Road to Perdition
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Sep 11, 2026
Anastasia KuplinovaGUEST
Okay.
Anastasia KuplinovaGUEST
Um, I always say Road to Perdition as one of my absolutely favorite movies ever.
Anastasia KuplinovaGUEST
It is also shot by Conrad Hall, which is...
Anastasia KuplinovaGUEST
I'm trying not to be biased, but [laughs] he was the mentor of my cinematography mentor, which is pretty crazy.
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Anastasia KuplinovaGUEST
And, um, the cinematographer is Mikhail Krichman, my favorite Russian DP.
Anastasia KuplinovaGUEST
Just...
Anastasia KuplinovaGUEST
It also reminds me of Road to Perdition a little bit, I'm not gonna lie, and there's, like, all the r- the rain scenes, you know, they resemble each other a little bit.
Anastasia KuplinovaGUEST
But I don't, I don't wanna spoiler it too much, but definitely Banishment by Andrey Zvyagintsev, um, something that I feel like any filmmaker should watch.
speaker_3HOST
But what happens when the studio takes a comic and dresses it up in a tuxedo?
speaker_4HOST
Well, you get a film like the 2002 Sam Mendes masterpiece, Road to Perdition.
speaker_3HOST
Man, let's really look at this one because finding out that Road to Perdition is a comic book movie, it honestly feels like discovering that an award-winning, sweeping classical symphony was actually adapted from an underground heavy metal song.
speaker_4HOST
That is a great analogy.
speaker_3HOST
Thanks.
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speaker_3HOST
It-- incredible how successful this disguise is.
speaker_4HOST
Mm.
speaker_3HOST
Both Road to Perdition and A History of Violence completely dodged the comic book label by wearing the mask of serious cinema.
Sue MaslinGUEST
She's very mindful of, you know, the rhythms.
Sue MaslinGUEST
So whether it's Moulin Rouge or Romeo and Juliet or Road to Perdition or...
Sue MaslinGUEST
Dogs in Space, which is so rhythmic.
Sue MaslinGUEST
Yeah.
Reed SmithHOST
Yeah,
Michael NorthHOST
he's mostly known for James Bond, but I feel like his work really shines in movies that are not 007. like Road to Perdition, Knives Out, that series, this movie.
Michael NorthHOST
Logan Lucky was another one he was pretty good in.
Michael NorthHOST
Yeah, and this one, it's more or less kind of a similar archetype as James Bond, but he's a former outlaw.
Josh BarnettGUEST
Uh, but then, so yeah, uh, a history of violence.
Josh BarnettGUEST
And then there's another movie, um, The Road to Perdition, another great comic book.
Josh BarnettGUEST
Tom Hanks movie.
Josh BarnettGUEST
Tom
Matt SingerHOST
[laughs]
Jordan HoffmanHOST
... uh, Road to Perdition, Thirteen Days.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
Uh, then he did The Wolfman in 2010.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
That's his last credit, I think, is The Wolfman, the one with, um, I think, wasn't that, that was, um-
MattHOST
Ultimately, Luke learns to embrace both the dark side and light sides of the Force and allows those to flow within him, becoming more powerful than any prior Jedi as he can balance between these two sides during his final act of sacrifice in The Last Jedi.
MikeHOST
So a couple of mafia-related examples of the sins of the father are the Godfather Trilogy and Road to Perdition.
MikeHOST
In the Godfather Trilogy, veto sins pull Michael in and corrupt him to becoming the new godfather of the family.
MikeHOST
And then Michael has his own sins that ultimately lead to the demise of the family and his daughter's death.
MikeHOST
There really isn't much turning back when you go that far, because that is really a devastating impact traumatically to your family.
MikeHOST
And Michael does pay the ultimate price at the end as well.
MattHOST
In Sam Mendes' 2002 film, Road to Perdition, Tom Hanks portrays Michael Sullivan, who is adopted by Paul Newman's Irish mobster character, Michael Sullivan commits a variety of heinous acts in this Irish mobster family, including murder, and his sins ultimately end up destroying his family.
MattHOST
Specifically, his wife and one of his sons is murdered.
Bruce James BalesHOST
Thomas Newman has, you know, in the last year had a really big effect on my work because he, I did a period piece film called death of a brewer.
Bruce James BalesHOST
Um, we wrapped the end of last year and one of my big, you know, references for the film was road to perdition.
Jillian WhitakerGUEST
Oh, my God.
Jillian WhitakerGUEST
One of the greatest movies of all time.
Jillian WhitakerGUEST
It's so interesting, and not to interrupt you, but it's so interesting that you say that because I've always felt like, again, I wish I was more familiar with your work.
Jillian WhitakerGUEST
We only – this is our first, like, real conversation, which is insane because I've admired you since we worked on Friendly Faces.
Jillian WhitakerGUEST
But I've always felt like your visuals have a certain, like – period, of course, you can, you know, work with whatever, you know, is required for the film, but I feel like your kind of innate style is like visual Thomas Newman, like, you know, the kinds of films that excuse me, that Newman frequently works on the Highwaymen recently Road to Perdition, those sorts of like, visuals 1917.
Jillian WhitakerGUEST
I feel like there's a lot of that in your visual reference or visual inspiration.
JennaHOST
Back at the awards dinner, Paul Newman is the featured speaker, and he really was at that event that evening.
JennaHOST
Of course, Paul Newman starred in The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cars, Road to Perdition, and Slapshot.
JennaHOST
But of course, this isn't really Paul Newman, so the joke is they aren't close enough to see him from the back of the room.
JennaHOST
Paul Newman announces he's supporting Gene McCarthy, not to be confused with Joseph McCarthy, for the Democratic candidate for president.
ArthurHOST
yeah i mean i think he's pretty hit or miss filmmaker yeah from my experiences but yeah i mean A lot of cultural attaché due to this film.
ArthurHOST
And hey, you know, I was talking about Conrad Hall earlier because I had watched Road to Perdition, I guess, last year.
ArthurHOST
Revisited.
ArthurHOST
I hadn't seen it in a long time.
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