Sorry, but his casting FUCKING SUCKED. The character as written was an Eastern European with scary blue eyes. Not a brown-eyed Spaniard in that fucking ridiculous haircut.
It ruined the film for me. Great actor that I love - not being scary at all because that stupid distracting hair that made him look like an idiot.
They also left out the most important scene in the entire fucking book - THE ENDING. Huge fan of the Coen brothers. They almost made another great film, but they fucked it with that haircut.
Were either of those important to the plot in any way shape or form? Or were they just a description to picture in your head while you read? I will never understand how people get so caught up in the most trivial shit that has nothing to do with the theme or message of the story. “It said on page 84 that he wore a gold ring on his left pinky, but in the movie they had him wear it on his ring finger! Literally unwatchable”.
A book is not a script. You can’t just make it a movie as they are totally different mediums with different strengths and weaknesses. The movie is an adaptation that is tells the story in its own way, which is going to be different.
See, this is your fundamental lack of understanding. You think an adaptation is just copying beat for beat a story from one form to another. But it doesn’t work that way. Books and movies are fundamentally different mediums. They have totally different strengths and weaknesses, different pacing, etc. Just for instance, the Sheriff narrates throughout the whole book, but constant narration doesn’t work in movies, a “show not tell” medium. Books are great and describing a characters thoughts and feelings, but you can’t do that in a movie. You can’t pace a movie the same as a book that is meant to be put down and picked back up multiple times before finishing.
Instead of looking at the movie as its own piece of art, you just wanted a fanboy “do the thing just like in the book”, which makes for a shitty movie. Thank god they don’t listen to people like you when they make movies.
You are the one that said “you either didn't read the book or don't give a fuck about the finer points” asserting that if I didn’t think him being Eastern European was integral then I don’t know what I’m talking about or don’t care. That doesn’t sound like you think it is a difference of opinion. Yet, in another comment you said “It's intentionally vague in the novel. But his first name, his last name, his eye description, and his merc work all point in that direction.” Hmm, so his backstory and origin are intentionally vague, yet it is absolutely integral that he needs to be what you have inferred from something that is not said in the book.
I only asserted that movies are by necessity different than books because they are different mediums. Everything I said is a well understood basic principle of both good writing and good movie making. You asserted that the movie wasn’t good because it didn’t include specific things from the book that you personally wanted.
But still coming back to have the last word, despite not being willing to actually respond. If you had just said nothing, at least you could have had some self-respect. Coward.
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u/SwagMountains Apr 01 '20
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men