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- With the subtitle 'A Novel in Dramatic Form', The Sunset Limited can be considered closer to a novel than to a true play. The narrative features just two characters, named Black and White after their respective skin colours. Black is an ex-convict and an evangelical Christian. White is an atheist and a college professor.
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Feb 12, 2011 · “The Sunset Limited” is set in a New York apartment — White’s suicide attempt apparently takes place at the station at Eighth Avenue and 155th Street — but the location is beside the point, as...
Feb 12, 2011 · The true valor's clockwork. The duality of belief, as a general term, is analyzed completely in this great approach of the Cormac McCarthy novel in which the two main protagonists, "named" simply Black (Samuel L. Jackson) and White (Tommy Lee Jones) are debating over a serious and dangerous issue.
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- 2011-02-12
Mar 1, 2021 · The Sunset Limited is a discourse on the nature of existence that comes from existentialist philosophy, and the views expressed by Black and White can help us to have a greater understanding of what the purpose of life is and what it is to be human.
The Sunset Limited is a 2011 American drama television film directed by Tommy Lee Jones, who also stars with Samuel L. Jackson. It was the duo's second collaboration, after the 2000 film Rules of Engagement. The screenplay was written by Cormac McCarthy, based on his 2006 play of the same name.
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Jun 20, 2011 · In the HBO film “The Sunset Limited,” Tommy Lee Jones plays White, a suicidal professor who attempts to jump in front of the subway of the title. He’s saved, or thwarted, by Black (Samuel L....
The Sunset Limited is a play by American writer Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy's second published play, it was first produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on May 18, 2006, and it traveled to New York City later that same year.
Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men a deeply religious black ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson) who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor (Tommy Lee Jones) who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, The Sunset Limited.
