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Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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There's a notion out there on the internet, anyway, that this book is unfilmeable. It can't be made into a movie. If it was done right, it would make an incredible movie. The violence is so over-the-top that if you're true to the book, you're going to be creating something where a lot of people are not going to be able to watch. But then if you don't include it, but there's so much, the visual magic in this book is just waiting for a cinematic treatment. And I actually didn't do a lot of this, but I was hoping that someone had done a video journal tour of the route,. Maybe

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