Blood Meridian may be unfilmable, but can it be adapted as a video game?

>too much violence and the main character says nigger 24/7
sounds like the average tarantino flick

way way more violence. I mean for fucks sakes it's scalp-hunting and the book goes into great detail with this. Directors can't turn it down a notch because of the Author

>“They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers.”
GOTY

Don't forget the dead baby tree

>unfilmable
don't test Hollywood. They said that about Watchmen

It's a long rambling story with little plot or character, just scene after scene of shocking and horrifying surreal violence. Movie would be four hours long and at least 3 hours would just be racist cowboys wandering around killing and raping Indians in increasingly grotesque ways, then it ends with the nameless MC getting raped in an outhouse by the devil.

Watchman adaptation was fucking marvel-tier and the author was too pussy to push

MC Ride

>book about rapists scalping refugees and raping them to death while MC says nigger more times than a child on COD
>becomes the greatest american novel
absolutely based

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I don't think it should ever be adapted for film. I would argue that it could easily be made into a faithful representation, because you could argue the plot of No Country for Old Men was similar (it was non-linear iirc and didn't focus on Moss as it did the sheriff.)
I'd love to see moments in the book that are treated with the nonchalant realism in a film production. I can just imagine how good a scene of
Toadvine's hanging
could be

Okie dokie.

>>book about rapists scalping refugees and raping them to death while MC says nigger more times than a child on COD
you've picked my interest, googling free epub right now

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For me the scenes I'd want to see most in film would be the most over the top ones. When the Apache's wreck the filibuster's the Kid is with at the start, when the Delaware's start bashing Indian babies against rocks, when the Judge is chasing the Kid and Tobin around naked with a retard on a leash, after shooting Indian's with a howitzer while naked. This is the real crazy shit that works in the novel because of the incredible prose and tone, I feel like film trying to do these scenes would have to walk a fine line between the effective horror of the book and unintentional comedy and it's hard to think of any filmmaker that wouldn't slip and fall into the comedy side.

Blood Meridian could probably be done as some kind of streaming service miniseries. That's the only way I could see them getting all the violence in.

oh yes Blood Meridian on Netflix, sounds great.

good luck finding someone adapting this shit. Even Ridley Scott and James Franco said they wanted to tone down the violence

It can't be adapted outside of the inherent ambiguity of the written word because then the 10/10 ending that filters everyone who thinks the kid dies at the end (he doesn't) will be ruined.

I wish the guy who made this put Apu in as the little retard Judge Holden keeps as a pet he has with him in this scene

>Ridley Scott and James Franco
Blood Meridian is way out of either of their leagues. The Cohen Brothers or PTA are the only mainstream Americans that would be up to the task but no ones gonna touch this movie after the blm niggers of 2020

I was hoping RDR2 would capture the feeling of blood meridian even slightly, instead it was the most generic shit imaginable.

Just play Red Dead online. All the senseless death and murder of Blood Meridian with absolutely zero fun.

>thinking a game can be anywhere near this
imagine getting a trophy for turning babies into wallpaper paint

And yet the most horrifying scene is the gay cowboy orgie that he snuck in

that's a weird way to spell Suttree

What would Lynch's Blood Meridian look like?

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It would be better as a tv series.

how the fuck can this be "unfilmable" when fucking Event Horizon exists? especially the deleted scenes

just get Paul S. Anderson into it

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Wait what? I read the book and don't remember this part.

Is this shit even quality literature or is it just torture porn

I've never read it but surely it must be about something other than just graphic depictions of violence.

Couldn't he just write the script and get the Cohen brothers and Roger Deakins to make it? I mean No Country for Old Men turned out to be one of the best films ever.

Also the kid is secretly rape killing little girls through the story so really, its perfect game material for today's players

The only people I can think of who could do Blood Meridian justice are the Coen Brothers, or that guy who directed The Revenant. Stanley Kubrick is another, RIP.

The Judge influenced me to smile more IRL

can't imagine that working out
wonder what his Metamorphosis would have looked like though

It's both. The author did it extremely well which is why it is very difficult to be put on screen. It's like Inferno but Old West style and instead of circles of hell, it's circles of violence

Is All the Pretty Horses worth reading?

it's very good literature
have you never read any cormac mccarthy?

You won't. I didn't catch it.but someone pointed it out. At the end of the running battle when they go into the barn. Read it closely

Almost all those scenes got cut and lost to time, if anything Even Horizon proves why it's unfilmable. Besides there's a big difference between a schlocky Sci Fi film and literally one of the greatest novel's ever written. The Resident Evil guy is not cut out for that.

It's some of the best quality literature you'll ever read. It's an anti-war and anti-violence novel that goes so far to try and describe the horrific and sickening nature of real violence that it borders on surrealism.

kek, I have no idea but that is fun to think about. I think Robert Eggers would be an ideal candidate to direct it if the studios and McCarthy could come to terms.

No. But I'll put it to you that the quality of prose doesn't necessarily confer value to the writing itself.

Yes, great book, in fact read the whole border trilogy.

This gives me strong Uncharted vibes

>if anything Even Horizon proves why it's unfilmable
it was filmed, just not released. Still proves my point

another example is Serbian Film

If it doesnt work as a movie, it doesnt work as a video game.

They filmed this movie, surely they could do Blood meridian.

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That shit is nothing compared to Blood Meridian.

>See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him. Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.

The opening paragraph to BM. If that doesn't win you, then you don't know good prose.

Richard Poe.

>BUT DOOD IT CAN BE FILMED JUST LOOK AT (extremely tame adaptation)
This book had a tree with hanging babies. Good luck finding anyone to screen this.

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>I think Robert Eggers would be an ideal candidate to direct it

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No Country was already a screenplay that was turned into a novel and later into a movie. BM is another thing.

Lynne Ramsay expressed interest in directing an adaptation of BM before, I think she'd be a decent choice.

>to screen this.
Cinemas are dead, so.....

>then it ends with the nameless MC getting raped in an outhouse by the devil.
Not what happens. The Kid kidnaps the girl with the dancing bear and rapes and murders her in the outhouse. The Judge is dancing because he won the battle over the Kid's soul.

PROOFS:
1. The girl is missing when (what most readers assume is) "the Kids' body" is discovered. People assume the Judge kidnapped her after he "kills" the Kid but there's no proof for it.
2. We never actually are told exactly what the Kid did in all those rape/murder sprees the Glanton Gang engages in throughout the book. Readers assume the kid didn't participate eagerly in them because he's the protag and he's occasionally shown to have sympathetic traits but he was there for all of them.
3. The judge has been singling out members of the gang to personally corrupt the entire time like black Jackson
4. The scene in between the Kid "telling off" Holden and the end of the book where he hires a midget prostitute and is unable to get his dick up seemingly has no plot relevance unless you assume he's trying to simulate fucking a kid and is unsatisfied with the attempt
5. Just killing the kid without proving his world view would be a pretty unsatisfying victory for the Judge but he seems pretty pleased with himself at the end.

Again, the quality of the prose does not necessarily demonstrate value.

Everything I know about Cormac McCarthy (and I say this having never bothered to read anything he wrote, though I've seen No Country) suggests that he's bitter and cynical and I don't know what value I would expect to derive from 300 pages of him describing cruelty in obscene detail for no reason other than his bitterness and cynicism about people. It strikes me as the kind of book that's not exceptionally distinct from 120 Days of Sodom, except that it happens to be well-written.

yes, i liked it. the border trilogy is pretty good, but you have to have patience for long dialogues between teenage cowboys and overly-verbose mexicans without any quotation marks
i personally liked the crossing better than all the pretty horses and cities on the plain

Real question, if I have trouble comprehending what exactly is going on with this prose, am I low IQ?

That's a pretty interesting theory but my main problem with is it that wasn't the girl mentioned to have gone missing while the Kid was still in the bar? And we know he only just arrived in the town/whatever when he got there.

never heard of this guy but gave his voice a listen and IMO he got a nice voice but doesn't fit the Judge
youtube.com/watch?v=vZILSOgq7_Q

that's fair
i personally enjoy his writing, but some people consider it too drawn out and dry

Weird. That was meant for sorry.

>make it as a netflix series and say it's about the horrific historical violence of white people
>get a free pass to do literally everything that's in the book
It can be done.

So, what did you guys think the epilogue meant? I personally view it as a final rebuke of the Judge, that when he laughs and says he will never die, he is saying the violence present in the Old West will never die. However, the man who is making holes in the ground in order to build a fence, and the vultures having no corpses to fest on, implies that the violence in the West will eventually settle and thus the Judge will die.

holy fuck you're right

Sure

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Are you an avid reader? McCarthy I find isn't as bad as other post-modernist writers, but his prose is purposely very grandiose at times, like Melville in Moby Dick.

Just read more. If you don't understand something, then look it up.

Dunno about voice acting but as far as looks go I think a shaved Glenn Fleshler would be good.

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>However, the man who is making holes in the ground in order to build a fence

What makes you think the man is building a fence?

It probably could but as an isometric, text heavy game. First person and the devs would probably shove too much shit literally in your face, third person and it would be a movie game

I get that, however I found that McCarthy balances out the larger themes with the violence. Basically, as I view it, the violence within Blood Meridian isn't violence for the shock value, but the violence in itself is a commentary on the nature of the Old West expansion. That the people who did it, and the natives who fought back, are all brutal people. However, I feel that he never places judgement, good or bad, on the history of the West. More that the men who tamed the West simply were following their violent nature so that civilization could develop.

Write a little summary of what you think is being said there.

he's the guy who narrates the audiobook

That would work. Fallout 1 is a good example

So much this.

there's an audiobook. Well shit, I know what I'm doing this evening

>you're 14 and missed the point of the book