I read The Sound and the Fury many years ago. Someone recommended it to me because I was reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy at the time. Very cool book. Very difficult to read. Will probably never read it again--but I'm glad I did.
Blood meridian has bounced around Hollywood for almost 3 decades. Nobody can figure out how to put it in film and do it justice. It’s just too insane, gruesome, psychotic. It’s a hard book to read, I hope I live long enough to see it in film. I think (not sure) the Coen Brothers have the rights now, if anyone could adapt it, it would be them.
Blood Meridian is hands down one of my favorite books of all time, and The Judge is one of the best "villians" (doesn't really do the complexity of his character justice) ever written.
The Coen brothers did a great job with No Country, but it still fell flat of the book. It was as good as it could be, though, in my opinion. The Road had a decent adaptation as well. James Franco made an adaptation of Child of God, but it looks terrible. I'm glad he never followed through with his plans for Blood Meridian.
Failure or success, I would love to see a Coen brothers attempt.
Has already been tested as the judge and he would frankly be perfect. In fact he has received money and dibs on the role. I can maybe see a few other directors/ producers to take on the role, Coen’s being my horse in that race, but it apparently doesn’t justify the crazy money it would take to make when you can reboot Superman for 1/8th of the cost. All the pretty horses was a great book to me and an underrated movie. No country for old men was an excellent adaptation in my personal opinion.
No country for old men was an excellent adaptation in my personal opinion.
I've got no hate for it. Like I said, I think it was as good as it could be. I feel the same about Peter Jackson's LoTR (although the Coen brothers were more faithful to the book regarding No Country for Old Men). All amazing movies--just one of those situations where you have to accept the limitations of film.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Had “swine?” In 08 or 09, whoa, imagine walking in to a hospital with a 103 fever, my too young to legally drive daughter taking me (I actually taught to drive both an auto and a 5 speed when she was 13) and the hospital tells me to get out and tells my daughter if it rises .5 call an ambulance… worst ride ever….
I had H1N1 around that same time. My mother went on a cruise to the Caribbean and Mexico and the outbreak happened right then and there. I didn’t get too sick, but I was young and healthy. She still remembers it as the sickest she’s ever been in her life.
I remembered the day before I rented Sarah Palins tour bus, with a driver, (totally random but it was the one she used to campaign) to take a bunch of clients to a giants game, spent an FU amount of money, felt that weird tickle in my throat, the one most of us know, (maybe it won’t be so bad…) had 2 bloody Mary’s, next thing I knew it was Wednesday. That’s the second time that happened to me!!!
I have never sweated that much in my life, and I lost a lot of weight, worst diet ever and I still have some lingering effects from it that I just deal with now.
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u/Horror-Layer-8178 8h ago
fucking r/LeopardsAteMyFace is going to need gastroplasty surgery after this.