Cast him

Tariq Nasheed

>>212095662 (OP)
Cillian Murphy

The bloated corpse of Philip Seymour Hoffman

Dwayne Johnson

>>212095703
PSH would've been a great Judge ngl I miss him so much bros...

glenn fleshler

>>212095737
No he would’ve not hes a midget

Randy Quaid

>>212095662 (OP)
Gary Oldman

>>212095662 (OP)
Joker

Sam Hyde

>>212095662 (OP)

A film based on the novel Blood Meridian will never work, and this is why.

Films about deliberate incoherence exist - see the "works" of superhack Matthew Barney, for example - but celluloid masturbation for the sake of beating its methamphetamine-injected penis to Oingo Boingo and ejaculating swizzle sauce, can only be done on a small scale. The film must be representative of something intensely-personal to its creator, in order for it to "succeed" - for lack of a better word.

Cormac McCarthy's novels are largely-unfilmable because in a sense they are the opposite of this. They are incoherent tales of masturbatory grandeur, but on a very large scale. No Country For Old Men and The Road - both of which were heavily-flawed - still worked to some extent because the respective directors of the films understood the thinnest amount of cohesion with regard to a "plot" - and I use that term loosely - and worked strongly around that.

Blood Meridian is an altogether different kind of beast. It signifies all the grotesque excesses of Cormac McCarthy's other works, but piles on Grand Guignol-levels of wankery and a pathetic attempt at "introspection" over an enormous, sweeping design that, in the hands of other, ACTUAL authors might have worked - but instead forms an extraordinarily-boring yarn of impossible, incomprehensible excess. Almost as though the novel itself was penned from McCarthy's own ink-tainted semen.

Such an "adaptation" - and I use THAT term laughably - would cost in excess of hundreds of millions of dollars, be six+ hours long, and leave you simultaneously disgusted at its attempts of sophomoric edginess, and yet unrelentingly-confused as to what the creators of the film were actually attempting to signify. It's The Stand, but re-written by an eighth grader with Down's Syndrome, high on meth and smearing himself frequently with Vaseline as he typed, giggled and blew spit-bubbles.

Not necessarily in that order.

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>>212095951
The irony of this post is extraordinary

>>212095662 (OP)
Idris Elba

>>212095662 (OP)
Tom holland, Jacob Elordi, or other guy

>>212095662 (OP)
John Goodman when he was still fat, shave his head and you'd have scary pale man kino

>>212095703
KEKAROO

>>212096112
Ah, Blood Meridian. Monsieur, that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. Our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like Argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. We scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like Archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw The Judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.

>>212096456
do you even proofread 10 words of your gens?

>>212096456
Kill yourself. Go read Suttree

>>212096489
>do you even proofread 10 words of your gens?
pretty sure its a meme from /lit/ that goes back at least a decade.

>>212095685
>His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Sounds like a fruity nigga alright

Sy Ableman?

It's Matt Lucas no question.

>>212096456
I don't get the point. It's unnatural to use words related to the Mexican desert even though that's where the story takes place?

for me, its brock lesnar

>>212096777
Wow thats actually a really good suggestion should he ever get into acting

>>212096777
I don't even know if he can act but Lesner just seems like hes trying to hard to be intimidating. I don't think he'd be able to pull off the Judges calmer more polite side or the dialog he would require to say.

>>212096777
The judge isn’t a bodybuilder. He’s just a scary big looking guy. Gym-muscles don’t work for his character, needs to be more genuinely big looking like Andre the giant or something.

>>212096456
you are VERY angry that Iron Negress is bombing

The dude that played Ed Kemper in Mindhunter. Cameron Britton

He imposing and intimidating, but isn't rough or hard looking, he can act and has the size.

>>212096456
A truly Biblical passage from that timeless tome Blood Meridian by Corncob YeCarthy

>>212095762
The personality is more important than the physical description. With camera tricks they could make him look halfway imposing I bet

>>212095662 (OP)
is this already edited to look like Mr Beast? Because if not, Mr Beast

>>212095662 (OP)
Sam Hyde

>>212095894
>>212097958
Sam Hyde can’t act.

>>212098029
He wouldn't have to...

>>212095662 (OP)
Clancy Brown

>>212095662 (OP)
I'll never understand why this mid ass book is so poplar

>>212095662 (OP)
QRD?

>>212096575
Best book ever

>>212095758
Only answer

>>212098270
What book do you like

>>212098698
I like Jughead comics.

>>212095662 (OP)
Tried to get a QRD of this guy on youtube a few months back
>"he's a REALLY bad guy, like the most pure form of evil there is"
>"this guy is unimaginably evil, you can't even comprehend the sick and twisted mind"
>"what does he do? REALLY BAD STUFF"
always vague and overhyped this lad, the obnoxious fans make me want nothing to do with this. Similar to berserk

>>212101127
have you tried just reading the book yourself

>>212101127
No youtube video is going to properly express it. He comes off like a highly pseudo intellectual way above the other bandits and slowly out of sight he does horrible things like murder and rape children and then he hunts the main protagonist later and the whole time calls out to him like they're gonna get the band back together while the kid hides

This dude's probably too old now but would've been great

>>212101326
No. Only so much time in the world, I only follow up on recommendations that are compelling...
>a bunch of bad guys led by a really bad guy do bad things in the wild west
doesn't do it for me. I'm not exaggerating either, I feel like I've seen this exact reading at least 5 times on youtube whenever this character comes up. I get not wanting to spoil something but you need to give away a little bit.
>>212101427
that's better

>>212095758
too old now unfortunately

>>212096777
way too traditionally masculine, the judge looks like a baby with soft features and is never described as ripped

>>212101427
>pseudo intellectua
How is he a pseudo intellectual?

>>212101810
real intellectuals don't feel the need to flex on the retards around them

>>212101517
listen to the audiobook while driving, walking, doing chores whatever. reading is usually superior but the narrator in this case genuinely elevates the book

>>212101841
Glanton was the real intellectual.

>>212101517
he's not actually a human being at all, but the incarnation of violence, war and the like
he's the gang leader's right hand man on paper, but in actuality leads the gang and revels in it's escalation of violence and inevitable demise. he seeks out violent, troubled men and draws out everything ugly in them and unleashes it on the world

>>212101988
you should preface the spoilered part by mentioning that The gang originally finds him sitting alone on a rock in the desert and the way his character is described constantly popping up makes it seem like he's some sort of supernatural entity

>>212102126
yeah that's the first major clue, and it's pretty much confirmed by the end when the kid is a man but the judge hasn't aged at all

hear me out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5B7CimeSA

>>212098270
it's really quite the odd circumstance:
>the author isn't one of the greats, nor is he obscure, so it draws the insecure yet loud types to it (which this site is infested with)
>the book isn't his most well known oeuvre making it so these trend-following simplebrains will gravitate towards it more than say, NCFOM
>it's tonally and morally aligned with their simplistic worldview
>from here it trends on other social media, namely twitter and tiktok, attracting even more newfaggots who follow the stupidity trail back here
>this creates a vicious masturbatory cycle of poser retards who lack literary perspective so they're reinforced in their beliefs
>movie studios move on this hysteria and hire shills to make it gain more traction within the public sphere so it translates to financial success at the box office

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>>212102313
it's just a great book that attracted an annoying fanbase, very simple. i bet you'd find it very good if you discovered it in some niche library and nobody else knew about it

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>>212096456
It was an interesting choice to criticize reddit users in your filename when your previous post was constructed in the reddit style, including spacing.
>>212095951
You seem to be fixated on cum?

>>212098270
Incels like it because he says nigger

>>212096625

Is this actual prose from the book? It reads like complete garbage.

>>212102658
what's wrong with it? im a /lit/let and can't really recognize what makes prose good or not, i just either like or dislike what i read

>>212102973
Cormac McCarthy's prose is infamous for being controversial.