Intimacy of "Sunset Limited" lost on television

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Which is to say that sometimes filming a stage play does not work for television. That watching it as a television series Mash dvdasks of it things the play cannot deliver (and is not supposed to deliver). Hence, HBO's movie of Cormac McCarthy's "novel in dramatic form," -- "The Sunset Limited" -- doesn't work.One Tree Hill dvd
Starring Samuel L. Jackson as Black and Tommy Lee Jones as White, "The Sunset Limited", airing on HBO on Saturday, Seinfeld Complete Series Collection dvdis basically a battle between faith and faithlessness, of God and nihilism.Breaking Bad dvd box set
That it is a wordy, non-stop debate at times ponderous and at times agitated stamps it immediately as more high-brow two-man play than dramatic movie.Lost dvd
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Trying to bring it all to life is Jackson, who plays Black, a former convict turned true-believer when God spoke to him on his deathbed.True Blood dvd
One day in New York, Black saves Jones' White from leaping in front of the speeding Sunset Limited. White is a mopey professor whose intellectualFriends Seasons 1-10 dvd pursuits and studying of the culture have gone from rewarding to revealing in the worst kind of wayEntourage dvd
Everything is rotten, is essentially White's belief. He claims to love no one or be best friends with anyone. He does not believe in God. He sees no point in trying to findSons of Anarchy Seasons 1-3 dvd happiness because in the end, it's all a ruse. We are inherently unhappy and we'll die.Human Target Season 1 dvd
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Black takes him back to his nearly barren apartment in a low-rent neighborhood and begins a philosophical narrative about what White did and why.Two And A Half Men dvd
During this whole early part of the 90-plus minute "Sunset Limited", Jackson is in control. This is a good thing. His oratory skills enliven McCarthy's words and make you forget that "The Sunset Limited" as a filmed play feels as claustrophobic as a very bad bottle episode on television.Scrubs dvd
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