Will there be a worthwhile film adaptation of this novel in our lifetime? Is it even possible?
If so, cast it >The Judge - Vincent Donofrio >The Kid - Tye Sheridan >Toadvine - Sam Rockwell >Glanton - Guy Pearce >Expriest - Bryan Cranston >Captain White - Josh Brolin
why? because he's big and bald? Why does that automatically qualify him for the role when other films have proven with a few production tricks you can make an actor look much larger and physically imposing?
Hunter Smith
James Franco should die before ever making an attempt at this.
Jayden Collins
bump
Aaron Martinez
I just want him to leave East of Eden alone
Ryan Rogers
Can everyone shut up about adapting this book? It will never happen. It is unfathomable. The story is too broad and so much is in the prose that would not translate oncreen. Casting The Kid would be impossible, and the Judge wouldn't be much better.
Blake Cruz
>>Expriest - Bryan Cranston
Go back to r.eddit.
Mason Sanders
He's going after Steinbeck now? Jesus Christ he's already royally fucked up Faulkner's work.
Benjamin Long
I'd like John Malkovich as the Judge
or even JK Simmons
Carter Walker
War is God.
Jaxson Foster
I love these discussion but we'll never have an actor that can accurately portray Judge Holden. 7 feet tall No hair on his body Babyish features(face, hands) Robust/muscular Chilling dialogue
I just don't see it happening. I might would choose Nathan Jones if he had a baby face.
Grayson Martinez
John Malkovich has a great face for it, but I don't think he really has the physicality to take on Holden.
Lincoln Lewis
every casting thread is redditshits wanting movie stars for roles based on appearance. predictable. shallow. boring.
Thankfully good films are never cast by the likes of you idiots.
Kayden Thomas
I could see this if he could act well.
Brandon Scott
camera angles my dude
they can work magic with that shit
Anthony Lewis
i can see this if anons were going "THEY SHOULD CAST X" but everyone's just talking about who would be interesting to see cast and talking about their merits
it's a legitimate discussion and no one is petitioning any casting agents or anything calm down you fucking retard
This is unironically one of the worst things I've ever watched and it forever tarnished one of my favorite segments from the novel.
Chase Moore
Franco already ruined Child of God.
Bentley Richardson
Epub link plox
Ryder Barnes
Check out the IRC. That's where I got it.
Nicholas Butler
I concur, he's too soft spoken
Camden Campbell
“This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.”
Camden Baker
so at the end, the Kid (Man) goes to the outhouse and the Judge envelops him. does the Judge kill him? eat him? rape him?
Liam Perry
For some reason I'd like Viggo Mortensen as the Judge. I'm sure he'd be down for a method acting role for him.
Jace Reed
This edgy bullshit passes for a masterpiece
Kek
Ryan Green
It's left up to the imagination. The three prevailing theories are as follows:
-The kid is horrifically and brutally murdered. -The Judge sodomizes the kid and leaves him in the outhouse -The Judge forces the kid to rape and kill the child who owns the bear. This means the person who is peeing and tells the guy not to go into the outhouse is the kid.
I tend to side with the first possibility.
Matthew Collins
The Judge - Bryan Cranston The Kid - Wil Wheaton Glanton - Daniel Day Lewis John Jackson - Samuel L. Jackson Tobin, the ex-Priest - Bill Nye
Cooper Cox
Where the hell does that third theory come from? As far as I know the only real possibility is that what the men find in the outhouse is the remains of either the kid/man (most likely) or the little girl.
Brayden White
the same thing that happened to the mysterious sodomized Mexican child found with a snapped neck in one of the bathrooms halfway through the novel
Hunter Bennett
It is common of uncultured imbeciles to look upon works of art with contempt. Go crawl back to your cave, troglodyte.
Nolan Jackson
Judge Holden- James Cromwell
Louis Toadvine- Viggo Mortensen
Captain White- Michael Fassbender
John Joel Glanton- George Clooney
Benjamin Tobin- Brad Pitt
David Brown- Javier Bardem
White John Jackson- John Malkovich
Black John Jackson- Denzel Washington
Grayson Moore
I see it mentioned in every discussion about the book. I don't personally agree with it.
Aaron Ross
Did the kid deserve to get raped/die?
Gavin Cook
>The Judge - Shaved Dolph Lundgren >The Kid - Nicholas Hoult >Toadvine - Edward Furlong >Glanton - Jim Carey >Expriest - Micheal Shannon >Captain White - Mel Gibson
Julian Martinez
Anybody who associates themselves with Holden and passes on the opportunity to kill him deserves it.
Eli Young
Nicholas Hoult is too tall to play the kid.
Landon Butler
But he will never die. Dude is literally not human.
Jayden Hernandez
As time goes on this book becomes more and more unmakable. Now you can't show the brutality of the Native Americans, even if you show it alongside the brutality of whites. If they tried to make this now they would be forced to trim it down to, "muh evil whites" and the centrifugal force of McCarthy spinning in his grave could fuel another 40 holocausts.
Elijah Johnson
The Judge - Mark Proksch The Kid - Tim Heidecker Tobin, the ex-Priest - Greg Turkington Glanton - Joe Estevez Captain White - John Aprea
Adam Ortiz
if he stops dancing will he die?
Grayson Rogers
This is the voice I heard in my head when I read the book.
Christopher Cox
Well that's left sort of ambiguous on purpose. It's a what if scenario that we'll never see.
Aaron Jones
I highly doubt this. Bone Tomahawk and The Revenant both had Injins acting like unabashed savages.
Lincoln Phillips
Isn't there a scene where he levitates a coin around? I might be remembering it wrong and it could've just been one of his parlor tricks.
Jaxson Sullivan
Everything the Judge says seems extremely brutal and true, but the whole novel is spent showing him deceiving others with elaborate intellectual justifications for war and violence, so it's hard to trust him, but when it comes to counter-arguments there is sweet fucking nothing in the whole thing to prove him otherwise about bears that dance/ bears that don't, and how if you don't fight you get purged and sent down to the footlamps to the night that is endless and without name
Nathaniel Edwards
I don't believe he levitated it. He just had an almost supernatural sleight of hand. I read it a month and a half ago so I might be wrong too.
Connor Howard
Cormac McCarthy isn't dead.
Caleb Ortiz
I swear in this scene he actually pitches the coin away from the campfire into the dark and he raises his hand and the coin comes flying back into his palm. Still, could just be a parlor trick.
Ryder Ross
I wish Tobin proved to be a bit more of a worthwhile intellectual adversary to the Judge. All of Holden's long-winded deliberations on war, history, the nature of man, etc. were always rebutted with variations of "you crazier than a sonvabitch" or >spit
Jordan Gray
Tobin mentally breaks and loses all of his spirit in the desert when the Judge is pursuing them though, there's a bit where the Kid is telling them to hurry up and Tobin is just like it's over, he's right, game over man, game over. There is a sense that Tobin really opposes him but never works up the courage to say it early on and the Judge can sense that and tries to confront him to toy with him because of it
Aiden Gutierrez
I honestly don't remember it very well. I just assume it was an implied parlor trick because this scene is never used to substantiate the argument that he's supernatural in discussions about the book. I'll try and find it so I can see for sure.
Brayden Robinson
I need to read this shit again. Fucking loved this book and love Cormac McCarthy.
Leo Diaz
I genuinely believe that he's one of the top three living authors. His prose is unmatched.
Angel Gray
Watch Bone Tomahawk
Blake Turner
Shit I had forgotten about that. God I felt bad for that dude, I never really understood Tobin's motivation in joining up with Glanton and being complicit in the atrocities. I do remember in the segment where the Judge is discussing war, he specifically singles out Tobin to attempt to refute him and the ex-priest is completely at a loss for words. Yeah I actually glossed over the scene on my first reading, assuming it was just Holden fucking with Glanton and the gang. But unless I'm remembering it totally wrong he does actually do some otherworldly shit.
Luis Lewis
Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.
Jonathan Bennett
If you liked Blood Meridian, pick up The Crossing. In my opinion it's the only book worth reading from McCarthy's Border trilogy, and has a lot of similarities to Blood Meridian in regards to the setting and protagonist. Just prepare to feel really fucking sad.
Elijah Bennett
Don't the Leonids return at the end of the book when the kid dies?
Mason Lee
Yeah.
(the Demiurge was watching)
Evan Powell
One of my favorite passages, along with the following > Western eyes that read more geometric constructions than those names given by the ancients. Tethered to the polestar they rode the Dipper round while Orion rose in the southwest like a great electric kite. The sand lay blue in the moonlight and the iron tires of the wagons rolled among the shapes of the riders in gleaming hoops that veered and wheeled woundedly and vaguely navigational like slender astrolabes and the polished shoes of the horses kept hasping up like a myriad of eyes winking across the desert floor.
Nolan Edwards
>just prepare to be sad That's a pretty good primer for anything McCarthy wrote.
Jose Thomas
There will never be a film of this and you shouldn't wish for one. It's only slightly less impossible to capture than moby dick.
Liam Hughes
Southwest-kino at its finest. The Southwest is the most underrated part of the country.
Nathan Lee
The Crossing has the saddest ending in any of McCarthy's works, in my opinion. More so than the Road.
William Reyes
True. We have a lot of beautiful landscapes down here.
Levi Bell
The Road fucked me up bad. It think I'll stay away from this book.
Jose Diaz
The Mennonite watches the enshadowed dark before them as it is reflected to him in the mirror over the bar. He turns to them. His eyes are wet, he speaks slowly. The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman's making onto a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs.
Jaxon Collins
Beautiful. It really puts you in this world. You aren't just an observer when reading McCarthy's books.
Noah Allen
>Reconnecting with my father after years apart and mentioning to him how much I enjoyed The Road >Not long after he is struck by a speeding car and killed >Going through some of his personal effects, see he picked up the Road and had it bookmarked during the segment where the Man and the Boy are living happily in the bunker. >mfw
I'm still carrying the fire, dad.
Jaxon Miller
>Is it even possible?
no
some things should be left well alone, but as hollywood has shown with their treatment of anything sacred of late, it'll probably be adapted in the worst way possible while normies eat it up and one of the last great vestiges of american literature is transformed into a commodity on the same wavelength as capeshit with the novel's characters popularized into something akin to rick grimes or jon snow
if this ever happens, it'll be all the confirmation i need that this is in fact the worst timeline possible, without a doubt my favorite piece of modern american literature
Hunter Phillips
I didnt know but what we'd be required to bleed into it like freemasons but it was not so. He worked it up dry with his hands and all the while the savages down there on the plain drawin nigh to us and when I turned back the judge was standin, the great hairless oaf, and he'd took out his pizzle and he was pissin into the mixture, pissin with a great vengeance and one hand aloft and he cried out for us to do likewise. We were half mad anyways. All lined up. Delawares and all. Every man save Glanton and he was a study. We hauled forth our members and at it we went and the judge on his knees kneadin the mass with his naked arms and the piss was splashin about and he was cryin out to us to piss, man, piss for your very souls for cant you see the redskins yonder, and laughin the while and workin up this great mass in a foul black dough, a devil's batter by the stink of it and him not a bloody dark pastryman himself I dont suppose and he pulls out his knife and he commences to trowel it across the southfacin rocks, spreadin it out thin with the knifeblade and watchin the sun with one eye and him smeared with blacking and reekin of piss and sulphur and grinnin and wieldin the knife with a dexterity that was wondrous like he did it every day of his life. And when he was done he set back and wiped his hands on his chest and then he watched the savages and so did we all.
Aaron Bell
>John Glanton and his gang being perverted into a righteous and ethnically diverse band of warriors fighting against white imperialism
Elijah Bennett
And then the judge, he steps up to the rim and he had with him a good white linen shirt from out of his bag and he waved it to the redskins and he called down to them in Spanish. Well it would have brought tears to your eyes. All dead save me, he called. Have mercy on me. Todos muertos. Todos. Wavin the shirt. God it set them yappin on the slope like dogs and he turns to us, the judge, with that smile of his, and he says: Gentlemen. That was all he said. He had the pistols stuck in his belt at the back and he drew them one in each hand and he is as eitherhanded as a spider, he can write with both hands at a time and I've seen him to do it, and he commenced to kill Indians. We needed no second invitation. God it was a butchery
Camden Robinson
At least he stopped at a happy place. I'm sorry that happened. God bless you man.
Jaxson Evans
>he hasn't seen him as King Pin in MemeDevil
Liam Edwards
>Judge Holden played by Leslie Jones >The Kid is literally the character from Moonlight, but in a Western
late night mccarthy threads on Sup Forums are always so comfy, wish i could stick around
have fun anons
Ryder Watson
>tfw just bought all 3 and read this post
Going to red them anyway
Kayden Green
directed by Zack Snyder
Brandon Ross
Actually I don't know how Cities of The Plain is, but I just couldn't finish All the Pretty Horses for the fucking life of me. Idk maybe I just couldn't unsee Matt Damon's mug from that god awful film adaptation, but I dropped the book.
Noah Rogers
Yeah and he was awful
Levi Campbell
he was an autist
Logan Cooper
bamp
Robert Cox
Blood Meridian- 2014
>John Joel Glanton- Gary Oldman
>Priest Tobin- Paul Dano
>Louis Toadvine- Sam Rockwell
>Bathcat- Noah Taylor
>David Brown- Michael Shannon
>Doc Irving- Kevin J. O'Connor
>John Jackson (white)- Shea Whigham
>John Jackson (black)- Idris Elba
>Captain White- Aidan Gillen
not sure who'd play the Judge.
Levi Perez
Who should play the shit eating retard idiot in the cage?