The Movie 'No Country For Old Men'

Good and evil have existed since the beginning of mankind. Good defends the righteous, as evil has been bent on destruction. In today’s society, many people believe that good will always triumph over evil. The murderer will eventually be caught by the police; the carjacker will one day meet his doom; the superhero will defeat the evil villain. Simply, in some circumstances, this is not entirely true. Good does not always prevail over evil. This is exceptionally true in the movie No Country for Old Men by the Coen brothers. The dominant theme in the Coen brother’s movie is evil.

To start off, Quentin Tarantino gave much attention to detail in his diegetic sounds. By including crickets chirping, floorboards creaking, bullets ricocheting off multiple surfaces, and, of course, blood splatter, Tarantino truly brings his audience into the old American west. Another example of diegetic sounds in the film is when Dr. Schultz is waiting for Mr. Candie to sign the papers

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.

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In the relentlessly vindictive manner of McCarthy’s novel, Bell delivers a welcomed voice of sanity and justice to the human mind; his old-school morals and philosophical reminiscences offering a sanction in a world dominated by evil. But it is Vietnam Vet, Llewellyn Moss, who levels best with the audience. Playing the wild card of the three, Brolin delivers a human centre to the film; the man most identifiable with, even as the odds steepen against him.

Throughout the entire movie No Country for Old Men there is a very strong theme of the juxtaposition of fate and free will. There is endless emphasis on the decisions that characters make, and how their decisions will ultimately affect their lives. All the characters are presented with situations where their choice plays a role in their fate. In No Country for Old Men, the fate of characters is determined by their actions and choices.

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

First, No Country for Old Men centers on the notion of death. Throughout the movie, the audience comes across with unevitable death scenes. The end of need and the expansion of a lot of fulfillment uncovered how regularly Hollywood depicts passing as a serious dream, in this way revealing to us the amount of this dream offers shape to our origination of death. In many ways, we think about existence and passing like a Hollywood film. Our lives have acts, there is often a central clash that drives our lives forward, there are tireless fails to offer that need filling, and around the end, our life will be uncovered to us to have implied something.

Films are a form of art in which film makers are allowed to express themselves however they want. Other times film makers are asked to bring a novel to life and the film No Country for Old Men does exactly this. This film is based off the novel written by Cormac McCarthy and takes place in parts of Texas and the Mexican border during the 1980s. The film directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen use style and skills to produce a thrilling adaptation of the novel. The film No Country for Old Men introduces suspense and tension through the carful use of editing and sound in the coin flip scene, while the films genre of fate and free will is strikingly still present.

Llewelyn Moss is a welder and a hunter that has seen a tour of duty in Vietnam and is cunning along with recklessness at times. “A crack sniper in the war, moss has returned to Texas where he works as a welder and lives in a trailer with his 19-yearold bride Carla Jean, whom he met at Wal-mart. McCarthy presents the couple as quietly heroic figures with deep reservoirs of loyalty and stoicism” (Deirdre). Moss’ generation is reckless and quickly evolving into creatures of the modern age. When Moss take the money he displays how he is reckless and unthinking his generation is because he commits to a deadly chase away from drug dealers and a murderous villain. Moss represents a reckless and

In Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes writes about the equality between man and man, he believed that mankind is born with equal strengths and talents and that “one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another”. Anton Chigurh, in No Country for Old Men, would be considered the mentally stronger individual in comparison to the others in the film as in he was smart enough to think of using his handcuffs to strangle the officer and to get himself out of the station. He had the intelligence to ignite the car in front of the pharmacy so that no one would notice him stealing the equipment and medicines he uses, later on, to fix his wounds from when Llewelyn Moss shot him. Furthermore, Chigurh was always at least 10 steps

This movie is one of many classic movies that have the ultimate understanding of life and the human physiological behavior. This movie entitles three mechanisms of hunting to describe critical aspects of life, hunting for animals, hunting for men and hunting for meaning. Hunting is the act of tracking and taking a life; this act differs from hunting an animal to a human. This particle can teach a lot of principles like being patient, good timing and the art of tracking.

Another aspect of sound in this film was how it affected the story. By using sound dramatically in certain parts and not using it at all in other parts, sound gave this story an entity of its own. For example, during long stretches of film with mostly dialogue, there was no music played in the background, only a phone ringing in the distance, or the men's voices during their deliberation. These long silences also took place during editing shots of the town and images that surrounded this German city. This dramatic difference in sound was a revelation of how mood can be made by images and sound put together to make an incredible component.

The direction and the outstanding acting made American History X. With the direction of the film always moving and jumping around from past to present, time in prison Ed Norton’s performance as Dereck was mind-blowing. His role as a neo-Nazi leader he had so much emotion, attitude, and power throughout the entire film and the he transfers into compassionate family man hair was amazing. The director of cinematography Tony Faye gives the audience a greater impact and understanding as to what is going on through the movie. The movie was filmed in color representing the present time.