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McCarthy's 'The Road' - at long last!
I wasn't sure whether film versions of C-Mc's novels are ever going to be succesful after All The pretty Horses and No Country For Old Men but almost a year after it was due to be released, The Road actually looks like it'll do justice to the book. It got a 4 star review in Friday's Guardian after a screening at the venice film festival and from this clip seems to have got the tone just right....as with all Mccarthy's books the familiar themes of sons and fathers (or substitute fathers) the futility of morality in the absence of laws, manmade or otherwise and the ultimate fate of man in a Godless universe re-appear here in pssibly his final and perhaps most philosophical novel although I'm re-reading Blood Meridian again and that's his masterpiece -they really should try a film of that but give it to someone like lynch to direct.
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I'm probably alone in thinking this...
But I hated the book of The Road. Wake up. Bad stuff. Hide. Go to bed. Wake up. Bad stuff. Hide. Go to bed. It felt like a single scene repeated endlessly. But I suspect that was the point.
try reading blood meridian
try reading blood meridian then! wake up, scalp injuns, ride through desert landscape, rape boy, go to sleep, wake up, scalp injuns, kill friend, eat horse, rape cactus, die!
but in a good way!
Is it a Marmite novel?
I thought it was an amazing novel - and I came to it barely having heard of Cormac McCarthy, let alone read any of his other work. It is as monotonous as you say, Fraser, yet it got through to me; there was something extraordinarily moving, amidst the dour horror, about the relationship between the father and son.
I'm looking forward to the film - Viggo Mortensen can do little wrong as far as I'm concerned.
the road
i am so looking forward to this film
read the review in the guardian and glad it's been faithful to the book especially the scene with the 'cellar scene'
top cast-mortensen, guy pierce, robert duvall and of course omar(michael k williams)
director-john hilcott(the proposition)
Wunderbar
The book scared the bejaysus out of me and Im looking forward to the movie but I don´t think "she who must be obeyed" will enjoy it much
The cellar scene is in the film? Good.
But what about the baby on the spit? That's what I want to know...
I am in the middle of a McCarthy frenzy. Just done The Crossing, just started Cities Of The Plain, read The Road a couple of months ago. The last time I got this geeky about a writer was when I first picked up a James Ellroy.
I suspect that Mrs Ganglesprocket will not be keen on this film though...
I believe...
Mr Cave is doing the soundtrack