RE: RARA-AVIS: Blood Meridian: the movie

From: Anders Engwall ( anders.engwall@comhem.se)
Date: 27 Jun 2007


Nathan Cain:

> I'll bet $5 they leave out the part about the Tree of Dead Babies
>
> On 6/26/07, Michael Robison < <mailto:miker_zspider%40yahoo.com>
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anders Engwall wrote:
> >
> > The guy behind turkeys like HANNIBAL and GLADIATOR is
> > now going to film the unfilmable.
> >
> > ***********
> > I have no idea why you call Blood Meridian unfilmable.
> > The book is very visual. I'd love to see it. Do you
> > think they'd show the Indian swinging the two babies
> > together? How about the guys upside down roasting
> > over the fire? Or black Jackson taking white
> > Jackson's head off?

 

At least it's not Quentin Tarantino doing the adaption, or we would have the protagonists discussing hamburger recipes and the relative merits of Madonna's hit singles during the scalping scenes. And doubtless we would get Alice Cooper's "Dead Babies" on the soundtrack.

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