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Killers of the Flower Moon - Book & Movie.

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by mrhansduck, May 9, 2023.

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  1. May 13, 2023 #21
    ursidman

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    Best living American novelist. Blood Meridian is a dark, dark tale.
     
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  2. May 13, 2023 #22
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    Fair warning - it’s not an easy read. I consider myself to be a somewhat intelligent English speaker but I was utterly lost for huge swaths of this book to the point that I was unable to enjoy it and didn’t understand what was even happening for segments of it. He uses a lot of archaic words and his prose is eloquent but tedious. I wish I liked it more given all the praise but it flew over my head I’m afraid.
     
  3. May 14, 2023 #23
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    Thank you. About to start it. I learned today that a friend of mine who’s much smarter and better read than I has read all of his books and suggested I have a summary first and not to be worried about spoilers. I did that with a YouTube video and Wikipedia. I also have my Audible speed set to 0.9.

    Wish me luck!
     
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  4. May 14, 2023 #24
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    Missed this earlier. I meant to show the Cozzens' book The Earth is Weeping. That is the one I recently read. Sometimes when you search for stuff on Twitter and you think you are posting a tweet, you're actually posting a combination of which the one you think you're posting is a response to.

    Highly recommend The Earth is Weeping
     
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  5. May 14, 2023 #25
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    I have everything he’s ever written and have read most of it several times for enjoyment. The last 2 The Passenger and Stella Maris I’m going to have to read again to understand wth I read.
     
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  6. May 15, 2023 #26
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    You should read The Road or No Country for Old Men first, if you like that, then go down the Cormac road
     
  7. May 15, 2023 #27
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    Too late lol!

    I'm on Chapter 5 or 6. I'm sure it's going to get weirder and much more violent, but it's been a smooth listen so far at least. I think going in knowing that it's not plot-driven was helpful, although I am naturally more interested in the writing, characters, and themes than plot details anyway. That probably help with this, too.

    I did pull up a couple of interviews of McCarthy as well. Not sure how I never heard of him. In one of them, he's discussing Frankly Lloyd Wright and then the philosophy of mathematics. Seems like a truly brilliant renaissance type. I understand he used to avoid interviews, but there appears to be several from more recent years. I feel like I've discovered a gem with this guy already.

    Side note: I read that various people have been trying to do a Blood Meridian movie for years. I don't know if this is definitely going to happen, but this article is from last month. Based upon what I know of the book so far, this seems like a very daunting task.

    ‘Blood Meridian’ Movie In Works With John Hillcoat Directing For New Regency – Deadline

    EXCLUSIVE: New Regency is adapting Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature, as a feature film. John Hillcoat set to direct.


    The film will be produced by New Regency, Black Bear Pictures’ Keith Redmon, and Hillcoat. McCarthy and his son, John Francis McCarthy, will serve as executive producers.


    Published in 1985, the novel is an epic tale of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a 14-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
     
  8. Aug 2, 2023 #28
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    Just finished the book. What a read!
     
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  9. Aug 2, 2023 #29
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  10. Sep 25, 2023 #30
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    Just bought our tickets

     
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  11. Oct 21, 2023 #31
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    Just saw it. See it
     
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  12. Oct 21, 2023 #32
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    Going tomorrow- loved the book
     
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  13. Oct 21, 2023 #33
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    It was incredible. Top tier Scorsese IMO. Different framing and focus of the same information as the book, which I didn’t have a problem with since it was a more cinematic approach.
     
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    It only did 9.4 million yesterday. Swift's movie did 10.4 million and has been out for a week.
     
  15. Oct 21, 2023 #35
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    Dialogue and acting pitch perfect
     
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    Saw it last night. Was really, really good.

    Makes you wonder how you haven’t heard about these things in the history books.
     
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    Leo was great but I couldn’t take my eyes off the Molly character. She was amazing.
     
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  18. Oct 21, 2023 #38
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    Lily Gladstone
     
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  19. Oct 21, 2023 #39
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    Fantastic movie. You kinda take it for granted with Scorcese.
     
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  20. Oct 21, 2023 #40
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