{"id":144,"date":"2009-06-23T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.wordpress.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-06-23T17:05:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:05:22","slug":"film-version-of-cormac-mccarthys-the-road-something-to-look-forward-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/film-version-of-cormac-mccarthys-the-road-something-to-look-forward-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Version of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road": Something to Look Forward To"},"content":{"rendered":"

So a friend of mine (Yo, Morris) recently sent me this link to a trailer for the film version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road<\/em>, starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and Robert Duvall: \u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5GACx8We7Vo<\/a>. It looks to be the awesome apocalyptic film of the fall season. That’s a genre rife with laughers and almost-rans, as well as unintentionally funny scenes, such as Charlton Heston pounding the beach before the broken Statue of Liberty (with a bikini-clad babe on horseback behind him) in Planet of the Apes <\/em>(1968), or crying out “Soylent Green is people!” in Soylent Green <\/em>(1973). I saw Sean Connery in Zardoz<\/em>\u00a0(1974) at the Drive-In, on a high-school date no less: the beach rape scene was not a turn-on, either. Then again there’s Don Johnson in A Boy and His Dog<\/em> (1975). The apocalyptic films seem to come in clumps, don’t they? The mood of the times. More recently there’s the pretty awful I Am Legend <\/em>(2007), which had too many ridiculous car-chase scenes and a happy ending that was opposite of the novel’s end\u2014a book weighed down by another stupid vampire plot angle.
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\nWhich is all to say that The Road<\/em> may be, for the apocalyptic genre, The Best Ever. I hope so. From the trailer it looks like Charlize made the mother role quite a bit longer than the novel, where she gets a couple paragraphs before she bows out of existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So a friend of mine (Yo, Morris) recently sent me this link to a trailer for the film version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and Robert Duvall: \u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5GACx8We7Vo. It looks to be the awesome apocalyptic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}