Cast it

because he knew they were going to get hanged. he told David Brown way before the natives killed Glanton that he was going to die by the noose

If it was 2010:
The Judge: john goodman
Glanton: josh brolin
Kid: paul dano
Toadvine: nic cage
Tobin: liam neeson
Brown: tom hardy
Captain White: sam elliot
Black Jackson: lance reddick

This but they're cgi dogs

He judged them, they were executed later. The Judge just wanted the hat was all. What I want to know is what the HECK happened with the kid and the Judge (actual spoilers ahead) at the very end in the shitters. did the Judge rape the kid to death or something?

No. I couldn't finish it, I thought the book was way too fucking boring. The road was great tho.

Why not cast the real kino?

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dang, guess I wasn't paying enough attention

It can be hard to follow sometimes. The book has a dream like quality to it.

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The judge wins, that is all that you need to know. In the world of blood meridian, you can only hold back the inevitable for so long. But the kid held back, he resisted. He got to be a man.
OR you could read it that the kid gave in (the child he shot earlier, the missing girl etc.)
I prefer the first. It is an evil world and evil rules, but it doesn't mean it rules you. Look at it in the eye and tell it "you ain't nothin'".

Unfortunately Der Coomer is too small of a person. They'd need to get some pale icelandic giant yoked body builder to play the Judge

>the missing girl
You think the kid raped her?

Would anyone watch a drunk with a rich family live on a river and throw his life away with the scum of tennessee for reasons that are never fully explained?

The real question is how the fuck did the kid survive the slaughter and rape of Captain White's men getting massacred

It's unfilmable because most of the book just describes the countryside and not much happens for long periods of time until something weird or violent happens. Stay away from books that people won't talk about in depth. If they won't tell you a basic synopsis, it means 1. They haven't read it or 2. They read it but only for pseud need and can't tell you because they only read it to say it is cool afterwards. The book is okay and even fun at times but it gets dull for long stretches and there are no quotes for dialogue. Experimental? Yes. American classic? I don't know about that.The prose is decent.

Is the judge real? What is he the judge of?

>there are no quotes for dialogue
Based retard

animated by Hideki Anno but not directed

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He played dead among the bodies. That and pure stupid luck. The sort of inexplicable capriciousness of fortune really stuck out to me as a theme in the book.

>books that people won't talk about in depth
Come to Yea Forums, friend. You're missing out.

I dunno if he literally raped him, but he definitely destroyed him

I found it one of the most gripping novels I have ever read and did not find it dull for a single moment

>tfw you'll never see ex confederates squish the skulls of infant redskins
why even live

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it's never too late user.

Find me quotation marks in the book, faggot.

he's not saying there are quotation marks, he's saying you're a retard for giving an extremely pedestrian complaint. It's okay, you didn't get it. There's nothing wrong with that. There are other books, have you read Harry Potter?

Yea Forums barely talks about the book's substance. Half the threads are off topic and about feels or politics and the book threads are filled with people simply saying they like it or didn't like it. Pynchon threads are filled with people just picking their favorite book and they don't say shit about which part they liked. The whole board sucks some times. The only book I really get the feeling people have read all the way through and can talk about is Stoner and I don't want to talk about it anymore.

yeah, he definitely did. there's always a kid missing when they stayed at a town

Is there any required reading before I start this? It’s a standalone right?

The judge

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>you didn't get it

The classic pseud response. Of course you could never tell me what I didn't "get" because you are a scared retard that would never put his actual thoughts on the line.
>blood meridian was hard to get

Can't imagine thinking you are smart for reading it. Away with you.

Yes, you heard me right ma'am: a goat!

You haven't been looking very hard. Yea Forums is one of the best boards, you're making really superficial complaints.

I didn't even notice that, I'll pay more attention during my current reading. And you think it was the kid that did it? I guess that's the common denominator.

No just be prepared it's probably unlike any book you have read before. It's a slow burner in some ways, until about halfway in (I know I know, hurr it gets good halfway in) just take it at a nice relaxed pace, and really soak in the prose. There's no rush to read it.

Maybe with a lot of makeup and 10000 hours of acting class

Let's hang the turd!

It’s hinted at multiple times that the judge rapes children and those who he sees as weaker than himself. The kid didn’t kidnap the girl. It’s was definitely the judge kidnapped, raped, and murdered her

Oh sorry, I mean the Judge. The judge was the one raping and killing the kids.

youtube.com/watch?v=vVkDrIacHJM

I'd actually be curious to see an attempt at adapting it as something along these lines, only with more realistic human models:

youtube.com/watch?v=vVkDrIacHJM

It’s been a while since I read it, but I think Suttree had a kid with some girl and he just left. If not that, I guess you could just say Sutt didn’t care for the rich folk lifestyle.

Oh yeah I knew the judge was a child rapist but I didn't think the kid did that stuff. The kid barely has any agency at all throughout the book. He just sort of follows around and does what he's told. Almost like he's just there to be a witness to all the atrocities.

Why the fuck was this made

This book can't be adapted into a live action film ever ever unfortunately.

Some sort of animated thing could work

The real question is why the fuck was THIS made

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The whole reason the judge wants to kill the kid by the end of the book is because the kid doesn’t succumb to the judges influences. Early on the judge sees him as a potential disciple in a way. By the end of the book the judge realizes that the kid won’t abandon his morality for the judges own morality which angers him.
If you want to better understand the purpose of the book, maybe read some Nietzsche beforehand, or read it after once you’re thoroughly confused on why the book is so famous. The characters represent and express many of the ideas Nietzsche talked about in his various ramblings

no it was the kid. the judge likes boys. and the hints are there.kid obviously has a natural attraction to young girls given his circumstances, and there's the midget whore at the end.
the judge was an accuser and even says the kid hid his acts (from the group).

oh and another thing someone revealed. all the cowboys had an orgy after that 3 day death ride.

Yeah I forgot he ran away from his wife and kid too. The scene where he gets drunk in the church after the funeral would be kino though. It is too meandering for a film though.

see

>kid obviously has a natural attraction to young girls given his circumstances
What circumstances? That he was young, only 16-years-old?

Actually saw this video a long time ago before I read BM and constantly thought of this.

Shit would be crazy

>The kid barely has any agency at all throughout the book
yeah but there are key moments throughout where the kid shows moral agency... risking himself for a team-mate, holding back on murdering someone (unless as part of the group). He's always making the higher moral choice (except for his one weakness with girls).

I'd watch it

yeah he definitely rapes and kills him
the book has so many lengthy descriptions of violent acts and that’s the only one too heinous to be described

>no quotes for dialogue.
you missed some crackerjack quotes
>i never laid eyes on the man before today
about the man he just accused and got a crowd to wreck
>i'd have them all caged
about all living things
>you better hope that gun fires
after hearing a pistol cocked behind him because he's just killed and scalped a toddler.

That last one won't be in any film. Like the infant on a spit in The Road, it's a great example of a writer leading the reader calmly up to the gallows without them knowing it. In a movie it would be seen as garish and horrible, would mark the actor's career.

hey come on
the Delawares got their share

>the kid won’t abandon his morality for the judges own morality which angers him
I felt like the singular moment in the book where this is cemented is when the Kid, seemingly inexplicably, decides not to kill the Judge when he and Tobin meet the Judge and the imbecile at the watering hole after the massacre. Having a naked and unarmed Judge at gunpoint and at the full mercy of the Kid, regardless of the Judge’s unstated supernatural capability, and not acting upon it, must have been a deep offense to the Judge.

The gang should all be literally whos except for Glanton and the Judge. If you want well known charactor actors to have cameos they could play small characters like Angel Trias, the hermit at the beginning, the jew who sells them the dragoon pistols, etc.
>Glanton: josh brolin
I've always pictured this because I read it right after NCFOM came out but you're right, he's too old. Glanton died got killed at age 35 iirc.

In Homeboy by Seth Morgan, published five years later, there's a scene where a pedo is put in gen pop where people can see the TV reports about his arrest. They all start yelling that the guy is in there with them and he's discovered hiding in the shitter. A giant black dude walks up and prisoners crowd around to see what's happening, then all fall over each other to get away, looks of horror on their faces.

The character is called the Judge and has pecs like woks. He's only in the book to do that and i think the scene might have been lifted from or inspired by Blood Meridian.

>The Judge: john goodman
It's a shame we didn't get a "Blood Meridian" movie back before he got too old for the role

John Goodman as he was in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" would have made an amazing version of the Judge.

Just read it you'll be fine

The book can be read as a mysterious criticism of both Nietzsche and conventional morality. It shows us scenes where luck and tragedy strike down the worthy and exalt the scum, it shows the liberty enjoyed by those who have no values except the upper hand. It's meant to be an experience more than a sermon, so discuss it if you must but don't tell me the author is saying this or that.

Even when interviewed, McCarthy can be frustratingly vague. "Stories are made of stories..."

saying Blood Meridian is unfilmable is a fucking meme.

Vincent D'Onofrio as the Judge.

He's basically the exact book description of the character.

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>bm
>ex confederates

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I think the Judge was inspired by Col. Kurtz but rather than someone who'd seen through morality during trauma, he never had it in the first place.

>It's unfilmable because most of the book just describes the countryside and not much happens for long periods of time until something weird or violent happens.
That didn't stop Lawrence of Arabia from being the best movie ever made.

user that was my interpretation. In any case I find what you’ve said to ring true. It’s been some time since I’ve read the book but what I remember the Judge saying in regards to the world and man led me to believe the Kid not shooting him despite Tobin’s insistence he do so was deeply offensive. It’s interesting how not long after that moment I recall the Judge saying to the Kid “it was you alone who bore clemency for the heathen”.

7ft tall with alopecia?

I remember thinking whoever played the main bad guy in true Decective s1 would make a good judge

It sure subverts the shit out of the whole western genre though.

>read Blood Meridian
>next week try to watch The Homesman on Netflix
>she's offered to save the life of a stranger on a horse with a noose around his neck if he'll help her out.
>says "if you do me wrong then you are a person of low character"
After reading Blood Meridian, this scene raises hackles. She's basically setting herself up to be murdered. Blood Meridian makes the whole scene, key to the movie story, look stupid and improbable. Luckily the Tommy Lee Jones character is one of those grizzled heart-of-gold types you never fucken see out in the wild.

>it was you alone who bore clemency for the heathen
There's some discussion of that line. Wasn't it when he was trying to convince the kid out of hding? He's saying "You want to make your way in this world but you want to be good, too." which is oblique to "You're a good person, i value that, come on out where i can see you." so it's almost nightmarishly fairytale monster in it's import. Using a person's decency as a lever to 'get' them is goosebump making.

Honestly after thinking about it the Judge may have said that during the finale in the saloon. I''m not totally sure.

Imagine Eddie Murphy as John Jackson arguing with Eddie Murphy as John Jackson.

Vince Vaugn as the Judge

What happened to Tobin?

>If it was filmed and had real justice done to it, it would be literally the most kino film ever made
This. I have no idea how I'd cast it or how they'd film it to do it justice, but god damn if they did it would be incredible.

I like the comma splice in this.

The Judge is humanity's seemingly inherent proclivity and desire to commit acts of violence and savagery, often for the sake of itself. It's why his judgment of the kid is indescribable brutal. The kid is a hypocrite. He makes play at being superior to the others despite the fact he actively associated and participated in the vicious acts of a group of murders.

That's why the judge never sleeps and why he will never die. He is intrinsically a part of every human that ever has, will, and shall exist.

The point is that of all the things done in the book, what the judge does to the kid in that outhouse is the only thing deemed to be truly unspeakable

Owen Wilson as the Judge

I dont think its like that desu. Definitely the judge embodies characteristics of humanity but is also very distinctly inhuman I believe, my interpretation is that he is some sort of demon that sustains itself with the specific sort of chaos and destruction only humans are capable of

Recently I’ve read posts here saying Zahler could do it. I need to read this book.

I'm sure someone could do it, I don't think it's inherently unfilmable, it'd just be REALLY difficult.

so he put the kid in an outhouse and told him about the Jewish question?

This book allowed me to bond with my boss, of all things. Kinda odd.

the judge is the devil. There are passages that mirror scenes from the bible and other religious writings in which the judge would be the one playing the part of the devil. He was pride. “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”

it's one of the best novels ever written, a good film adaptation would be incredible but I don't think their are really any actors that could portray the Judge or even the Kid believably

I've said it many times, the only way you could truly capture the otherworldly essence of the judge is with an albino african. But the chances of finding one that also looks the part and is a good actor is pretty much impossibly improbable.

I feel like the kid is doable but the Judge would be insanely hard to pull off. Would be so cool if he was done well though, that scene where he's talking about how only once every thing that lives is known and catalogued can man truly rule the Earth gave me fucking chills.

Coens could do it

director: todd phillips or mel gibson
actors: idk
billy joe glanton: daniel day-lewis
cinematography: rodrigo prieto
score: jonny greenwood

>the Kid
Unironically? Shia Labeouf. Not even memeing.

The real question was the friends we made along the way.

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>American literature
lmao

Kill. Rape. Repeat.

It's a fine novel, but McCarthy's most interesting prose are in his epilogues.

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Did that old hermit try to sleep with the Kid?

Shit dude... That's excellent.

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why is everyone obsessed with this lately?

Me too. Haven't read anything like it

>lately
The novel made McCarthy popular

the judge

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Why do people keep saying this movie can’t be made? Moby Dick is far more unadaptable compared to this. I’m well aware of the 1956 movie, but it was a butchered version of the book

and thats why they call him the man

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the kid - Tom holland
the judge - vincent d'onofrio
Glanton - Matthew McConaughey
Priest- Eddie Redmayne
brown- tom hardy
toadvine- ryan gosling
the nigger- anthony mackie

All I want to see is the Judge appear over a hill naked with bloody game meat hanging off of him while he leads the also naked idiot with a leash. Is that too much to ask?

The Crossing is McCarthy's opus.
Anyone disagree?

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Do you work in a restaurant?

This could only work if it was written and directed by James Franco
The Judge as Vincent D'onofrio
The Kid as Dave Franco

>scroll catalogue
>find comfy Blood Meridian thread
Alright alright alright...

The Judge - Cameron Britton
Glanton - Matthew McConaughey
Toadvine - Walton Goggins
Tobin - Viggo Mortensen

Based Lawrenceposter.

Wrong war lad

Wasn't the naked child in the Judge's tent when the Yumas attacked a girl?

>ex confederates
Based retard
You mean ex time traveling confederates

Read the book, youll understand. Or at least read a plot synopsis

I've read all his books

He's too old now, the kid is like 14. Maybe young Shia could.

He's 16 and ages throughout the book. Shia also looks ambiguously young. He could pull it off. He also fits the physical description of the kid perfectly.

I don't think he looks young enough to pull off a teenager. I also don't like the film getting cast with meme actors. With Shia as the kid might come James Franco as toadvine.

hardy should be bathcat, the welsh guy who lived in tasmania
he is the devil, one of the scenes is definitely mirrored on paradise lost

The Judge was behind all of the missing children throughout the book, he's explicitly seen petting one before breaking her neck, and engaging in a threesome with the retard and a child before the cannon thing

The Judge, while having unnatural strength, was obese. He wasn't built like a bodybuilder.

Holden raped children of both genders, he was with a girl and the male retard at Yumas. Holden is supposed to be a demon, he shows himself to be inhuman just enough so that everybody in the group KNOWS this, but only the kid and the ex priest even try to act on it.

The volcano scene. I hadn't realized that before, but you're right.

lynne Ramsey has said she'd want to direct it, which actually could be a good choice

The judge embraces the Kid and the Kid is the one to take the little girl and do whatever, which is what the guy screams at when he goes to the outhouse