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Do you know anyone named Cormac, and if so, how do they pronounce it? Husband suggested this name, and I just find straight cor-mack a little abrasive... I find myself wanting to say something between cor-mick and cor-muck. If I don't like the "real" ...
Started by drahgonne on
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I totally thought....
:) Cormac McClaggen (sp?) pronounced core-MACK (according heard the name.
It was on our boy name list this time around .
He pronounced it Core-Mick A Facebook friend married a Cormac.
I dated a Cormac in high school.
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For those of you who don't know, Cormac McCarthy took time off from his novels and wrote a screenplay! He sold the spec to the Producers behind The Road, and Cogans Trade. They also served as executive producers to The Tree Of Life.
Cormac McCarthy screenplay...
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Robin hood for instance i thought captured the atmosphere of medieval... .
And honestly ridley scott's real problem hasn't been his directing, it's been the scripts he's chosen .
Mccarthy's writing is more suited to screenplays anyway, i hate his prose .
Awesome.
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A man some (including myself) consider the greatest living author of the english language has written his first speculative screenplay, and it was immediately sold, because of course it was.
Quote: : EXCLUSIVE: While Cormac McCarthy’s novels have been...
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IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF GRIM DARK THERE IS ONLY DARK Cormac McCarthy is about as mediocre as writers get.
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Quote: : While Cormac McCarthys novels have been turned into No Country For Old Men, The Road and All the Pretty Horses, hes left the film adaptations to others. McCarthy has surprised everybody by writing his first spec screenplay. Nick Wechsler, Steve...
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Said....
Said Steve Schwartz to with Cormac’s novels.
For this.
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Quote: : Apparently not even Cormac McCarthy's agents knew what he was up to. While his representatives believed the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Road and No Country For Old Men was hard at work on a new novel, McCarthy was actually writing his...
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Kind of wish.
Originally Posted by itsmesean0630 Cormac McCarthy = instant awesome.
That is fantastic news.
Kind of wish it was a new book.
Cormac McCarthy = instant awesome.
Exciting possibilities.
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Well since I got no response from my last post I'll put this one out there.
this book follows the adventures of a young man from tennessee (only ever referred to as "The Kid"). Hard life leads him to adventures into the heart of mexico....
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I would highly recommend "Child of God" and "Suttree" if you haven't read them .
(or both)? I love Cormac's books.
Ol' Cormac did his homework for the story.
That has me pondering it even years after first reading it, as this one .
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Digging Blood Meridian presently, I assume some folks round here have read him? Everybody is making love or else expecting rain.
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I started....
Everybody is making love or else expecting rain.
It is also powerful shit.
You should check out Blood Meridian.
I gotta read that.
Viewing Log / List Serious? Damn man.
Powerful shit.
I started The Road yesterday and I finished The Road yesterday .
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Deceptively simple, it's sad, beautiful, strark, and puts most post-apocalyptic stories to shame.
Here's the (non spoiler) last paragraph:
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where...
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You're one fucked up individual and I hope your....
To even use that event is just wrong and disturbing .
It's sitting on my night table for weeks but I just can't get around to starting it .
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EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott is in talks to direct the Cormac McCarthy-scripted drama The Counselor. Scott intends to make it his next film and his followup to Prometheus, the 3D space film which Fox releases this summer. I guess this is what happens when ...
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Hopefully this won't be an overly ambitious affair, so he can stick to it (honestly, I didn'... .
Scott was once preparing an adaptation of BM, but gave on that .
Could be a very interesting film.
I wonder what Scott will make of it.
Oooh, this is exciting.
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In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, where is the road? I can't work it out. They're heading south and east so is it going to Florida somewhere? Or maybe the Carolinas? Also, they talk about it like it's the only road. Like some sort of pilgrimage trail that...
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Here's a link in which the author makes a good case for the route being roughly Kentucky-Tennesee-North... .
The book is deliberately vague on location, but my thoughts were it must be set somewhere in the southeastern USA, although not as far south as Texas .
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