It's a perfect film. My favorite of the 21st century and in my top 5-10 of all-time. Think we had this debate before. I rank it way higher than There Will Be Blood.
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the gas station scene is one of the greatest scenes ever. i've seen it ten times and still bust out with nervous laughter at his reaction to finding out that he married into it
That's why I started this.
Nope. Best one or best one to start with?
oh my god i'm so genuinely jealous. at your station in life this is such the perfect time to read them. it's the frank bascombe series. start with the sportwriter. then independence day (pulitzer). lastly lay of hte land. they are perfect. when you get through the sportswriter and to the end of independence day you'll have that same feeling you had with your newborn and it feeling like this was written for you. it's wonderful in too many ways to express. i guarantee you will be immensely pleased you put yourself into frank's world. he's us with teh ability to capture all of the emotions and angst of marriage and divorce and teens and career in simple, perfect prose....
Gene Jones as the gas station attendant deserves some sort of award. He's so South Texas in this:
“Five wagons smoldered on the desert floor and the riders dismounted
and moved among the bodies of the dead argonauts in silence, those right pilgrims nameless among the stones with their terrible wounds, the viscera spilled from their sides and the naked torsos bristling arrow-shafts.
Some by their beards were men but yet wore strange menstrual wounds between their legs and no man's parts for these had been cut away and hung dark and strange from out their grinning mouths.
In their wigs of dried blood they lay gazing up with ape's eyes at brother sun now rising in the east.”
No one else writes like that. Thats the genius of McCarthy.
i mean how can he be that good. royalties or something. damn.
is that what you're asking me. is there something wrong with anything
Tulsi is adamantly opposed to military aid for Ukraine like MTG like Gaetz, etc the MAGA wing. I honestly desire to know why is that opposition? I want to know why Russian expansionism is a good thing?
Sooooo good. Watched it again just a couple weeks ago.
They’ll never make a satisfactory Blood Meridian movie. It’s not possible. Will never happen.
I’ve read Suttree probably 3 times. It’s more of an acquired taste for me because it’s more of a stream of consciousness narrative. I really really learned to appreciate that book, especially when I learned a lot of the characters in it are real people from McCarthys past. There’s a really cool website that details all of it. It’s incredibly cool.
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amazing. this is just the little teaser appetizer to the pulitzer winning indpendence day. independence day is the great american novel. it's the book that walker percy and richard yates and so many others dreamed of writing but couldnt
three times! wow! interesting stuff hoops. i'm going to check out that website
Why you should get excited about the new Blood Meridian adaptation.
The late Cormac McCarthy was no stranger to the cinema. Several of the writer’s novels, plays, and screenplays—No Country for Old Men, All The Pretty Horses, The Sunset Limited—were adapted i…
I would love to see Tarantino try something different, and make this movie while trying to scrupulously stick to the story and the dialogue. Scorcesee about 20 years ago would have been great, too.
I'm not sure how you can adequately portray a 7 foot tall albino with global alopecia who needs to be a great actor? Could even Daniel Day Lewis pull this off? Some weird CGI of Russell Crowe? Tom Hardy? Meryl Streep?
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daniel day is obviously the gold standard. again off topic i love tom hardy. he's a big mma guy and enters himself into tournaments and shit. like now. his oldddddd testatment scene with arthur in peaky blinders is one of my all time favorite scenes as well. i agree with @Hoopsdoc1978 that blood is going to be a stretch to adaptWhy you should get excited about the new Blood Meridian adaptation.
The late Cormac McCarthy was no stranger to the cinema. Several of the writer’s novels, plays, and screenplays—No Country for Old Men, All The Pretty Horses, The Sunset Limited—were adapted i…lithub.com
I would love to see Tarantino try something different, and make this movie while trying to scrupulously stick to the story and the dialogue. Scorcesee about 20 years ago would have been great, too.
I'm not sure how you can adequately portray a 7 foot tall albino with global alopecia who needs to be a great actor? Could even Daniel Day Lewis pull this off? Some weird CGI of Russell Crowe? Tom Hardy? Meryl Streep?
I assume you've seen Warrior with Hardy? That's cool he does that.
John Goodman would have been perfect 25 years ago. He’s to old now.Why you should get excited about the new Blood Meridian adaptation.
The late Cormac McCarthy was no stranger to the cinema. Several of the writer’s novels, plays, and screenplays—No Country for Old Men, All The Pretty Horses, The Sunset Limited—were adapted i…
I would love to see Tarantino try something different, and make this movie while trying to scrupulously stick to the story and the dialogue. Scorcesee about 20 years ago would have been great, too.
I'm not sure how you can adequately portray a 7 foot tall albino with global alopecia who needs to be a great actor? Could even Daniel Day Lewis pull this off? Some weird CGI of Russell Crowe? Tom Hardy? Meryl Streep?
She’s repeated the story several times now. And the story narrative cites Air Marshal whistle blowers.
I’d be sorely disappointed were she proved a liar.
my mom went to high school with him. he keeps up with the old high school crowd and invests in all of their bullshit from bars to used car lots. really good dude
We only know her flip flops from leaks. She doesn’t have the courage to face the full press and be questioned.
Maybe her nut job VP will do that job.
Evolved. Such utter bullshit. Whatever the polls say she needs to get elected will be her policies. And we will only know that through leaks and off the record statements.
Exactly then it’ll be a bait and switch. Calif and the second most lib senator out of a 109 or whatever ucla found. We know who she is. He’ll look at her vp pick.
For sure.
We do know day 1 she going to fight inflation by going after price gouging big corporations. VBG
Let’s hope she goes after the gummy manufacturers first. Assholes need to be taken down.
How do you know a business isn’t lucrative? Cuz I’m in it
Tulsi is awesome. I may have to vote for Trump because she might be in the cabinet. She has has a great power of negotiation and speaking. If she is a terrorist then I am proud to be a terrorist.
The american citizens are at war with the Democrat Party and the quicker everyone understands it then faster we can get back on track. The current Dems have become one of the worst political organizations in the history of the world. They are danger to the world. Time to eliminate the Democrats and their propaganda machine. They are putting freedom and democracy at risk. They shut down the primaries then select the puppet they want to run for president. They want war everywhere. From the border to Ukraine to the Middle East.
The american citizens are at war with the Democrat Party and the quicker everyone understands it then faster we can get back on track. The current Dems have become one of the worst political organizations in the history of the world. They are danger to the world. Time to eliminate the Democrats and their propaganda machine. They are putting freedom and democracy at risk. They shut down the primaries then select the puppet they want to run for president. They want war everywhere. From the border to Ukraine to the Middle East.
Do we have a war plan advisor yet? Or Political reeducation camp leader?
did you fail to notice the following occurence?
Prior to 2016 Primaries: Most republicans were vocal about being against Trump
After 2016 Primaries: Most republicans were kissing Trump's ass
Think that was just an honest flip flop of opinion or they realized they wanted to get re-elected and must change their opinion?
Supporting what (or who) you need to in order to get elected isn't something unique to one party. The only questions are will they actually support what they claimed to support (follow through after election) and do they have to compromise their values (supporting orange turd) in order to get elected.
