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A reminder, I am performing THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES at Washington College tomorrow in Norman James Theater. I'm trying out new material which, if it works, might just give the whole thing a vital shot in the arm.
So I saw NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN a second time yesterday on a sorta-kinda-I'm-doubtful date, and I realized that while I still think it's an excellent movie and one of the Coen's greatest works to date, I didn't really enjoy it. I mean, not in the same way that I enjoyed THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Now, I'm the kind of guy who honestly has a great evil fun time watching A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, and I feel moved at the exquisite heartbreaking tragedy of KING LEAR, yet the ultimate bleak nihilism (is that what it is? Nihilism? Or is it something else?) at the heart and surrounding the whole of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is just too much for me to want to revisit.
Shit, I'm the guy who's totally up for re-watching UNITED 93, and I adore the Coen's first film, BLOOD SIMPLE, which is the closest to NCFOM in terms of tone, spirit, setting, and western/noir. Maybe this has to do with how I still hate hate hate the (way the) book (ended), whereas the 98% faithful film adaptation tweaked it just a teeny but vital 2%, which brought the story to damn well perfection, in my mind.
Near perfection. Yeah, that sums up the film pretty damn well. It's a masterpiece for the Coens. And I have no burning desire to see it again.
That said, I am so ready to watch THERE WILL BE BLOOD for a third time. My sorta-kinda-I'm-doubtful date is very up for seeing it. I just need to figure out a way to smuggle some whiskey into the theatre. Or a milkshake. WHISKEY MILKSHAKE!
An idea occurred to me, though.
The whole reason I read NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN in the first place was, in the trailer, I saw Chigurh was a coin-flipping killer. And obviously, I had to see what that entailed. I discussed this with Bloo to see what she'd make of it. Should I incorporate more Chigurh into Two-Face when I'm revising the novel?
Just having seen the trailer, she could already tell that Chigurh is a very different character than Harvey. What makes Harvey interesting is his humanity, his passion, and whereas Chigurh is not a human character (well, until the very end, in my opinion, but thats a different discussion). Chigurh is the unstoppable stalker. He's in better company with the Terminator, Yul Brenner's Gunslinger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Lefors (from both BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and MALLRATS).
So trying back to Batman's world, it gave me a new story idea. If I ever write for DC Comics, I'd love to do a Batman story with Mr. Freeze as the unstoppable stalker character, hunting down people one by one. I can't think off-hand of a truly great Mr. Freeze story since the animated series brilliantly reinvented the character.
If someone doesn't rectify this soon, then I will just have to do it myself.
Speaking of unstoppable stalker characters, talking about Jason with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_mithril_man, I came up with a potentially awesome idea for a Jason Voorhees story. Welp, throw that one on the pile of projects. If I can't sell it as a screenplay to New Line Cinema, I could try DC Comics/Wildstorm, as they're currently doing decent franchise horror comics of late.
Jason's my favorite of those characters, but I can never quite explain to people why. When I maintain that Jason has personality, for one thing, I'm met with dumbfounded looks. Well, in true supervillain fashion, I'll show you. I'll show you all!
Moo hoo ah ha.
So I saw NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN a second time yesterday on a sorta-kinda-I'm-doubtful date, and I realized that while I still think it's an excellent movie and one of the Coen's greatest works to date, I didn't really enjoy it. I mean, not in the same way that I enjoyed THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Now, I'm the kind of guy who honestly has a great evil fun time watching A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, and I feel moved at the exquisite heartbreaking tragedy of KING LEAR, yet the ultimate bleak nihilism (is that what it is? Nihilism? Or is it something else?) at the heart and surrounding the whole of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is just too much for me to want to revisit.
Shit, I'm the guy who's totally up for re-watching UNITED 93, and I adore the Coen's first film, BLOOD SIMPLE, which is the closest to NCFOM in terms of tone, spirit, setting, and western/noir. Maybe this has to do with how I still hate hate hate the (way the) book (ended), whereas the 98% faithful film adaptation tweaked it just a teeny but vital 2%, which brought the story to damn well perfection, in my mind.
Near perfection. Yeah, that sums up the film pretty damn well. It's a masterpiece for the Coens. And I have no burning desire to see it again.
That said, I am so ready to watch THERE WILL BE BLOOD for a third time. My sorta-kinda-I'm-doubtful date is very up for seeing it. I just need to figure out a way to smuggle some whiskey into the theatre. Or a milkshake. WHISKEY MILKSHAKE!
An idea occurred to me, though.
The whole reason I read NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN in the first place was, in the trailer, I saw Chigurh was a coin-flipping killer. And obviously, I had to see what that entailed. I discussed this with Bloo to see what she'd make of it. Should I incorporate more Chigurh into Two-Face when I'm revising the novel?
Just having seen the trailer, she could already tell that Chigurh is a very different character than Harvey. What makes Harvey interesting is his humanity, his passion, and whereas Chigurh is not a human character (well, until the very end, in my opinion, but thats a different discussion). Chigurh is the unstoppable stalker. He's in better company with the Terminator, Yul Brenner's Gunslinger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Lefors (from both BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and MALLRATS).
So trying back to Batman's world, it gave me a new story idea. If I ever write for DC Comics, I'd love to do a Batman story with Mr. Freeze as the unstoppable stalker character, hunting down people one by one. I can't think off-hand of a truly great Mr. Freeze story since the animated series brilliantly reinvented the character.
If someone doesn't rectify this soon, then I will just have to do it myself.
Speaking of unstoppable stalker characters, talking about Jason with
the_mithril_man, I came up with a potentially awesome idea for a Jason Voorhees story. Welp, throw that one on the pile of projects. If I can't sell it as a screenplay to New Line Cinema, I could try DC Comics/Wildstorm, as they're currently doing decent franchise horror comics of late. Jason's my favorite of those characters, but I can never quite explain to people why. When I maintain that Jason has personality, for one thing, I'm met with dumbfounded looks. Well, in true supervillain fashion, I'll show you. I'll show you all!
Moo hoo ah ha.
