He never sleeps, the Judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die

Name 3 other books worth reading

Spoiler alert, the Judge fucks the Man in the ass while giving him a reach around at the end of the novel.

Moby Dick
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace

Those plus Blood Meridian are the books everyone should read. Masterpieces in the truest sense, especially BM and Moby Dick.

Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn

also BOTNS

any 3 Stephen King books during that era where he was more cocaine than man.

honestly it's impressive how hard he fell off as a horror writer when he went clean.

The Judge should look like this but fat.

Does Blood Meridian read as cringe and bad script-esque as the Road and No Country for Old Men.
That prose is some adhd zoomer novel writing style.

It's worse.

Are the lakes in America full of coca cola instead of water?

Might be the most based last words of all-time. Salud, Glanton.

he's obviously finnish or russian

judge holden — glenn fleshler

the kid - jackson a. dunn

glanton - matthew mcconaughey

tobin - mark strong

the idiot - simon helberg

toadvine - paul kaye

black johnson - mahershala ali

white johnson - paul sparks

dave brown — burn gorman

mccill - tenoch huerta

captain white - kurt russell

thread's it's been done already

stfu; btfo

de aged joe pesci as holden

intimidating high pitched voice

he should at least dub the lines

Might be the most based last words of all-time

I enjoy Rhodes' last words too

For me it's the guy that slashes his own chest in Predator knowing he's going to die. Even the Predator thought it was based and kept his skull as a trophy.

whats it like knowing how to float in water without drowning? can i teach myself how to to do it without practice?

he doesn't instinctually tread water

N

i instinctually tread water, i just sink as i do so

glanton - matthew mcconaughey

I'd say you need to get someone younger than that. But a bit younger. I always championed Joel Edgerton for the part.
Indeed. He went out like a champ.

Yes but as you can see they are heavily guarded.

Jurassic park.

Liar. He didn't give him a reach around he came solely from prostate stimulation.

The implication is clear that the Judge rapes the Man to death and then has a "victory dance" cementing himself as the one true dancer that he spoke of earlier. The ending isn't ambiguous by any stretch.

I'd say you need to get someone younger than that. But a bit younger.

While I agree, the real guy was only 31 when he died.

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent

The huge bald prisoner guy from Grand Budapest Hotel is to me the best judge. Missing the baby face but I think that it would make him too comic and ridiculous if they actually used some baby-faced fatso like in the OP. I can much rather see a guy like pic related do and say the things the judge does and still have this touch of elegance and knowledge that makes him so fascinating.

Glenn Fleshler

too old, too fat.
Judge is huge but not obese. Imagine something like Tochinoshin with the head of a baby doll.

Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

The actor would be immortalized forever.

on Anon Babble maybe, nobody outside of this board cares enough about this book, especially when most exposure McCarthy has gotten to the unwashed masses was from Cohen slop No Country for Old Men.
Most people haven't even seen the Road and that story is 10 times more accessible to audiences than fucking Blood Meridian.

Obviously enough, the Judge as he's described down to the T detail is not feasible in live action. But you're telling me you'd rather Judge look the part or act the part? Look at this and tell me he isn't the perfect Judge:
youtube.com/watch?v=93ubsMNWykA

his monologue at the end is pure Judge.

No, he looks too predatory, has that kiddie fucker gaze like Dafoe and the wormtongue actor, which makes them great for playing the roles they are typecast into. The judge is less menacing looking which is why they emphasize so often that he looks like a huge baby to contrast the evil shit he does even more.

A game of thrones
A storm of swords
A feast for crows

Do you eat lead bricks daily?

face-wise is probably the closest we'll get to the judge, too bad he's brittish, tiny and also very emaciated now (probably from AIDS), probably couldn't act well enough either.

Does anyone have that screengrab of that comment explaining the Christian/Catholic messaging in Blood Meridian, the Judge, the Kid, and the ex-Priest being the Trinity? How it was essentially his attempt to explain the Problem of Evil and reconcile it with Catholicism.

Say what you will about the movie, I like "fuck you, let's go" at the end of Wind River.

baby face

People need to stop this meme or re-read the book, several times. He doesn't have a baby face, he has some of the same features that a baby might have due to being totally hairless. No beard etc

Like an enormous infant doesn't mean that he actually looks like a baby. His hands and feet are small for his size (for his size being the key there, he strangles a man with ease)

So his proportions are strange and he's an albino, makes him look odd, but he doesn't have the face of a baby, he's just not a grizzled and scarred hard looking sob.

Either blind or retarded. Judge Holden rapes multiple children to death in the book. He is a predatory kiddy fucker. What are you on about? Just because he is described as looking like a huge baby doesn't mean he doesn't look like a MENACING baby looking motherfucker.

he isn't a badass hard muscular looking man. you're also equally wrong. no other description of him repeats as much as him looking like a baby. so you're wrong on all grounds.

nigga he DOES predatory shit, but doesn't look like a kiddie fucker straight out the box. Read you damn moron.
If a guy like Dafoe raped a child you'd see that coming, but if it's the clean-cut family dad who is always jolly it comes as much more of a shock, hence why McCarthy didn't portray the judge as some grizzled evil looking motherfucker but instead as a soft spoken, hairless big baby that is very cultured and eloquent and yet does things that most savage animals wouldn't do.

The fat, unassuming man, who has a both child-like and philosopher's appreciation for war and all of its various atrocities, makes for a very compelling villain

MENACING baby looking motherfucker

bitch ahh unc ahh scared of literal babies lmao

he isn't a badass hard muscular looking man

I never said that anywhere in my post. He's chubby no doubt, but like a sumo.

No, what is said is "Childlike with his naked face" shit like that. He doesn't even have stubble. Makes him look young like it did for you and I even though we hardly look different now.

Blood Meridian, despite it's grizzly details, is a pleb book. If someone glazes it, I know he hasn't read many books

just sign up for adult swimming lessons
it’s a lot cheaper than drowning

the idiot - simon helberg

kek the jew from the big bang theory. that'd be perfect

Some of us have read Suttree too, and we are very smug about the fact that it's a better book than Blood Meridian.

based sink like a stone bro
im only 185 lbs
not black
floating doesn't work
its pretty easy to test literally not possible for me

No, the implication is totally unclear and the ending is totally ambiguous which is GAY

Suttree is his masterwork, if you ask me.

You need to have read the Bible to fully understand MD, so that one too

It's just a fun read.

That sounds like BS to me. The judge is the devil

You're wrong. It has depth which slowly comes together.
t. has read actual books

the anatomy on the second drawing

LOL maybe AI is better

I STINK
I STINK
I NEED A DRINK

I like them both, but Suttree is definitely comfier.

it doesn't. dont listen to

It's a pleb magnet, mostly because of its "grizzly" reputation. It's not a pleb book.

I liked it but I think Suttree is better as far as McCarthy goes.

I always thought a younger Tom Cruise would have been a good Glanton.

Shakespeare is extremely helpful too

THE KID played by 1993 ed norton
GLANTON by brad pitt
TOADVINE by Jason Schwatsman
Ex-Priest by John Leguizamo
THE JUDGE by Stone Cold Steve Austin
Black Jackson by Samuel L jackson
Jackson by Brendan Frasier
Tobin by Ethan Hawke
The Mennonite by Anthony Hopkins
THE JUDGE- Marlon Brandow
Thank me Later

If you insist on Mcconaughey being in it, I think he's better as Tobin.

obviously marlon brando is dead so thats a no go, but would have been the perfect casting as the judge.
And you might think my other suggestion was a joke, but it wasnt.

Imagine Stone Cold saying....

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

I think it works really well

debunks punctuation

grammarsisters... our response?

Prime Clancy Brown would've been great

that guy can be scary as fuck when he wants to be

In the 80's or 90's sure. But my ideal Blood Meridian movie is made by Mel Gibson right after Passion with Vincent d'nofrio as Judge and Russel Crowe as Glanton. Just thinking about it makes me cum.

You'll get Tom Holland and Zendaya as The Kid and you'll like it

Blood Meridian insist upon itself. Only good if you like someone flexing their vocabulary and reading the description of deserts for dozens of pages at a time.
Lolita
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (trigger warning, she uses the N-word pretty liberally)
The Sound and the Fury

A film based on the novel Blood Meridian will never work, and this is why.

Films about deliberate incoherence exist - see the "works" of superhack Matthew Barney, for example - but celluloid masturbation for the sake of beating its methamphetamine-injected penis to Oingo Boingo and ejaculating swizzle sauce, can only be done on a small scale. The film must be representative of something intensely-personal to its creator, in order for it to "succeed" - for lack of a better word.

Cormac McCarthy's novels are largely-unfilmable because in a sense they are the opposite of this. They are incoherent tales of masturbatory grandeur, but on a very large scale. No Country For Old Men and The Road - both of which were heavily-flawed - still worked to some extent because the respective directors of the films understood the thinnest amount of cohesion with regard to a "plot" - and I use that term loosely - and worked strongly around that.

Blood Meridian is an altogether different kind of beast. It signifies all the grotesque excesses of Cormac McCarthy's other works, but piles on Grand Guignol-levels of wankery and a pathetic attempt at "introspection" over an enormous, sweeping design that, in the hands of other, ACTUAL authors might have worked - but instead forms an extraordinarily-boring yarn of impossible, incomprehensible excess. Almost as though the novel itself was penned from McCarthy's own ink-tainted semen.

Such an "adaptation" - and I use THAT term laughably - would cost in excess of hundreds of millions of dollars, be six+ hours long, and leave you simultaneously disgusted at its attempts of sophomoric edginess, and yet unrelentingly-confused as to what the creators of the film were actually attempting to signify. It's The Stand, but re-written by an eighth grader with Down's Syndrome, high on meth and smearing himself frequently with Vaseline as he typed, giggled and blew spit-bubbles.

Not necessarily in that order.

Yeah it's kind of McCarthy's style there's no punctuation or quotation marks and when someone says something they just say the road to the blood meridian is arduous and crushing and leads to no country for old men and you're thinking wait did a character say that or is this just the narrative prose and then you fall asleep because it's kind of exhausting to read because it's just one giant run on sentence

I disagree and I don't respect you or your opinion.
Simple as.

This is how I imagine you look like.