A Critical Reflection of No Country for Old Men Anton Chigurth is perhaps one of the most complex antagonistic characters in modern cinema. No Country for Old Men, in short, is a film about a chase between a character named Llewelyn Moss, who has found a satchel full of money at a crime scene and decided to take it for himself and Anton Chigurth, who is hell bent on hunting down Moss and retrieving the money by any means necessary. At the center of all this is Sherriff Ed Tom Bell, who is looking
No Country for Old Men Douglas Faysal Mrs. Lee HHG4M Friday June 5th, 2015 Background/Overview The film no country for old men which came out in 2007 and was directed by Joel and Ethan Coen is based off a book written by Cormac McCarthy. The movie takes place in west Texas during the 1980s. The movie includes three men whose paths meet. We have Sherriff Ed Tom Bell a veteran from the Vietnam War; Llewelyn Moss and the mass assassin Anton Chigurh. It all starts when Llewelyn stumbles across
Sheriff Bell’s beliefs, understanding, and desire for justice for the victims of Anton Chigurh's murderous rampage throughout the Southwest (specifically Mexican-Texan border)is relatively static in the novel no Country For Old Men. Bell’s chase is motivated by how he desired to see society shape into his vision, as well as his discontent with not only the dynamic nature of crime but also his past regrettable decisions. Bell’s understanding of justice, is often skewed by the haunting war memory
In today’s generation, people have become more violent without having a purpose. And as society grows larger, the decline of proper justice is becoming harder to achieve. Cormac McCarthy’s latest novel, “No Country for Old Men”, portrays evilness, specifically the weakening of justice in human existence to an extent where a person can kill whoever gets on his way. McCarthy intentionally depicts Sheriff Bell to partake in the crime scene as the character who seeks for proper justice and illustrates
Moss dead, Sheriff Bell handing in his badge, and Chigurh out on the prowl once again; No Country for Old Men is a movie that is notorious for its ending. In the film we are presented with one story about three men whose fates are intertwined. Llewelyn Moss, arguably the hero of the story happens upon a drug deal gone wrong and obtains a suitcase full of money. This leads to the hiring of Anton Chigurh to collect the money at any cost, which in turn causes Sheriff Ed Tom Bell to chase after the pair
thrives off of society’s new transformation, while the older generations must adapt to the new change in order to survive the dynamic world. Cormac McCarthy illustrates the ordeal of surviving in the modernized “Wild West” in his novel, No Country for Old Men. McCarthy tells the story of Llewellyn Moss, a young hunter who finds a suitcase with around two million dollars. Moss secures his family and the newly found money. Additionally, Moss is chased by a psychopathic killer named Anton Chigurh, who
The movie No Country for Old Men is based off of a young hunter who happens upon a drug deal gone badly. The plot seems very simple when one of the main characters, Moss, finds a suitcase filled with two million dollars in cash, all the while surrounded with a lot of dead bodies. He took the suitcase of money, and is on the run with it through out the whole movie. One of the other main characters, Sherriff Bell, is sort of like a low-key, unsuccessful hero, and while Moss is on the run, he tries
W.B Yeats tells us “the aged man is but a paltry thing”, in his poem Sailing the Byzantium. Cormac McCarthy bases his novel, No Country for Old Men, off of this concept. Sheriff Bell, the narrator of the novel, feels outdated and worthless as he tries to solve many murders involved in a drug deal gone wrong. But he is unsettled when he realizes that his old methods may not work on the now corrupted youth. Towards the middle of his journey Sheriff Bell begins to doubt that society will ever be able
On the surface, the films Saving Private Ryan and No Country for Old Men couldn’t be farther apart. One is about a group of men on a search to bring a man home safely home to his mother and the other is about two men on a hunt for another man, one wants to kill him and the other wants to help him do the right thing… I guess. But if you take a closer look at both films there are some similarities besides the fact that they both have horrific murder/ death scenes. They both have us look at evil and
Similar themes can be presented in novels with completely different settings. After reading a book set in the new West, Downriver by Will Hobbes, then reading one in the old West, How The West Was Won by Louis L’Amour, a theme of survival is presented in each novel. In the modern book, Downriver, a group of teenage troublemakers join a program called Discovery Unlimited and are sent to Southern Colorado to learn how to live off the land. But in How The West Was Won, families move west in search of