“And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.” p 21 He sits up violently, breathing hard. Without thinking about it he reaches for the boy. He pleads… Continue reading screenplay fun: The Road
Category: Reflections
Road Script
So, I’ve never written a screenplay, but I have written comic scripts before, so I’m using that format. I’m doing the flashback to the supermarket on pages 183-5. Page 1 [Page divided into three horizontal panels. I’m looking for a grey, dreary, overcast kind of feel to this — think late fall morning after it’s… Continue reading Road Script
The Road Scene: Special Treat
Scene 1: Special Treat (From Pages 22-23) Opening: Fade into shot of father and son stand in front of a supermarket. The father stares in awe of what might be inside. The boy looks perplexed as to what the store will hold as well—only the boy shows more wonder and amazement to the viewing of… Continue reading The Road Scene: Special Treat
The Road Screenplay: The Lamp and Breaking the Hasp
I wrote this out in word and so the formatting is slightly FUBAR (SFUBAR) here. I am going to focus on the scene where the father makes a lamp from the bottle and oil / gasoline, up until the point where he breaks / is breaking the hasp of the trap door (136-137). ALSO, replete… Continue reading The Road Screenplay: The Lamp and Breaking the Hasp
Storyboard for Trailer Scene
http://chi459theroad.webs.com/ I did a storyboard for the trailer scene on pages 46-47. Hope the link works. And I’ve never done a storyboard so if it’s confusing I can clarify through comments.
The Road Film
I’m going to work with the scene early in the novel where they come upon a supermarket and the father finds a coke and gives it to the son. The first issue I’d like to address is the landscape in general. The novel’s descriptions are so clear in often defining it as gray and covered… Continue reading The Road Film
The Road Screenplay: Coca-Cola
This scene was based on the scene that occurs on page 22, in which they find a Coca-Cola and the father gives it to the son. The scene starts off as the two characters are walking down the road and come across a supermarket, the camera angle is far away, we are watching them from… Continue reading The Road Screenplay: Coca-Cola
Screenplay for The Road
(Scene adapted from page 138 in the book.) Point of view shot as man walks down stairs into bunker. Camera pans to show cots along the wall, mattress pads rolled up. Cut to man’s face, smiling. The man turns his head to look at the boy. Point of view shot as he looks at boy.… Continue reading Screenplay for The Road
Screenplay of the Road
Ext: Bushes Outside of House The camera zooms in to the man and the boy hiding from the men and women among bushes outside of a house. There is dead silence except for the voices of the strangers nearby. Snow still lingers on the ground and it is the middle of the afternoon. It is… Continue reading Screenplay of the Road
The Road Script
THE ROAD Written by Cormac McCarthy November, 2009 Fade in EXT. CROSSROADS- MAN AND BOY Camera goes with boy BOY Boy kneels on grass with a cup of water. CLOSE UP SHOT OF MAN MAN Wheezing, squeezes boy’s hand. CUTAWAY TO BOY BOY Tears are streaming down boys face. You’re going to be… Continue reading The Road Script
The lake
I picked the first scene of the novel, starting with the dream portion and working from there. Scene begins in a dank, eerie cave. Camera, in first-person point of view, pans over the jagged surfaces of its interior while soft dripping noises echo in the background. This goes on for three beats, uninterrupted. The camera… Continue reading The lake
Scene: Boy Spots Boy
(adapted fr. The Road, pgs. 84-85) EXT: HOUSE PORCH (NIGHT) VERY WIDE SHOT. A single-family house with a wraparound porch, ordinary-looking in the darkness except for the unmistakable absence of vertical banister rods, an eerie lack of pattern. Rails intact, there is a sense that the rods are mere decoration and have nothing to do… Continue reading Scene: Boy Spots Boy
scene from a screenplay: The Road
EXT. WALKING ON DOWN SLOPE IN A MOUNTAIN – LATE AFTERNOON A man and a boy are walking down a slope mountain with a slow heavy pace through a watershed. Their numb feet wrapped up in rags that are drenched with chilly water. Everything around them is gray and there are no traces of green… Continue reading scene from a screenplay: The Road
movie blog on The Road
I picked the middle paragraph on page 83 where the man and boy are watching the rain inside the truck. Starts with dog howling, nothing visual. This brings all attention to the howling dog. Then it would open with the camera showing a light gray smog, symbolizing the start of morning. Focuses on gray slices… Continue reading movie blog on The Road
Change in the Way
Upon reflection, the Earthseed verses scattered throughout Parable of the Sower remind me of the Tao te Ching. Rhetorically they’re very similar, although the content is extremely different. The Tao te Ching is a religious text that was (debatably) written by Lao Tzu in the 6th century B.C. that influenced Buddhism and Chinese religion in general.… Continue reading Change in the Way