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No Country for Old Men
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoel Coen
Ethan Coen
Written byScreenplay:
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
Novel:
Cormac McCarthy
Produced byJoel Coen
Ethan Coen
Scott Rudin
StarringTommy Lee Jones
Josh Brolin
Javier Bardem
Kelly Macdonald
Woody Harrelson
CinematographyRoger Deakins
Edited byRoderick Jaynes
Music byCarter Burwell
Distributed byMiramax Films (US)
Paramount Vantage (non-US)
Release dates
United States:
November 9, 2007
(limited)
November 21, 2007
(wide)
Australia:
26 December, 2007
United Kingdom:
18 January, 2008
Running time
122 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$25 million

No Country for Old Men is a critically acclaimed, award winning 2007 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, the film features Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem. Faithfully adapted from the well-received novel,[1][2] No Country for Old Men draws heavily on McCarthy's themes of chance and fate. It tells the story of a drug deal gone very wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.

The film has been highly praised by critics. Roger Ebert called it "as good a film as the Coen brothers . . . have ever made."[3] A Guardian journalist said the film proved "that the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors."[4]

No Country for Old Men won Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Screenplay. It also received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor.

Plot

The film opens with shots of desolate, wide-open country in West Texas in June 1980. In a voiceover the local sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) tells of the changing times as the region becomes increasingly violent. The antagonist Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) and his weapon of choice, a captive bolt pistol, are then introduced as Chigurh strangles a sheriff's deputy, escapes custody, and steals a car by using the bolt pistol to kill the driver. Meanwhile, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), hunting pronghorn near the Rio Grande, comes across a collection of corpses and one dying Mexican: the aftermath of a drug deal gone awry. He also finds two million dollars in a satchel a short distance from the massacre. Initially taking the money and leaving the Mexican to die, Moss has an attack of conscience later that night and returns with water for the dying man. This good deed sets off a cat-and-mouse game in which the hunter and hunted frequently switch roles, in which a gang of Mexicans, Moss, Chigurh, and Bell chase each other and the money across the Texas and Mexico landscapes.

Chigurh, a professional hitman, has been hired to retrieve the satchel of money (which contains a hidden radio transponder to which Chigurh has the corresponding receiver). Chigurh does not hesitate to kill those in his way, including those closely associated with the drug deal, the drivers of cars he steals for transportation, and people he encounters by chance. Moss, unaware of the transponder's existence, sends his wife Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) out of town and moves from motel to motel as he attempts to elude both the Mexicans and Chigurh. In the meantime, Bell avoids the federal authorities’ investigation of the drug-related massacre and focuses his attention on trying to locate and protect Moss. Chigurh, with his tracking device, inexorably closes in on Moss while acting as an agent of fate and chance to the people he meets along the way.

While following the money Chigurh guns down most of the remaining Mexicans and a rival hitman, Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson). Moss, realizing Chigurh will find Carla Jean and kill her, arranges a rendezvous with her in El Paso to give her the money and send her out of harm’s way. The characters all converge in a seedy hotel in El Paso, but not simultaneously: Sheriff Bell and Carla Jean do not arrive until after Moss has been killed by the Mexicans in a shootout.

Sheriff Bell returns that night to the hotel and finds the lock has been blown out on the door to the room where Moss was killed (blown locks being Chigurh's recurring method of entry). Chigurh is shown hiding behind the door of the hotel room; but when Bell enters the room Chigurh is not visible and the Sheriff does not see him. After seeing that a vent cover in the room has been removed (suggesting that the money is gone), Bell leaves unharmed.

Some time later Bell visits his Uncle Ellis (Barry Corbin), an ex-lawman. Bell is planning to retire due to his weariness of the changing times, but Ellis points out that the region has always been violent, and accuses Bell of "vanity" — in thinking times are somehow different now. Chigurh, in the meantime, has located the newly-widowed Carla Jean and waits for her at her deceased mother's home. Despite telling her that he "gave Llewelyn his word" that she would die should Moss not hand over the money, Chigurh reconsiders and offers Carla Jean the same "coin flip" opportunity Chigurh had previously given to an innocent bystander in his path. Unlike the previous party, Carla Jean refuses to call heads or tails. Chigurh leaves the house, carefully checking the soles of his boots, presumably for blood, implying that he had killed her. As Chigurh drives away he is injured in a car accident, his left arm badly broken, but manages to leave the scene before the police arrive.

The film closes on Bell at home, reflecting on his life choices. Bell relates to his wife (Tess Harper) two dreams he had, both involving his deceased father, also a lawman. Bell reveals briefly that in the first dream, he lost "some money" that his father had given him. Bell states that in the second dream, he and his father were riding horses through a snowy mountain pass. Bell states that his father, who was carrying fire in a horn, quietly passed by Bell with his head down. Bell then relates that his father was "going on ahead, and fixin' to make a fire" in the surrounding dark and cold, and that when Bell got there, his father would be waiting.

Themes

Not only is the film an extremely faithful adaptation of McCarthy's 2005 novel, it revisits themes Ethan Coen and Joel Coen have used in Blood Simple and Fargo. The novel's motifs of chance, free-will, and predestination are familiar territory for the Coens, who presented similar threads and tapestries of "fate [and] circumstance" in those earlier works.[5][6] Numerous critics cited the importance of chance to both the novel and the film, focusing on Chigurh's fate-deciding coin flipping,[7] but noted that the nature of the film medium made it difficult to include the "self-reflective qualities of McCarthy’s novel."[8]

In The Village Voice, Scott Foundas writes that "Like McCarthy, the Coens are markedly less interested in who (if anyone) gets away with the loot than in the primal forces that urge the characters forward . . . . [I]n the end, everyone in No Country for Old Men is both hunter and hunted, members of some endangered species trying to forestall their extinction."[9] Roger Ebert writes that "the movie demonstrates how pitiful ordinary human feelings are in the face of implacable injustice."[10]

New York Times critic A.O. Scott points out that Chigurh, Moss and Bell "occupy the screen one at a time, almost never appearing in the frame together, even as their fates become ever more intimately entwined."[11]

Variety critic Todd McCarthy describes Chigurh's modus operandi thus:

Death walks hand in hand with Chigurh wherever he goes, unless he decides otherwise ... if everything you've done in your life has led you to him, he may explain to his about-to-be victims, your time might just have come. 'You don't have to do this,' the innocent invariably insist to a man whose murderous code dictates otherwise. Occasionally, however, he will allow someone to decide his own fate by coin toss, notably in a tense early scene in an old filling station marbled with nervous humor. [12]

Cast and characters

  • Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: A laconic, soon-to-retire small-town sheriff. Jones was the first actor to be cast in No Country for Old Men. The Coen Brothers thought that Jones fit the role since they wanted to avoid sentimentality and not have the audiences perceive the character as a Charley Weaver.[13] Praising Tommy Lee Jones' credentials, the Coen brothers said, "He's from San Saba, Texas, not far from where the movie takes place. He's the real thing regarding that region."
  • Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss: A welder and Vietnam veteran who flees with $2 million in drug money. Brolin was initially overlooked for the role of Llewelyn, despite submitting an audition tape filmed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez during his appearance in Grindhouse.[14] Upon receiving the tape, the Coen brothers' immediate response was to ask who had lit the set.[15] However, following persistent lobbying by his agent, the Coens eventually gave him the role.[14] Brolin broke his collarbone in a motorcycle accident a few days before filming was due to begin. However he and his doctor lied about the extent of his injury to the Coens and they let him continue in the role.[14]
  • Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh: An assassin hired by two businessmen to murder Moss and recover the drug money. The character was a recurrence of the "Unstoppable Evil" archetype found in the Coen Brothers' work, though the brothers wanted to avoid one-dimensionality, particularly a comparison to The Terminator.[16] The Coen Brothers sought to cast someone "who could have come from Mars" to avoid a sense of identification. The brothers introduced the character in the beginning of the film similarly to the introduction of the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth.[13] Chigurh's distinctive look was derived from a 1979 photo from a book supplied by Tommy Lee Jones which featured photos of brothel patrons on the Texas-Mexico border.[17] Describing his "extraordinary moptop haircut," he said, "You don't have to act the haircut. The haircut acts by itself." Bardem signed on because he had been a Coens fan ever since he saw their debut, Blood Simple. They are his favorite film directors.[18]
  • Kelly Macdonald as Carla Jean Moss: Llewelyn Moss's wife.
  • Woody Harrelson as Carson Wells: A cocky bounty hunter hired by the 'Man who hires Wells' to intercept Chigurh and recover the drug money.
  • Tess Harper as Loretta Bell: Sheriff Bell's wife, provides reassurance in his darker moods.
  • Barry Corbin as Ellis: An ex-policeman who was injured in the line of duty and is now wheelchair bound, and acts as a straight-talking sounding board for Sheriff Bell.
  • Beth Grant as Agnes: Carla Jean's mother and the mother-in-law of Moss. She provides a little comic relief despite the fact that she is dying from cancer.
  • Stephen Root as Man who hires Wells. A mysterious figure with an office in a skyscraper.

Production

Producer Scott Rudin bought the book rights to the 2005 American novel No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy and suggested a film adaptation to the Coen Brothers, who at the time were attempting to adapt the novel To the White Sea by James Dickey.[13] By August 2005, the Coen Brothers agreed to write and direct a film adaptation of No Country for Old Men.[19] The adaptation was the second of McCarthy's work, following the 2000 film All the Pretty Horses.[20] The Coen Brothers identified the appeal of the novel to be its "pitiless quality". Ethan Coen explained, "That's a hallmark of the book, which has an unforgiving landscape and characters but is also about finding some kind of beauty without being sentimental." The brothers kept the script faithful to the book, only pruning the story where necessary.[13] A teenage runaway who appeared late in the book and the back story related to Sheriff Bell were both removed.[16] The brothers identified with how the novel also provided a strong sense of place and also how it messed with genre conventions. Joel Coen said of the unconventional approach, "That was familiar, congenial to us; we're naturally attracted to subverting genre. We liked the fact that the bad guys never really meet the good guys, that McCarthy did not follow through on formula expectations."[13]

One of the Coen brothers' influences was director Sam Peckinpah. In an interview for The Guardian, they said "Hard men in the south-west shooting each other - that's definitely Sam Peckinpah's thing. We were aware of those similarities, certainly." [4]

The project was a co-production between Miramax and Paramount's classics-based division in a 50/50 partnership, and production was slated for May 2006 in New Mexico and Texas. Actors Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones entered talks to join the cast in February,[21] and Josh Brolin joined the cast in April, prior to the start of production.[22] With a total budget of $25 million, production was slated to take place in the New Mexican cities of Las Vegas and Santa Fe as well as in the state of Texas. Filmmakers estimated spending between $12 and $17 million of the budget in New Mexico.[23] A movie set of a border checkpoint was built at the intersection of Interstate 25 and Route 60.[24]

Cinematographer Roger Deakins, who collaborated with the Coen Brothers for the ninth time with No Country for Old Men, spoke of his approach to the film's look, "The big challenge on No Country for Old Men is making it very realistic, to match the story. It's early days, but I'm imagining doing it very edgy and dark, and quite sparse. Not so stylized."[25]

The film was shot primarily in New Mexico, including Las Vegas, which largely doubled as the border town of Del Rio. The U.S.-Mexico border crossing bridge was actually a freeway overpass in Las Vegas. Other scenes were filmed around Marfa and Sadisiar in West Texas, and the scene in the town square was filmed in Piedras Negras, Coahuila in Mexico.[26]

In an interview in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Coens themselves discussed the film's violent scenes:

'That stuff is such fun to do,' the brothers chime in at the mention of their penchant for blood-letting. 'Even Javier would come in by the end of the movie, rub his hands together and say, "OK, who am I killing today?"' adds Joel. 'It's fun to figure out,' says Ethan. 'It's fun working out how to choreograph it, how to shoot it, how to engage audiences watching it.'[27]

Unusual for a thriller, the Coens worked against Hollywood convention and minimized the score used in the film, leaving large sections devoid of music.[28] The idea was Ethan's who persuaded a sceptical Joel to go with that idea.[28] There is some music in the movie, scored by long time Coens' composer Carter Burwell but even that eschews conventional instrumentation using singing bowls and Buddhist standing metal bells that produces the minimalist sounds required for the score.[28] In the movie there is only 16 minutes of music in total with several of those in the end credits.[28] Sound editing and effects was provided by another long time Coens' collaborator, Skip Lievsay who utilised a mixture of emphatic sounds (gun shots) and ambient noise (engine noise, prairie winds) in the mix. The cattle gun used by Chigurh was in fact voiced by a pneumatic nail gun.[28]

Release

Theatrical run

No Country for Old Men premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2007.[29] The film commercially opened in limited release in 28 theaters in the United States on November 9, 2007, grossing $1,226,333 over the opening weekend. The film expanded to a wide release in 860 theaters in the United States on November 21, 2007, grossing $7,776,773 over the first weekend of its wide release. The film since expanded the number of screenings to 1,348 theaters.[30] The film opened in Australia on December 26 2007 and in the United Kingdom(limited release) and Ireland on January 18 2008.[31] As of January 10, 2008, the film is established to have grossed $45,551,077 in the United States and Canada.[30]

Critical reception

The film has received almost universally positive reviews. As of January 12, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes recorded that 95% of 176 critics gave the film positive reviews,[32] while another review aggregator, Metacritic, records an average score of 91%, based on 36 reviews.[33] The film was widely discussed as a possible candidate for several Oscars.[34][35] Javier Bardem, in particular, has received considerable praise for his performance in the film.

Roger Ebert gave it a four star review saying that the movie was "a masterful evocation of time, place, character, moral choices, immoral certainties, human nature and fate."[36] Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central also praised the film as an effective adaptation of the source novel, declaring "...the Coens have distilled the essence of McCarthy's gash-deep nostalgia for the illusory, ephemeral past... and packaged it in the very best moments of their own well of extraordinary visions".[37] A rare dissenting voice was Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader, who, while admiring the film's aesthetics, questioned its moral culpability: for him, the Coens expend great energy on depicting horror, while encouraging us to "hypocritically shake our heads at the sadness of it all".[38]

David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz both gave the film five stars. Stratton remarked "this magnificent film represents the best work the Coen Brothers have done since Fargo. Like that movie classic, this is a cold-blooded thriller with a darkly humorous edge" and "Hitchcock wouldn’t have done the suspense better." Pomeranz said "it resonates within me. It's got such a sense of place and language."[39]

Top ten lists

The film appeared on more critics' top ten lists (343) than any other film of 2007[40], and was more critics' #1 film (86) than any other.[41] Some of the notable critics' placement of No Country for Old Men are:[42]

Awards and nominations

No Country for Old Men received eight Academy Award nominations for the 80th Academy Awards (and tied with There Will Be Blood for the most nominations). Nominations included Best Picture, Best Director (Coen Brothers), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Adapted Screenplay (Coen Brothers), Best Film Editing (Roderick Jaynes), Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.[46]

The film was also nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and won two at the 65th Golden Globe Awards.[47] Javier Bardem won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and the Coen Brothers won Best Screenplay – Motion Picture. The film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and Best Director (Coen Brothers). Earlier that year it was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.[48] The Screen Actors Guild gave a nomination nod to the cast for its "Outstanding Performance".[49]

Consonant with the positive critical response, No Country for Old Men received widespread formal recognition from numerous North American critics' associations (New York Film Critics Circle, Toronto Film Critics Association, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Online, Chicago Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Austin Film Critics Association, and San Diego Film Critics Society).[50][51][52][53][54] The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year for 2007, and the Australian Film Critics Association and Houston Film Critics Society both voted it best film of 2007.[55]

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