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How do you picture Judge Holden from Blood Meridian?

>> No.11760583
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>>11760578
By the way, reminder that Judge Holden was a real person.

>> No.11760587
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>>11760583
The book always seemed to stress creepy more than masculine.

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>>11760583
Or John Goodman 20 years ago

>> No.11760594

I just picture Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now

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>> No.11760660

So, I read The Road a while back, and thought that it was a great, almost transcendently beautiful experience. Then I tried Blood Meridian, and I could not for the life of me get into it. Not only was the prose significantly worse, hampered down by all sorts of try-hard bullshit maneuverings, but whereas the violence in The Road seemed to make an almost religious point about the people we choose to become, the violence in Blood Meridian seemed more or less to be the point in itself.

Admittedly, I never finished the book, and I know that everyone and their grandmother loves the book. It just felt so immature and pointless in comparison to The Road.

Am I being unfair here? I just don't get what is there to actually like about it..

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>> No.11760689
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11760689

Something like this

>> No.11760966

>>11760578
It's obviously gonna be woody harrelson

>> No.11760989

>>11760660
The violence is unironically the point of the book. So you hit that nail on the head

>> No.11761746
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this is a quick mock up I did. I like the Prometheus alien interpretation better though

>> No.11761789

>>11760578
literally the only character to have scared the living shit out in a book. his omnipresence is what really gives me the chills...

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>> No.11761840

I don't, because I don't read Cormac McCarthy's shitty books.

>> No.11761858

>>11760660
The violence in Blood Meridian is not about our choice. It's about how violence is part and parcel of the human experience, but also separate from our humanity. How far did you get into it? If you didn't get to the "ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner" speech, you a) missed a good speech, and b) couldn't hope to get the point.

>> No.11762066

>>11761746
This is a lot how I pictured him

>> No.11762181
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>>11760578

Judge 'Bounce by the Ounce' Holden.

>> No.11762184

>>11762181
Like Bill Burr

>> No.11762272

What is he a judge of?

>> No.11762284

>>11762272
Your mom's pussy faggot

>> No.11762307

>>11760578
Exactly like this but more chins. I imagined him as kind of grotesque looking.

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>>11760578
with the
PHENOTYPE

but paler and balder

>> No.11762347

>>11760660
When people think of The Wild West they probably first think of Cowboys with nice horses and Indians with feather hats, outlaws being brought to justice etc and people dying instantly from arrows/revolver rounds and only Indians scalping.

BM is about dirty outlaws who ride almost wild horses hunting and being hunted by Indians who wear literally fucking anything and butchery of both by both.

There's no lawful good sheriff. Dan Brown blows the a young good mans head off after being conned to get him out of jail.

All of this isn't just in wooden villages and tumble weeds but almost "epic" otherworldly beauty which itself can be just as violent and deadly.

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I don't know the sauce for this, but it's pretty close to how I pictured him.

>> No.11762485

>>11760587

i recall it being emphasized how ripped and huge he was when sitting naked on the rock

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>>11760578
>In 1977, a petition was addressed to the French parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age of consent law and the decriminalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen (the age of consent in France). A number of French intellectuals - including such prominent names as Aragon, Foucault, Sartre, Derrida, Althusser, Barthes, Klossowski, Beauvoir, Deleuze, Guattari, Leiris, Robbe-Grillet, Sollers, Rancière, Lyotard, Ponge, and various prominent doctors and psychologists - signed the petition. In 1979 two open letters were published in French newspapers defending the release of individuals arrested under charges of statutory rape, in the context of abolition of age of consent laws.

>> No.11762532

>>11762485
Where? I never got the impression he was ripped, it describes him as like a big baby.

>> No.11762640

>>11760578
lookin kinda like a swole george soros who walks around in the nude