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Jan 12, 2011 · From the movie, as Rodger's answer mentioned, it looks like there are fires and earthquakes, not to mention what looks like much colder weather. The only things I can think of that would cause fires AND earthquakes would be either a meteor hit, or some massive volcanic eruption.
- TL;DR: We don't know. Word of God: The author, Cormac McCarthy, refuses to reveal what happened: I don't have an opinion. It could be anything – v...
- It was most likely the result of Supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park erupting. Scientists believe a volcanic eruption that big would cov...
- As I remember, it was unexplained but had something to do with massive fire(s). The movie somewhat shows this, but the book talks about grey skies...
- I haven't read the book - just saw the movie. I still feel lucky any time I drink a can of coke now from watching that movie :) I've wondered what...
- It lets the reader/viewer put their own "most terrible event" into the story, as well as doesn't bog the story down with the cause of the disaster....
- When the man and boy are talking to the old man Eli, he mentions that we had the warnings but didn't heed them (or something to that effect). This...
- It is/was a foreign object impact on earth, no doubt. In the movie, the man first becomes aware of something wrong when a flickering orange glow b...
- sean keven, I can see why you said what you said, especially about that metor called Chicxulub. I searched it up and found this video . In the vi...
- Also mentioned in the book was that the birds had been dead and forgotten for quite some time and that the sea was "no longer sea smelling". I fou...
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, the movie follows a father and son’s journey through a desolate and dangerous landscape as they try to survive in a world ravaged by an unspecified global catastrophe.
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The Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic survival film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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- The inspiration for The Road came to Cormac McCarthy during a trip with his son. It should come as no surprise that a book with such a strong father-son theme as The Road came about while McCarthy was on a trip with his own son in El Paso, Texas.
- He wrote the book on his trusty Olivetti typewriter. McCarthy seems to be transfixed on simplicity—in one interview about his sparse prose style, he said, “I believe in periods, in capitals, in the occasional comma, and that’s it.”
- The Road earned McCarthy his first Pulitzer Prize. Many of McCarthy’s books have found critical and commercial success—All the Pretty Horses sold more than 100,000 copies in the year after it was published and took home the National Book Award, and the adaptation of No Country for Old Men won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- To promote the book, McCarthy took part in his first-ever television interview. McCarthy’s aversion to publicity has added to his mystique, but it’s also made personal insight into his works nearly impossible to come by.
Jun 7, 2010 · The Road, unlike other disaster and dystopian films of the same nature, succeeds in portraying the deep-rooted human emotions attached to kinship and survival. While the story is a formalist story, the emotions are realist emotions.
Jan 8, 2010 · The Road brings fictional ecological disasters into the here and now. WALL-E was endearing and Avatar epic, but The Road is an eco-film we can more humanly relate to. Ed Gillespie. Fri 8 Jan 2010 ...
The Road. The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and almost all life. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer ...
