Are you not all that excited about The Road, the post-apocalyptic movie based on Cormac McCarthy's novel coming out this fall? Feel like a disheveled Viggo Mortensen struggling his way across a desiccated America is just too depressing? Well, think really hard about who you would rather have guide you through the apocalypse-- a reassuring-yet-tough presence who maybe, just maybe, can make things OK again.
You're thinking of Denzel Washington, right? You'd better be, since he'll be a star of what seems like the zillionth movie about the apocalypse, Book of Eli. Variety says Washington will star as a lone hero who struggles to cross America and bring knowledge to society "that could be the key to its redemption."
Allen and Albert Hughes are directing, their first movie since From Hell way back in 2001. There's a masters thesis in film studies somewhere about movies about the apocalypse, and what they reflect about modern culture, but it might be too soon to write this chapter. Let's just assume that if Viggo Mortensen in The Road is taken as a representation of what we in 2008 secretly feel about our future, Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli is bound to represent what we'd like to be-- full of hope, and ready to save the world. Bet you can't guess which movie will make more money!
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There are many good post-apocalytpic movies. Just two years ago, Children of Men with the vastly underrated Clive Owen was in one of them. It was a stunner, and took a rather different view than The Road. Of course, most of them tend to be crap, like last year's I Am Legend. Good luck to Denzel Washington - hope he winds up with a good script.
The Book of Eli or the book of Freedom Deep? Excuse me but haven't we heard this one? Er seen this one? FREEDOM DEEP! With a new Final Directors Version about to be released and the original having screened throughout on TV and DVD what is the point? Denzel Washington? (the new Charles Bronson of mono facial expressions and reactions). The 2 directors of From Hell? What the hell? it took 2 directors to make that? Written by Gary Whitta - What the? Please FREEDOM DEEP is a film from the heart not the wallet! (see www.quietearth.us www.imdb.com www.freedomdeep.com www.amazon.com etc
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Are you not all that excited about The Road, the post-apocalyptic movie based on Cormac McCarthy's novel coming out this fall? Feel like a disheveled Viggo Mortensen struggling his way across a desiccated America is just too depressing? Well, think really hard about who you would rather have guide you through the apocalypse-- a reassuring-yet-tough presence who maybe, just maybe, can make things OK again.
September 5th, 2008 at 16:47
There are many good post-apocalytpic movies. Just two years ago, Children of Men with the vastly underrated Clive Owen was in one of them. It was a stunner, and took a rather different view than The Road. Of course, most of them tend to be crap, like last year's I Am Legend. Good luck to Denzel Washington - hope he winds up with a good script.