The counselor­Il procuratore

I've always enjoyed the dialogue in McCarthy's novels, but stripped of the prose his dramatic works are inevitably crippled. Additionally, reading a screenplay like The Counselor is not the natural way to absorb it, as so much of the intended artistic content is visual and left in the hands of the d Leggi tutto

5 Stars for The Counselor: A Screenplay (audiobook) by Cormac McCarthy read by Jonathan Davis. This is such a dark and disturbing story and I just love it. It’s one of my favorite movies. Who knew that Cameron Diaz could pull off such a wicked character. Since this is a screenplay, this story really Leggi tutto

This was a good screen play. I shall give a full review at a later date.

4.5 For the life of me, I can't understand how this one only has a 3.34 rating? I've read all Cormacks novels and now I'm down to reading his plays, and this one just emphasized my disappointment that I am running out of material by him to read. If you are a Cormack fan I would recommend this one. Fu Leggi tutto

McCarthy is a genius. He can take a story that at first seems like it might be a simple thriller and convert it into a deep, philosophical tale woven with metaphor - all while maintaining every ounce of thrill and grit. This is one cool story, and its implications are shocking. The dialogue rocks.

A criminal lawyer gets greedy and decides to make more money by naively dabbling in the drug trade. Then a large amount of merchandise is boosted, the counselor is blamed, and the powerful and extremely dangerous forces of the Juarez drug cartels are unleashed. Misery, torture, and death descends up Leggi tutto

So many fantastic lines in the dialogue. Most of my favorites come from Jefe: "I only know that the world in which you seek to undo your mistakes is not the world in which they were made. You are at a cross in the road and here you think to choose. But here there is no choosing. There is only accept Leggi tutto

Another strike against Cormac. This was janky and I did not enjoy any part of it. There is a movie (duh, it is a screenplay) and I have no plans of going anywhere near it. The dialogue is over the top annoying and it takes from whatever deep thoughts moment it kept trying to have. It doesn’t help ma Leggi tutto

This was bad. As an advocate of Cormac McCarthy's written work, I was surprised to be so let down by this screenplay. It comes off as amateurish, as if it were a rejected script from the 1940s transposed onto current times. It has the elements of the noir crime film: corrupted male protagonist, shady Leggi tutto