/lit/ - Literature

>>6904297
fuck off

JK

SIMMONS?

The Hacken Brothers

>>6904297
is this an epic troll?

>>>/tv/

>>6904322
>I don't think the Coen Brothers are the greatest american directors of the 21st Century
Here is your reply.

>>6904297
Awesome

>>6904297
Coen brothers are a bad choice in my opinion.

Andrew Dominick should get it or Mel Gibson

>>6904297
Oh look, another attempted adaptation that will abandoned halfway through.

>>6904297
This is a very pleasant surprise. Thank you for sharing, OP.

Still waiting on that Don Quixote adaptation from Terry Gilliam.

would you retards please click on the link before falling for this, jesus christ for being the literature board you people sure hate to read

>>6904333
trip trips for the truest truth I've ever read

wow, the link was fake.....

>>6905762
Even if it wasn't Blood Meridian is shit and an adaption would be even shittier.

>mfw it's my pipe dream
>mfw it's fake
Get the fuck out of here.

Who /coen/ here?

>>6904333
not even close

>>6906000
Name better.

>>6906003
So you can call them hacks?

>>6905971
Me
>tfw NCFOM
>tfw A Serious Man
>tfw Inside Llewyn Davis
>tfw all 10/10s
What went right?

Blood Meridian should be direct by David Lynch

>>6906005
All I'm asking is for you to name better. Don't start damage controlling your insecurity.

>>6904297

god dammit i'm such a rube

you got me you fucker

god dammit

>>6906009
Wow if your'e the kind of person to use autistic memewords like that maybe you don't deserve to know them

>>6906007
almost this
should be a collab between lynch and aronofsky

>>6906020
>autistic memewords
>>>/v/

>>6906027
This post used a word that caused it to be filtered so I am not going to read it.

>>6904297
the level of detail required for makeup, wardrobe, special effects, etc is astronomical. framing and lighting every shot for the right atmosphere would be damn near impossible as well. lots of freak weather, alien landscapes and night scenes.

i know the link is fake, but who has even expressed interest in tackling the project? it would be a logistical nightmare. lynch is plausible. i'd call in cronenberg or his team for the violent special effects.

>>6904571

terry gilliam is a terrible director

>>6904306
J.K Simmons is a good as fuck actor. Aint you seen whiplash?

the only person who could have done it justice would have been kubrick

>>6906025
>aronofsky
Are you just pretending Black Swan and Noah don't exist? Man's lost his talent

>>6906102
>I haven't watched No Country for Old Men
Coen Brothers could do it if not them Terrence Malick.

>>6906100

Whiplash was breddy bad for a film about jazz

>>6906120

it was a fascist film without nothing more than a good aesthetic ending but at the same time, with horrible morals.

>>6904560
This tbphwy. There have been so many potential directors and stars for this film over the last 6 years that I never expect it to be released.

>>6906078
Couldn't be harder than there will be blood. I couldn't imagine the Judge's speeches, like the one on war, coming off well in any film.

All the ones with the big Apache massacres and that scene with the gang being chased up the mountain by the Apaches would be pretty difficult tho. But hey, they did lotr, so anything's possible

>>6904333
Complete film pleb detected

>>6906025
Can you kill yourself please?

>>6906145
I think you'll find that the Coen brothers did not in fact direct the Lord of the Rings films. All three were directed by Peter Jacksman.

>>6904297
Well they're probably the best choice, they did well with no country, but that was such an easier novel to film. Plus I think the coens will tone down the violence to get maximum distribution and attendance rates, so they won't go near NC17 material which is really what blood meridian deserves for a faithful adaptation. Also people on lit are gonna hate on the book once the film is released now because it will be mainstream, which will be funny to me to see reactionary hypocrisy in action.

So overall, meh

Am I the only one who can't stand Hollywood cinema anymore even when it's "good" like the Coen brothers?

>>6906150
Name better

>>6904540
>Coen brothers are a bad choice in my opinion.

Most def. Their directorial "style" is going to fight for presence with Blood Meridian, and it is going to loose, but they are not going to not make it cause of that. It will just be a nasty flop and embarrassment to all.

What they were born to direct however is A Confederacy of Dunces.

>>6906191
Malick, jarmusch. Don't even try to claim the coens are better

>>6906198
jarmuschs bests movies didnt come out in the 21st cent dingus

>>6906192
Did you not see No Country

>>6906198
>American cinema

>>6906198
>Malick
Literally dropped the ball: The Director
Don't try and pretend To the Wonder, The New World or that shitty indulgent self parody Knight of Cups are good films, perhaps pre 21st Century the only thing Malick did 21st Century that was good was Tree of Life but compare those to the consistent quality of the Coens No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, True Grit so yeah they're better.
>Jarmusch
No Coffee and Cigarettes was shit

>>6906198
>Malick

Whats with the hype for malick, his movies are sooo boring. not in the uneventful definition but in the not interesting or good at all definition/

>>6904306

I NEED SCALPS PARKER

>>6905971
>>6906118
>>6906169
>>6906201
no country doesn't have nearly the scale that blood meridian has. its a mccarthy book, sure, but that's like saying someone who directed a good adaptation of the death of ivan illych is the best candidate to make an adaptation of anna karenina. with no country for old men you're talking about a film where the most number of characters in a given scene was 5 or 6. some blood meridian scenes have hundreds of people, in a dynamic action. coen brothers have only managed as close in o brother where art thou, where those characters were sitting or standing in a movie theatre, not on horseback at war. as mentioned before, the shooting locations, special effects, makeup, wardrobe, and cinematography are all beyond the usual coen brothers' repertoire. no country for old men had very little in the way of any of these features. that doesn't make it a bad film, i thought they did a great job, its just a very different scale.

i like them fwiw, they are excellent with managing tension/pacing, integrating a soundtrack, spotlighting an acting performance, or introducing characters, but blood meridian demands much more. a different kind of director as well, where mood, tone, atmosphere, and appearance are emphasized. coen brothers excel at storytelling, not aesthetics.

>>6906164
simple misunderstanding. he meant "they" as a generalization, not coen brothers.

>>6906192
>>6904540
it's a fake link. you've been rused.

>>6904297
voting for the wachowskis

>>6906201
Oh I've seen it and that sort of b-game McCarthy works well for the Coen bros because it possesses all of MCarthy's style and story but barely any of his genius. The Coen brothers are no where near equipped, visually or dialogically, to film a novel like Blood Meridian. They just can't do it; they are too flip, to corny, too reliant on 'their' trademark cinematographic ethos for it ever to work.

Confederacy of Dunces on the other hand is the literary work of genius basically made for them to adapt. Jesus 1960s/70s New Orleans, Ignatius and the way he gives himself over to monologue, the detective voice-over. I've no doubt they could do something amazing with that work, no matter who they got to star.

>>6906244
no one cares, we're talking hypothetically here