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re: Just finished watching No Country for Old Men
Posted on 8/19/16 at 8:46 am to Mad_Mardigan
Posted on 8/19/16 at 8:46 am to Mad_Mardigan
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That being said, I don't understand how people don't like No Country or There will be blood.
I liked No Country For Old Men, but I turned There Will Be Blood off after 45 minutes. Was just really boring.
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Posted on 8/19/16 at 8:53 am to Big Scrub TX
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Brolin's character dying offscreen is one of the greatest reveals of all time. The movie isn't about him.
sure had alot of screen time for a movie that wasnt about him.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 8:55 am to TheCaterpillar
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Top 5 villain of all time in my rankings and most likely my favorite. Guy was just pure evil and his calmness was terrifying.
Have you seen the interview when Javier talks about the first time he walked on set with that haircut?
It wasn't a wig, he actually got and maintained that haircut.
He said when he walked into the Cohen Bros office with it they started dieing lauging and told him there's no way he's getting laid while the movie films.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 9:02 am to CAD703X
quote:So did Chigurh, was the movie about him?
sure had alot of screen time for a movie that wasnt about him.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 9:03 am to CAD703X
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sure had alot of screen time for a movie that wasnt about him
He wasn't the protagonist. Not only did he not even die on screen, he wasn't an old man, either. The movie is about Sheriff Bell. He's the old man fooling himself that the world is changing when really he only feels that way because he no longer can grip it in his fist and feel confident about the importance of his role in it. Through his interaction with the case, his conversation with his uncle, and his dream, he comes to realize that really it is just him getting old - that the world isn't changing; he's just getting passed by. Because... it's no country for old men.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 10:25 am to Cooter Davenport
It almost bothers me that I'm so attracted to Cormac McCarthys way of seeing the world.
Sometimes while reading All the Pretty Horses I almost couldn't contain myself.
Sometimes while reading All the Pretty Horses I almost couldn't contain myself.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 10:30 am to Mr. Wayne
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Chigurh isn't Satan and isn't some unstoppable force. Hell, Llewyn damn near kills him at one point. Like Carter, he has his set of rules that he believes in his mind to be superior to everyone else's. The car crash at the end is perfect. He is cruising through a set of green lights and gets T-boned by someone not following the same set of rules. Chigurh living is better justice for him than if he would have died. This way, he gets to realize that he is just another spec of dust like the rest of us.
bingo
Posted on 8/19/16 at 10:32 am to pvilleguru
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I liked No Country For Old Men, but I turned There Will Be Blood off after 45 minutes. Was just really boring.
Careful, won't be long before someone tells you to stick to michael bay movies
Posted on 8/19/16 at 11:45 am to Mr. Wayne
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Chigurh isn't Satan and isn't some unstoppable force. Hell, Llewyn damn near kills him at one point. Like Carter, he has his set of rules that he believes in his mind to be superior to everyone else's. The car crash at the end is perfect. He is cruising through a set of green lights and gets T-boned by someone not following the same set of rules. Chigurh living is better justice for him than if he would have died. This way, he gets to realize that he is just another spec of dust like the rest of us.
Exactly. Chigurh is sort of an Ayn Rand archetype. He is actually a psychopathic sadist, but he has convinced himself that he is superior to everyone else, and beyond morality even, because he is smarter than everyone (so he thinks) and because he has adopted his own code. He and his code transcend petty humanity (in his mind) until the random action of some mere mortal shows him that he's a... just mere mortal, and less than that, a psychopath without justification.
Bell is also giving up illusions of control. He's no psychopath, so it's less dramatic, but we see him edging into retirement and reluctantly letting go - realizing that it's not the world getting worse, it's just him getting weaker and more fearful and hesitant with age as the world passes him by, and even more - that he never really had that much power over things anyway.
Posted on 8/20/16 at 8:42 am to Cow Drogo
Once again bought into the hype, only to be disappointed. I really didn't like this movie.
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