Except for Charlie Rose.

The only thing I don't like is some of the changes they made to Llewellyn Moss's character. In the book he's more capable, at one point even getting the drop on Chigurh and forcing him to disarm, and there's a small subplot involving a young hitchhiker that adds a bit more complexity to his character. Other than that, it's a pretty perfect adaptation and hits all of the major beats.

Ehhh it wasn't word for word. The few changes I can complain about is dropping the Hitch Hiker sub plot as it added a lot to Moss's character.

Agree . "All the Pretty Horses" was a disaster of a film , sadly . Such a great story and characters , but would have been difficult to film . Hope someone makes "The crossing" one day , and "Blood Meridian" while also difficult to film , can be seen somehow in two great shows , "Deadwood" and "Hell on Wheels" .

@@johnmac333 I am almost 100% certain any Blood Meridian adaptation would never live up to the novel, mostly because of how much the presentation of scenery and the characterization of the landscape itself dictates the tone of the story. That being said, I’d be over the moon if someone was able to prove me wrong one day!

Just realized I said that Blood Meridian observation in my original comment lol so I’ll add the fact that I think if Blood Meridian was ever adapted for the screen I think it would have to be a miniseries. There’s so many scenes with dense philosophical weight and massive significance to the characters, their personalities, and their arcs that, in a 2-3 hour adaptation, would end up on the cutting room floor faster than a child disappears when The Judge rolls into town.

I think he said laconic but yes I caught that too, guess josh don’t know much about the guy

Take it to the Appalachians

He lived in El Paso for a while

he's so fuckin cool

@@furiousd123456 indeed he is

Why does that dialogue set him up as the hero?

nah

@@hermannretzlaff1070 A sample from The Road: “He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.” Another example from The Road: "He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms soaring. Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must." 😂😂😂 The above sentences were sponsored by an anxious teenage boy who found a thesaurus in the discount bin of the local swap shop. His failure to use apostrophes? His failure to use quotation marks? Gimmicks that a good writer doesn't need. There are many more. Feel free to investigate.

@@Abmotsad To each his own I guess, but the second example you gave is extremely beautiful. I can see what you mean with the first one, it's a little much... but "To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must." is profoundly beautiful. There is an excerpt from the end of All the Pretty Horses which I heard read by Werner Herzog which has often moved me to tears. If you search "Werner Herzog Reads Cormac McCarthy" you can find it pretty quick, should be the first result.

@@0tiS To each his own, indeed. To me, the second excerpt is even more ridiculous than the first. It sounds like something that would be included in a Hollywood movie script to make the point that the writer was a pretentious asshole. Of course, some people like Taylor Swift, so what do I know?

​@@AbmotsadUsing big words doesn't automatically mean pretentious. Usually people who find them so aren't able to discern between a grotesque overuse of them, and the concept that using them in the first place is automatically pretentious.