NP - Blood Meridian

[ish mailian]

In Blood Meridian, there’s nothing. It’s just so, so vicious,
mysterious and ambiguous. It ends on a really bizarre, charged,
strange note, and it would leave a bad taste in my mouth with the
devil triumphing. Even with the crazy psychopath of No Country for Old
Men, there’s a clarity to the character’s intent — you’ve got a
mission to accomplish and an integrity that makes the movie palatable.
But there’s none of that in Blood Meridian, and unless someone creates
a script that has it, the movie will probably never go.

I don't know about this. The violent masculinity theme, the destruction....

from the same Interview:
That’s maybe an optimistic interpretation, but in terms of
masculinity, it’s watching what kind of destruction and chaos these
forces can set off if unchecked. That seems pretty nihilistic on the
surface, but depiction isn’t always endorsement, right? I wonder if
this story is a parable about what these forces of imperialism,
racism, unchecked male violence and greed can wrack on a landscape —
and really, each other. After all, at the end, there’s only one person
remaining. So it does seem like McCarthy is interested in the
relationship of these men to the landscape and how they destroy each
other in unchecked ways.

This seems like a go to me.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 1:41 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think BM could be made into a great film.  It is full of compelling imagery, with associated compelling drama.  Cormac McCarthy's novels are made to be films.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:14 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Give me a big budget and I'll have a go at it.
>> But seriously, it seems a book that could be made into a film. Will be
>> someday. Sure it will be a film. Maybe a great one, like the way
>> Cuckoo's Nest is a great film, but not made like the book. Anyway, I
>> liked the essay and I wonder how BM fits into Mark's link the other
>> day about Calvinism and the Western American novel.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 4:45 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > It's a great novel. I was just reading this article about it being
>> > "unfilmable", something they say a lot about great novels (i.e. TRP, Gaddis
>> > &c):
>> > https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/blood-meridian-movie
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:42 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I think this is a great novel.  I'm not sure if it knows it is a Moby Dick
>> > > allusion.  But it is high drama in service of high art.
>> > >
>> > > David Morris
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