Here are some new images from Ridley Scott’s The Counselor, starring Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Dean Norris, Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo, Natalie Dormer and Goran Visnjic.
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over to The New Yorker to read the full excerpt:
“NIGHT.
TWO-LANE blacktop road through the high desert. A car passes and the lights
recede down the long straight and fade out. A man walks out from the scrub
cedars that line the road and stands in the middle of the road and lights a
cigarette. He is carrying a roll of thin braided wire over one shoulder. He
continues across the road to the fence. A tall metal pipe is mounted to one of
the fence posts and at the top—some twenty feet off the ground—is a floodlight.
The man pushes the button on a small plastic sending unit and the light comes
on, flooding the road and the man’s face. He turns it off and walks down the
fence line a good hundred yards to the corner of the fence and here he drops
the coil of wire to the ground and takes a flashlight from his back pocket and
puts it in his teeth and takes a pair of leather gloves from his belt and puts
them on. Then he loops the wire around the corner post and pulls the end of the
wire through the loop and wraps it about six times around the wire itself and
tucks the end several times inside the loop and then takes the wire in both
hands and hauls it as tight as he can get it. Then he takes the coil of wire
and crosses the road, letting out the wire behind him. In the cedars on the far
side, a flatbed truck is parked with the bed of the truck facing the road.
There is an iron pipe at the right rear of the truck bed mounted vertically in
a pair of collars so that it can slide up and down and the man threads the wire
through a hole in the pipe and pulls it taut and stops it from sliding back by
clamping the wire with a pair of vise grips. Then he walks back out to the road
and takes a tape measure from his belt and measures the height of the wire from
the road surface. He goes back to the truck and lowers the iron pipe in its
collars and clamps it in place again with a threaded lever that he turns by
hand against the vertical rod. He goes out to the road and measures the wire
again and comes back and wraps the end of the wire through a heavy three-inch
iron ring and walks to the front of the truck, where he pulls the wire taut and
wraps it around itself to secure the ring at the end of the wire and then pulls
the ring over a hook mounted in the side rail of the truck bed. He stands
looking at it. He strums the wire with his fingers. It gives off a deep
resonant note. He unhooks the ring and walks the wire to the rear of the truck
until it lies slack on the ground and in the road. He lays the ring on the truck
bed and goes around and takes a walkie-talkie from a work bag in the cab of the
truck and stands in the open door of the truck, listening. He checks his watch
by the dome light in the cab.”
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