the CHILD
- THE STORY PART 1 OF 3 -
He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. At fourteen he runs away.
SEE the CHILD
- THE STORY -
He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. At fourteen he runs away.
Now come days of begging, days of theft. Days of riding where there rode no soul save he. Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been.
His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
McCarthy‘s Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter was put up for auction at Christie‘s. The machine had been in his care for 46 years, since 1963. It sold for $254,500.
Randy KennedyMcCarthy estimates that he owns about 7,000 books, nearly all of them in storage lockers.
Richard B. WoodwardHis Novel »No Country for Old Men« was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
the Academy»The Road« won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
Columbia University»I ended up in the Southwest because I knew that nobody had ever written about it. Besides Coca-Cola, the other thing that is universally known is cowboys and Indians. You can go to a mountain village in Mongolia and they‘ll know about cowboys. But nobody had taken it seriously, not in 200 years. I thought, here‘s a good subject. And it was.«
Cormac McCarthyBorn Charles McCarthy, he renamed himself Cormac after the Irish King.
found at»Anything that doesn‘t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.«
Cormac McCarthy»I don‘t think goodness is something that you learn. If you‘re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.«
Cormac McCarthy»I felt early on I wasn‘t going to be a respectable citizen. I hated school from the day I set foot in it.«
Cormac McCarthy»I never had any doubts about my abilities, I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.«
Cormac McCarthy»The friends I do have are simply those who quit drinking. If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it‘s drinking.«
Cormac McCarthy»There‘s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.«
Cormac McCarthy
directed by
Romain Gavrasas the Kid
as the Judge
as John Joel Glanton
as the Governor of Chihuahua
Screenplay by
SEAN PENNbased on the novel BY
CORMAC McCARTHYDirector of Photography
Emmanuel LubezkiMusic by
ETHAN KATH / ALICE GLASSProduced by
JADE RAYMONDa
Plaza FilmsProduction
