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Your girlfriend's favourite internet site wikipedia says: The Road is an upcoming film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall. The film is based on the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and it stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The film is scheduled to be released on October 16, 2009.
Everyone with at least half a brain of a monkey knows that The Road is some pretty good read. The trailer kinda sucked though. Since when this story is an epic fucking journey? Since goddamn when The Road is an action packed aragornian heroic shit with hans zimmer electronic extravaganza for the soundtrack and overlong screen presence of charlize theron? And what's that with the george romero tv montage in the beginning? How the fuck did they come up with that shit?
Doubtful. This is Hollywood. A sad story of struggling to survive after the end of times isn't a big seller. Aragorn cockslapping hillbillies apparently is.
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My two cents: I think the trailer is a profit machine and not really a mirror of the actual movie. I have substantial faith in the director to deliver something on par with The Proposition. I think it'll be pretty faithful to the book, they just have to sell the flick so its being pumped as an action disaster flick.
I just watched The Proposition and I gotta say it was a pretty neato movie, it kind of reassured my faith in The Road adaptation. John Hillcoat seem to be a rather intelligent person who doesn't mind shooting off people's faces on screen. Maybe he should do fallout movie next time. And he's got Nick Cave and Warren Ellis strumming on their banjos (or whatever), which is, you know, kinda cool.
Trailer makes it seem WAY to cliche-hollywood action movie-ish.
I hope the movie follows the book as closely as No Country for Old Men followed its source material.
I'm especially concerned about two things:
1) Charlize Theron is everywhere in the trailer, when the wife/mother isn't really a big part of the original story, only used in a few flashbacks.
2) The beginning of the trailer hints that we'll witness whatever caused the apocalypse, which is bullshit. I liked how the novel never went out of its way and lost focus to tell the tale of what happened to make everything so terrible. Was it a nuclear war? Asteroid? You never find out and I like it that way, it stays clear of a number of cliches and keeps the story on track with what its supposed to be about.
Yeah half the trailer was OMFG THE WORLD IS ENDING while in the book it politely left that topic alone, so as to focus on the characters themselves, not the world in which they reside.
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Pretty much. It has been confirmed that the shit from the intro was tacked on for the trailer and isn't in the film. Weinstein (one of them) was presented with two trailers and chose the "hard sell" approach. Worry not.
whoever wrote:Hollywood
Independently financed, ya'll.
Locke wrote:overlong screen presence
They decided to beef up the role of the wife a little bit in the screenplay but she won't be along for any of the journey. The trailer is edited to give the impression that he is defending her life/honor/vagina or some shit but that isn't the case. Just him and the boy.
spokomptonjdub wrote:The beginning of the trailer hints that we'll witness whatever caused the apocalypse, which is bullshit.
I read somewhere else that this is only in the trailer, it's actually taken from other sources in order to market to the disaster movie crowd. What a dumbfuck marketrons. This will probably dissapoint a lot of people. Whatever, this footage is not in the actual film, which kinda made me a happier person for awhile. But I think Aonaran pointed that out already.
Aonaran wrote:Didn't we already have a thread for this film?
I never seen it. Can't say I searched for it extensively though.
