Viggo Mortensen on starring in the film adaptaion of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic tale 'The Road'. . . Follow us on twitter at / beyondbooks .
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@bushcraftmumma10 жыл бұрын
One of the hardest movies to watch for me.
@AdamMb3124 жыл бұрын
I used to think it was hard to watch but now after reading the book I absolutely love it.
@aljoseph80532 жыл бұрын
I agree 👍 💯 with you friend
@MyGarageWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
I agree. I want my kids to watch it but not sure I can watch it again.
@hedheb26192 жыл бұрын
horror story
@unrealityproduction12 жыл бұрын
All i can say is: perfect book, and perfect movie
@luciferscatmilk3 жыл бұрын
And stupid trailer
@aljoseph80532 жыл бұрын
I igree with you friend
@CharlotteElizabeth92 Жыл бұрын
And perfect actor for the Man!
@daoyang60556 жыл бұрын
Viggo is a great actor. God damn, to think he was Aragorn after watching this film. Such great skills as an actor.
@dalesco42053 жыл бұрын
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.
@Galeocerdo12312 жыл бұрын
The book will blow your mind even harder
@bilbo_gamers6417 Жыл бұрын
the boy was played amazingly. never questioned his performance once. absolutely brilliant.
@paullewis68583 жыл бұрын
Just read the book & brought me here. Beautifully written & the horror is in my head.
@zak84583 жыл бұрын
Now you are ready for "Blood Meridian".
@The_Word_Is_The_Way6 жыл бұрын
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.
@5691396 жыл бұрын
Agreed! The Book and movie are hard to get out of your head/
@TheLibRider12 жыл бұрын
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.
@jonbroster28173 жыл бұрын
Just started reading McCarthy. Started with the road. So amazing. Read child of God. Now, I'm on to blood meridian
@Sixdays_aweek2 жыл бұрын
Read All the Pretty Horses and then listen to the episodes on the Close Reads podcast. So good!
@lespaulranger12 жыл бұрын
he doesn't seem very full of himself... he definitely seems reverent of mccarthy
@aussiebabe218313 жыл бұрын
this movie made me cry.....so did the book...amaazingg
@mistaando97418 ай бұрын
nobody is talking about how thoroughly read through, bookmarked, highlighted and sticky noted his copy of the book is
@paulburns39137 жыл бұрын
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.
@BrentmeisterGener10013 жыл бұрын
Great book, great film, both made me cry and that doesn't happen often.
@SilentHillFan200914 жыл бұрын
"you carry the fire?"
@AndrewsOpinion155 жыл бұрын
VIGGO MORTENSEN SO AWESOME IN THE ROAD FILM !!!!
@PoetlaureateNFDL12 жыл бұрын
This was quite the movie. McCarthy is one of our best writers in our time. The cast is excellent.
@Shawnkells5 жыл бұрын
That womans voice cleared up my tinitus !
@StankPlanks6 жыл бұрын
Amazing book, still need to see the film
@johngarner244711 жыл бұрын
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.
@tristanpropertyofmoose79635 жыл бұрын
What the fuck does that even me speak You sound like me when I’m trying to tell my dad why my grades are so bad lmao
@jonawill9212 жыл бұрын
2:21 DESTROY THE RING!!
@Flint_Ironstagg6 жыл бұрын
great movie with an absolutely atrocious trailer
@tzermonkey6 жыл бұрын
Flint Ironstag Even better book. If you like “post apocalyptic” there is a Japanese movie called “Dragonhead,” check it out.
@DoctorDudePhD4 жыл бұрын
its the trailers fault I skipped this in theaters. I hope the guy who cut that thing got fired.
@winters012314 жыл бұрын
@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.
@CharlieMarno10010 ай бұрын
Vigo did great in this movie.
@Buddhafuckswithyou11 жыл бұрын
the lamp in the background tho
@sm2012hrvoje5 жыл бұрын
The original BOI :D (God of War reference...)
@pitoblogg3 жыл бұрын
This and grave for the fireflies were the two most depressing masterpieces I’ve ever watched.
@BrentmeisterGener10013 жыл бұрын
@TeamFruit He did get nominated for Eastern Promises.
@Brandonhayhew3 жыл бұрын
Question: if he read the road then have he read LOTR novels before the filming of the epic trilogy
@gordonfreeman-g5w2 жыл бұрын
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?
@Peace.Beyond.All.Understanding13 жыл бұрын
@MrAIexJones I haven't read the book, as a stand alone piece of work the movie is very well made.
@lugpoop12 жыл бұрын
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.
@Black.Dragon714 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to see the movie!! He looks very good :)
@jedivisconti14 жыл бұрын
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.
@LaxLune13 жыл бұрын
@sykeo123 But that wasn't "crap"...he just stated his views on the video...I admire your determination though! =)
@RafaelGuzman-ei1id3 жыл бұрын
Anybody can explein me in the end ir the film , there Is a futuro with the family AND with the beattle.
@SligoSham0712 жыл бұрын
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.
@GiuseppeCasey3 жыл бұрын
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...
@SligoSham073 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@MrTydin14 жыл бұрын
Cant wait to see this. he's lookin rough!
@ChewyAndGo2 жыл бұрын
And the actor who played the boys name is....?
@Peace.Beyond.All.Understanding14 жыл бұрын
such an incredible movie. blew my mind.
@TheLibRider12 жыл бұрын
go read the book
@darkerforest12 жыл бұрын
Probably the best and the most depressing book/movie I've read/watched about fatherhood.
@AntonioSaucedo2212 жыл бұрын
the movie is awesome, but the novel is devastating
@PlazaMoon14 жыл бұрын
@moses1424 "The book" always is
@mwworks14 жыл бұрын
They put too much makeup on him. Alot of his good looks is in the lines in his face. Well...atleast to me. Love Viggo!
@FormerlyMrBean66713 жыл бұрын
I would say that the book is unfilmable. HIllcoat's version is good, but misses on the key points in the novel.
@LaxLune13 жыл бұрын
@sykeo123 Why are you being rude?
@Peace.Beyond.All.Understanding12 жыл бұрын
ok.
@unrealityproduction12 жыл бұрын
HAHAHA! Hence the popularity of those movie-things known as "Transformers" by Michael Bay
@daledrakewriter49122 жыл бұрын
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.
@matthewbradley43486 жыл бұрын
The narrator sounds dead inside
@mikewallis29873 жыл бұрын
Smash Hit
@thecowboy96986 жыл бұрын
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.
@falloutworldrecord5 жыл бұрын
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.
@aquaticentity97975 жыл бұрын
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!
@finnfeaver11965 жыл бұрын
the road is entirely a biblically tinged tale as is every cormac mccarthy tale.
@allenbinion15755 жыл бұрын
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.
@thecowboy96983 жыл бұрын
@@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."
@Simpleburger19683 жыл бұрын
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 .
@daledrakewriter49122 жыл бұрын
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.
@Larry2me13 жыл бұрын
@MikailaBaggins And she can't pronounce the name Cormac either!! But then again, neither can most Americans. Owen Wilson can though....
@mattheww7976 жыл бұрын
They cast the boy too old.
@sortilegus13 жыл бұрын
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.
@ethanbrock54536 жыл бұрын
sortilegus How exactly did it miss the mark?
@moses142414 жыл бұрын
The book is SOOOOO much better.
@johngarner244712 жыл бұрын
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.
@johnnyjohnny31174 жыл бұрын
Why does the female narrator speak in that weird tone
@rocketiria13 жыл бұрын
He looks much better with the Aragorn look. He looks like he injected too many botox here.
@johngarner244712 жыл бұрын
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.