"Sunset Train" is adapted from the novel and play of the same name by the famous American writer and playwright Cormac McCarthy, who won the Pulitzer Prize. The story is full of dark humor and silent sadness. feel. The story is about two ordinary anonymous people, who were given the code names "black" and "white" in the original work. They are completely different strangers: a black religiousist and an atheist white professor. Before the plot unfolds, the black Once rescued a white man who was about to commit suicide from the platform of the sunset train, everything that follows is focused on an ordinary apartment in New York, where two people are in desperate circumstances and carry out together about religion, life, and death. , as well as the discussion and collision of whether white people commit suicide, they have heatedly debated on different positions whether there is enough reason to believe in God, what is the difference between a true believer and a sinner who just wants to be saved.
[Behind-the-scenes production]
This HBO TV movie was directed by Tommy Lee Jones himself, and Cormac McCarthy wrote the script for it. This is not the first time the two have collaborated. No Country for Old Men".
Bringing the work of Cormac McCarthy (2008 Nobel Laureate for Literature) to the screen was a movie download that most people would be dreading, and Tommy Lee Jones, who starred in 2007's No Country for Old Men (based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name) ) is well understood. So when he decided to adapt the literary giant's suicide-themed scripted novel "The Sunset Is Over," he called McCarthy for permission. The famous reclusive writer sent his blessings and even visited the studio on set. The director of the HBO film (which premiered on February 12, 2011), and Samuel Jackson's co-star, Jones, said: "Cormac spent a lot of rehearsal time with us, and it was a great experience for me and Sam. It was a good experience, but it wasn't for other people because I didn't let other people in. Well, (I did invite) some people from HBO, but they just had to sit against the wall with their hands crossed."
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