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Trailer!: The Road

POSTED: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 4:26 PM

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Whoa ' so that's not the book I remember reading. Based on Cormac McCarthy's stunning, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road was supposed to come out in last year's GimmeAnOscarPleaseKThnx season but was pushed back for reasons that were never made particularly clear. This trailer isn't exactly what I was looking for when it came to a McCarthy adaptation, more All the Pretty Horses-Hollywoodization and less No Country For Old Men-loyalty. But, look, this is also a trailer meant to take a decidedly weird story ' a father-son journey in the post-apocalypse ' and make it appeal to a wide audience.

It's also comforting that, say, Michael Bay isn't making this movie (although, The Rock was on TV this weekend and holy fuck do I love that movie). At the helm is John Hillcoat, who did a fucking fantastic job on the Nick Cave-penned The Proposition. That movie had atmosphere coming out of all of its orifices, which is exactly what you need when it comes to dealing our old friend Cormac.

Word on the street is they're doing a version of Blood Meridian, my fave of the McCarthy novels. I'm worried. Your thoughts?

Also, if you happen to have a stock of recent back issues of Rolling Stone, find the one with Bob Dylan on the cover and flip to "The Mayor of Hell" by the consistently engrossing Janet Reitman. The hell the header refers to is the town in which a lot of The Road was shot. Post-apocalypse or, um, now? Creepy.

Christina

Posted 2009-05-28 15:15:28

The "Hell"-town you're referring to is one I know well - Braddock, PA. Once bustling with mill workers, the collapse of the steel industry left it for dead. Many of my Black and white friends live there, most in abject poverty. It looks rough with its industrialized ghosts and Black folks, but most Pittsburgh-area shootings happen elsewhere. If you want Hell, try Centralia, PA, not a city full of poor Black folks - that's Philadelphia.

Kofi Outlaw

Posted 2009-05-29 13:34:17

FYI:



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