Viggo Mortensen on Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'

One of the hardest movies to watch for me.

Viggo is a great actor. God damn, to think he was Aragorn after watching this film. Such great skills as an actor.

I'm not into worshiping celebrities, I don't even own a TV or follow the MSM. But I remember Viggo Mortensen about 10 years ago coming into Finnegan's Pub in Madrid while I was working there. He ordered a bottle of beer and seemingly just came to watch a soccer match on TV, I don't even know which teams were playing. There was just a couple of regulars there and myself when he came in. One of them went up to him and asked for an autograph, he said "sure" and signed the piece of paper he was presented. I saw celebrities in real life a couple of times and what I found sobering about him was that he didn't have any little court of ass-lickers around him. He was there on his own, didn't say anything, simply watched the match and left.

All i can say is: perfect book, and perfect movie

the boy was played amazingly. never questioned his performance once. absolutely brilliant.

The book will blow your mind even harder

Just read the book & brought me here. Beautifully written & the horror is in my head.

This is a post-Apocalyptic film unlike any other I've seen, focusing more on emotions, than anything else. I find it to be sorrowful and even a bit frightening how ravaged the world really is. The depravity and inhumane resolve of some people is shocking but very realistic. Anyone who watches this will have this stuck in their head for a while.

Bullshit I've worked with him and he's a great guy. What you see is what you get with Viggo, and he does not work with Prima Donna's. He only works with people who enjoy life as much as acting. Val Kilmer is a man full of vanity, and himself. Trust me.

he doesn't seem very full of himself... he definitely seems reverent of mccarthy

Just started reading McCarthy. Started with the road. So amazing. Read child of God. Now, I'm on to blood meridian

this movie made me cry.....so did the book...amaazingg

nobody is talking about how thoroughly read through, bookmarked, highlighted and sticky noted his copy of the book is

Great book, great film, both made me cry and that doesn't happen often.

The backdrop of why the man and his son find themselves in the situation they are in is utterly irrelevant. This is essentially a love story of a man and his only child. Let us not forget that toward the beginning of the tale the mother of the family chooses suicide over survival. The Father chooses to suffer and in turn to teach hardship with the purely optimistic intention of ensuring that some remnant of reason is involved in the re-population of the planet. In short - the Father is the Hero of the piece.

"you carry the fire?"

VIGGO MORTENSEN SO AWESOME IN THE ROAD FILM !!!!

That womans voice cleared up my tinitus !

Amazing book, still need to see the film

@ProfessorAR Would you care to elaborate? I found it beautifully filmed, brilliantly acted and faithfully adapted from the book. I appreciate that nothing can compare to the book but I thought that the film was brilliant. The Hurt Locker certainly shouldn't have beaten it at the Oscars etc.