local Governor paid for Comanche scalps (The squeamish is how they filled their quotas). They are run off- travel to NW Mexico and ask a Mexican couple there if they can bed down for the night (Only time they didn't kill anybody)in their barn with their horses. In just a few sentences describing that night, McCarthy reveals the truth about the albino giants and his cohorts. Move on to Yuma and massacring Pima Indians and ends in San Francisco with the albino giant killing the last witness. What the frick continuity issue are you talking about?
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:42 pm
Attempted film adaptations
There have been a number of attempts to create a motion picture adaptation of Blood Meridian. However, all have failed during the development or pre-production stages. A common perception is that the story is "unfilmable", due to its unrelenting violence and dark tone. In an interview with Cormac McCarthy by The Wall Street Journal in 2009, McCarthy denied this notion, with his perspective being that it would be "very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary."[33]
Screenwriter Steve Tesich first adapted Blood Meridian into a screenplay in 1995. In the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones acquired the film adaptation rights to the story and subsequently rewrote Tesich's screenplay, with the idea of directing and playing a role in it.[34] Due to film studios avoiding the project's overall violence, production could not move forward. [35]
Following the end of production for Kingdom of Heaven in 2004, screenwriter William Monahan and director Ridley Scott entered discussions with producer Scott Rudin for adapting Blood Meridian with Paramount Pictures financing.[36] In an interview with Eclipse Magazine published in June 2008, Scott confirmed that the screenplay had been written, but that the extensive violence was proving to be a challenge for film standards.[37] This later led to Scott and Monhan leaving the project, resulting in another abandoned adaptation.[38]
By early 2011, James Franco was thinking of adapting Blood Meridian, along with a number of other William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels.[39] After being persuaded by Andrew Dominik to adapt the novel, Franco shot twenty-five minutes of test footage, starring Scott Glenn, Mark Pellegrino, Luke Perry and Dave Franco. For undisclosed reasons, Rudin denied further production of the film.[35] On May 5, 2016, Variety revealed that Franco was negotiating with Rudin to write and direct an adaptation to be brought to the Marché du Film, with Russell Crowe, Tye Sheridan and Vincent D'Onofrio starring. However, later that day, it was reported that the project dissolved, due to issues concerning the film rights.[40]
Lynne Ramsay has expressed an interest in adapting the novel.
Hey, Man. I appreciate the overview. Thanks. At least it's gotten attention. Don't understand the squeamishness. Hell, "The Road"even in the movie version (like the book) had a couple, including a massive pregnant female camping nearby with their fire. She gave birth overnight and they saw the next day they cooked the newborn for food. How squeamish do you need to be to make a "Blood Meridian" a thing.
It has NOTHING to do with being squeamish. Blood Meridian has no continuity. It would make a terrible movie.
I totally disagree to the nth degree. I'm not even sure what continuity issue (are you sure you read the book?) you are talking about. Starts around 1858 East of San Antonio at the Railhead. Go into N Mexico, didn't realize they are on the Comanche Trail. 1,000 plus Comanches ride over a hill returning from their yearly Mexico raid and massacre a good portion of them. The remainder get a contract from the local Governor paid for Comanche scalps (The squeamish is how they filled their quotas). They are run off- travel to NW Mexico and ask a Mexican couple there if they can bed down for the night (Only time they didn't kill anybody)in their barn with their horses. In just a few sentences describing that night, McCarthy reveals the truth about the albino giants and his cohorts. Move on to Yuma and massacring Pima Indians and ends in San Francisco with the albino giant killing the last witness. What the frick continuity issue are you talking about?
Blood Meridian is a great novel. I'm not saying it isn't. But Blood Meridian would make a terrible movie.
I'm talking about cohesive narrative and structure, two things essential in film making. Blood Meridian doesn't have it. Blood Meridian is the literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting.
The only way they could make Blood Meridian into a movie would be to rewrite it. And then it wouldn't be Blood Meridian anymore.
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:00 am
You both fucked up. You trusted me.
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:42 pm
Attempted film adaptations
There have been a number of attempts to create a motion picture adaptation of Blood Meridian. However, all have failed during the development or pre-production stages. A common perception is that the story is "unfilmable", due to its unrelenting violence and dark tone. In an interview with Cormac McCarthy by The Wall Street Journal in 2009, McCarthy denied this notion, with his perspective being that it would be "very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary."[33]
Screenwriter Steve Tesich first adapted Blood Meridian into a screenplay in 1995. In the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones acquired the film adaptation rights to the story and subsequently rewrote Tesich's screenplay, with the idea of directing and playing a role in it.[34] Due to film studios avoiding the project's overall violence, production could not move forward. [35]
Following the end of production for Kingdom of Heaven in 2004, screenwriter William Monahan and director Ridley Scott entered discussions with producer Scott Rudin for adapting Blood Meridian with Paramount Pictures financing.[36] In an interview with Eclipse Magazine published in June 2008, Scott confirmed that the screenplay had been written, but that the extensive violence was proving to be a challenge for film standards.[37] This later led to Scott and Monhan leaving the project, resulting in another abandoned adaptation.[38]
By early 2011, James Franco was thinking of adapting Blood Meridian, along with a number of other William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels.[39] After being persuaded by Andrew Dominik to adapt the novel, Franco shot twenty-five minutes of test footage, starring Scott Glenn, Mark Pellegrino, Luke Perry and Dave Franco. For undisclosed reasons, Rudin denied further production of the film.[35] On May 5, 2016, Variety revealed that Franco was negotiating with Rudin to write and direct an adaptation to be brought to the Marché du Film, with Russell Crowe, Tye Sheridan and Vincent D'Onofrio starring. However, later that day, it was reported that the project dissolved, due to issues concerning the film rights.[40]
Lynne Ramsay has expressed an interest in adapting the novel.
Hey, Man. I appreciate the overview. Thanks. At least it's gotten attention. Don't understand the squeamishness. Hell, "The Road"even in the movie version (like the book) had a couple, including a massive pregnant female camping nearby with their fire. She gave birth overnight and they saw the next day they cooked the newborn for food. How squeamish do you need to be to make a "Blood Meridian" a thing.
It has NOTHING to do with being squeamish. Blood Meridian has no continuity. It would make a terrible movie.
I totally disagree to the nth degree. I'm not even sure what continuity issue (are you sure you read the book?) you are talking about. Starts around 1858 East of San Antonio at the Railhead. Go into N Mexico, didn't realize they are on the Comanche Trail. 1,000 plus Comanches ride over a hill returning from their yearly Mexico raid and massacre a good portion of them. The remainder get a contract from the local Governor paid for Comanche scalps (The squeamish is how they filled their quotas). They are run off- travel to NW Mexico and ask a Mexican couple there if they can bed down for the night (Only time they didn't kill anybody)in their barn with their horses. In just a few sentences describing that night, McCarthy reveals the truth about the albino giants and his cohorts. Move on to Yuma and massacring Pima Indians and ends in San Francisco with the albino giant killing the last witness. What the frick continuity issue are you talking about?
Blood Meridian is a great novel. I'm not saying it isn't. But Blood Meridian would make a terrible movie.
I'm talking about cohesive narrative and structure, two things essential in film making. Blood Meridian doesn't have it. Blood Meridian is the literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting.
The only way they could make Blood Meridian into a movie would be to rewrite it. And then it wouldn't be Blood Meridian anymore.
I hear your arguments but I respectably disagree. Would be a great movie as is , but as always, will get rewritten by someone else. My point has always been, Why hasn't someone attempted to make this movie? JC, it's easily his best novel.
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:42 pm
Attempted film adaptations
There have been a number of attempts to create a motion picture adaptation of Blood Meridian. However, all have failed during the development or pre-production stages. A common perception is that the story is "unfilmable", due to its unrelenting violence and dark tone. In an interview with Cormac McCarthy by The Wall Street Journal in 2009, McCarthy denied this notion, with his perspective being that it would be "very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary."[33]
Screenwriter Steve Tesich first adapted Blood Meridian into a screenplay in 1995. In the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones acquired the film adaptation rights to the story and subsequently rewrote Tesich's screenplay, with the idea of directing and playing a role in it.[34] Due to film studios avoiding the project's overall violence, production could not move forward. [35]
Following the end of production for Kingdom of Heaven in 2004, screenwriter William Monahan and director Ridley Scott entered discussions with producer Scott Rudin for adapting Blood Meridian with Paramount Pictures financing.[36] In an interview with Eclipse Magazine published in June 2008, Scott confirmed that the screenplay had been written, but that the extensive violence was proving to be a challenge for film standards.[37] This later led to Scott and Monhan leaving the project, resulting in another abandoned adaptation.[38]
By early 2011, James Franco was thinking of adapting Blood Meridian, along with a number of other William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels.[39] After being persuaded by Andrew Dominik to adapt the novel, Franco shot twenty-five minutes of test footage, starring Scott Glenn, Mark Pellegrino, Luke Perry and Dave Franco. For undisclosed reasons, Rudin denied further production of the film.[35] On May 5, 2016, Variety revealed that Franco was negotiating with Rudin to write and direct an adaptation to be brought to the Marché du Film, with Russell Crowe, Tye Sheridan and Vincent D'Onofrio starring. However, later that day, it was reported that the project dissolved, due to issues concerning the film rights.[40]
Lynne Ramsay has expressed an interest in adapting the novel.
Hey, Man. I appreciate the overview. Thanks. At least it's gotten attention. Don't understand the squeamishness. Hell, "The Road"even in the movie version (like the book) had a couple, including a massive pregnant female camping nearby with their fire. She gave birth overnight and they saw the next day they cooked the newborn for food. How squeamish do you need to be to make a "Blood Meridian" a thing.
It has NOTHING to do with being squeamish. Blood Meridian has no continuity. It would make a terrible movie.
I totally disagree to the nth degree. I'm not even sure what continuity issue (are you sure you read the book?) you are talking about. Starts around 1858 East of San Antonio at the Railhead. Go into N Mexico, didn't realize they are on the Comanche Trail. 1,000 plus Comanches ride over a hill returning from their yearly Mexico raid and massacre a good portion of them. The remainder get a contract from the local Governor paid for Comanche scalps (The squeamish is how they filled their quotas). They are run off- travel to NW Mexico and ask a Mexican couple there if they can bed down for the night (Only time they didn't kill anybody)in their barn with their horses. In just a few sentences describing that night, McCarthy reveals the truth about the albino giants and his cohorts. Move on to Yuma and massacring Pima Indians and ends in San Francisco with the albino giant killing the last witness. What the frick continuity issue are you talking about?
Blood Meridian is a great novel. I'm not saying it isn't. But Blood Meridian would make a terrible movie.
I'm talking about cohesive narrative and structure, two things essential in film making. Blood Meridian doesn't have it. Blood Meridian is the literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting.
The only way they could make Blood Meridian into a movie would be to rewrite it. And then it wouldn't be Blood Meridian anymore.
So I have to ask. Cormac will usually surprise you with the key to his stories buried deep. A few sentences. Did you catch it in "Blood Meridian?
CaptQuint wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:42 pm
Attempted film adaptations
There have been a number of attempts to create a motion picture adaptation of Blood Meridian. However, all have failed during the development or pre-production stages. A common perception is that the story is "unfilmable", due to its unrelenting violence and dark tone. In an interview with Cormac McCarthy by The Wall Street Journal in 2009, McCarthy denied this notion, with his perspective being that it would be "very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary."[33]
Screenwriter Steve Tesich first adapted Blood Meridian into a screenplay in 1995. In the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones acquired the film adaptation rights to the story and subsequently rewrote Tesich's screenplay, with the idea of directing and playing a role in it.[34] Due to film studios avoiding the project's overall violence, production could not move forward. [35]
Following the end of production for Kingdom of Heaven in 2004, screenwriter William Monahan and director Ridley Scott entered discussions with producer Scott Rudin for adapting Blood Meridian with Paramount Pictures financing.[36] In an interview with Eclipse Magazine published in June 2008, Scott confirmed that the screenplay had been written, but that the extensive violence was proving to be a challenge for film standards.[37] This later led to Scott and Monhan leaving the project, resulting in another abandoned adaptation.[38]
By early 2011, James Franco was thinking of adapting Blood Meridian, along with a number of other William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels.[39] After being persuaded by Andrew Dominik to adapt the novel, Franco shot twenty-five minutes of test footage, starring Scott Glenn, Mark Pellegrino, Luke Perry and Dave Franco. For undisclosed reasons, Rudin denied further production of the film.[35] On May 5, 2016, Variety revealed that Franco was negotiating with Rudin to write and direct an adaptation to be brought to the Marché du Film, with Russell Crowe, Tye Sheridan and Vincent D'Onofrio starring. However, later that day, it was reported that the project dissolved, due to issues concerning the film rights.[40]
Lynne Ramsay has expressed an interest in adapting the novel.
Hey, Man. I appreciate the overview. Thanks. At least it's gotten attention. Don't understand the squeamishness. Hell, "The Road"even in the movie version (like the book) had a couple, including a massive pregnant female camping nearby with their fire. She gave birth overnight and they saw the next day they cooked the newborn for food. How squeamish do you need to be to make a "Blood Meridian" a thing.
It has NOTHING to do with being squeamish. Blood Meridian has no continuity. It would make a terrible movie.
I totally disagree to the nth degree. I'm not even sure what continuity issue (are you sure you read the book?) you are talking about. Starts around 1858 East of San Antonio at the Railhead. Go into N Mexico, didn't realize they are on the Comanche Trail. 1,000 plus Comanches ride over a hill returning from their yearly Mexico raid and massacre a good portion of them. The remainder get a contract from the local Governor paid for Comanche scalps (The squeamish is how they filled their quotas). They are run off- travel to NW Mexico and ask a Mexican couple there if they can bed down for the night (Only time they didn't kill anybody)in their barn with their horses. In just a few sentences describing that night, McCarthy reveals the truth about the albino giants and his cohorts. Move on to Yuma and massacring Pima Indians and ends in San Francisco with the albino giant killing the last witness. What the frick continuity issue are you talking about?
Blood Meridian is a great novel. I'm not saying it isn't. But Blood Meridian would make a terrible movie.
I'm talking about cohesive narrative and structure, two things essential in film making. Blood Meridian doesn't have it. Blood Meridian is the literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting.
The only way they could make Blood Meridian into a movie would be to rewrite it. And then it wouldn't be Blood Meridian anymore.
I hear your arguments but I respectably disagree. Would be a great movie as is , but as always, will get rewritten by someone else. My point has always been, Why hasn't someone attempted to make this movie? JC, it's easily his best novel.
HOLY FUCK people have optioned it, it's in this fucking thread chain
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk
You know CQ, I'm so drilled deep into your brain, It's like a miniature me with an oversized cock raping your cerebral cortex. Either get your shit together or STFU. Either would be fine.
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 12:04 am
Hey, Man. I appreciate the overview. Thanks. At least it's gotten attention. Don't understand the squeamishness. Hell, "The Road"even in the movie version (like the book) had a couple, including a massive pregnant female camping nearby with their fire. She gave birth overnight and they saw the next day they cooked the newborn for food. How squeamish do you need to be to make a "Blood Meridian" a thing.
It has NOTHING to do with being squeamish. Blood Meridian has no continuity. It would make a terrible movie.
I totally disagree to the nth degree. I'm not even sure what continuity issue (are you sure you read the book?) you are talking about. Starts around 1858 East of San Antonio at the Railhead. Go into N Mexico, didn't realize they are on the Comanche Trail. 1,000 plus Comanches ride over a hill returning from their yearly Mexico raid and massacre a good portion of them. The remainder get a contract from the local Governor paid for Comanche scalps (The squeamish is how they filled their quotas). They are run off- travel to NW Mexico and ask a Mexican couple there if they can bed down for the night (Only time they didn't kill anybody)in their barn with their horses. In just a few sentences describing that night, McCarthy reveals the truth about the albino giants and his cohorts. Move on to Yuma and massacring Pima Indians and ends in San Francisco with the albino giant killing the last witness. What the frick continuity issue are you talking about?
Blood Meridian is a great novel. I'm not saying it isn't. But Blood Meridian would make a terrible movie.
I'm talking about cohesive narrative and structure, two things essential in film making. Blood Meridian doesn't have it. Blood Meridian is the literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting.
The only way they could make Blood Meridian into a movie would be to rewrite it. And then it wouldn't be Blood Meridian anymore.
I hear your arguments but I respectably disagree. Would be a great movie as is , but as always, will get rewritten by someone else. My point has always been, Why hasn't someone attempted to make this movie? JC, it's easily his best novel.
HOLY FUCK people have optioned it, it's in this fucking thread chain
Scott Rudin bought the rights to it in 2008 and hasn't been able to do a darn thing with it.
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:00 am
You both fucked up. You trusted me.
Reservoir Dog wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 12:31 am
It has NOTHING to do with being squeamish. Blood Meridian has no continuity. It would make a terrible movie.
I totally disagree to the nth degree. I'm not even sure what continuity issue (are you sure you read the book?) you are talking about. Starts around 1858 East of San Antonio at the Railhead. Go into N Mexico, didn't realize they are on the Comanche Trail. 1,000 plus Comanches ride over a hill returning from their yearly Mexico raid and massacre a good portion of them. The remainder get a contract from the local Governor paid for Comanche scalps (The squeamish is how they filled their quotas). They are run off- travel to NW Mexico and ask a Mexican couple there if they can bed down for the night (Only time they didn't kill anybody)in their barn with their horses. In just a few sentences describing that night, McCarthy reveals the truth about the albino giants and his cohorts. Move on to Yuma and massacring Pima Indians and ends in San Francisco with the albino giant killing the last witness. What the frick continuity issue are you talking about?
Blood Meridian is a great novel. I'm not saying it isn't. But Blood Meridian would make a terrible movie.
I'm talking about cohesive narrative and structure, two things essential in film making. Blood Meridian doesn't have it. Blood Meridian is the literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting.
The only way they could make Blood Meridian into a movie would be to rewrite it. And then it wouldn't be Blood Meridian anymore.
I hear your arguments but I respectably disagree. Would be a great movie as is , but as always, will get rewritten by someone else. My point has always been, Why hasn't someone attempted to make this movie? JC, it's easily his best novel.
HOLY FUCK people have optioned it, it's in this fucking thread chain
Scott Rudin bought the rights to it in 2008 and hasn't been able to do a darn thing with it.
Blows my mind. Won huge Oscars for NCFOM, wan't to to take a pass on his best book. Makes no sense/
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 11:56 pm
Blows my mind. Won huge Oscars for NCFOM, wan't to to take a pass on his best book. Makes no sense/
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 12:53 am
So, everyone that's read "Blood Meridium" Anyone besides me catch the 4-5 sentences that explains everything?
You may want to look into a Betty Ford Center for your alcohol problem
"Blood Meridium" is the sequel.
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:00 am
You both fucked up. You trusted me.
Interesting fact about Cormac McCarthy. In his writings, he seems fascinated about the area and people I live around. Most of his writing in "No Country for Old Men" is based West in Alpine/ Marfa to El Paso. But he's got the speaking dialect down pat and his scene in the book where Anton Chigurh flips the coin with the store owner is at a fictional store in Sheffield 18 miles South of me. The last few pages of "All the Pretty Horses". After getting back from Mexico prison, the 2 dudes need work. (30's/40's). They take off on their horses and the last 2 pages is approaching the Pecos River at Iraan and seeing the Yates Oil field off to the left.
Another blow your mind moment. The Spanish were exploring through here (Up the Pecos) with something like 500 soldiers, thousands of head of cattle in the early-mid 1600's. When English Jamestown was needing a 13 YO Indian to help them survive. the property I now own, because of the lay of the land, was most certainly trampled by the feet of European Cattle/ Humans 400 years ago.
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:44 pmAnother blow your mind moment. The Spanish were exploring through here (Up the Pecos) with something like 500 soldiers, thousands of head of cattle in the early-mid 1600's. When English Jamestown was needing a 13 YO Indian to help them survive. the property I now own, because of the lay of the land, was most certainly trampled by the feet of European Cattle/ Humans 400 years ago.
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:00 am
You both fucked up. You trusted me.
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:44 pm
Another blow your mind moment. The Spanish were exploring through here (Up the Pecos) with something like 500 soldiers, thousands of head of cattle in the early-mid 1600's. When English Jamestown was needing a 13 YO Indian to help them survive. the property I now own, because of the lay of the land, was most certainly trampled by the feet of European Cattle/ Humans 400 years ago.
Doesn't take much to blow your mind does it. I figure a slight breeze is enough.....
MY PEOPLE SKILLS ARE JUST FINE. IT"S MY TOLERANCE FOR IDIOTS THAT NEEDS WORK
WestTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:44 pm
Another blow your mind moment. The Spanish were exploring through here (Up the Pecos) with something like 500 soldiers, thousands of head of cattle in the early-mid 1600's. When English Jamestown was needing a 13 YO Indian to help them survive. the property I now own, because of the lay of the land, was most certainly trampled by the feet of European Cattle/ Humans 400 years ago.
I know one thing. They certainly were only passing through to someplace else more suited for cattle and humans.
