/lit/ - Literature

>>20243133

A visual depiction is possible but the gore and violence won't be the most challenging part. Japanese manga and anime have violent, fucked up shit going on all the time. Korean movies can get pretty fucked up. The violence and fuckery in Blood Meridian is pretty bad but it's not the worst that exists in the media. Japanese stories about feudal battles are way more violent and brutal, women and children unspared.

I think the challenge is that a lot of things will be lost in translation from written to visual mode. The themes. Some dialogue, since the Judge has multiple monologues. Another challenge would be to capture the mood. Corncob describes mountains for a pretty long time, how are you gonna capture that? The stars burning in the sky when the man shoots some boy in the train? Or the vastness as the kid is looking into the ocean when he reaches California and McCarthy describes a whale swimming around in there? How do you make that work?

There's also some things that heavily rely on a suspension of disbelief. How does the kid kick toadvine in the face, or the black jackson (whoever it was) get his head chopped off in one swipe? It's one thing to read about it but seeing it visually is another.

Visual depiction is possible, it just needs to be done with good judgment on what to keep and what to change as it translate from prose to whatever media it's being translated to.

>>20243616

lol