No Country For Old Men (2007) ✦ Reaction & Review ✦ This villain though...
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- This is a movie reaction to my first time watching No Country For Old Men, released in 2007 and directed by the Coen brothers. Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh was just the most incredible casting and that villain is so memorable and creepy! How many times did I say creepy? I really enjoy Josh Brolin and was rooting for Llewelyn the whole time. Tommy Lee Jones was also a great addition to this cast. Overall, super enjoyable film! Make sure to stick around to the end of this video for my full thoughts and review and thank you so much for watching!
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A group of psychiatrists watched 400 films in 3 years, all containing psychopaths/sociopaths. After watching all those films, all of psychiatrists picked Anton as the best representation of a psychopath.
Really? Can you tell us more about this survey of psychiatrists and which academic institute published it?
It's bullshit. Psychopathia in real life has nothing to do with killing. Psychopaths in real life are not creepy, not repulsive in any other way,they are actually quite the opposite, they are lovely, charming people. If you meet a psychopath you probably will find that person very nice and sympathetic. If you know a person who is a general favourite, you can start to suspect that maybe he/she is a psychopath. Psychopath's weapon is manipulation and the total lack of conscience and empathy, whilst they are very sweet and adorable and nice they stab you in your back without hesitating if this is what they need to achieve their goal. And no one will stand up for you, everybody will think you are crazy, accusing a nice and widely beloved person. THIS IS a psychopath in REAL LIFE.
You can find more psychopaths amonst the leaders of companies and politics - because mosty psychopaths possess the abilities that one need to make a career. Sad but true: our world is mostly controlled by psychopaths.
@@He11aHunn Yes most psychopaths aren't killers and many are CEO's etc but many series killers have been psychopaths. Sociopaths are more likely to get caught because they're not as in control of their emotions and more likely to lose they're cool and end up in prison or dead as compared to psychopaths. My mom's old boyfriend was a diagnosed sociopath (she didn't find out until later) and once you knew him and knew the characteristics, you knew he was off and was classic sociopath. My mom was so fascinated that people like that existed that she went back to college and got a psych degree. My mom was good friends with Judy Brown, Nicole Brown Simpson's mom. O.J. is total sociopath and I know lots of psycho inside stories about him. He's too stupid to be a psychopath. I met him a few times before he murdered 2 people living near him in south Orange County. But yea, plenty of killers have been and are psychopaths, of course most aren't but they're more likely to get away with it than sociopaths.
@michaelb2388 "First published in December of 2013 in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, the study looks back at 95 years (1915-2010) of movies. The authors dissected 400 flicks and 126 fictional villains. Of those characters, 105 were male, and 21 were female. In addition to Anton Chigurh, scientists looked at some of the other best villains, including The Godfather: Part II’s Michael Corleone and Psycho’s Normal Bates. Misery’s Annie Wilkes also fell on the researcher’s radars... Researchers did not look at villains with magical powers or who were invincible. Villains had to be humans... Authors used widely-accepted traits of psychopaths, including the following: Uncaring, Shallow emotions, Insincere speech, Overconfidence, Poor planning abilities, Irritability, Violent tendencies... In the end, the authors concluded that it was rare to have a realistic fictional portrayal of a true psychopath."
@@michaelb2388 professor Samuel Leistedt was the lead person in charge of the survey. look him up and youll find the info about how they researched it.
Anton is 1 of the creepiest movie villains because of how freaking calm he is during so much of the crazy stuff
I love this movie for so many reasons. On first viewing, I think you are left wondering "yeah, but what does it all add up to?" One of the characters mentions how you can't stop the inevitable that is coming, and that includes being aged out. The final monologue is literally about "passing the torch" - listen to it again! That little speech is practically spiritual, the perfect summation of this movie's themes. A person might consider himself lucky to see the torch passed, as contrasted with Llewellen, who didn't make it. Also inevitable? Sadly, that strain of evil that has no explanation and seemingly no end; that evil that is just somehow always there, marching towards you, in the margins. Lastly, I'll say that as a composer myself, this movie's lack of a soundtrack teaches so much. Sometimes simplicity and silence carry so much weight.
That ending is one of the most haunting ever, especially in the book. Imho, chaos is one of the Coen Bros. major recurring themes.
This accent is called Texas Twang. I had a cousin whose family moved to Texas when she was starting grade school. When I saw her again several years later, she was the only one in her family with this accent.
Tommy Lee Jones is a great actor (old cop). He's in a lot of mystery/crime movies you would appreciate. This movie is so unique. Glad you liked it.
OOPS sorry I jumped ahead of myself and commented before your review >
Sunset Limited is best I've seen of Tommy Lee Jones' work.
In the book he did kill Carla Jean. When the sherrif was in the motel room Shugur was in his car in the parking lot. The movie stays true to the boo. Much of the dialogue in the movie is exactly what's in the book. Excellent read by Cormac McCarthy.
I'm sure you've heard by now but Javier Bardem won an Oscar here for his performance. If you haven't seen Skyfall (James Bond) he puts on an equally impressive and creepy performance. He just does creepy evil very well
"I do know this movie is about a crime but what crime, I have no idea."
...Aggravated Jaywalking. :)
😂😂
I’m so glad you loved this! 🪙One of my favorite movies, and you can’t go wrong with most Coen brothers movies. My favorite scene has got to be the coin-toss discussion with the owner of the gas station/convenience store. The tension is almost unbearable.
That scene is GREAT!
Can't count all the times I've watched this movie. I love to watch it every now and then, even in pieces if I don't have time for all in one go. Actors really shine here.
No Country For Old Men takes its name from a poem by Yeats called ‘Sailing To Byzantium,’ which refers to The Aeneid, which is basically a foundation myth that has the main character visit his dead father in the underworld among many other things.
Sheriff Bell is doing the sailing in this film and the story is his. The drugs, money, chase story is the most apparent but only the obvious first layer. Sheriff Bell is trying to deal with his own mortality as we all must in our own way. Some old men go crazy, like Don Quixote tilting at windmills... (three windmills at start of NCFOM.) In any case the title of this film is definitely carrying more weight than most.
Woody’s Carson, a retired army colonel - info from the very important old sheriffs chat scene - ends up visiting Llewelyn in the hospital where Vietnam is mentioned. Also mentioned by the border guard. Who has the money to buy that much heroin, use tracking devices, and hire assassins who actual know each other (Carson and Anton). Where would they know each other from? Their CIA contracts. The CIA who during the Vietnam War were involved in drug running heroin back to the States (Air America). Woody mentions when he’s in the office tower that there’s a floor missing. He’s just being annoying to his employer and maybe letting him know he knows who he’s working for. The CIA would have dummy floors on buildings under their control so they could hide in plain sight. Money would be used to finance black ops.
Anton does not kill for pleasure - what a sweetheart - and he is not a serial killer in the usual sense. He does not even have to kill. I think he is, in his own mind, ultimately employed by The Fates (also mention in The Aeneid). The sisters who control all mortal life spans. When Anton is threatened sufficiently by someone or is interfered with in his hitman duties he kills them. The people he offers the coin flip to are people who may or may not pose a threat. He let’s The Fates decide.
The gas station conversation really shows us Anton’s mindset and brings up the ideas of Freewill and Determinism. Anton knows The Fates determine everything and is amazed at how complicated it all is as he realizes the gas station man had “married into it.” He married into the very situation of the coin flip taking place. That realization is what makes Anton choke a little on his peanuts. Anton was happy (what passes for Anton as happiness) when the poor gas man wins the call. Anton is obviously relieved not having to kill him by The Fates relieving him of duty.
There is no wasted dialogue in this film. The book is also great but a little different. Reading it will broaden anyone’s general understanding of these characters. In the book Sheriff Bell mentions in his office(?) that a little while back a Federal judge was murdered in the State (Texas). This actually happened in real life around the same time as the setting of the story. In real life the guy who killed the judge, an actual hit man, was Woody Harrelson’s actual father, which to me is more bizarre than anything in NCFOM, book or movie... signs and wonders...
Don’t flip out, but NCFOM is Joel and Ethan’s - the Coin Brothers’ - best work..
Thanks for making videos eh.
Javier won the Oscar for his role. He said "Thank you to the great Tommy Lee".
Yup.
The line about the cartels actually having a US judge killed "last year in San Antonio" is a reference to the real life hired killing that Woody Harrelson's father was convicted for. Also, Kelly Macdonald's performance as Carla Jean is great and her accent is especially impressive given her rather strong native Scottish accent. This film was shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins (who has shot a majority of the Coen Brothers films). In 2007 it was considered somewhat of an injustice that Deakins had not won an Oscar yet and he didn't do himself any favors in 2007 as he also shot The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He got nominated for both, split his own vote and Robert Elswit won for the (admittedly beautiful) There Will Be Blood. Deakins finally won in back to back years several years later for Blade Runner 2049 and 1917.
Love No Country For Old Men, By far one of my favorite movies, great acting and cinematography and characters. Javier did phenomenal on playing Chigurh! Keep up the great work kai!
This is my favourite movie. Its so beautifully shot. So glad you reacted to it
DAVY I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE! I'm glad you enjoyed the reaction, thanks bud.
Great reaction. One of my favorite theatre experiences back in college. Great performances all around.
I find it interesting at how during the call it coin scene with the clerk, you mentioned Anton's haircut contributing to his creepiness. Fun fact of the day: Javier Bardem who played the aforementioned character acknowledged during his Oscar acceptance speech how he considered it the worst style he ever had.
Oh gosh I can imagine. Knowing it was his real hair, I bet walking around with it when he wasn't filming was the WORST LOL.
19:35 ....
-Dude: "Are you going to shoot me?"
-Chigur: "That depends. Do you see me?"
-Dude: "Oh God, I just went blind. Oh,God, what I'm going to do, poor old me, blind at this age?....... Did I already said that I went blind?""
Interesting take because I get the feeling he wants to be seen truly seen. I’d have said yes I see you in a calm but affirming voice.
@@HarderStylesKid Could be.... You never know with Chigur.....
Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Picture.
I absolutely love this movie. There are so many minute details (like Chigurh checking his boots as he leaves Carla Jean's place) that make it thoroughly rewatchable as well.
That scene didn't make your YT cut so I didn't get to see your reaction to it, but a lot of younger viewers get confused at how "lax" the border security seems when Llewellyn is crossing back into the US. Prior to 9/11, that's about how it was. I recall (literally) stumbling alone back into the US from Tijuana after a night of *heavy* drinking there with some friends, and being confronted by the border guard. "Stop right there!", he told me, and after I'd mostly arrested my forward momentum he asked, "Are you American?" I paused a couple seconds at the sheer stupidity of the question before replying, "Yes?", after which he happily waved me through. I've always wished in hindsight that I'd thought to answer with a "Si", but oh well. 😂
You asked for a coin, but your reactions are worth plenty more than that. 💵😁
As I said on Patreon, almost all of the Coen Brothers' movies are considered classics or cult classics, but they did experience a very brief lull in the 2000s. After the commercial success of O Brother Where Art Thou? and the critical success of The Man Who Wasn't There (one of my favorite of their films), they made two movies considered notable misfires: 2003's Intolerable Cruelty (the first one of their movies I saw), and 2004's The Ladykillers. There was some question as to whether or not they were losing their knack, but then, aside from a segment in an anthology film, they took a break for a few years before coming back with this. No Country was widely considered one of the best films of the year and scored 8 Oscar nominations (it won 4, for Best Picture, Best Director(s), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor, for Javier Bardem).
The movie's most direct competition at the Oscars that year was There Will Be Blood, which also scored 8 Oscar nominations, and the debate over which was better was pretty strong as both movies are excellent. I think it's worth noting (and I think people did in the comments of the poll) that No Country's last-place showing is not because it's unpopular or bad, but just because most people probably don't even consider it a non-traditional Western. It takes place in the right era, but in terms of story, I wouldn't say it shares any notable hallmarks of the genre, so I suspect people didn't vote for it because it wouldn't have been a good example for your first Western.
Speaking of that poll, I said it in those comments and I'll say it again: there will probably be some John Wayne lovers who insist that the original True Grit movie is better. It's a fine movie, but both movies are based on a book by Charles Portis, and if people read the book, I don't think they could reasonably argue about which one is the more faithful adaptation -- the Wayne movie retains around 70% of the story and none of the tone or the voice of the book, whereas the Coens' adaptation ticks all three boxes. Of course, accuracy to the book isn't the only thing that matters, of course, but in my view it's a great movie *and* a great adaptation, and I look forward to the possibility of it returning to polls or simply appearing on the channel. It's surprisingly funny (similar to this -- the Coens almost always have some comedy in their films), exciting, and offers a whole host of great performances, including one of the best debut performances of the 2010s (not going to name any names, though, for your sake).
I pressed the coin emoji button, but for some reason it isn't adding one. Coin!
Thanks Tyler! True Grit and There Will Be Blood have def moved up the Personal List ™️
I know that "Intolerable Cruelty" is much maligned, but unjustly so in my opinion! It's a terrific comedy. Perhaps it tries to get a bit sentimental towards the end, and the Coen Brothers don't do sentimental. But along the way, George Clooney is hilarious, Catherine Zeta Jones is utterly believable, and Cedic the Entertainer just about the steals the whole movie with comedic timing. It is great fun watching these heavyweights get their shots in.
@@RDRussell2 I really like Intolerable Cruelty. The Ladykillers would be the one I have more serious reservations about. I also need to rewatch Hail, Caesar! and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
The gas station scene is one of the most tense things I've ever watched. Truly terrifying and the acting of the gas station clerk was as masterful as Javier's. Incredible! 🪙
Their Texas accents are perfect. Carla Jean is from Scotland but she is spot on. Tommy Lee is from Texas though his normal speaking voice sound high falutin' haha. He attended Oxford & was Bill Clinton's roommate. Much of Lonesome Dove was filmed on his ranch in West Texas.
I saw the brave face in the last minute of the movie, but I could tell, you got hit in the feels, and it was awesome. I don't know if you use an editor or do it yourself, but well done.
Thank you! I recently brought on an editor to help me out with one movie per month on the channel (and hopefully more very soon). He edited this one, in particular!
@@kaiielle Well the choice to hang on you during Tommy Lee Jones' final speech was fantastic, because it really shows how invested you were. Great choice and, as I said, great reaction.
Great reaction to a great movie. I’m 53 and the older I get the more I appreciate this story. I don’t chase criminals for a living, but nevertheless, I feel more and more like Ed Tom with every passing year.
Javier bardem's hairdo is even more terrifying
Chigurh's suppressed shotgun fire sound always reminded me of the giant water droplets from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
I recommend watching The Fugitive, it's a great action film and one of Tommy Lee Jones' best performances.
Until I watched your reaction, I wasn't even aware that this was classified as a western when I first watched it. I didn't watch your entire breakdown, but they called him a ghost because he vanished so fast as you know. When Tommy Lee Jones was outside the hotel seeing him behind the door because the locking mechanism was blown out, it was all in his head. He knows how this man operates and how dangerous he is. So the internal view of Anton Chigurh standing there behind the door was his fear put in a physical form for the audience.
Bardem gives us not only one of the most memorable villains ever on screen, but an even more disturbing haircut. LOL! Great film choice. Filmed down here in my home state of TEJAS!!! Yee haaaawwww!!!
Fighting crime is definitely a young man's game. Unless you're Batman 😉😅 Loved your reaction! I think this is such a great movie. Not only because of the acting and the subject matter. It's also different from other movies like it. The bad guy gets away and there's no showdown between the main protagonist and the main antagonist. Eventhough True Grit did not come in second. I think you should watch that as your second western. It's also directed by the Coen brothers.
True Grit has moved up my list. ☺️ Thanks for watching!
Tommy Lee Jones is a fantastic actor. For more of him I recommended The Fugitive, Men in Black, and Space Cowboys!
"Are they not gonna question why he doesn't have a shirt?
As a kid in the South, during the summer heat it was totally normal to leave the house for the day without a shirt.
I realized that immediately which is why I said what I did right after. 🤣
1:47 ....
-Kaielle: "I wonder if the guy narrating is this cop right here"
-Me knowing what's happening in the next scene::😅
Just stumbled across your Channel and am going through all the Reactions so I'm super Late on this
This Movie is So Bizarre and one of a Kind I love it!!
- There's no Music?
- One of the Protagonists Dies off Camera!?
- Following different Perspectives on the Story
- The good guy Sheriff and the bad Guy Anton Never meet?
- The bad guys get the Money back and Win
- The Villain gets Away
- Your Dropped almost in the Middle of a Story
- Ending is Open
Anton I think is an Amazing Villain, after watching this So Many times I couldn't tell you the number,
My view on him changed after a while, IMO he does have Morals and stands 100% on them..
The Gas Station guy makes small talk and fiddles around with the Conversation and Almost Dies, by Luck of the Coin he doesn't,
But then the Guy in the Office that watched him Kill someone asked him straight to his Face with no Messing around if he will kill him, so Anton asked back plain and Simple 'did you see me'.
The Lady when he asked about Moss stands her ground and by Her own Morals by not telling him anything even after he asked Firmly and he Left her Alone, almost like he respected that she didn't break her Own Moral Compass.
His such an Interesting Character.
Thanks for your comment! And thanks for watching! ☺️
I'm a native Texan but I'm from the Dallas/Ft Worth area it's big city life, but once you head to West Texas it's just open road and wide open spaces! So with this movie and its theme and genre West Texas was the best filming location
Within two months, “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood” came to theaters and, while very different experiences, they are both meticulous and beautiful films. 6 Oscars between them. Was lucky to see both then. After many years and repeat viewings, if I had to take one of with me to a desert island, There Will Be Blood comes with. To me it’s a deeper, more intense and technically proficient portrayal of the American West with a stunning lead performance. But it’s a real close call. On one hand you have the perfect Coen Bros dialogue and Roger Deakins’ cinematography, and on the other, one of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s best work, shot by Robert Elswit with an Oscar for their lead actor (not spoiling who that is).
Hope you consider it regardless of the poll…eventually.
Coen Brothers do. Not. Miss. (Except for LadyKillers, we don't talk about The Ladykillers) All their movies are awesome and weird. So much range. Back-to-back they made The Big Lebowski and Fargo, the most different of different movies. Both distictly Coen Bros. They've done so much and would recommend watching all their movies.
Also, if you eventually get to Fargo, that movie spawned a TV show. That show is SO GOOD.
No music the whole movie.....what a decision.
You seem to look stuff up, so you probably already know that Javier Bardem won the Oscar and this movie is what finally got the Coen Bros their Best Directing and Best Picture Oscars. (LONG overdue)
2007 also had There Will Be Blood, which was in your pole.......what a year for movies just with those 2 alone.
Hope more Coen Bros are on the way!
I only read the plot of the film after watching so found out about the Oscar wins through the comments here and on Patreon! Thanks for your comment ☺️
Really enjoyed your reaction. This might be one of those movies that reading the book (same title, by the late-great Cormac McCarthy) will help your understanding of the movie (Anton Chigurh has no physical description in the book, which leads many readers to believe he's a phantom or just the personification of evil, which McCarthy denied). There are many reviews/videos of what the end of the story "means"........I like a story that kinda leaves it dangling, and lets the reader/movie-goer decide. Thanks for the post.
Although there's so many great scenes, I often come back to the conversation with the older gentleman towards the end.
When he speaks about how their uncle passed away in violent circumstances, we realise that violence and brutality is nothing new. It's eternal. It's just that Tommy Lee Jones is older and can't live with it anymore.
Totally! I love the conversation at the end too.
Enjoyed this. Been a while since I've seen a No Country reaction. Fargo is definitely worth seeing. 💰
The Journal of Forensic Sciences deemed Javier Bardem's portrayal as the most realistic of a clinical psychopath ever in a film. Personally, I worked as a corrections officer (guard) in the Michigan prison system for 25 years and dealt with hundreds of criminal psychopaths one-on-one, all day long.
I have to agree.
Full-on psychopathic killers give you a very strange but specific feeling even in mundane conversation.
They spend their lives studying the way "normal" people behave so they can imitate them, more easily blend in with them. Normal human interactions and connections, even brief ones, are an absolute mystery to them, something they want to figure out.
You get the impression that they're genuinely interested in your responses, little choices you make, your reaction to even the slightest provocation. They're fascinated by the way you'll answer even irrelevant questions. You feel... studied.
The scene where Anton forced the store clerk to call the coin toss after a series of pointless but somehow intense questions was absolutely spot-on.
In an odd coincidence (I think), Tommy Lee Jones played a character in "Batman Forever" who was a psychopath, making decisions about murdering people by flipping a coin.
Tommy was and he HATED 1 of his costars in that film the whole production😂😂
A very fun fact (and maybe one not in the comments, one I haven't seen yet) Tommy Lee Jones only appears for around 12 minutes in this movie. He's also paid like 3 million+ for his role as the sheriff. Or around there.
There also is NO music in the movie. At all. It's a rare no music movie
Josh Brolin is one of my favorites. He is great in the Coen Bros.' True Grit, one of the great westerns. This is a movie i will stop to watch anytime across. I could say that about almost any Coen Bros. movie.
I highly recommend the novel this film is based on.
Fair forewarning for when you start reading the book. Cormac McCarthy writes very differently from most. You'll be lucky to find one use of quotation marks per chapter, even when characters are speaking. It's odd, but interesting.
Only 6% for There Will Be Blood???!?! This hurts my soul.
To be fair, I only let people vote for one movie instead of multiple (which I sometimes allow).
@@kaiielle Ahh, that takes a bit of the sting away :)
He checked his boots before he left her house which indicates he killed her since he doesn't like blood on himself
Chigurh definitely killed Llewellyn's wife.
He checks his boots when he leaves the house.
Sorry.
Nevermind. You caught it.
Keep up the great work.
LOL yes I did! Thank you!
I must admit that the first watch of this film i was rather pissed at the ending but eventually after a few more watches i really grew to love it and all the other ambiguities in the story and the way they left so many things open to audience interpretation. I also though it was interesting to see Woody Harrelson's character Carson hunting a hired killer who ends up taking him out, seeing as Woody's father was a Convicted Contract Killer who had claimed numerous times of being involved in the Kennedy Assassination.
Excellent reaction!
Have you seen any other Coen Brothers films or was this the first one?
First one! Excited to see more.
@@kaiielle You're in for a treat then! The Coen Brothers are excellent filmmakers who can both write and direct just about anything in any genre. They're also masters of dialogue.
I don't think it's open to interpretation if he killed her or not. When he left the house he looked under his boots to see if he walked .....oh....just got to your post movie comments lol guess you know now. Still posting this for engagement purpose.
Haha thank you! Yep, I often realize things later on in my reactions...
The boys on the bikes, hearing the cards in the spokes of their bikes. Kids. After the boy gives the shirt to him, he takes the "blood money" - Before the 80s, in most small towns, a kid would not be able to spend a $100 bill, because adults ran the cash register in stores and they would call their parents or police (especially with blood on it) - In the 80s, the malls, TEENAGERS took the jobs and money became the focus.
When Javier Bardem saw the hairstyle he had been given, he said: "I'm not going to get laid for 6 weeks..."
In the 1970s a few serial killers made their mark off of hitch hikers such as Edmund Kemper III, Dean Corll, Charles Manson and his followers targeted people traveling back then. You're right he is a man so he wasn't the prime target.
“No country for old men” is the whole point of the philosophy of the movie. Old westerns have the good guy overcoming the bad guy as a traditional trope and Tommy lee jones represents that in this movie and him trying to process this new word he lives in as a old man. The world doesn’t make sense to him and doesn’t feel justified hence “no country for old men” also his monologue in the beginning and end represent that as well.
🪙A couple notes... I miss seeing a movie, in theater, or at home w / friends, and discussing it afterwards, sharing plot points one of us missed, acting appreciation... Etc etc. You looking things up after is like that. Watching with you is like that, too, so, thanks! (When you watch with friends, though, no one judges you for 'guessing' an actor 🙄) -- finally, consider watching the TV series Fargo (and the movie?) Off channel, maybe, or just post a video of your summary of the show after you watch it? Anyhoo, I love Fargo, the series is one of my favs, show runner and director Noah Hawley can do no wrong in my eyes. His style is wonderful. (Coughing emoji here) 🪙 the coen bros are in my director hall of fame (they did Fargo, and big Lebowski!)
Fargo (the TV series) is loosely on my "to watch" list because a lot of it was/is filmed here in Alberta! Thanks for your comment Jon. 😊
This movie is intended to be the antithesis of the traditional far west movie: there's no happy ending, the good guy does not beat the bad guy, the bad guy kills the good guy and this happens way before the movie ends and we don't even get to see this happen, the good guy doesn't save his romantic pair, the bad guys gets away along with the money, the police fails to catch the bad guy, and the sheriff's dream means that he wishes to feel safe, but then he woke up, i.e. he woke up to reality, he regained awareness that he's too old and the world's too violent, therefore he's not entirely safe and can't do anything to protect society from someone as brutal, fast and skilled as the villains of the contemporary world (notice how the sheriff's always 1 step behind during his entire pursuit of the villain / criminal / bad guy).
Took me so long to watch this movie but was good
They didn't really leave her death to interpretation. Chugur wiped blood off his boot on the way out, similar to the Woody scene
You need to watch this again. It's just one of those movies. Imo . I liked your reaction
Don't worry, I plan to re-watch many times!
Read the book. McCarthy is an incredible author. Just incredible.
Hey kaiielle do you have to be a patreon member in order to leave a suggestion
Nope! Linked in every video description is my movie suggestion form that anyone can use.
I'd highly highly suggest you read the book, Cormac McCarthy is an absolutely legendary American writer. I'd highly recommend reading 'Blood Meridian' as well if you enjoyed this bleak Western. Great reaction!
Best western i have ever seen
Yes, he killed her. In the book she ultimately does choose heads for the coin (it's tails) and is killed.
I'm not sure but I don't know whether "There Will Be Blood" should be categorized as a Western. It's a movie that takes place in a western state but its really just a story that gets at the concept of greed, business, ego and control. You might want to move it into a different category, like drama, if it's ever going to have a shot at getting played. It's a wonderful if dark film. Actually, fun fact, there was a scene that was shot on that film that made the crew from "No Country for Old Men" shut down for a day or so because they were filming concurrently and near enough each other that the fires set on the former blackened out the skies of the latter so that filming was simply not possible.
For future Westerns, please consider the 80s film "Silverado" with Scott Glenn, Kevin Klein, Brian Dennehey, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Helen Hunt, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Costner and John Cleese
First off. This is not a western. It is a thriller set in West Texas. If it were a western, then that means every movie that was ever set, that side of Mississippi would be considered a western.
Secondly, the Coen brothers did this film purposely without a soundtrack to up the suspense factor
And finally. This is the second movie Tommy, Lee Jones, and Brolin have starred in together. They also did men in Black III
A lot of people consider this a neo-Western or a modern Western noir, which seem to be valid genres. To each their own though! I definitely think the primary genre for this is Drama. Thriller works as well!
I definitely love the choice of not having a soundtrack in this film.
You should definitely check out the movie "Blow"!!!! It's an outstanding movie... based on a true story. Johnny Depp's finest acting.
if you haven't seen gangster squad it's one to watch it stars josh Brolin and ryan gosling and emma stone and sean penn. and only the brave is another josh Brolin film.
Cormac McCarthy is one of my fave authors.
The Cohen's first film...."Blood Simple" is a wonderful intro to their new skills. Frances McDormand stars, a Coen bro wife.
Watch the Coen's "Fargo" first. Frances blows the movie world up with her performance, Coen writing, casting, cinematography....their masterpiece.
So odd, so good, so inspiring, so copied.
You love this .. watch Hell or High Water... So good... Modern day Western like this...
For a great movie with a very similar sense of space and pacing, try, Badlands.
See "Miller's Crossing".
Some people have already pointed this out but Javier Bardem does look a lot like Jeffrey Dean Morgan. That may be why he looked so familiar to you.
Should probably see a doctor about throwing up poles.
Having read The Man in the High Castle well before the show came out, I have to disagree about the show being better. I watched some of it, but didn't find it at all interesting. I always heard that Dick used the I Ching in writing it, so the novel itself is the alternate history that the book within it, The Grashopper Lies Heavy, mirrors. The No Country For Old Men film follows the novel almost exactly. It's a short book written in a simplistic style, not that I mean that in negative way.
This movie is one of my all time favorites, definitely in my top 5, followed by #4 Gladiator, #3 The Batman, #2 Casino, and #1 Goodfellas.
Javier Bardem was outstanding in this movie, Anton Chigur is such an incredible villain.
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When Chigur comes out of llewelyns wife house he checks his boots for blood on the soles. She's dead.
22:34. Scottish actress and Spanish actor effectively hiding their accents.
He definitely killed her. He gave his word, but he tried to give her a chance and call it on the coin but she refused so he just killed her checked his boots on the way out.
Yep, talked about it in my review!
HELL OR HIGH WATER for western WHOOOOOO
This movie is technically a western but the point of it isn't. Great movie takes a couple of rewatches to get the point of the movie.
Some of my favourite movies of all-time are because of the experience with a second/third watch!
Chigurh is Death. He represents the vagarities of life.
I love this movie, but I'm not sure I would call it a "western." But then again, maybe it is. 🙂 Probably falls into the same category as whether you do or do not categorize Die Hard as a "Christmas movie."
A better analogy, and the one that I go with, is comparing to musical genres. There's metal music, but within the metal umbrella we have heavy metal, metalcore, deathcore, thrash metal, glam metal... the list goes on. This movie was listed as a "Western" in my Suggestion Form by the viewer that submitted it, but I immediately knew it wasn't the "classic Western" movie that I think most people think of when they see "Western". I've seen this movie called a modern Western, neo-Western or a modern Western noir. All sub-genres of the Western umbrella of movies.
@@kaiielle Yeah, I can see that, especially a "Western noir" movie. That seems to fit it pretty well.
For me, the movie can be encapsulated by that last sequence, where Tommy Lee Jones is describing his dream with his father. The themes in that dream are not necessarily to me anyway "classic" Western per se, but "Western noir", yeah I buy that.
Yep, definitely elements of Western. But not your early 1900s pew-pew on a road in an old town kind of Western. 😉
Uh... of course he killed her lol. She, just like everyone else in the book and film, failed to realize you can't reason with a psychopath like Anton because he has no empathy and doesn't see fear in people, and yes he gets away in the end, just like in real life, no one has plot armor. The book also delves more into that, inner thoughts of people thinking of how they can maybe reason with Anton, nope.
Awesome reaction/ can you please watch a movie called ANY GIVEN SUNDAY.
it is both on brand and very unlike the coen brothers style
I def want to watch more Coen Brothers movies!
My first Western then 30 sec later you say i have no idea what genre this is guys.... The bs right off the bat threw me off.
Didn't you know movies can have more than one genre attached to them? Most do, in fact.
Surprise! This is actually a horror movie and not a Western.
Blows my mind that you didn’t know who Tommy Lee Jones is, but I can tease you about because I know you don’t care.
🪙, per your request.
This is a disturbing movie.
But, thank you for the watch, anyway! Looking forward to the next one.
This is considered a western?
The same way that deathcore is a sub-genre of the metal umbrella of music, this movie is considered by many to be a modern Western noir, which I would put under the Western umbrella of film.
And a old man seen it....thänk you ......😑
Wow you missed a lot, maybe you should just watch it again.
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Great film, but I definitely wouldn't want it to be your first Western. It's a post-Western. Like visiting a graveyard if you wanted to know about someone.
Thanks for watching! ☺️