No Country For Old Men

[whnay.]

Interesting Sauce I came to a similar conclusion.

I still don't understand why Anton decided to make the call on Moss's wife after he had got away with the money. He obvsiously wanted it for himself and was not keen on making his presence known to the lawmen.

 

[Arethusa]

As Carson said, he has his principles, of a sort.

 

[gdl203]

What a fantastic film. I really liked the Coen's dark treatment of the story. This script IMO is the perfect groundwork to express/affirm a filmmaker's style. I would have loved to see this as the basis of a cinematographic experiment: give the McCarthy book to the Coen bros and I dunno... QT, Cronenberg, C-W Park and Lynch, and ask them each to come up with their adaptation and film... I would see all of them

 

[shoreman1782]

Saw it this weekend--really really good. I'm having a hard time explaining to people why I liked it. I think I'm just going to memorize Saucemaster's analysis to sound smart.

 

[JBZ]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I read the book. As to whnay's query above (in hidden text), it reminded me of Lee Van Cleef from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Van Cleef's character was a killer, but one with rules. In an early scene, he goes back to kill a character who hired him to kill someone else, just because the person he was hired to kill in the first place offered him more money to kill the first guy. He kills both men, and his reasoning is that he always fulfills his contracts.

Somewhat different than what happens in NCFOM, but a similar idea of a "principled" outlaw (at least in his own mind).

 

[Augusto86]

Hell of a movie. Took me a while to wrap my head around what the ending really meant.

Also, I had to resist the temptation to use Brolin's Texas drawl for the rest of the day!!

 

[whnay.]

Originally Posted by JBZ

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I read the book. As to whnay's query above (in hidden text), it reminded me of Lee Van Cleef from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Van Cleef's character was a killer, but one with rules. In an early scene, he goes back to kill a character who hired him to kill someone else, just because the person he was hired to kill in the first place offered him more money to kill the first guy. He kills both men, and his reasoning is that he always fulfills his contracts.

Somewhat different than what happens in NCFOM, but a similar idea of a "principled" outlaw (at least in his own mind).
Somewhat similar to Tom Cruise's character in Collateral.

 

[Arethusa]

Somewhat. Vincent's much more human, though, and a much more complex character. Very different narratives, in any case. Collateral looks horribly weak in comparison to No Country For Old Men, though it still has brilliant acting and some superb dialogue.

 

[mr.loverman]

it captured the 80's perfectly i thought. the guns, the cars, the colors. all the attention to detail. really cool. it didn't seem so much like a movie as peering back in time.

o and the acting was top notch.

 

[shoreman1782]

To be honest, until Chigurh talked about the date on the coin, I had no idea what year it was set in. There were a few anachronisms, but I'm not really nerd enough to care.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

I heard on one of those "Hollywood Minute" segments on the radio that a sequel for No Country is being planned. What would that entail? I suggest Moss's brother, played by Casey Affleck, comes after Chigurh and the money.

 

[FLMountainMan]

Originally Posted by shoreman1782

To be honest, until Chigurh talked about the date on the coin, I had no idea what year it was set in. There were a few anachronisms, but I'm not really nerd enough to care.

Yeah, but they mentioned an ATM at one point. The eighties setting was kind of a last minute change, but why they left this bit of dialogue in, I don't know.