Just how bleak is the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy ’s post - revelatory novel The Road , which just finished filming ? So grim that the crew would film on overcast , misty day , and they removed every jot of greenery from the movie ’s placement . cluck through for some unexampled exposure , and point on the movie ’s wasteland , cannibal - ridden landscape .
The Road is set in a burned America , ruin after an unknown catastrophe . A father ( Viggo Mortensen ) and son ( Kodi Smit - McPhee ) embark on a long journeying to the coast . In add-on to deal with the wrecked countryside , the pair are also stalked by a gang of cannibals . In a new piece , the New York Times describes the movie ’s look as drone and bleak , “ The sky is hoary , the river are calamitous , and color is just a memory . The landscape is cover in ash , with crock fall constantly from the air . The city are blasted and empty . The roads are littered with corpses either charred or melted , their dream . ”
How close will the movie remain to the book ? Screenwriter Joe Penhall only admitted to flesh out the fathers flashbacks and memories with his wife ( Charlize Theron ) . The NYT explain that while they could n’t let in most of McCarthy ’s narrative , a lot of that belief will come from the overall feeling of the movie and from the acting . The location was selected in the main due to its “ post - apocalyptic scene ” including a dune , derelict coalfields , a burned - down amusement park and an 8 - minute stretching of unsheathed highway .
Road ’s director John Hillcoat go to painstaking ends to quicken this novel in a realistic manner :
“ What ’s moving and shameful about McCarthy ’s book is that it ’s so believable , ” Mr. Hillcoat say . “ So what we wanted is a kind of heightened realism , as oppose to the ‘ Mad Max ’ thing , which is all about high construct and spectacle . We ’re trying to avoid the clichés of apocalypse and make this more like a natural catastrophe . ”
So sorry Doomsday and Mad Max rooter , no mohawk and crazy face tattoos . The characters in The Road are a Cartesian product of their circumstance and wear whatever they can notice , while satiate their dress with garbage insulation .
The NYT follows Viggo Mortensen in one scene where he give chase after a alien ( Michael Kenneth Williams ) who steal his holding . After catch up with that man , Mortensen take on everything he has and leaves him to immobilise while his son pleads with him to forgive the old man . [ New York TimesandAwards Daily ]
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