Would you call No Country for Old Men a modern Western?

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Would you call No Country for Old Men a modern Western?

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I would. Some would not.

If you ignore the geographical setting for a moment and just look at the story, I would say it's really more of a noir. Which isn't surprising if you look at some of the Coen Brothers earlier films.

Other posters have pointed out differences of character emphasis in the book, but I can't comment on that. The movie has all the elements of a classic noir, with stoic figures sort of riding the wave of carnage and greed. There's no traditional Western hero solving problems or restoring order.

no

certainly

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And then you have some western films that are definitely in such a modern style they don't feel so western (Tarantino's Hateful Eight and Django Unchained)

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Why is Django ever considered a western? It's set on a plantation in the Deep South.

Magnificent 7 was a recent western.

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I would say it's really more of a noir. Which isn't surprising if you look at some of the Coen Brothers earlier films.

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Totally.

Look at Blood Simple or Fargo.

Those aren't Westerns and No Country is far more those films...than a modern western or something like Hell or High Water...which makes more sense to be a called a modern western - as a cowboy heist flick...I mean...that's half of old westerns...cowboys robbing banks, stealing the gold, pilfering the trains and stagecoaches often for a good cause and often because they are bandits.

Breaking bad is a modern western?

I don't think so..

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Would you call No Country for Old Men a modern Western?

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I would call it meh.