No Country For Old Men

[Ryanfromindiana]

So is anyone else excited about this movie? I think it looks great...the book is great...I must say I am stoked to see it! The Road is now in production, so a film of that is on the way soon. The question I have is when will someone manage to get around to making BLOOD MERIDIAN!!!!!!! Cormack McCarthy is a freaking amazing writer and Blood Meridian is one of my all time favorite novels. Who wouldn't want to see the Devil portrayed as a seven foot tall albino named The Judge in a western!!!!!!! READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bannister]

I think this opens here Friday. Really looking forward to it.

 

[maatuu52]

i want to see this, i saw american gangster sunday....

 

[Batty]

I've never read the book, but I'm a big Coen Brothers fan. Reviews are calling this one of their best movies. I'll have to pick the book up.

 

[Ryanfromindiana]

No Country For Old Men is really good, The Road is really good, but Blood Meridian is amazing. I can't believe it took Oprah to get this guy the recognition he deserves lol.

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

 

[wofford29]

I'll see anything the Coen brothers direct.

 

[Bannister]

I've never read the book, but I'm a big Coen Brothers fan. I'll have to pick the book up.

Same here.

 

[Jen]

This movie was amazing....had some twists in it I didn't expect and an interesting ending. I liked how no music played during the first few minutes of the credits. This was one of those movies where I can't stop thinking about it hours after I saw it.

 

[automaton]

i agree... i really dug the film... nice to see art sneaking back into the medium.

 

[bagelsncheesey]

Saw this over the Thanksgiving holiday and it was friggin awesome. One of their best in my opinion. Really good suspense, great writing, and it left me thinking. Really couldn't ask for more. Can't wait til DVD.

 

[pixletwin]

Sorry to necropost but I needed to ask a question...

Was Llewellyn's wife murdered at the end? When the killer walks out of her house he inspects his boots like he is making sure there was no blood splatter on them but I wasn't sure. Supposedly if you saw "the ghost", it meant you were dead. But those kids at the end who helped his broken arm saw him and he didn't try to kill them or anything... and with Llewellyn's wife refusing to call the coin toss I was wondering if this meant something changed in him?

Or am I searching for a Hollywood ending in a movie that doesn't have one?

 

[Darth Loki]

I assumed the ^^^^^ died

 

[tomandshell]

I was left with the impression that he killed her, but I suppose it's open to interpretation based on how they presented it (or didn't).

I found this in the FAQ at IMDB:

It is implied that Chigurh killed Carla Jean. After she refuses to call the coin toss, Chigurh is seen leaving her house and checking his boots, presumably to make sure he doesn't have any blood on them. In an earlier scene, Chigurh, after shooting Carson Wells, sees the blood coming down the floor and puts his feet on the bed, to avoid getting blood on his boots. Moreover, when Chigurh is driving off, it is in Carla Jean's car, not the chicken farmer's truck he had used to get there--the truck Carla Jean had spotted before finding Chigurh in Agnes' house. (NOTE: In the book, he shot her.)

 

[pixletwin]

Excellent. I hadn't realised he was driving her car. That sort of clinches it then, eh?

 

[superado]

I think the fact Llewellyn died outside of any "classical Hollywood" framework (for example, killed by Chigurh as the "loser" of of their duel, or killed with Chigurh ala "Gladiator"), the rules governing the traditionally tidy movie resolution, went out the window. So yes, I think Chigurh killed Llewellyn's wife as indicated by the way he checked his soles for blood as if it were gum or dog turd.

However, I don't think this means that the plot was meant to reflect how events randomly transpire in real life, as there was still an intentional structure in the story. Based on Roger Ebert's review, what I didn't notice before was the fact of how the three main characters, Llewellyn, Chigurh and the Sherriff did not meet up at all, which speaks universally for the human experience (aren't all movies some form of message afterall?) since the pursuit of something for these three were frustrated (the Sherriff's was Chigurh, Chigurh's was Llewellyn and Llewellyn's was for him or at least his wife to escape their fate).

 

[tomandshell]

They should have played "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" over the end credits.

 

[barryo]

i saw it as he had actuall killed her as well & for a moment with the kids who helped him i thought he was gonna off them too but i think when he heard the sirens he was more into self preservation than adhering to the "if you see the ghost your dead motto". although he did follow his own code and hunted Llewellyn's wife down like he said he would. he was hardcore to the bone !

 

[Reinhardt]

i also felt it was implied that he killed her. and the scene with the kids and what followed with Tommy Lee Jones' speech is that he Chigurh gets away with it.

 

[ProgMatinee]

This movie was lame if only because they took so much time showing certain details of stuff, then they skip the Llewellyn murder...rather than showing it happen.

(A coworker thinks the mexicans and not the ghost killed Llewelyn.)

IDK. Tommy Lee Jones' metaphore at the end sailed over my head too.

 

[bagelsncheesey]

This movie was lame if only because they took so much time showing certain details of stuff, then they skip the Llewellyn murder...rather than showing it happen.

(A coworker thinks the mexicans and not the ghost killed Llewelyn.)

IDK. Tommy Lee Jones' metaphore at the end sailed over my head too.

Metaphor at the end is about accepting death, and to live knowing that one day, he'll die.