The Making of "The Road 2009"

The Making of The Road 2009
A post-apocalyptic tale of a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his son trying to survive by any means possible.
The Road is directed by Australian filmmaker John Hillcoat, of To Have and to Hold and the western The Proposition previously. The screenplay was adapted by Joe Penhall (Enduring Love, The Undertaker) and is based on Cormac McCarthy's beloved novel of the same name. After delaying the film for more than a year, The Weinstein Company will now officially be bring The Road to theaters on November 25th this fall.

[@tomc.3987]

One of the most under rated movies in quite a while.

[@BB-kc4bs]

agreed

[@peterah7957]

Never heard anybody underrate this movie.

[@michaelswords4416]

Its not underrated, it's just not known to a lot of people.

[@eternalpersian8970]

Every time lol. Every time a good movie comes out there’s always some retard saying it’s underrated

[@samsonwilkinson8090]

@@eternalpersian8970 hexagtly.

[@warrenjansen895]

This movie when I first watched I was a new father in a bad space mentally, divorced, no way to provide for my boy. Fearful of how much I was ill equipped to defend the one and only thing I had done thus far in my life. I went sober, learned to defend myself and my boy and made him my warrant. That was over 10 years ago and only now I thanked god for pointing me in right direction. This movie made me realize it

[@MaloneysDigest]

You have to watch it every so often to keep your eye on the prize. I’ve been through the same as yourself. Kids are so important to us. Best thing that ever happened to a man. Hope you’re enjoying life since.

[@yani2499]

The scariest parts of this movie is having those dreams and then waking up,realising that "yep,this shit is real"

[@R3l3ntl3sss]

I dont understand how this movie only made 3 million more than budget, it's easily one of my all time favorites

[@cholasimmons]

it didn't have the illuminati involved 😂😂

[@donthaveaname2262]

Because it’s real. People don’t like real. They’d prefer fantasy or something like “humans are good we’ll come together in crisis” when that couldn’t be further from the truth.

[@marymacdonald2379]

It is a story of being a parent and child in a post nuclear bombing world; people really don't want to think about that, let alone watch a movie about it. It is so wonderful the movie makers got Charlize, Viggo and Cody to play the characters. They made it real.

[@babypinky19_blinks]

you know what?? ofc... because the ending in worst

[@shodancat1000]

This movie was the first time I ever considered the possibility of a world that was so cruel, harsh, unforgiving and loveless that it could bring into question whether it was worth even trying to survive. Powerful stuff.

[@lburns7952]

One of the best movies ever. Nothing fancy or fake or "Hollywood special effect" about it. I cried so hard at the end. Well done.

[@christiangreen2070]

There was special affects, but they were done greatly.

[@Wolfie_2045]

Movie is completely underrated and i love it to death

[@rrrufruf]

I watched this yesterday and even though it was a sad apocalyptic movie, it touched my heart. A great bunch of actors that made this movie worth watching. I remember reading a comment that said; " .....for the love of God do not watch this movie if you're depressed...." True, it'll make you feel worse. But it also show the love between a father and his son. Something meaningful that lingers even after the movie ends.

[@rrrufruf]

***** What do you mean??

[@mathewmaheo4806]

+tiger tank Sad

[@eoyguy]

When I'm having a really good day, when I'm feeling really happy, I watch this to crush my spirits back down to where they belong...

[@thetvbaby83]

Lmao!

[@569139]

By far the best post-apocalyptic movie I have ever watched, parts brought tears to my eyes...

[@sassbrat]

For me it was one of the more real post-apocalyptic movies do to the fact that the event that caused the world to be like it was was natural and not man made. As well as the 'monsters' being human with how many of them get their food. I think for me what was the scariest and real part was the house of Cannibals with the humans in the cellar with missing body parts which has really happened in WW2 many times and you don't see the cannibals killing and eating the people but hear them being killed as well as the mother and her child being killed you only hear the screams which like i said makes those parts even more terrifying.

[@WorldCitizen333]

I keep rewatching this movie every year or so since its release. I can't get over how devastating and realistic it feels. I read the book only recently and now I'm sure I'm going to have a read it every now and then too. Viggo Mortensen was the perfect actor for that role. Few actors understand literature the way he does.

[@eternalxchannel]

Such a brilliant film. Many scenes moved me to tears, specially the one with Robert Duvall.

[@emilymartinez6634]

I loves this movie it teaches you to not take things for granted

[@Teleman01]

Still one of the best and most realistic apocalyptic movies ever made. Rarely do they make these type of movies in a way that is as tragic as it really would be in this situation.

[@gertrudewest4535]

It’s already happening- the wildlife is in apocalyptic free fall as humans kill everything that is beautiful and turn it into a hellscape.

[@HUNKtm]

I will always remember the day I saw this movie It stuck with me for days

[@Felipe_1989-l8z]

X2 :(

[@allizonbeez6968]

X3

[@TheDAT573]

It's a warning picture. Our world as we know it can change overnight.

[@152mememe]

When this film first came out I found it moving, now I find it scary because it seems like this could happen in 40 years

[@R3l3ntl3sss]

Not its not

[@BruDia]

The f*** this won't happen, they didn't want to send that message, he wanted to let us know humanity is there even in that situation!

[@earthsaunders7739]

@@BruDia a solar flare from the sun could do this. look up kurzgesagt on apocolypse scenarios. you'd be surprised how much stuff is super plausible

[@BruDia]

@@earthsaunders7739 that's plausible as close as me being the richest man on the universe or me being god. Nothing will happen that i guarantee 😅

[@aquaticpears3183]

Even just watching the behind the scenes clips of the boy crying brings me to tears

[@graceridge]

Aquatic Pears oh my god is that the John frusciante album?

[@ethancoster1324]

This was the most bleakly soul crushing film I have ever seen. No other film has knocked the emotional stuffing out of me so completely like the road.

[@lloyddutchsmiley1147]

As much fun as it has given me, I cant help but feel like the Fallout games should have been more like this.

[@tonyv1559]

fallout 3 was more like this than 4, no doubt.

[@Boomie789]

@@tonyv1559 eh hem..New Vegas wasnt afraid to get dark and dour.

[@cheddar2648]

Like a soured well, the Fallout series just dried up from over milking.

[@donthaveaname2262]

Play dayz

[@nikitachirich7985]

SInce I had a daughter I could not look at life the same... Watching him and his kid, knowing what he would be feeling and the desperation you would feel being able to care for this most important person you could ever have in your world, more important than your own existence seemingly. The protectiveness, the violence you would do to protect, but also finding hope because when everything else fades your dedication to them is all that is ever left, you are truly happy because you are also selfless in your sacrifice as a parent. One can imagine God in all his glory, if he feels what he feels toward his children the mankind, as we learned from the life of Christ . You really don't have to be a Christian to understand this, just have to be a loving parent. The Road is a parent's love story.

[@joyceyoungblood7927]

Vigo is one of my favorite actors. He takes rolls with meaning not movies that he will necessarily get rich off of. This movie is more realistic than any other post apocalypse film.

[@mistygroves3503]

Kodi was brilliant in this film. That's a little guy with lots of talent.

[@Joshua0810]

That movie made me depressed. I always have to cry when the Thief has to undress himself and is left behind naked and to freeze to death.

[@thetvbaby83]

He just passed away a few days ago 😢

[@daxexter2754]

@@thetvbaby83 This is... just like the Movie... depressing.

[@thetvbaby83]

@@daxexter2754 so young

[@daxexter2754]

@@thetvbaby83 its a great loss and he will be missed.

[@تباللدولة]

the hardest part in this movie for me is when the father was washing his son 's hair and this later was crying out of fear... waw...i really dropped tears... this movie is a real masterpiece

[@AB0VETHALAW]

In the book it says he is crying because the water is so cold

[@jclong8826]

I've always felt the sadness and the melancholic vibe of Katnisse's world in The Hunger Games. But after seeing this film for the first time, I can really say it's depressing. The way the actors use their eyes to communicate the feel of the movie and their characters is really well done. Makes you appreciate life even better.

[@juanmalopez5436]

Uffff...what a movie... Specially for fathers like me that I have a child in the same age. The most scary is that we see that scene not far away in time... Always when I watch it I feel full of emotions.

[@frankandyvallester1985]

it's reminded me of my father but he die love you dad

[@kt10585]

there seems to be a lot of movies and TV shows, and pop music, about apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic life. And they have increased in production since movies like Zombies, Night of Living Dead, Invasion of Body Snatchers were released about three decades ago. This one is like an educational/instructional video on ethics and morals when dealing with mad, crazed zombies in a post-apocalyptic world.

[@Wolfie_2045]

This movie is completely underrated and I love it.

[@बुंदेलखंडएकरहस्य]

CT is one of the greatest actress of this century. Pure talent.

[@megamonkeyblaster3627]

The wreck of the Peter Iredale, Cannon Beach, Oregon. Spirit Lake, Mt St Helens, Washington. Places I've been. Devastation I've witnessed first-hand. Fitting locations for probably the most evocative movie I've ever seen. And likely the best film I'll ever see.

[@teamatfort444]

smart to not give the man or boy a name. It allows us to ourselves in their shoes easier

[@adriang6259]

I'm here because I just watched this movie. And it's so good, so good. Now I know I have to see it again soon.

[@Etigress]

I love Viggo. He's a great actor and his voice is like velvet

[@sosolin100]

My favorite line of the movie, " If this (he?) isn't the word of God, then God never spoke,"

[@tdamtoft]

A brilliant movie when I saw it 10 yrs ago, a GREAT book when I read it last year, the language jumps at you by being slightly off our everyday colloqialisms.

[@allizonbeez6968]

Somebody felt a horrible chill when both entered to a house and there are a lot of "people " trapped in the basement and then the boy is inside a toilet with the sink covered in blood

[@vikingodin1986]

Stunning film and book ..Mortensen is a phenomenal actor.

[@Doofwarrior88]

I loved the movie, and I just finished the book. So good

[@jonathanc4166]

You almost feel like your'e on this fight for survival with the two of them when you watch this movie.

[@juankespitiasilva2859]

A MASTERPIECE.

[@tense99]

Everytime I read cormac McCarthy or see his films I feel lucky I live in this world with all our flaws

[@mikeuhlir2887]

this could so easily happen

[@garycarraigeacha8794]

Super Volcano eruption.

[@brantleyray1049]

The eruption of Yosemite. Read the book trilogy "Ashfall" by Mike Mullin. Should be a movie too!!!

[@e9_Tum0r]

If you’re implying a nuclear war, it’s not. The freezing cold temps, ashy atmosphere (causing a lack of sunlight), earthquakes and wildfires indicate the catastrophic disaster was natural (likely a super volcano eruption or a meteor impact), still, nuclear warheads would still produce similar consequences so I guess you’re technically still right if we’re talking about a real life possibility

[@mrpolsco6872]

One of the Greatest Movies ever made…wonderful💫

[@kinhamid9665]

Just goes to show how far a little colourgrading can take you.

[@cholasimmons]

Thank you for sharing this, this movie means more to me than you can imagine 😒

[@arisnopriansyah7223]

I watched this movie and I feel distress

[@barryoneill1703]

Great Movie, Very very ignored, Brilliant cast, great story will watch this again many times,

[@brawaldayz564]

very very very very gooooooooooood film goood 😍😍😍😍😍😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍

[@fanya9399]

I love viggo since i know him from lord of the rings as aragorn, and Kodi smith also such a good actor, i love him ssmm❤❤

[@JohnDoe-gq3tm]

He's excellent in 'Eastern Promises' =)

[@QoQabai658]

Neighbors? Those people in the basement were their neighbors before all this? Man. So much for friendship.

[@kanetidus]

I have seen today the movie again, for the 3rd time

[@dotandgrahamxxxx4487]

Love the boy called. Him. Papa. So close. Beautiful. Film

[@wingnut2009100]

good movie, i live only about 1 hour away from the scenes of the tunnel. it is the abandoned pennsylvanis turnpike at breezewood,pa.

[@HolyVillain73]

The first time I watched this I was so shocked by its bleak outlook and the dreadful ominous feeling throughout the first act that I never finished it I was floored when he was showing him to off himself to not be captured alive because of his knowledge of the evils of the human psychological effects of deprivation and the things men do to another man or child and a child is some sort of delicacy is horrific alone and the father is preparing himself to kill his son to protect him from a terrifying prolonged death is just riveting and complex the only two bullets one for each of them rather than defending themselves and that arrow when he was injured he and his son knew that it was a death sentence and the family that was following them was the reason they had to leave the safety and food because they said they heard a dog that freaks him out and sped up the death of the father this movie really shook me to my core because you think of the state of the earth today and I could totally see this happening as American life is deteriorating as we speak

[@JorgeMorenojmdesign]

My favorite book a, film and soundtrack

[@asiapalczek2355]

Best post apo film I ever seen. I love every movie where Charlize Theron and Viggo played. Real masterpiece, pity it never made a huge marketing about it, more people should see it to appreciate what we have and that we don't need so much to be happy. Enjoy little things is true happiness

[@1985brahim]

such a good movie, too sad it flopped

[@RIUUI007]

flopped how?

[@jacobking4504]

@@RIUUI007 Well it only made a few million more than what it cost to make so it didn't do great money wise. Doesn't mean the film is bad, I love it.

[@toringaming723]

This movie is what's considered a master piece to harsh scenery to our earth conepletly destroyed to some very adequately written with some of the deepest scenes I've ever seen.

[@sosolin100]

Also, I always wonder what catastrophe was that caused the devastation. I had read the book, first, but it was never defined. I have heard people speculate that it might have been either an asteroid or a super volcano.

[@e9_Tum0r]

Yes, a super volcano is very likely the cause. Ash everywhere, wildfires, earthquakes, no sunlight, freezing cold temperatures, no plant or animal life surviving. All indicate a caldera eruption

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

June 11, 2019---This book/scenario is why people prep. Maybe they don't have decades of supplies, but imagine they have at least a years worth of food, medical supplies, etc. like the Mormons do.

[@jenningsmills5398]

This movie along with The Grapes of Wrath should be mandatory watching.

[@dornelli1]

it will come, soon or later

[@deadliftyournan3293]

Great film, great book. Some will call it depressing, I call it sobering, maybe the truest depiction of a post-apocalyptic world.

[@robloxisbreadismyrobloxacc1699]

I watch this in this in lockdown time. The world is in plague it's a hard time for everyone. I hope world will never come to that point where cannibalism is survival.

[@constancekavanagh1125]

From Ireland love this 🙌🇮🇪🌬

[@paul2imbu]

Heart Touching Movie I love it😍

[@TheRolling123]

shoots comes out in the show Raising Hope

[@XABIH20294]

Nothing is permanent

[@leonardoalatorremmmo6241]

:') i love this movi 🖒🌟🌟🌟

[@JayBurton-v6k]

Michael Kenneth Williams looks to have been chopped by an axe

[@Plexpara]

love that movie

[@Arafingol]

Loved the film ... so much. I found it very uplifting, very hopeful and inspiring. But, am I the only person who saw that if they were supposed to be traveling south along the east coast, the ocean should have been on the left and the land on the right? In the film the ocean is on the right and the land is on the left as they move along.

[@Marauder623]

That depends on what side of the states they're on, i suppose.

[@garycarraigeacha8794]

It's actually Lake Erie.

[@chayszone6]

I emotionaled after wraching this movie.

[@dennisgarrido1705]

En mi opinion es una pelicula para verla en el dia del padre junto a tu hijo.

[@TheRolling123]

Just realized the cannibal that "The Man"

[@AB0VETHALAW]

The funniest bit is where they play a prank on the guy and steal his shoes lol i bet he was hopping mad later on that day haha funny film but few too much slapstick for my liking, 8.5/10 is a rating some one may give to this film. I gibe it an A-

[@Phlegya5]

After watching this movie, I ate like I hadn't eaten for a week. And installed Fallout 3 again.

[@cerberus8462]

i never understood why they had to go to the coast?

[@e9_Tum0r]

Because it was warmer there

[@aftabnoujashchowdhury6880]

The Road 2 ? Plssss

[@AB0VETHALAW]

Worst idea i've ever heard

[@GEricG]

If the boy hadn't been in it then it would have been easier to deal with but the idea of a young child being raised in that environment is brutal.

[@FrauDrSophieLouisaBennett]

It's definitely a warning. A wake-up call. But the man does sacrifice himself in the end. He has already passed on his legacy - his genes. I see it as an evolutionary and environmental tale in many senses. I honestly believe Darwin and Russell Wallace would have been interested in this film.

[@jimmyallen3486]

love the book love the movie...

[@rayperry2599]

Love the book love the movie

[@geraldmantanona6116]

Tip: If in the apocalypse like the movie, “The Road” have way more to protect yourself than a .38 Special pistol with only 3 bullets! 😂

[@rubenmorris8211]

Wasn't that his real mom at the end?

[@Nothing-1w3]

No she died before the film began.

[@noahbatman1290]

tbh im sorry to say this but this is what is probably going to happen to the world

[@crom7704]

Muy buena pelicula , l love it , the real thing , not the same holywood , stuff ,

[@sanjibsikdar5977]

Nice movie

[@RIUUI007]

12:18 Was that a dig at Peter Jackson? 😄

[@benthomas9776]

Just a casual reminder that humanity still possesses enough nuclear weapons to bring about an apocalypse like this one, and that the systems controlling them are so prone to error that humanity has been on the literal doorstep of nuclear extinction at least a handful of times. Anyway, hope y'all have a great day.

[@e9_Tum0r]

The cause for the apocalypse in this movie was a natural disaster not a man made one, it was a super volcano or a caldera eruption (a meteor impact is another possibility)

[@aug-pahunters51]

Blood Meridian will be a great film

[@12ikadekjuliharta10]

The nice movie , i watch in 2020 😂

[@conniewojahn6445]

The most depressing film I've ever seen.

[@taomahNEGEV]

Our future.

[@ideii6414]

This movie is so sad

[@BradPitbull]

Another good movie is... The Corona virus documentary Aka The toilet PAPER wars

[@Johnny-zz1zv]

Trump will get us to this point.........

[@Johnny-zz1zv]

Oggy it’s because you don’t know shit.. 16 years in the marines serving assholes like you trump supporters

[@NPC-rq9tp]

@@Johnny-zz1zv Wow. you're a real piece of work.

[@garycarraigeacha8794]

@@Johnny-zz1zv Stfu. For 16 years of bullshitting yourself, you didn't learn shit. Trump didn't have a thing to do with your life sucking.

[@e9_Tum0r]

The event that triggered the collapse in this story has nothing to do with nuclear war lmao, it’s a natural disaster caused by a super volcano eruption

[@pinefilms3141]

for anyone wondering, the kid most likely gets eaten at the end because the family doesn't have thumbs (represents loss of humanity OR someone caught them and punished them by cutting their thumbs off to warn others?) and they have a dog, which is most likely only alive because it provides value to the family by hunting for prey

[@Ashley-qh8ud]

edgelord detected

[@DarthWaffle.]

A boy growing up in that world would be a little Tarzan, not a little whiny girl

[@peachesrambo4037]

People in this movie deserved to die. There was no reason why they had to go through this. Survival would have been easy.

[@JohnDoe-gq3tm]

How so?

[@peachesrambo4037]

@@JohnDoe-gq3tm how so? Omg, there are so many reasons. For one, green houses could have been used to grow food, using technical glass to gather and focus the remaining light, using all the available wood for heat, water would be no problem, making steam engines to power generators for power, ect. The protagonist and his son should have stayed in the bunker until they were both healthy. It goes on and on, there was no reason for them to go through what they had to. They were all to stupid to live.

[@e9_Tum0r]

@@peachesrambo4037my dude….if you watched the movie you’d know that they can’t grow crops or their own food because all plant life has been wiped out

[@peachesrambo4037]

@@e9_Tum0r if that's the case they are dead anyway because of no oxygen. But there are still seeds in the ground, other plants, etc. There is absolutely no way all plant life was destroyed.