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How would you adapt it to the big screen?

Would a movie or miniseries be a better choice?

>> No.20616044

>>20616004
>>/tv/

>> No.20616601

>>20616004
It has been said a million times before but the problem is that adapting it would be a catch-22 situation. You could do a faithful adaptation which would completely alienate general audiences due the lack of a main character (or any relatable characters for that matter), traditional narrative beats and the level of graphic violence and animal cruelty. Alternatively you could create an unfaithful adaptation that makes the kid more central in the story, more sympathetic, and write the narrative around his descent and escape from the Glanton gang, in which case you would alienate McCarthy fans and end up with a pretty typical neo-western movie with lot of gore in it.
The latter is far more likely to happen than the former which is why I really don't care about it being adapted to film

>> No.20616604

>>20616004
I wouldn't. Neither.

>> No.20616619

>>20616004
It would take an Orson Welles or Francis Ford Coppola level director to possibly to any of it well at all. Not worth the speculation.

>> No.20616956

miniseries are for faggots and white women (also faggots)

To be faithfully adapted it would have to be a 6 hour long MOVIE and have a $100M-$200M budget. A faithful adaptation would likely attract an extremely small audience.

>> No.20616985

>>20616004
James Franco directing. All his lame stoner friends starring. Seth Rogan as the judge, his retard little brother as the kid, mclovin as tadvine and Jonah hill as glanton. Pure unrefined kino.

>> No.20617141

>>20616004
I wouldn't

>> No.20617249
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20617249

THIS SUMMER

>> No.20617309

>>20617249
I was there. I miss that /lit/.

>> No.20617346

>>20616004
I think every word in the novel should be provided via really fast narration ala Tatami Galaxy

also make the Judge black but don't race lift anyone else

>>20617249
kek

>> No.20617360

>>20616601
wtf are you talking about? do you know the no country for old men movie exists?

>> No.20617369

>>20616619
>Guys I'm cultured I named the Citizen Kane and Vietnam Movie people

>> No.20617376

>>20617360
>brings up NCFON
>in a blood meridian thread
>thinks he made a point while typing like a redditor
Go back.

>> No.20617378

>>20617369
You're right, Ozu would have been perfect.

>> No.20617387

>>20617360
...yes and? No country for old men has a simple plot, relatable characters in Llewelyn and the Sheriff, and babies aren't hanged from trees, so I don't know what point you're trying to make

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20617420

Series.
Coen Brothers.
Picture swells between stark realism á la NCFOM and hallucinatory dream imagery (á la Robert Eggers) with Richard Poe narration.
>opening
>"SEE THE CHILD .."
>brooding atmosphere in heavy bass
>a dirty child sits in a dimly lit room
>"... BUT IN TRUTH HIS FATHER HAS BEEN A SCHOOL MASTER .."
>william dafoe sits drunkenly by the fire, reciting dead poets
>the child watches him
>"gawwwdd how the stars did fall ...."
>"ALL HISTORY PRESENT IN THAT VISAGE: THE CHILD THE FATHER OF THE MAN"
>we see the child, now the kid, leave
>we follow his journey from tennessee to louisiana in smal vignettes
>the fights, the brawls, the despair
>series truly begins in the revival tent
>slow fade in from black
>"And I said, dont you know that he said I will foller ye always even unto the end of the road?!"
>"Amen!"

I've never fully understood the claim that BM would be impossible to transpose to film. There's not a scene in it I cannot image. It would be sick as hell, you'd just need the right people. The most difficult part would be getting the right actor for The Judge. You might have to do some practical effects for him. Give the actor a mask of some sort, and perhaps even enlarge him perspectivewise like they did with Gandalf.

>> No.20617457

>>20617420
>Jewish hacks
Man you are worse than capeshit fans.

>> No.20617470

>>20617457
I have lost the ability to tell what's a parody of right-wing brainrot and genuine right-wing brainrot. Poe's law is a sonofabitch.

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20617490

I don't know but I would want my head cannon Blood Meridian OST to be used

>Opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxB2AfatZ60

>The Kid and Toadvine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDLaPKpym3o

>Army going to Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyroppVVFU8

>Initial encounters with Apache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXcJhg73yvM

>Judge Holden turns on the kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDuLYGYHhQk

>Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JkgsV6OuuU

>> No.20617521

>>20617470
That was a meme in places like this long before 2016. Encyclopaedia dramatica went ham on that shit back in the day. It's called trolling, fambo.

>> No.20617533

>>20617521
I know it's called trolling. That's the point of Poe's law. I'm saying that it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell what is trolling and what is /pol/-induced apoptosis.

>> No.20617562

>>20617490
Great choices. Unsure if they'd really fit the more somber and mute tone of BM, but good songs nevertheless. Earth is killer.

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>>20616004
>>20616044
>>20616601
>>20616604
>>20616619
>>20616956
>>20617141
>>20616985
>>20617309
>>20617249
>>20617346
>>20617360
>>20617369
>>20617376
>>20617378
>>20617387
>>20617420
>>20617457
>>20617470
>>20617490
>>20617521
>>20617562
Listen to me once:
Blood Meridian should only be ANIMATED.
/thread

>> No.20617705

>>20617682
This might be actually be true.

>> No.20617800

>>20617562
>Earth is killer.
I read somewhere that their writing was heavily influenced by McCarthy

>> No.20617805

>>20617800
Sure sounds it, but in truth, I think 99% of their inspiration was just drugs. Would be interesting to see a source for that, however.

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>> No.20617847

>>20617826
Very cool, thanks for that. Gives me a new perspective on one of my favorite albums.

>> No.20617882

>>20617562
Earth is lame. Dylan I totally identify with the frontier even though I grew up in the home of basic white bitches Seattle. Lol have some self awareness.

>> No.20617890

>>20617882
youre just jealous cause he lived a wild and interesting life while you are a npc

>> No.20617903

>>20617890
>Wild and interesting life
>Muh Daddy moved us around because of his job
Really dude. Cringe

>> No.20617913

Would be a better anime

>> No.20617917

>>20617903
oh, the npc seetheword. nah he did way more drugs than you he got into way more trouble than you he lived a more interesting life than you and nothing about his birthplace is gonna change that.

>> No.20617941

>>20617917
My mom dropped acid and birthed me in the ocean . I dropped acid when I was twelve and helped my little league team win the regional title. None of that shit is anything to brag about but you're sucking that dude's dick for smoking weed because your life is completely boring. It is to laugh.

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>>20617941
nah youre a pretentious boring nerd who copes way too hard lmao its very telling that you can only conceive a simple correction to your false view as sucking dick cause thats all you ever did in life

>> No.20617971

>>20617961
I like your self portrait. Dylan isn't going to let you blow him for defending him online and bragging about his hagiography.

>> No.20618007

>>20617941
what the fuck is this thread now

>> No.20618045

>>20617490
It needs to have basically no soundtrack like NCFOM. The only music you should hear is when they enter a cantina, or the ending, when The Judge plays this on the fiddle:
https://youtu.be/z7rxl5KsPjs

>> No.20618056

>>20617971
cope&seethe, your snark has never convinced anyone that youre above your average chud, but then again it would take an iq of over 90 to realize that

>> No.20618071

>>20616619
>>20617369
>>20617378
Every honest film buffknows only Peckingpah could have directed it.

>> No.20618100

>>20616004
do it like satantango, a 7.5 hour movie that everyone pretended to watch.

>> No.20618102

>>20618045
Very much agree. NCFOM absolutely nailed the soundtrack. In the coinflip scene you don't even realize it's there before the flip is finally called. Masterful.

>> No.20618117

>>20618071
Nah peckinpah would have added a lengthy unnecessary cuckold scene.

>> No.20619248

>>20617490
should have no soundtrack

>> No.20619717

>>20617490
I imagined something more slow and somber for the opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrE5OCRgfSg

And something more hectic and nightmarish for the apache encounter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa3BF6S03Kg

>> No.20620954

As close as we are going to get:
http://threemenonablog.blogspot.com/2011/04/film-review-proposition-2005_17.html?m=1

>> No.20621038

>>20616044
fpbp

>> No.20621223

>>20617309
That was /tv/ who were also discussing whether it could be adapted.

>> No.20621239

>>20616004
>How would you adapt it to the big screen?
I would cast myself as the Judge because I'm 6'6", 230lbs really pale and have alopecia universalis. I was born for this.

>> No.20621269

>>20616004
It could never be adapted solely because of how much violence and nasty shit would need to be filmed in order to do it justice. Plenty of countries would ban it before it could be finished. But if I could seriously adapt it i'd do the following.

The judge: the thing about the judge is that he is really fucking big, meaning a select few could seriously play the role. This is shortened even further when he looks like a big baby. I would just find someone who looked like an infant and just cast manlets for every other character so he looks big in comparison.

Soundtrack: No score whatsoever. All music is diegetic only. McCarthy settings are all extremely bleak. You don't have some violin string hanging down every time you have a conversation

Nudity: Lots of male nudity (mostly the judge) with 10 minute monologues.

Setting: Probably the most jarring thing about it. You don't adapt the novel into the film. Rather you adapt it in a different direction. Kinda like Apocalypse Now and the Heart of Darkness. Not an adaptation per se but something you could see the influence from very clearly. I would personally direct as the Tasmanian genocide instead of the Natives. Tasmania is a weird and eery place that doesn't get enough credit for what its worth.

>> No.20621349

>>20617378
Ozu would be perfect for anything. Miss that lil nigga like you wouldn’t believe.

>> No.20621592

>>20621269
I disagree that it couldn't be adapted because of the violence, horror films like the saw film have raised the bar of what is considered acceptable violence well beyond whats described in Blood Meridian. I suppose you could argue that the violence in those films is so extreme as to be cartoonish, which is why people tolerate it, while Blood Meridians grounded and all too close to home narrative would create different feelings.

The only stuff that I think really wouldn't fly with audiences are the scenes of violence against animals, like Glanton killing dogs or the American horses attacking the injured Mexican horse in Janos. But imo, the main problem of adapting it is that the main character doesn't say or do anything for about two thirds of the book and basically just disappears into the background.

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