I'm not into worshiping celebrities, I don't even own a TV or follow the MSM. But I remember Viggo Mortensen about 10 years ago coming into Finnegan's Pub in Madrid while I was working there. He ordered a bottle of beer and seemingly just came to watch a soccer match on TV, I don't even know which teams were playing. There was just a couple of regulars there and myself when he came in. One of them went up to him and asked for an autograph, he said "sure" and signed the piece of paper he was presented. I saw celebrities in real life a couple of times and what I found sobering about him was that he didn't have any little court of ass-lickers around him. He was there on his own, didn't say anything, simply watched the match and left.
This is a post-Apocalyptic film unlike any other I've seen, focusing more on emotions, than anything else. I find it to be sorrowful and even a bit frightening how ravaged the world really is. The depravity and inhumane resolve of some people is shocking but very realistic. Anyone who watches this will have this stuck in their head for a while.
Bullshit I've worked with him and he's a great guy. What you see is what you get with Viggo, and he does not work with Prima Donna's. He only works with people who enjoy life as much as acting. Val Kilmer is a man full of vanity, and himself. Trust me.
The backdrop of why the man and his son find themselves in the situation they are in is utterly irrelevant. This is essentially a love story of a man and his only child. Let us not forget that toward the beginning of the tale the mother of the family chooses suicide over survival. The Father chooses to suffer and in turn to teach hardship with the purely optimistic intention of ensuring that some remnant of reason is involved in the re-population of the planet. In short - the Father is the Hero of the piece.
@ProfessorAR Would you care to elaborate? I found it beautifully filmed, brilliantly acted and faithfully adapted from the book. I appreciate that nothing can compare to the book but I thought that the film was brilliant. The Hurt Locker certainly shouldn't have beaten it at the Oscars etc.
Ok. I am not trying to bash the guy. If you'll notice, I admire his work; in fact, I couldn't believe what a great job he did in Eastern Premises. If you haven't seen it, check it out.
can anybody tell me why the world depicted in the book and movie is destroyed? just natural disasters or some kind of nuclear fallout or something? ive read the book and movie and still cant find anything.
9 years later I'll answer this for you... Cormac McCarthy has gone on record saying the 'event' is mostly based on what he imagined would happen if the Yellowstone mega-volcano erupted. It's a real possibility scarily enough...
@@GiuseppeCasey thank you kind stranger. Never too late haha. Excellent book and movie though. I suppose looking back, although I didn’t see it at the time, when the wife leaves in the middle of the night it looked like it could have been ash falling from the sky. Still amazing that you thought to reply from a 9 year old comment haha.
I loved the book and the movie, also to note the music is superb as well. I watch the movie at least 1 a month. I always cry, and im a 37 year old man. Charlize theron ( the woman) was death's whore, its to bad she gave up :(. I guess if u knew it was comin u wouldnt know what u would do until it came.
Brilliant movie, I see as protest against the whole stupidity Hollywood produced in the Last past years, Garbage is not just the polution we produce, but the kind of art we allow been trhrown in our heads( See the McG's Terminator Gayzation, or 2012). Let's give to the art credit, and not culture Trash.
This movie/book shows if nuclear war happened it would literally reset humanity to the stone ages. All our infrastructures, technology and knowledge that accumulated all these millennia would be lost.. well maybe stored in bunkers.. but all the things we complain about today, they're literally luxuries compared to a post-apocalyptic world. It would be like living in Medieval Dark Ages again but honestly.. probably worse since we have no knowledge or preparation of how our medieval ancestors lived. The remaining survivors which honestly would probably be 0.001% of the population of Earth would harbor all the suffering and loss, grief on their shoulders and it'd be up to them to learn from our mistakes. With no knowledge of agriculture they would most likely live like the ancients on nuts and seeds, berries etc. Nature would replenish itself again and humans wouldn't be the dominant species anymore. It would take a million years or so for us to get back to where we are today... But what difference would it make then? Would our future selves choose the same thing again?
Viggo is so depressed because he actually read the book five times. I read it once and never again. My favorite book of all time but once was enough for me and that's why it's a masterpiece of if post apocalypse horror.
The Book Of Eli was another great post-apocalyptic film. What I liked about it, and I wish The Road had more of, is a spiritual theme. It entertained the idea that there is something greater than man out there, something that is divine in nature.
That would be stupid. Point of The Road is to focus on a father's struggle to survive with his son and to keep his morality in an immoral world. God or a Greater Force has no business there. There is even a part in the book where the father calls for God to help or show him a sign, without answer.
falloutworldrecord - I agree man! The Road doesn’t have a prophecy or religious tone... it is realistic in nature... Even if they find a bible in the world they would just burn it or discard it. There is a mention of religion and hope at the end though... only in the book!
EVERY McCarthy book. And I mean EVERY one..has constant religious ideas, notions, and constant struggles between morality and complete depravity, and how the character relates them to God. For anyone who actually reads McCarthy almost religiously, this is apparent. He just doesnt inject alot of detail on the matter, but it's there deeply..the books wouldnt exist without it. The judge in blood Meridian IS satan...the kid is an "Adam" archetype, and morality the redemption of man.
@@falloutworldrecord - This is the very first time I have watch this video since posting this comment, forgetting I had even commented about it, and I read your reply, considered it, and would like a chance to explain where I'm coming from, even though it has been two years, there's a principle to it. In the film, aside from the Father and Son, the old man, and the family that takes the boy in at the end, the entire world it seems has chosen cannibalism in order to survive, as well as other sick things. For someone to not turn to those things, if the world were to ever fall into such a dire situation, it seems to me that only belief in God, someone who loves righteousness and who calls to account all those who practice evil, that to me seems to be a huge reason why not to fall into such barbarism. That too me, those traditional Judeo-Christian principles, seem to me is what would preserve the best in humanity, or as the Father put it: "Carrying the fire."
I'm probably out on a limb here but......I found the book very hard going , the style and the prose just did not float my boat . I stuck with it but was glad when I reached the end .
To be honest I find his style a bit over done and hard to follow. I loved the road. It's my favourite fbook if all time but I simply can't get on with the rest of his stuff.
I don't hate the movie, but I thought it was a terrible interpretation of an amazing novel. Really missed the mark. Just my opinion. The book is very worthy of its Pulitzer. The movie is worth a rental and that's about it.
don't get all heated up. I said he was a great actor: but, sorry, I feel he is somewhat too aware of his good looks and too self conscious in interviews. But, I still like his work.
The book was great, but I haven't seen the movie yet. Viggo is a great actor, his best acting being his role in Eastern Premises, but when he does interviews, you can tell he is full of himself. So, knowing his vanity, he probably demanded the make up.
