Yes, I watch alot of reaction channels and she is one of the best at catching the subplot and character nuance way before anyone else...if they ever do get it at all.
@@justmeeagainn The story is about Tommy Lee Jones's character. The book adds some more context. McCarthy's lyrical writing (which is all of the dialogue in this movie ripped straight out of the book) is philosophical and meant to be ambiguous yet is at the same time very clear. I think it makes total sense. The "silence of God" and the realization from Tommy Lee Jones's character about his regrets from being a "coward" in WW2 or not a "man of action" like his ancestors--but in fact they were just the same as he was makes him shrink away from some ideal nature of the world--i,e. No Country For Old Men. The final monologue is the crown jewel of the novel and film.
Yeah. Cormac McCarthy is one of the best writers of all time. It's almost hard to believe he's still alive since his works all read like classic literature. Reading him feels like reading Tolstoy, Faulkner or Conrad.
Agree to disagree. I've sent better endings. For example, Saw. Overall no country is a far better film, no doubt. But the ending to saw was better. This one kind just....ends. which is fine, but never gonna be a great ending.
The reason Chigurh was acting weird when he first entered the hotel is he was checking for the most efficient way to kill in that room. He checked how far the light switch was from the door, the thickness of the wall so he knew wether he could shoot through it or not, and others that I’m probably forgetting because it’s been a little bit since I’ve sat down and watched it.
I think it's also to catch people who are dumb enough to immediately come out of their hiding place the second they hear their door close and hear the footsteps disappear.
I’m always choked when a reactor cuts it out entirely. You know they just didn’t understand it, but it’s always disappointing. To finally see a reactor really GET IT was amazing
I'm glad Simone could see the beauty in that ending. When I first saw this I was 19 and didn't have the maturity to grasp it. Now, looking at my parents who are in their 70s, it has a different resonance. The first time you watch it, you think the Josh Brolin character is the protagonist, but later you realize it's the Sheriff
I saw this movie at 17 for the first time and still understood I was watching something profound. Sorry to hear you still had your dick in the dirt even at two years my senior.
When we first met Woody Harrelson, he said that there was a floor missing. It's a fairly common practice for tall buildings to not have a 13th floor because so many people consider the number unlucky. Of course, that means that the 14th floor is really the 13th. The inclusion of this dialog might have something to do with the theme of luck.
I've always taken it to mean that there's a secret floor where they're doing something shady, considering these are the people who wear trying to buy the drugs and the snide way he says that they'll look into it. It comes off as an unspoken "somethings going on here and I know it" as a way to show how meticulous and observant Carson is.
It also seems to suggest that Woody Harrelson knows he's smart, and that causes him to sometimes miss the obvious. He's so zeroed in on doing things his own clever little way that he doesn't realize that Chigurh is right under his nose.
It's a longstanding architectural superstition; I don't think you need to read anything into it, other than that Harrelson's character is observant and wry. That being said, suppose away. It's always interesting to see the connections that people draw between things. I mean that honestly.
The shop owner’s mistake was saying “ya’ll been getting any rain your way? Seen you was from Dallas…”. Anton just killed a man, and his car is what the shop owner saw. Now there’s a trail. Had he kept his mouth shut, that encounter wouldn’t have went that way.
The part at 12:22 Anton is practicing entering and clearing the room. He’s checking where the light switch is so he can turn it on quickly and neutralize any advantage the defenders would have seeing him sillhouetted in the doorway. You’ll notice in that scene he also checks the thickness of the walls to make sure he can shoot through them in case anyone takes cover.
What makes Anton so terrifying is not only the extremely lethal danger of just being near him but the sheer mystery of his character. The whole 'nothing is scarier' element is strong. The fact that he's at large by the end doesn't help, but at least in the novel the authorities pick up on his trail and his days are stated to be numbered. Bardem absolutely delivered.
"The sheer mystery of his character"...so many lesser movies get this wrong. We DON'T need to know everything about a villain - or anything - many times. Not everyone or everything needs a tidy little sensible origin story so we understand them entirely. Seems too many movies are busy explaining WHY a character is the way they are instead of just letting them BE the way they are.
Yes, he's doomed. Wounded Llewellyn buys clothing off a guy at the border, dies a day or so later, off screen, and that's foreshadowing for wounded Chigurh buying a shirt from the kid.
Here is a crazy fact for you: Javier Bardem was an established actor in Spain, mostly romantic comedies. He is considered a heartthrob because of the romantic movies he has done. He is amazing!
He is a beautiful man but in this film he plays such a good villain. Arguably one of the best of all time and you don't get to be ugly and married to penelope Cruz for a decade.
@@richieclean cause a lot of people associate Javier Bardem with Anton nowadays after this film. i think it’s a crazy fun fact to know that one of the best depicted psychopaths in cinema history is also a rom-com heartthrob in his own country.
A gas tank doesn't need to be pressurized to explode. In fact, since gasoline is only flammable in its gaseous form, a nearly empty gas tank will explode more readily, and with more force than a nearly full one.
"I don't think this is a comedy." - No kidding. George is the first reactor I've seen who recognized the cattle gun. Kelly Macdonald, who played Carla Jean, is Scottish. She normally speaks with a thick Scottish accent. You couldn't tell it from this movie. Her dialect was perfect. The quietness of the movie, and the absence of non-diegetic music, makes it more suspenseful. The scene where Chigurh tracks Llewelyn to the hotel room and the shootout that follows is more terrifying because there are no cues telling you what's about to happen. The bullets breaking the windows in the truck without the sound of rifle fire makes you feel like they could be coming from anywhere. The sequence with Chigurh at the motel can be a bit confusing on first viewing. Llewelyn saw when he returned to the motel that someone was there waiting for him, which is why he had the cabbie take him to a different motel, and why he rented the room behind his original room when he returned. Chigurh saw the same thing, but he's smart enough that he didn't barge directly into Llewelyn's original room. Instead, he rented the room next to it, and studied its layout to plan his moves. Then when he burst into Llewelyn's room, he encountered members of the Mexican drug cartel that were waiting for Llewelyn to come back. Chigurh kills them, but by then Llewelyn has extracted the money and left. Anton Chigurh is a fascinating character. He sees himself as carrying out the whims of fate. Because of this, it's impossible to reason with him. Carla Jean calls him on this: "The coin don't have no say. It's just you." But Anton responds with, "Well, I got here the same way the coin did." But then we see that Chigurh is just as vulnerable to random chance as anyone else when the car runs a red light and crashes into him. No Country for Old Men subverts expectations in several ways. It sets us up for a final confrontation between Llewelyn and Chigurh, only to have Llewelyn die off-camera by someone else's hand. Sheriff Bell, the narrator and the "old man" of the title, never even sees or talks to either Llewelyn or Chigurh. And the movie just sort of ends without anything being resolved.
Simone's reaction after Ed Tom's last monologue is beautiful. If you ever watch The Road (both movies are adaptations of Cormac McCarthy novels), be sure to remember the image of "carrying the fire." The more you watch this film, the more brilliant it becomes. Personally, I think it's the Coens' best. Also, the title comes from a poem by W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium." Everything about this film is profound. Including the silence.
My dad passed when I was fourteen. Hearing the old man talk in such an abstract manner about his dream actually almost made me tear up knowing that just like him, I will be looking for that fire among the dark and cold, and that my dad would be there, but I will always wake up before I can greet him.
"What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?" Epic scene from start to finish. The final scene with Llewellyn's wife, when Shigur leaves the house, and you wonder if you should be happy or sad...and then he checks his shoes. The movie does so much with tiny details.
Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, the title of "No Country for Old Men" comes from the opening line of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats.
When I saw this in the theatre awhile after it came out I was the only person there. Such a great experience to see this masterpiece all by oneself on the big screen
by the end of this reaction we have the two types of people who watch this movie perfectly summed up. Simone visibly moved and in tears over Tommy Lee Jones' monologue. George going "whut, lol"
I love how methodic Chigurn is. He rents the room to see how the layout of the roons are, he even check the closet, to see if is big enought for someone to hide in there.
Something I noticed about this film is that they build tension through the landscape as well. When he confronts people they are literally in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around for miles. The sparse population and empty wilderness feels very dangerous. They also reinforce this with the film being really quiet and absence of music.
They did an excellent job portraying the pure vastness and emptiness of what I can only assume is west Texas in particular but also the US in general. It's just a wide open, often dangerous land where it's very easy to find yourself completely isolated from the rest of the world. I've only seen a couple movies that can get the scale right like Unforgiven, but none have hit this tone with it.
@@billhicks6449 I lived alone for a time in a wild lonely place. A few times a day there was a train that passed, but far off. Occasionally there were snatches of music from a nearby rancho. But most of the time was the sound of wind. Inside the gate were some overgrown rosemary bushes, and as the weather warmed and they bloomed, there was the buzzing of bees early in the day. The first two weeks of hearing almost nothing but the sound of wind was very spooky. But it’s also lovely in a way, as if a weight has been lifted from your mind. I lived out there for three months as a caretaker. I think word spread beyond the rancho that there was a gringo living out there alone, because I began hearing “night birds” when I hadn’t before, and in the morning there would be footprints and tracks around the house. I moved into the rancho, thieves stripped out the metal windows and stairs and anything else of value, and the last time I saw it the roof had collapsed it was turning into a ruin.
Great movie, epic performance by Bardem - I knew watching him reminded me of something, but I couldn't remember what - it finally came to me. Decades ago I was at a zoo and saw a row of enclosures with big cats. In one, there was a melanistic leopard, a.k.a. a black panther, pacing back and forth. I stopped to look at the cat, and it stopped and just stood there staring at me - no detectable emotion, just laser-focused on me - and I suddenly knew in my bones that if there hadn't been a barrier between that cat and me, I'd already have been dead when I had the thought. One of the most chilling experiences I've ever had - hard to explain how it felt. Bardem's character reminds me of that cat. About the car blowing up: it would depend to a great degree on how much gas was in the tank. It's counterintuitive, but the most explosive situation would be for the tank to be almost empty, because it isn't the liquid gasoline that explodes, it's the air full of gasoline vapor. It's what the military calls an FAE, a fuel-air explosive, like the thermobaric bombs (a.k.a. vacuum bombs) that have become controversial in recent years. The same thing can happen with air that is full of flammable particles, especially if they have a static electric charge - that's why grain silos blow up sometimes. If the car's tank was completely full, it might start a fire that would end up consuming the car, but not blow it up.
I love the last scene of this film. The Sheriff explaining his dreams from the night before always leaves me very emotional. I'm curious what about that ending monologue made you guys feel emotional or was it from something else that resonated with you from earlier in the film? I always look forward to seeing reactor's reactions to this specific part of this movie.
Some buildings are built without a numbered 13th floor because of superstitions. They go from the 12th floor to the 14th. I had thought they had stopped this practice, but it may still be going on.
I've only seen the movie once (just a couple of months ago) so I don't have really many thoughts about it yet; my experience was pretty much a quiet meditation on evil. But the really, really impressive thing about this movie is how well it captures not only the story and the dialogue of the novel, but that it actually feels like a cinematic translation of the literary art of Cormac McCarthy. What he says with words, and how he says them -- the combination of simplicity (except when he ain't), horror, and beauty -- is captured incredibly on the screen by the Coens. I adore how they're both capable of portraying absolute horror with such absolute beauty. This is my favorite Coen movie and by far my favorite cinematography by Roger Deakins. You being blown away like that reminded me of how I felt when I finished McCarthy's latest novel "The Road", the most powerful reading experience of my life. So much so that I refuse to watch the film version.
I think the movie just is. And that's the cool thing about it. Things just are. There's no meaning behind them. No sense. Chigurgh's killings are senseless. The main character's death is. The old cop's trying to make sense of things and can't... or maybe talks himself into believing there is one. The end seems like it's trying to say that this is how and why people start creating faiths. To have something they can rely on, that light in the dark, that hope there's someone waiting for you. But of course there isn't. The psychopath killer walks off into the sunset to kill another day. And the world doesn't care. You can believe as hard as you want, nothing will ever make any sense, nothing has meaning. Chigurgh embodies this lack of meaning. And the movie is very much like Chigurgh. Just letting things happen and killing off characters from time to time.
@@benjaminluttrell3673 I tried it maybe 10 years ago but back then, I felt as intimidated by the language as I was enthralled by it. I’ll try it again soon.
The adaptation of The Road isn’t bad. I hope Hollywood never tries to make Blood Meridian. I picked up a Spanish copy of Cities of the Plain (the middle book of the Border Trilogy) while I was trying to improve my Spanish. I struggled through it because McCarthy’s language is so precise and the corresponding words can be obscure. Yet they often are so spot on that I have wondered if McCarthy wasn’t thinking in Spanish when he wrote certain parts. I’ll give you an example from the very first phrase of Cities of the Plain. Zapatearon en el portal para sacudirse la lluvia de las botas . . . The stood in the doorway and stomped the rain from their boots . . . In a way it’s even more vivid in Spanish.
@@MarcosElMalo2 I hear The Road is not a bad adaptation, but this is a case where reading the book was such a unique and powerful experience for me that I just have no desire to see it.
You guys did the best reaction to this movie than any I’ve seen. No talking over important dialogue, no cracking jokes just to hear themselves laugh, no over-analyzing while the movie is playing. Just an intelligent conversation over the movie at the end. Well done.
Due to superstition, many buildings omit the 13th floor, but everyone on the 14th floor of those buildings knows exactly what floor they're really on. This could be why Woody counted fewer floors from outside.
I've seen a car blow up like that. The engine overheated and caught fire, and when it got to the gas tank, it was a pretty big explosion. It was fire season, so everyone was scrambling to put the pieces that went flying out before the fire really spread. Luckily the fire trucks came because there were a lot of pieces!
The wife (Carla Jean) was played by Scottish actress, Kelly Macdonald. Kelly Macdonald was Diane in Trainspotting. I don’t know if you’ve seen Trainspotting yet but it’s quite the ride.
I saw this opening weekend. I was stunned at its enormity. I sat in my seat for about 30 min after the ending. It was so much to take in. When it won best picture, it was obvious and natural.
Vietnam ERA vet (fortunate I didn't go to Nam, but lost fraternity brothers both mentally and physically)(: I had a similar experience when I saw The Dear Hunter. When it ended I was totally drained , couldn't get up from my seat for a long time
(14:22) Just FYI, the floor missing is of course the 13th floor. In buildings of higher floors, the 13th floor is omitted because it's considered a bad luck numbered floor.
Javier Bardem was the clear choice for the Oscar. Well deserved. To show his range, the next movie he did was the brilliant Woody Allen movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" with Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz (who later became his wife). Definitely one to consider watching as I do not believe you have reacted to any Woody Allen movies. He may be a pervert but he's a talented pervert. If not this, I highly recommend "The Purple Rose of Cairo".
He re-enters the motel room quickly to practice opening the door and turning the light on fast.. He then inspects things like wall widths etc to see if he can shoot through them.. terrifyingly calculated. Deserving of his Oscar for this performance.
One of the most terrifying villan/hitman in movie history! Javier Bardem nailed it! He styled his hair that way to make him look even more terrifying for the role!
I’m sure I read somewhere that the American Psychologist council (or whatever they’re called) said Javier’s portrayal of a psychopath was the most accurate they’d ever seen in a movie. That’s what makes him so creepy, like a true psychopath he’s showing zero emotion 😬
The reference to the missing floor is due to the fact that hotels don't have a thirteenth floor. If you're in a 20 story building the top,floor would be 21.
@25:55 wooooow right Simone? To end on that note, on that fuc*ing monologue by Tommy Lee Jones? Wow right? This is a masterpiece by the Cohen brothers, enough said....
By far one of my favourite movies. The Scene in the hotel where the shootout spills into the street and their is no accompanying music. Just the sound of gunshots and footsteps. It's so quiet and so unnerving.
Underrated IMO - a silent death that lingers on and on and on. The lethal deft turn by Bardem is beyond petrifying (like a predator - which Anton is - he's stealthy deadly) and the morose one-two-punch of Brolin & Jones is a fine counterpoint. One of the best endings in the film. Just.Ends. The title says everything. Nice job guys.
Well done, George. You are the first reactor I've seen who recognized Anton's cattle gun for what it is right away. Most people wonder the whole time what that thing is and only understand when the sheriff talks about it near the end of the movie.
Geez, I've seen this movie countless times and always take away something new from it. This time I finally realized why Anton kicked in his own door and fliipped the lights on in his hotel room after just having left. He was memorizing the room so his eyes dilating when the lights flipped on wouldn't be an issue for him after he kicks in the door in the next hotel room. Chigurh's attention to detail and planning is terrifying
The fact that they managed to build up so much tension and emotion with no score at all is crazy. Took me three viewings to realize that there was no music at all
For the car explosion, gasoline produces vapors that are pretty explosive. But there needs to be only half a tank or less (of gas) for it to blow up instead of just catching on fire.
Cigur just walking away like that is one of the single best scenes in all of film history. We rarely see that kind of thing happen in movies which in part has a big effect, but also just by how casually it's done and then goes to TLJ and you think something still might happen to Cigur and then it ends. Brilliantly done.
The Coen Brothers are master film makers. There's very little in this movie (and Fargo, too) that you could improve upon. Kelly Macdonald, the actress who played Carla Jean, is actually Scottish and has a pretty thick Scottish brogue. But her southern accent in this movie is quite convincing. Great reaction. Thank you.
I only saw this movie for the first time a couple of years ago but it instantly became one of my all time favorites. The production value of this movie is insane
The Coen brothers are my favourite living filmmakers. Kubrick is my all-time favourite. I love old gangster movies from the 1930s and 40s, so their early movie, "Miller's Crossing", set in a 1920s Chicago-style city, is my favourite Coen film. You must see it to believe it. John Turturro's performance will blow you away.
Trivia... when the old man in the wheelchair is talking about sending the badge and the "thumb-buster" off to the Ranger museum. "Thumb-buster" is slang for old single action Colt Peacemaker which some Texas Rangers used before (and maybe even after) WWII.
random building thing, the 13th floor is often not used in buildings as it is a common floor for feeling resonance of a buildings movement. that just popped to mind after the talk of a floor missing
My old Highschool Weight Training Coach always called me No Country and I never understood what he meant until he told me to watch this movie. Apparently I looked like Bardems character and I never knew it. On another note, an instructor at a Trade School always hummed or sang the Stelio Kontos song from American Dad everytime we walked by each other, that guy was hilarious.
I've been waiting for this one. This is one of those movies that everyone should watch. 14:23 He's referring to the superstitious practice of skipping 13 when numbering floors in a building.
I adore this film. A fun thing I like to suggest people do on repeated viewings of this film is during the scene where Llewelyn has just discovered the tracker in the bag while in the hotel room, turn the sound on your TV/Player device right up. You can hear the receptionist get shot and fall over, footsteps up the stairs, the bleeping of the tracker, and even the lightbulb being unscrewed from the hallway light fixture. Of course, beware the moment when Anton blows the lock out because it'll deafen you, lol. The attention to detail in this film's sound design is incredible.
The thing Anton uses to kill or to remove door locks is called a Captive Bolt Pistol. They were created to stun animals (particularly cattle) prior to slaughter. Used on a cow, it will knock the cow unconscious. Humans, of course, have much thinner skulls.
14:25 - "There's one missing floor". Basically in America, many older buildings don't label the 13th floor. The elevators jump from 12 to 14 due to superstitions of the past. That was the premise behind his confusion.
The missing floor is because a lot of buildings will skip the 13th floor out of superstition. obviously theres still a 13th floor but the numbers will go straight from 12 to 14
I think the main message of the movie is: Life Isn’t Fair. For half the movie we expect it to play out how any old Western would; Our stereotypical masculine cowboy hero will kill the lunatic villain and walk off with the money, except that isn’t how life works. We expect the Sheriff to somehow piece the whole thing together and put an end to the chaos, but he never does, because that’s not how life works. The unfairness of life is the rule Anton lives by and chooses to identify with, acting as an instrument of death driven by chance and the unluckiness of anyone who crosses his path. Except even he is subjected to the unfairness of life when he drives through a green light and is still struck by a random speeding driver. A movie hasn’t made me think this much in a long time and I’m so glad I finally watched it. Great reaction guys!
In the closing minutes, you described the original Halloween (1978). :p And speaking of 1978, the sheriff's wife in this one played the role of 16 year old Tina in Jaws 2.
I always saw it as Anton is literally the embodiment of death. Some he’s sent after for their sins, some are chance/fate (coin flips) and then there’s Tommy Lee Jones living by choosing to walk away.
That's the thing, he ISN'T an embodiment. Carla Jean says it plainly: the coin don't got no say. It's just him. He chose to be there. He chooses to kill based on a coin flip. The real randomness is the car crash that happens right after. Chigurh's a person made of blood and bone.
14:35 that missing floor could be the 13th floor. As it is considered bad luck to have one, some elevators in buildings don't have the number and the real 13th is numbered 14.
Hell of a movie! For somebody who was used to Coen Bros. movies like "Raising Arizona", and, "The Big Lebowski", this movie came as a total shock to me when I first saw it.
12:30 he is making a practice entry on the same style room. checking where the light switch is, where to expect the guy on the bed, how thick the wall is to the bathroom etc..
After I initially watched this movie I read that many people (myself included) mistake Josh Brolin as the main character but it’s actually Tommy Lee Jones. That’s why it’s called No Country for Old Men, he’s just an older sheriff that can’t keep up the way he used to. That’s why his dad in his dream goes on up ahead until it’s time for him to catch up.
Nice detail about the border guard, the 12th infantry battalion was originally formed in the civil war and has seen some of the fiercest fighting in every major war since. In Vietnam they won numerous awards for combat, and 66-68 were the worst years of the Vietnam war. A mutual respect once that was said
I love that Llewellyn and Anton not only never have a showdown, but it's not even him that kills him. Also, that we never see it. It's just matter of fact. Like the bad guy doest always get their comeuppance.
When the guy came in the room, and then shut off the lights walked out and came back in the room really quick, that was so if anybody was hiding they would think it was safe and come out and he would catch them. lol I used to play Way too much hide and go seek as a kid and that would work all the time😁
@13:58 that's the stapler guy from Office Space and he does the voice for Bill on King Of The Hill. Stephen Root. He's been in a lot of stuff, great character actor. There are a lot of veteran actors in this movie.
14:27 Pretty sure he means the "13th floor" is missing, due to superstition having a lot of older building going from floor 12 to floor 14, because nobody wants to be on the "unlucky" 13th floor. Dude being sarcastic back saying they'll look into it.
14:25 A lot of buildings over 13 floors would not label floor 13 as such, naming it the 14th floor on the directory and elevator, just skipping the 13th floor, mostly out of superstition.
And the scene of Anton opening the door twice at the motel is he is methodical, he knows the layout from the map, and that’s why he grips the closet wall, to see if it was thick enough to shoot through
Yes, that can happen to a vehicle by lighting cloth in the gas tank. A explosion would depend on the amount of gas in the tank, if the tank was full it might not happen, but half full the flame could travel and cause an explosion due to the gas vapors. Then again I have never done it.
Simone is probably the first person I have seen to fully grasp the ending on a reaction. Very nice to see.
Yes, I watch alot of reaction channels and she is one of the best at catching the subplot and character nuance way before anyone else...if they ever do get it at all.
That final monologue by Tommy Lee Jones is one of the most powerful endings of any movie ever. Just amazing.
@@justmeeagainn it kind of does. If you’re interested, Wendigoon has a truly fantastic video about it. The rule of fire.
@@justmeeagainn The story is about Tommy Lee Jones's character. The book adds some more context. McCarthy's lyrical writing (which is all of the dialogue in this movie ripped straight out of the book) is philosophical and meant to be ambiguous yet is at the same time very clear. I think it makes total sense. The "silence of God" and the realization from Tommy Lee Jones's character about his regrets from being a "coward" in WW2 or not a "man of action" like his ancestors--but in fact they were just the same as he was makes him shrink away from some ideal nature of the world--i,e. No Country For Old Men. The final monologue is the crown jewel of the novel and film.
@@justmeeagainn totally wrong. That monologue ends the movie and book perfectly.
Yeah. Cormac McCarthy is one of the best writers of all time. It's almost hard to believe he's still alive since his works all read like classic literature. Reading him feels like reading Tolstoy, Faulkner or Conrad.
Agree to disagree. I've sent better endings. For example, Saw. Overall no country is a far better film, no doubt. But the ending to saw was better. This one kind just....ends. which is fine, but never gonna be a great ending.
My favorite line in any movie is Ellis saying, “You can’t stop what’s comin’. It ain’t all waitin’ on you. That’s vanity.”
Total agreement. That whole interaction is my favorite. I had a Great Uncle like that. He always had words of wisdom. It's a beautiful scene.
My favorite is either "quit'cher hollerin'" or "that's how many👌"
The reason Chigurh was acting weird when he first entered the hotel is he was checking for the most efficient way to kill in that room. He checked how far the light switch was from the door, the thickness of the wall so he knew wether he could shoot through it or not, and others that I’m probably forgetting because it’s been a little bit since I’ve sat down and watched it.
Checking for hiding spaces.
Yes he rented the exact same room to study the layout so he knew what he was walking into. No surprises for him.
I think it's also to catch people who are dumb enough to immediately come out of their hiding place the second they hear their door close and hear the footsteps disappear.
My favorite movie. Simone's reaction to the ending was perfect. It's nice to see somebody appreciate how beautiful that final scene is.
Chokes me up every time. “I knew he was fixin to make a fire out there in all that dark and all that cold.”
Agreed. Most people (admittedly, myself included) are like, “what the shit?!” But she was immediately picking up what the movie was putting down.
I’m always choked when a reactor cuts it out entirely. You know they just didn’t understand it, but it’s always disappointing. To finally see a reactor really GET IT was amazing
@@MojiBeau uh how many times have u watched someone react to this movie. for god's sake go take a walk or something i dunno.
@@HannaManful live and let live
I'm glad Simone could see the beauty in that ending.
When I first saw this I was 19 and didn't have the maturity to grasp it. Now, looking at my parents who are in their 70s, it has a different resonance.
The first time you watch it, you think the Josh Brolin character is the protagonist, but later you realize it's the Sheriff
I saw this movie at 17 for the first time and still understood I was watching something profound. Sorry to hear you still had your dick in the dirt even at two years my senior.
When we first met Woody Harrelson, he said that there was a floor missing. It's a fairly common practice for tall buildings to not have a 13th floor because so many people consider the number unlucky. Of course, that means that the 14th floor is really the 13th. The inclusion of this dialog might have something to do with the theme of luck.
Thank you. Now I don't have to talk about this.
I've always taken it to mean that there's a secret floor where they're doing something shady, considering these are the people who wear trying to buy the drugs and the snide way he says that they'll look into it. It comes off as an unspoken "somethings going on here and I know it" as a way to show how meticulous and observant Carson is.
It also seems to suggest that Woody Harrelson knows he's smart, and that causes him to sometimes miss the obvious. He's so zeroed in on doing things his own clever little way that he doesn't realize that Chigurh is right under his nose.
It's a longstanding architectural superstition; I don't think you need to read anything into it, other than that Harrelson's character is observant and wry. That being said, suppose away. It's always interesting to see the connections that people draw between things. I mean that honestly.
In much taller buildings there often is a 13th floor but it's full of building equipment.
The shop owner’s mistake was saying “ya’ll been getting any rain your way? Seen you was from Dallas…”. Anton just killed a man, and his car is what the shop owner saw. Now there’s a trail. Had he kept his mouth shut, that encounter wouldn’t have went that way.
Yeah it’s totally the shop owners fault that a psychopath walked into his store
@@Duffman69able I’m just stating the reason said psychopath flipped a coin for his life
@@Joe-th3rx He doesn't need a reason.
Yeah, most people don't get that. I lo e that little insight.
But he does. He didnt do things randomly.
The part at 12:22 Anton is practicing entering and clearing the room. He’s checking where the light switch is so he can turn it on quickly and neutralize any advantage the defenders would have seeing him sillhouetted in the doorway. You’ll notice in that scene he also checks the thickness of the walls to make sure he can shoot through them in case anyone takes cover.
It's also him checking for anyone coming out of hiding.
As someone who grew up in west Texas, the feel, ambiance, emptiness, and townsfolk are spot on
What makes Anton so terrifying is not only the extremely lethal danger of just being near him but the sheer mystery of his character. The whole 'nothing is scarier' element is strong. The fact that he's at large by the end doesn't help, but at least in the novel the authorities pick up on his trail and his days are stated to be numbered. Bardem absolutely delivered.
Everyones days are numbered the only difference is the count.
"The sheer mystery of his character"...so many lesser movies get this wrong. We DON'T need to know everything about a villain - or anything - many times. Not everyone or everything needs a tidy little sensible origin story so we understand them entirely. Seems too many movies are busy explaining WHY a character is the way they are instead of just letting them BE the way they are.
@@ClifHaley I always just figured Anton didn't get a bike for his 8th birthday.
He sees himself as "fate."
Yes, he's doomed. Wounded Llewellyn buys clothing off a guy at the border, dies a day or so later, off screen, and that's foreshadowing for wounded Chigurh buying a shirt from the kid.
Here is a crazy fact for you: Javier Bardem was an established actor in Spain, mostly romantic comedies. He is considered a heartthrob because of the romantic movies he has done. He is amazing!
He is a beautiful man but in this film he plays such a good villain. Arguably one of the best of all time and you don't get to be ugly and married to penelope Cruz for a decade.
For us in Spain, he's like the Spanish version of Hugh Grant. He's known for romantic comedies, but can also play villains really well.
What's so crazy about that?
@@richieclean cause a lot of people associate Javier Bardem with Anton nowadays after this film. i think it’s a crazy fun fact to know that one of the best depicted psychopaths in cinema history is also a rom-com heartthrob in his own country.
If you like Javier Bardem, you'll love the erotic thriller Live Flesh
She really felt that ending. It's wonderful.
“And then I woke up”…..best final line ever delivered. Simone got it.
Anton gave so many people the creeps, absolutely phenomenal acting.
A gas tank doesn't need to be pressurized to explode.
In fact, since gasoline is only flammable in its gaseous form, a nearly empty gas tank will explode more readily, and with more force than a nearly full one.
That was priceless Simone! So glad you caught on to this film's depth and brilliance.
"I don't think this is a comedy." - No kidding.
George is the first reactor I've seen who recognized the cattle gun.
Kelly Macdonald, who played Carla Jean, is Scottish. She normally speaks with a thick Scottish accent. You couldn't tell it from this movie. Her dialect was perfect.
The quietness of the movie, and the absence of non-diegetic music, makes it more suspenseful. The scene where Chigurh tracks Llewelyn to the hotel room and the shootout that follows is more terrifying because there are no cues telling you what's about to happen. The bullets breaking the windows in the truck without the sound of rifle fire makes you feel like they could be coming from anywhere.
The sequence with Chigurh at the motel can be a bit confusing on first viewing. Llewelyn saw when he returned to the motel that someone was there waiting for him, which is why he had the cabbie take him to a different motel, and why he rented the room behind his original room when he returned. Chigurh saw the same thing, but he's smart enough that he didn't barge directly into Llewelyn's original room. Instead, he rented the room next to it, and studied its layout to plan his moves. Then when he burst into Llewelyn's room, he encountered members of the Mexican drug cartel that were waiting for Llewelyn to come back. Chigurh kills them, but by then Llewelyn has extracted the money and left.
Anton Chigurh is a fascinating character. He sees himself as carrying out the whims of fate. Because of this, it's impossible to reason with him. Carla Jean calls him on this: "The coin don't have no say. It's just you." But Anton responds with, "Well, I got here the same way the coin did." But then we see that Chigurh is just as vulnerable to random chance as anyone else when the car runs a red light and crashes into him.
No Country for Old Men subverts expectations in several ways. It sets us up for a final confrontation between Llewelyn and Chigurh, only to have Llewelyn die off-camera by someone else's hand. Sheriff Bell, the narrator and the "old man" of the title, never even sees or talks to either Llewelyn or Chigurh. And the movie just sort of ends without anything being resolved.
Nowadays, you don't need the tank for a knocker.
Simone's reaction after Ed Tom's last monologue is beautiful. If you ever watch The Road (both movies are adaptations of Cormac McCarthy novels), be sure to remember the image of "carrying the fire." The more you watch this film, the more brilliant it becomes. Personally, I think it's the Coens' best. Also, the title comes from a poem by W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium." Everything about this film is profound. Including the silence.
Beautifully said. I agree.
My dad passed when I was fourteen.
Hearing the old man talk in such an abstract manner about his dream actually almost made me tear up knowing that just like him, I will be looking for that fire among the dark and cold, and that my dad would be there, but I will always wake up before I can greet him.
The gasstation scene is my fav scene of any movie. This movie is an absolute masterpiece.
the line "im older then my father was by 20 years, so in a sense hes the younger man" for some reason really sticks with me.
"What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?" Epic scene from start to finish.
The final scene with Llewellyn's wife, when Shigur leaves the house, and you wonder if you should be happy or sad...and then he checks his shoes. The movie does so much with tiny details.
This movie is pure art. One of the best films ever made
"no good deed goes unpunished." The movie. A masterpiece.
Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, the title of "No Country for Old Men" comes from the opening line of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats.
When I saw this in the theatre awhile after it came out I was the only person there. Such a great experience to see this masterpiece all by oneself on the big screen
sound EPIC!
@@stephenreyes6642 It was pretty fantastic and a little ominous too. Never been the only one in a theater before or since.
by the end of this reaction we have the two types of people who watch this movie perfectly summed up. Simone visibly moved and in tears over Tommy Lee Jones' monologue. George going "whut, lol"
I love how methodic Chigurn is. He rents the room to see how the layout of the roons are, he even check the closet, to see if is big enought for someone to hide in there.
Something I noticed about this film is that they build tension through the landscape as well. When he confronts people they are literally in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around for miles. The sparse population and empty wilderness feels very dangerous. They also reinforce this with the film being really quiet and absence of music.
They did an excellent job portraying the pure vastness and emptiness of what I can only assume is west Texas in particular but also the US in general. It's just a wide open, often dangerous land where it's very easy to find yourself completely isolated from the rest of the world. I've only seen a couple movies that can get the scale right like Unforgiven, but none have hit this tone with it.
@@billhicks6449 I lived alone for a time in a wild lonely place. A few times a day there was a train that passed, but far off. Occasionally there were snatches of music from a nearby rancho. But most of the time was the sound of wind. Inside the gate were some overgrown rosemary bushes, and as the weather warmed and they bloomed, there was the buzzing of bees early in the day.
The first two weeks of hearing almost nothing but the sound of wind was very spooky. But it’s also lovely in a way, as if a weight has been lifted from your mind. I lived out there for three months as a caretaker. I think word spread beyond the rancho that there was a gringo living out there alone, because I began hearing “night birds” when I hadn’t before, and in the morning there would be footprints and tracks around the house. I moved into the rancho, thieves stripped out the metal windows and stairs and anything else of value, and the last time I saw it the roof had collapsed it was turning into a ruin.
@@MarcosElMalo2 - This was a nice vignette Marco, perhaps you should try your hand in the literary realm? Cormac would be proud! 🙂
Great movie, epic performance by Bardem - I knew watching him reminded me of something, but I couldn't remember what - it finally came to me. Decades ago I was at a zoo and saw a row of enclosures with big cats. In one, there was a melanistic leopard, a.k.a. a black panther, pacing back and forth. I stopped to look at the cat, and it stopped and just stood there staring at me - no detectable emotion, just laser-focused on me - and I suddenly knew in my bones that if there hadn't been a barrier between that cat and me, I'd already have been dead when I had the thought. One of the most chilling experiences I've ever had - hard to explain how it felt. Bardem's character reminds me of that cat.
About the car blowing up: it would depend to a great degree on how much gas was in the tank. It's counterintuitive, but the most explosive situation would be for the tank to be almost empty, because it isn't the liquid gasoline that explodes, it's the air full of gasoline vapor. It's what the military calls an FAE, a fuel-air explosive, like the thermobaric bombs (a.k.a. vacuum bombs) that have become controversial in recent years. The same thing can happen with air that is full of flammable particles, especially if they have a static electric charge - that's why grain silos blow up sometimes. If the car's tank was completely full, it might start a fire that would end up consuming the car, but not blow it up.
This movie has my favourite soundtrack 😜
Amazing scoring. It really sets the atmosphere.
John Cage is a genius.
I love the last scene of this film. The Sheriff explaining his dreams from the night before always leaves me very emotional. I'm curious what about that ending monologue made you guys feel emotional or was it from something else that resonated with you from earlier in the film? I always look forward to seeing reactor's reactions to this specific part of this movie.
Some buildings are built without a numbered 13th floor because of superstitions. They go from the 12th floor to the 14th. I had thought they had stopped this practice, but it may still be going on.
The film is set in the early 80's, so that practice would probably still have been quite common.
I've only seen the movie once (just a couple of months ago) so I don't have really many thoughts about it yet; my experience was pretty much a quiet meditation on evil. But the really, really impressive thing about this movie is how well it captures not only the story and the dialogue of the novel, but that it actually feels like a cinematic translation of the literary art of Cormac McCarthy. What he says with words, and how he says them -- the combination of simplicity (except when he ain't), horror, and beauty -- is captured incredibly on the screen by the Coens. I adore how they're both capable of portraying absolute horror with such absolute beauty. This is my favorite Coen movie and by far my favorite cinematography by Roger Deakins.
You being blown away like that reminded me of how I felt when I finished McCarthy's latest novel "The Road", the most powerful reading experience of my life. So much so that I refuse to watch the film version.
I think the movie just is.
And that's the cool thing about it.
Things just are. There's no meaning behind them. No sense.
Chigurgh's killings are senseless. The main character's death is. The old cop's trying to make sense of things and can't... or maybe talks himself into believing there is one. The end seems like it's trying to say that this is how and why people start creating faiths. To have something they can rely on, that light in the dark, that hope there's someone waiting for you.
But of course there isn't. The psychopath killer walks off into the sunset to kill another day. And the world doesn't care. You can believe as hard as you want, nothing will ever make any sense, nothing has meaning.
Chigurgh embodies this lack of meaning. And the movie is very much like Chigurgh. Just letting things happen and killing off characters from time to time.
Read Blood Meridian. It’s incredible.
@@benjaminluttrell3673 I tried it maybe 10 years ago but back then, I felt as intimidated by the language as I was enthralled by it. I’ll try it again soon.
The adaptation of The Road isn’t bad. I hope Hollywood never tries to make Blood Meridian.
I picked up a Spanish copy of Cities of the Plain (the middle book of the Border Trilogy) while I was trying to improve my Spanish. I struggled through it because McCarthy’s language is so precise and the corresponding words can be obscure. Yet they often are so spot on that I have wondered if McCarthy wasn’t thinking in Spanish when he wrote certain parts.
I’ll give you an example from the very first phrase of Cities of the Plain. Zapatearon en el portal para sacudirse la lluvia de las botas . . . The stood in the doorway and stomped the rain from their boots . . . In a way it’s even more vivid in Spanish.
@@MarcosElMalo2 I hear The Road is not a bad adaptation, but this is a case where reading the book was such a unique and powerful experience for me that I just have no desire to see it.
You guys did the best reaction to this movie than any I’ve seen. No talking over important dialogue, no cracking jokes just to hear themselves laugh, no over-analyzing while the movie is playing. Just an intelligent conversation over the movie at the end. Well done.
Due to superstition, many buildings omit the 13th floor, but everyone on the 14th floor of those buildings knows exactly what floor they're really on. This could be why Woody counted fewer floors from outside.
This is one of those movies you have to watch multiple times and really think about. Bardem gave one of the best performances ever.
I've seen a car blow up like that. The engine overheated and caught fire, and when it got to the gas tank, it was a pretty big explosion. It was fire season, so everyone was scrambling to put the pieces that went flying out before the fire really spread. Luckily the fire trucks came because there were a lot of pieces!
Tall buildings skip floor 13.... it goes 12 then 14. Superstitions....
That's why the building was missing a floor.
That Neverland joke is priceless!!!
One incredible strength with this movie is the absence of music. It serves the tension very well.
The wife (Carla Jean) was played by Scottish actress, Kelly Macdonald. Kelly Macdonald was Diane in Trainspotting. I don’t know if you’ve seen Trainspotting yet but it’s quite the ride.
the missing floor is sometimes the 13th. buildings over 13 stories sometimes will skip from 12 to 14.
I saw this opening weekend. I was stunned at its enormity. I sat in my seat for about 30 min after the ending. It was so much to take in. When it won best picture, it was obvious and natural.
Vietnam ERA vet (fortunate I didn't go to Nam, but lost fraternity brothers both mentally and physically)(: I had a similar experience when I saw The Dear Hunter. When it ended I was totally drained , couldn't get up from my seat for a long time
(14:22) Just FYI, the floor missing is of course the 13th floor. In buildings of higher floors, the 13th floor is omitted because it's considered a bad luck numbered floor.
Javier Bardem was the clear choice for the Oscar. Well deserved. To show his range, the next movie he did was the brilliant Woody Allen movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" with Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz (who later became his wife). Definitely one to consider watching as I do not believe you have reacted to any Woody Allen movies. He may be a pervert but he's a talented pervert. If not this, I highly recommend "The Purple Rose of Cairo".
He re-enters the motel room quickly to practice opening the door and turning the light on fast.. He then inspects things like wall widths etc to see if he can shoot through them.. terrifyingly calculated. Deserving of his Oscar for this performance.
One of the most terrifying villan/hitman in movie history! Javier Bardem nailed it!
He styled his hair that way to make him look even more terrifying for the role!
Great review. As a native Texan, I was very impressed with Carla Jeans accent. The actress is from Scotland.
I’m sure I read somewhere that the American Psychologist council (or whatever they’re called) said Javier’s portrayal of a psychopath was the most accurate they’d ever seen in a movie. That’s what makes him so creepy, like a true psychopath he’s showing zero emotion 😬
The reference to the missing floor is due to the fact that hotels don't have a thirteenth floor. If you're in a 20 story building the top,floor would be 21.
@25:55 wooooow right Simone? To end on that note, on that fuc*ing monologue by Tommy Lee Jones? Wow right? This is a masterpiece by the Cohen brothers, enough said....
By far one of my favourite movies. The Scene in the hotel where the shootout spills into the street and their is no accompanying music. Just the sound of gunshots and footsteps. It's so quiet and so unnerving.
Underrated IMO - a silent death that lingers on and on and on. The lethal deft turn by Bardem is beyond petrifying (like a predator - which Anton is - he's stealthy deadly) and the morose one-two-punch of Brolin & Jones is a fine counterpoint. One of the best endings in the film. Just.Ends. The title says everything. Nice job guys.
Well done, George. You are the first reactor I've seen who recognized Anton's cattle gun for what it is right away. Most people wonder the whole time what that thing is and only understand when the sheriff talks about it near the end of the movie.
Geez, I've seen this movie countless times and always take away something new from it.
This time I finally realized why Anton kicked in his own door and fliipped the lights on in his hotel room after just having left.
He was memorizing the room so his eyes dilating when the lights flipped on wouldn't be an issue for him after he kicks in the door in the next hotel room.
Chigurh's attention to detail and planning is terrifying
The fact that they managed to build up so much tension and emotion with no score at all is crazy. Took me three viewings to realize that there was no music at all
oh i'm so hype to see this reaction! this movie works on you on so many levels, i'm already recalling the sheriff's dream story at the end
To make a movie w no score is just wild.
This will forever be an all time great movie, the performances, the cinematography just memorable.
7:59 Calm yet menacing, inhuman, all accurate descriptions of Anton!!! A truly unique villain 👌🏾🍿🎬😈
For the car explosion, gasoline produces vapors that are pretty explosive. But there needs to be only half a tank or less (of gas) for it to blow up instead of just catching on fire.
Cigur just walking away like that is one of the single best scenes in all of film history. We rarely see that kind of thing happen in movies which in part has a big effect, but also just by how casually it's done and then goes to TLJ and you think something still might happen to Cigur and then it ends. Brilliantly done.
The Coen Brothers are master film makers. There's very little in this movie (and Fargo, too) that you could improve upon. Kelly Macdonald, the actress who played Carla Jean, is actually Scottish and has a pretty thick Scottish brogue. But her southern accent in this movie is quite convincing. Great reaction. Thank you.
I only saw this movie for the first time a couple of years ago but it instantly became one of my all time favorites. The production value of this movie is insane
14:30 The “missing” floor is the 13th floor. Due to superstition, many buildings are built without a 13th floor; the numbering goes from 12 to 14.
The Coen brothers are my favourite living filmmakers. Kubrick is my all-time favourite.
I love old gangster movies from the 1930s and 40s, so their early movie, "Miller's Crossing", set in a 1920s Chicago-style city, is my favourite Coen film. You must see it to believe it. John Turturro's performance will blow you away.
I’m glad we are 3 minutes in and you’re noticing stuff I didn’t notice until my second watch. Fun film, thank you for posting your reaction.
Trivia... when the old man in the wheelchair is talking about sending the badge and the "thumb-buster" off to the Ranger museum. "Thumb-buster" is slang for old single action Colt Peacemaker which some Texas Rangers used before (and maybe even after) WWII.
The actress who played Llewelyn's wife Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) is a SCOTTISH actress! With a matching accent! Just amazing
random building thing, the 13th floor is often not used in buildings as it is a common floor for feeling resonance of a buildings movement. that just popped to mind after the talk of a floor missing
My old Highschool Weight Training Coach always called me No Country and I never understood what he meant until he told me to watch this movie.
Apparently I looked like Bardems character and I never knew it.
On another note, an instructor at a Trade School always hummed or sang the Stelio Kontos song from American Dad everytime we walked by each other, that guy was hilarious.
I've been waiting for this one. This is one of those movies that everyone should watch.
14:23 He's referring to the superstitious practice of skipping 13 when numbering floors in a building.
I adore this film. A fun thing I like to suggest people do on repeated viewings of this film is during the scene where Llewelyn has just discovered the tracker in the bag while in the hotel room, turn the sound on your TV/Player device right up. You can hear the receptionist get shot and fall over, footsteps up the stairs, the bleeping of the tracker, and even the lightbulb being unscrewed from the hallway light fixture. Of course, beware the moment when Anton blows the lock out because it'll deafen you, lol. The attention to detail in this film's sound design is incredible.
The thing Anton uses to kill or to remove door locks is called a Captive Bolt Pistol.
They were created to stun animals (particularly cattle) prior to slaughter. Used on a cow, it will knock the cow unconscious. Humans, of course, have much thinner skulls.
14:25 - "There's one missing floor". Basically in America, many older buildings don't label the 13th floor. The elevators jump from 12 to 14 due to superstitions of the past. That was the premise behind his confusion.
In America (maybe in canada some too?) They usually skip the thirteenth floor in buildings, so buildings over 13stories are usually "missing" a floor.
Fun Fact: The scene in the gas station is show in film schools to show how to create tension! (Similar to the beginning scene in Inglourious Basterds)
The missing floor is because a lot of buildings will skip the 13th floor out of superstition. obviously theres still a 13th floor but the numbers will go straight from 12 to 14
Seeing Simone so affected by the ending monologue was very touching.
I think the main message of the movie is: Life Isn’t Fair.
For half the movie we expect it to play out how any old Western would; Our stereotypical masculine cowboy hero will kill the lunatic villain and walk off with the money, except that isn’t how life works.
We expect the Sheriff to somehow piece the whole thing together and put an end to the chaos, but he never does, because that’s not how life works.
The unfairness of life is the rule Anton lives by and chooses to identify with, acting as an instrument of death driven by chance and the unluckiness of anyone who crosses his path.
Except even he is subjected to the unfairness of life when he drives through a green light and is still struck by a random speeding driver.
A movie hasn’t made me think this much in a long time and I’m so glad I finally watched it. Great reaction guys!
No country for old women too! The mother was only 58 but looked like she was 75...
In the closing minutes, you described the original Halloween (1978). :p And speaking of 1978, the sheriff's wife in this one played the role of 16 year old Tina in Jaws 2.
"Oh Brother, Where art Thou?" is another Cohen Brothers classic. I'd love to see you react to it.
I always saw it as Anton is literally the embodiment of death. Some he’s sent after for their sins, some are chance/fate (coin flips) and then there’s Tommy Lee Jones living by choosing to walk away.
That's the thing, he ISN'T an embodiment. Carla Jean says it plainly: the coin don't got no say. It's just him. He chose to be there. He chooses to kill based on a coin flip. The real randomness is the car crash that happens right after. Chigurh's a person made of blood and bone.
In that regard you could technically classify No Country for Old Men as a monster movie.
14:35 that missing floor could be the 13th floor. As it is considered bad luck to have one, some elevators in buildings don't have the number and the real 13th is numbered 14.
Hell of a movie! For somebody who was used to Coen Bros. movies like "Raising Arizona", and, "The Big Lebowski", this movie came as a total shock to me when I first saw it.
12:30 he is making a practice entry on the same style room. checking where the light switch is, where to expect the guy on the bed, how thick the wall is to the bathroom etc..
After I initially watched this movie I read that many people (myself included) mistake Josh Brolin as the main character but it’s actually Tommy Lee Jones. That’s why it’s called No Country for Old Men, he’s just an older sheriff that can’t keep up the way he used to. That’s why his dad in his dream goes on up ahead until it’s time for him to catch up.
Nice detail about the border guard, the 12th infantry battalion was originally formed in the civil war and has seen some of the fiercest fighting in every major war since. In Vietnam they won numerous awards for combat, and 66-68 were the worst years of the Vietnam war. A mutual respect once that was said
I love that Llewellyn and Anton not only never have a showdown, but it's not even him that kills him. Also, that we never see it. It's just matter of fact. Like the bad guy doest always get their comeuppance.
The quick room check was to see if anyone would come out of hiding after he left... To catch them off guard
A group of psychiatrists spent 3 years watching 400 films with psychopaths and they agreed that Anton is the best. depiction of one.
When the guy came in the room, and then shut off the lights walked out and came back in the room really quick, that was so if anybody was hiding they would think it was safe and come out and he would catch them. lol I used to play Way too much hide and go seek as a kid and that would work all the time😁
Simone, your reaction to the ending, as it sank in. You really connected with this one. I love it.
@13:58 that's the stapler guy from Office Space and he does the voice for Bill on King Of The Hill. Stephen Root. He's been in a lot of stuff, great character actor. There are a lot of veteran actors in this movie.
14:27 Pretty sure he means the "13th floor" is missing, due to superstition having a lot of older building going from floor 12 to floor 14, because nobody wants to be on the "unlucky" 13th floor. Dude being sarcastic back saying they'll look into it.
Anton entering the room again is him visualising where possible targets would be and where he would shoot the second he enters the room.
14:25 A lot of buildings over 13 floors would not label floor 13 as such, naming it the 14th floor on the directory and elevator, just skipping the 13th floor, mostly out of superstition.
And the scene of Anton opening the door twice at the motel is he is methodical, he knows the layout from the map, and that’s why he grips the closet wall, to see if it was thick enough to shoot through
Yes, that can happen to a vehicle by lighting cloth in the gas tank. A explosion would depend on the amount of gas in the tank, if the tank was full it might not happen, but half full the flame could travel and cause an explosion due to the gas vapors. Then again I have never done it.