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Who was the Real Evil Judge Holden? - RE:WIRE
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We explore who the menacingly evil Judge Holden is in the novel "Blood Meridian" and examine who he could have been in real life.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
   • Analyzing Evil: Judge Holden From Blo...  
faroutmagazine.co.uk/keep-your-filthy-hands-off-bl…
deadline.com/2023/04/new-regency-cormac-mccarthys-…
The Dance of History in Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"
web.archive.org/web/20220130161409/https://www.cor…
texashillcountry.com/monster-who-was-real-judge-ho…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Holden
www.redlib.matthew.science/r/cormacmccarthy/comments/hnw2jv/i_…
www.gutenberg.org/files/69201/69201-h/69201-h.htm
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/webber-charles…
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www.cowboysindians.com/2013/01/joe-walker/
martinezhistory.org/captain-joseph-walker/
thefurtrapper.com/home/joseph-walker/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_R._Walker
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Veatch
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0:00 Introduction
1:12 Part One: Blood Meridian
12:01 Part Two: The Real Judge Holden
24:40 Part Three: Into the Evening Redness of the West

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@lbwlawyer

8 months ago

I’m from Nacogdoches, and I can truthfully say we’ve never had a goat rapist. That sounds much more like a Shelby County issue.

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@Nabo42

2 months ago

I think the real judge is the friendships we made along the way.

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@aidanfarnan4683

7 months ago

One strong argument for The Judge being Satan or Lucifer, not mentioned in Vile Eyes video, is the inscription on his gun, "Et in Arcadia ego": In the garden I was there also.

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@Spartan-4309

9 months ago

I hold Blood Meridian may work better as a mini series than a 2-3 hour movie

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@mattevanswastaken

10 months ago

There are two charecters in all off the books I've read that have really struck an deep interest in me. They are Judge Holden from BM and John Coffey from the green mile. I feel like they are representations of polar opposite spiritual forces.

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@Ligierthegreensun

9 months ago

The point of the book has always touched upon the warlike nature of humanity. In many ways the book can be surmised in the Judge’s speech on war. Rather than being some embodiment of war or the devil, or a demon, the Judge is the embodiment of humanity’s worst traits; his love of war and violence, rape, and murder and his ability to do horrendous and despicable things (the rape and murder of children, cannibalism, etc). McCarthy is lamenting how those parts of humanity follows him wherever he goes, and doesn’t sleep (it happens all over the world every day) and it will never die out so long as humanity exists.

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@zambeazy

9 months ago

i don’t think blood meridian would work as a movie, but i’ve always thought the most interesting way to adapt the book would be as a show. maybe 6-10 1 hour episodes, but the catch is every episode has different actors to sort of portray the different ways the characters are viewed by the readers. the one constant, however, would be the judge.

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@user-lc4xh7ts7h

9 months ago

One could argue that the Judge is a cosmic horror entity and represent the violence and cruelty of the universe. Like in the Cthulhu Mythos, the character Nyrolothotep who wonders the world in various guises and loves to manipulate mankind to create chaos, violence, and war, because he sees Humanity as his plaything and enjoys the chaos that he brings into the hearts of men.

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@broccoli919

7 months ago

My favorite part of the book is when they ask “What do you want to be when you grow up Holden?” And replies “the catcher in the rye” 😊

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@srbrant5391

3 months ago

Can we just stop and admit that the portrait of Judge Holden in the thumbnail is one of the most terrifying works of fan art in history? Yes yes, there's tons of fan art that make our eyes bleed and venture into the realms of the literally unspeakable, but that particular painting conveys all the nihilism, brutality and lawlessness of the novel. Like every curve, contour, angle, shade and stroke in that portrait echoes the inhumanity of Blood Meridian. And that FACE...

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@karlwikman3874

7 months ago

I'm convinced Judge Holden survived into the 21st century and reappeared under the alias "Sundowner" in Metal Gear Rising

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@realtoast7036

9 months ago

I just finished this novel. Throughout the book, the way Judge is described at various parts - giant, nude, hairless, imposing, dominant etc. - strikes me as being representative rather than any actual individual. Like an infant US, or the spirit of a massive, powerful cherub, unaware and uncaring of its power or even a sense of its evil as the gang (perhaps representing Eminent Domain and expansion) destructively rolls through the West. Judge is the Kid's own tortured conscience, randomly and oddly appearing (as when Kid is in jail awaiting is own hanging). We know he's following the kid, and the kid had opportunity to kill Judge, but didn't. Instead, the Kid was able to temporarily expunge the imagery, guilt, shame, self-loathing during his twenties and thirties, only to later return when Kid is the Man. I'm thinking this is the conscience and revisiting of his (Man's) own evil and horrible doings. The dance is the madness roiling in the Man's thoughts as he revisits his awful sins, culminating in the Man violently ending his horror by killing himself in the outhouse. In fact, maybe The Kid, himself, is representative of the adolescent country, and its revisiting its own horrible past as it becomes the middle aged adult.

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@HoganHARM

1 week ago

the judge making gunpowder wasnt supernatural, because brimstone (sulphur) is an ingredient in gunpowder. he just knows the chemistry

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@jackruby6696

8 months ago

Judge holden is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse:war

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@gorskieric2134

8 months ago

The judge is dancing...and he will never die

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@walterfechter8080

10 months ago

Obviously, The Old West nurtured a lot of legends. A renegade so-called "judge" would fit right in. Roy Bean was a real guy and whose life was the stuff of folklore. Thanks, Re:wire.

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@JacobWoolf-sc9hc

7 months ago

I think he's just a sociopath with a genius level intelligence, probably has PTSD from being an officer during the Texas revolution. But is so self aware that he knows all this about himself and just decides to revel in the same trauma and violence that created him believing himself to be the better man simply because he's honest about himself and the nature of man

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@metsrus

9 months ago

He's like that supervillain mutant from the X-men, Apocalypse. Believed to be the first mutant, who also stood 7 ft tall, he lived throughout different ages of human history, acquiring a vast and superior knowledge on all things, and inciting wars and pestilence where ever he went. In fact, in one of the passages, McCarthy did indeed defined Judge Holden as a "mutant". "In that sleep and in sleeps to follow the judge did visit. Who would come other? A great shambling mutant, silent and serene." Both characters appeared at around the same time. I wonder if the creation of the comic book character was inspired by McCarthy's Blood Meridian character.

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@ghostpants3770

2 months ago

i love the part when judge holden says, "i'm a complicated and otherworldly figure, and also, i am a terrifying advisary"

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@frend1220

8 months ago

In my humble opinion the book just tells you who the judge really is, in the very beginning when he first steps into that tent.

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