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| The CounselorDirected by Ridley Scott Four Stars |
By Rollan Schott
And so the writer conveys story through the written word,
and the filmmaker with the moving image and this is the way it is. Cormac
McCarthy must be considered one of the great contemporary American novelists,
and it is not insignificant that he
wrote the remarkable “The Counselor”, directed by Ridley Scott, not as a novel
but a screenplay, his first in the format to be produced. The writer, confronted directly with
the visual medium, has moved his stoic, worldly prose seemlessly from narration
to dialog. His characters speak as if outside of themselves, meditating
heedlessly about the nature of their own circumstances. They are
individualistic, fully-realized and complex characters with unique
perspectives, but in each of their monologues can be found a hint of McCarthy’s wry, biblical wit.