“The kid” just drifts along from band to band as they kill innocent people and listen to the Judge ruminate on war and nature. The lack of narrative momentum: The novel doesn’t have a traditional plot structure that moves characters from point A to point B with rising and falling action and a climax. #Blood meridian movieAt one point, he says, earnestly, “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” Try imagining a movie character living up to that literary creation. Some scholars see him as the physical manifestation of evil. The villain: The main antagonist is a character named Judge Holden-a bald, gray-skinned giant with seemingly superhuman strength and intelligence.The movie would either have to be rated NC-17, or certain parts from the novel would have to be cut in order to earn an R-rating. The violence: The novel features perhaps every example of extreme violence one can think of: brutal murders, scalpings, rapes, implied child molestations… the list goes on.Why have efforts to film this movie been so cursed? As cinematic as McCarthy’s prose is, the book still has a lot of things going against it. The issue is it would be very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. McCarthy himself thinks it’s possible: “The fact that’s it’s a bleak and bloody story has nothing to do with whether or not you can put it on the screen,” the author told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. But many are still eager to see what’s arguably McCarthy’s best novel brought to screen-ideally as successfully as the Cohen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. Those who hated Franco’s widely panned adaptation of McCarthy’s earlier novel, Child of God may have breathed a sigh of relief. (Franco even got as far as shooting 30 minutes of test footage.)
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