No Country For Old Men

‘Twelve angry men’ shows that personal experience is the strongest factor influencing human decision-making processes.’ Discuss

No Country for Old Men (2007), is directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. This film is a Western-thriller that involves authority, crime, corruption and power. Llewelyn Moss, played by Josh Brolin, is out hunting one morning and discovers the remainder of a drug deal gone badly. After finding a few dead bodies, abandoned vehicles and two million dollars, he takes the cash from the scene of the crime and hides it in the air vent of a hotel room. Chigurh played by Javier Bardem, is a psychopath who was hired to recover the two million dollars. He kills and threatens everyone in his path while hunting down Llewelyn. Sheriff Bell, played by Tommy Lee Jones, is also trying to locate and protect Moss from Chigurh. Chigurh uses a tracking

The film “No Country for Old Men” premiered in 2007 under the direction of Coen brothers. The film got inspiration from Cormac McCarthy’s novel “No Country for Old Men”. The film mainly focuses on three main characters the sheriff Ed Tom Bell, a psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh and a hunter Llewelyn Moss. The setting of the film is the 1980’s Texas (Ebert 1). Llyewelyn Moss one of the main characters in the film is a hunter as well as welder and during one of his hunting trips to the desert he comes across a drug deal gone wrong. He discovers several dead bodies in the scene, including a dog.

The camerawork emphasizes the sense of detachment between the characters, and Billy’s inability with connecting with others. In addition, the film has a contrasty, bleak look to it, like a faded photograph. Gallo shot the movie on reversal film stock to capture that contrast and grain, in attempt to reproduce the same look of football games from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.

Filled with a plethora of themes and convictions, Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men excels in its endeavor to maintain the reader’s mind racing from cover to cover. The setting is the Texas-Mexico boarder; the story embodying a modernized western-themed Greek tragedy filled with drug runners and automatic weapons. Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, finds himself on the run from forces that seem to be an instrument of karmic consequence. While on the run, Llewelyn is given the opportunity to end the madness that has arisen so immediately in his life. But he doesn’t. Instead he braves on, defying his own advice, and persistent on luck, only leaving him a misfortunate ending. To fully recognize the circumstance the novel

Clint Eastwood’s, Unforgiven, represents a “new” type of Western that defies the formula previously used to create traditional Western films. Unlike Shane, a film with a clear-cut threat to the community, endangering all homesteaders, a lack of defense, creating an unfair advantage to the threat imposed, and a true hero, one who saves the day and must willingly return to where he came from, Unforgiven is a Western that is told through a different formula. Eastwood tackles this revisionist piece and lacks the three basic components to any classic Western film – a threat, lack of defense, and a hero.

his quotation indicates us one of the usual aspects or characteristic of American society: Psycho Killers. “No country for old men”, a 2005 novel written by Cormac McCarthy, takes place in United States-Mexico borders, specifically in Texas. Both, the movie and the book deal with concepts of “Psycho killers”, drugs gangs and morality. The last concept is developed by Sheriff Bell, one of the main characters who introduce it by italics at the beginning of each chapter. And again, here we have two versions again, but the two of them are masterpieces. Nevertheless, both versions are very different from other books and movies, because they are not easy to watch and comprehend.

Oxford Dictionaries defines the word responsibility as “The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone” (1). From a young age, every person must accept responsibility for decisions that he or she makes. As situations arise that must be dealt with, people have a duty to deal with those situations. In many ways, the act of living itself is an act of ultimate responsibility. In Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel, All the King’s Men, the central characters of the novel all have to deal with the consequences of their actions, although many of the characters try to avoid this solemn duty of life. Through analyzing the actions and inactions of the central characters, many important lessons on responsibility can be derived from the novel.

Cormac McCarthy is one America’s most revered and influential authors of the 20th and 21st century. Winning the Pulitzer Prize for literature and many other literary accolades, McCarthy took the world by storm with his gritty realism and sparse use of literature. His success eventually lead to the movie adaptations of two of his most praised novels, No Country for Old Men and The Road. These two works displayed McCarthy’s style and plot structure very well, even though his writing style is predominantly unconventional . However, contrary to the irregular style of literature, both movies received great praise from critics and fans for being so loyal to the source material, although, screenwriters and directors deviates from the source material

In this movie, one may observe the different attitudes that Americans had towards Indians. The Indians were those unconquered people to the west and the almighty brave, Mountain Man went there, “forgetting all the troubles he knew,” and away from civilization. The mountain man is going in search of adventure but as this “adventure” starts he finds that his survival skills are not helping him since he cant even fish and as he is seen by an Indian, who watches him at his attempt to fish, he start respecting them. The view that civilization had given him of the west changes and so does he. Civilization soon becomes just something that exists “down there.”

Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men has created controversial views on the significance of this novel. This piece involves a drug deal gone wrong when Llewelyn Moss, a veteran, happens to stumble upon three dead bodies, heroine, and a briefcase full of 2 million dollars. Told in different perspectives, the story continues with Moss on the run from a psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh in search of the money while also being tracked down by Sheriff Bell. Critics like James Wood from The New Yorker see this novel as “an unimportant, stripped-down thriller” solely based on the novel’s outer surface . On the other hand, William Cobb from the Houston Chronicle refers to McCarthy as the greatest living writer and that this novel “... has conjured up a heated story that brands the reader 's mind...and this is a novel that must be read and remembered”(Cooper 2). The literary merit of the novel becomes noticeable when looking beyond the thriller perspective. McCarthy’s literary merit in the novel is discrete, which is why it just appears to be a western thriller that many believe has no greater purpose other than an entertaining story. No Country for Old Men is a neo western thriller based on its writing style that divides the story into different perspectives containing elements such as fragmented sentences and untypical dialogue. The novel remains within the context of a 1980’s Texas plot which influences the diction so it can reflect a western atmosphere. Although it contains

Ethan and Joel Coen’s No Country for Old Men (2007), the Western thriller film based off Cormac McCarthy’s novel written in 2005, implements narratives that reflect the criminal justice system in modern society. The film offers an interpretation on the criminal justice system through text and subtext. The text of the film argues for fate, predestination, and luck while the subtext serves as a support beam through lighting, imagery, and in this film’s case, a lack of music. Further support of the text and subtext can be found through an analysis of the main characters, including the criminal Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), Sherriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), and the “hero” Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin). These men’s approaches to fate and the imagery associated with their characters shape the film, changing the way we measure criminality.

When focusing on the opening sequence of both films, key shot angles and perspectives of the wild landscape allude to elements of the main character that alert the audience to their distinct separation from society. When analyzing the first shot sequence of The Searchers, a women is seen opening a door from the inside creating scenic shot in which the outdoors is framed from her perspective. In showing this shot from her perspective, a distinct juxtaposition of separating landscape from civilization is demonstrated as she stands from her porch looking out. From following her perspective this relates closely to Budds’ understanding of how Ford creates a visualization of civilization through the stylistic “…tradition in which home and shelter is juxtaposed with its opposite” being “the desert wilderness, within single images” (2). The “visual confrontation” in turn creates a focused “framing” device for the audience where of harsh color separations between home and landscape inhabit a distinct isolation of the protagonist within their inhabitance (2).

Twelve Angry Men is about a jury who must decide the fate of an 18 year old boy who allegedly killed his father. The jury must determine a verdict of guilty beyond any reasonable doubt and not guilty. A guilty verdict would mean that the accused would receive the death penalty. After a day of deliberation and many votes, they came up with the verdict of not guilty. I believe they achieved their overall goal of coming up with a verdict they were all able to agree with. It seems there were some individual personal short term goals that were not met. One being that the one juror was not able to go to the baseball game. Another was that a juror was not able to take out the anger he had towards his son on the son accused of killing his

In the realm of the filmic, one of the most creative scenes is the hunting