Final Project: Personalizing The Walking Dead

Transposing the "Aura" of McCarthy's The Road on to a cinematic medium forces the apocalypse at hand out of ink and onto a visual spectrum. The functions of common literary devices such as internal narration, visual imagery, and silence all take on drastically new Apocalyptic roles in the film "The Road". Whether The Boy is incessantly preoccupied with concepts of value-neutrality or The Man is stuck debating "the pros and cons of self-destruction", every internal and external action of the characters are completely reinterpreted through the new medium. Omitted scenes and dialogues, definite assignments of speech between The Boy and The Man, and literal visual imagery reshape the novel to show the viewer exactly what the director wants them to see. While only dealing with a keyhole of a glimpse into this large scale event, the transferring of written to visual word functions in all the ways of the apocalypse to bring about a whole new dimension of apocalypticism unknown to the novel.