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The Road & The Book of Eli
Ozymandias:
A poem?
For 300 years?
About eating babies?
Which one?
pilsner:
Was it written by an ancestor of Anne Geddes? Or Eddie Izzard??
Ikrik:
--- Quote from: Caleb on 19 Nov 2009, 10:53 ---The road was a really great novel. I don't see how they could possibly get that story told in a film.
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I'm having a hard time seeing how it wouldn't translate perfectly into the film. McCarthy spends so many words describing the environment and the actions of the characters.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: pilsner on 19 Nov 2009, 09:33 ---America and the world are not read for a movie depicting cannibals eating babies. You heard it here first.
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They filmed this scene and it was in one of the earlier cuts of the movie. Apparently they address the cannibalism thing earlier, however, and thought it would be redundant so they cut it. That's the official word anyway.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 19 Nov 2009, 18:50 ---I'm having a hard time seeing how it wouldn't translate perfectly into the film. McCarthy spends so many words describing the environment and the actions of the characters.
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True, but a lot of the book's tone came from the techniques McCarthy used. Principally I'm thinking about his treatment of dialogue, which was shrunk down so much that it didn't even come wrapped in quotation marks; even if the movie retains the extreme sparseness of the words that are actually spoken, the effect of having them presented almost blank on the page, which flattened the character's voices and gave a strong impression of the man and the boy being worn down by their daily ordeals, is going to be difficult if not impossible to replicate once you have actual people on screen actually speaking the words. The film-makers could compensate for this through make-up and physical mannerisms, but it's going to be a different effect. I don't doubt that the movie will be highly faithful to the book, and from everything I've read it's apparently a really good film, but I expect it would be almost impossible for a film to replicate very accurately the feeling of reading the book.
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