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intertribalCormac McCarthy, anyone? Pretty sure he never went to an MFA program. He wrote his first novel while he was working as a freaking mechanic. Oh God, the guy is my freaking hero: "McCarthy used the money he had made from All the Pretty Horses to buy a new pickup truck. He kept on writing." Also, he looked a bit like my other hero, Josh Brolin, when he was younger. Y/Y?
Speaking of No Country for Old Men, this picture is orgasmic to me:
CORMAC MCCARTHY What would you guys like to do that's just too outrageous, and you don't think you'll ever get to do it?
JOEL COEN Well, I don't know about outrageous, but there was a movie we tried to make that was another adaptation. It was a novel that James Dickey wrote called To the White Sea, and it was about a tail gunner in a B-29 shot down over Tokyo.
C.M. That was the last thing he wrote.
J.C. Last thing he wrote. So this guy's in Tokyo during the firebombing, but the story isn't really about that. He walks from Honshu to Hokkaido, because he grew up in Alaska and he's trying to get to a cold climate, where he figures he can survive, and he speaks no Japanese, so after the first five or 10 minutes of the movie, there's no dialogue at all.
C.M. Yeah. That'd be tough.
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C.M. So tell me about this horrible dog. Was Josh [Brolin, who plays Moss] just terrified of this animal? You pushed a button, and it leapt for your jugular?
J.C. It was a scary dog. It wasn't a movie dog.
C.M. It was basically trained to kill people.
J.C. It was basically trained to kill people.
E.C. The trainer had this little neon-orange toy that he would show to the dog, and the dog would start slavering and get unbelievably agitated and would do anything to get the toy. So the dog would be restrained, and Josh, before each take, would show the dog that he had the toy, he'd put it in his pants and jump into the river ...
