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"The Road" starring Viggo Mortensen
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Jabbadabbado
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Mar '99
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Date Posted:
6/3 12:51pm
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"The Road" starring Viggo Mortensen
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Cormac McCarthy is the last person I'd have ever expected to write a masterpiece of science fiction. "The Road" is hands down the finest end of the world novel I have ever read.
I have read a lot of them.
"The Road" has the emotional impact of "On the Beach" combined with the rhetorical genius of "All the Pretty Horses." It is scary, brilliant, moving, anchored by Cormac McCarthy's uncanny ability to write sentences that make grown men weep.
If you haven't read it, the easiest way to describe it is Mad Max with all the optimism stripped away.
The movie's out in December.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
6/3 12:52pm
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RE: Viggo Mortensen and "The Road"
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I saw some stills from it, and they looked very interesting.
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Jabbadabbado
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6/3 12:57pm
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Dozens of Pullitzer Prize-winning novels have been more or less completely forgotten. But "The Road" is a genre classic, although of course it completely defies all sense of genre. It's not the kind of book that will spend any time on the sci fi/fantasy shelf.
The film adaptation may not be any good. Cormac has been hit or miss on film. "No Country for Old Men" is a gem for the ages. "All the Pretty Horses" was almost unwatchable.
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Reynar_Tedros
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I read a couple chapters of No Country. Cormac's style doesn't suit my tastes. The lack of quotation marks confuse me to no end.
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Hammurabi
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6/3 8:55pm
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Cormac's writing can be a bit jarring at first, but you get used to it. After reading some of it, it actually starts to flow rather nicely.
Anyways, the New York Times ran an article on the film. Supposedly, Kodi Smit-McPhee is very good.
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mrsvos
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This is gonna be awesome.....
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Jabbadabbado
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6/5 2:06pm
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No Country for Old Men has been great for McCarthy. Filmmakers can see how visual his storytelling style can be - lots of potential.
Now Ridley Scott is directing Blood Meridian. Gladiator meets revisionist Westerns.
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Zaz
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6/17 7:51am
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A December release means a serious film, generally.
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JediTrilobite
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6/18 8:55am
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Honestly, I'm not sure that I'd call this book SciFi - post apocolyptic things are certainly related to the genre, but there's nothing to really indicate Science Fiction here. That being said, I'm very interested to see how this one comes out. No Country for Old Men was fantastic.
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Jabbadabbado
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I agree it's not fair to call this science fiction. It fits only in the sense that it depicts a fantastical/future/alternate universe event. Post apocalyptic fiction can be considered its own subgenre, with many great novels. Some of my favorites:
Children of Men
War of the Worlds
Lucifer's Hammer
A Canticle for Liebowitz
Alas, Babylon
On the Beach
The Stand
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Zaz
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7/2 12:50pm
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I'm looking forward to it...
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