Reply #33: Yeah, the Coens did a good job with it.

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It's definitely his most screen-adaptable novel. It reads a lot like a self-subverting Elmore Leonard novel, and the biggest danger to an adaptation was losing the "self-subverting" part.

I probably would have tried to find a way to work in Bell's WWII story, since it is pretty central to his character. And I like the final non-confrontation between him and Chigurh in the book a bit better, but overall they did a great job.

I nominated "Blood Meridian" in the other thread. I think I heard that Scott passed it on, but IMDB still has him listed.