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They have followed McCarthy's blueprint scrupulously, even slavishly, and have bountifully harvested his lip-smacking dialogue; and the major unconventionalities in this mostly conventional thriller are all his. For better or for worse. To have kept the lawman as an observer and commentator, forever a step behind the hunter and hunted, never getting in on the action, feeling helpless and "overmatched," is not just different but meaningful. On the flip side, when we've been privy, every step of the way, through one close shave after another, to the hunted's point of view -- and in fact we identify with this character to the exact extent that if we ourselves had found $2 million in a bag, we'd want to hang onto it -- it's not just different, but perverse, to lose touch with him at a climactic point near the end. (Under the rules of professional conduct, I can't be more specific, but anyone who has seen the movie will know what I mean.) That this comes straight from the book is no justification. On screen it inescapably stacks up as a bigger gaffe than on the page, where, in the nature of the medium, our physical connection with the characters is always more tenuous, illusory, ghostly. Our image of them there, immured in our mind's eye, is limited to verbal description only. If that. Books, in a manner of speaking, are strictly secondhand; movies, firsthand.
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Topic - Duncan Shepherd, on the problem of books, in "No Country". - clarkjohnsen 11:54:57 12/19/07 (20)
- My critique comes to a somewhat similar conclusion, but without so much grey poupon smugness, I hope. - Audiophilander 12:44:59 12/20/07 (9)
- Auph, your head is a big jar of that yellow stuff. * - mr grits 13:00:12 12/20/07 (6)
- Well, at least it isn't hillbilly Shinola. (nt) - Audiophilander 13:40:57 12/20/07 (5)
- Don't be offering to polish my tu%d !! * - mr girts 14:08:05 12/20/07 (4)
- I don't blame you for changing your moniker. (nt) - Audiophilander 14:17:46 12/20/07 (3)
- I sell them in my spare time....you could use one of the vast plains of ignorace surrounding Dalworth. * - mr grits 06:27:54 12/21/07 (2)
- Huh? You lost me there, bubba. Ummm, has ya been samplin' yo' pappy's 'shine 'gin? - Audiophilander 08:30:54 12/21/07 (1)
- Nearly acurate.... - mr grits 11:10:33 12/21/07 (0)
- Translation: Shepherd hugely disliked LOTR s and RTPOTA - clarkjohnsen 12:50:41 12/20/07 (1)
- Don't recall reading his LoTR review, but it doesn't surprise me that he thinks his tastes... - Audiophilander 13:56:39 12/20/07 (0)
- I think this may be a film that it pays to see twice. Once to get the expectations and any disappointments - sjb 14:19:48 12/19/07 (3)
- Good point, that's what I plan to do * - Road Warrior 09:31:46 12/23/07 (0)
- You are right on. Although I bet some here would see it again and opine, "Still no shootout!" - Enophile 15:32:05 12/19/07 (1)
- LOL, too right. - Harmonia 18:57:08 12/19/07 (0)
- Dunky is a genius. He must have read my points, earlier. nt - tinear 13:49:04 12/19/07 (5)
- Totally agree... - sjb 14:17:13 12/19/07 (4)
- I thought it was about... - Harmonia 18:54:54 12/19/07 (3)
- RE: I thought it was about... - sjb 07:17:59 12/20/07 (2)
- "...and we were basically left out of it." Yes, there's the problem! nt - clarkjohnsen 09:25:32 12/20/07 (1)
- "...and we were basically left out of it." Like it happens in real life. - Harmonia 14:02:40 12/20/07 (0)
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