Check out this video from The Sound of Cinema, and let's talk after the jump... in hushed voices. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before. No Country for Old Men received 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). 1 film (90) than any other. You're just standing in the same place and concentrating on one smaller element in the frame. [119] The Screen Actors Guild gave a nomination nod to the cast for its "Outstanding Performance". [104][105], Occasional disapproval was voiced, with some critics noting the absence of a "central character" and "climactic scene"; its "disappointing finish" and "dependen[ce] on an arbitrarily manipulated plot"; or a general lack of "soul" and sense of "hopelessness". Close your eyes and listen to Moss's breathing and footsteps as he runs, the truck in pursuit as it labors over rocks and shrubs, the crack of the rifle and hissing of bullets as they rip through the air and hit the ground ... the entire sequence and the film overall sounds very convincing. 5 out of 5 stars. He is pursued by two men in a truck and escapes into a river. Where the book describes the setting as 'almost dark', the film clearly depicts high noon: no shadows are notable in the establishing shot of the gas station, and the sunlight is bright even if behind cloud cover. 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But it is there, telling our unconscious that something different is occurring with the toss; this becomes certain when it ends as Chigurh uncovers the coin on the counter. [5] The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year,[6] and the National Board of Review selected it as the best of 2007. Chigurh has visited the trailer only minutes before, and the Coen brothers have the sheriff sit down in the same exact spot where Chigurh had been sitting (which is almost the exact same spot where, the evening before, Moss joined his wife on the couch). Ellis rebuts that the region has always been violent. [122][123][124][125][126] 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. ", "Hunting Grounds "No Country for Old Men" and "Lions for Lambs, "Just shoot me! Show of the Week: Red Dead Online Reaction and Mike's Most Wanted Challenge. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. adds Joel. The wanderer, the psychopath, Anton Chigurh, is a man who's supernaturally invincible. [41][106][107][108][109][110][111] Sukhdev Sandhu of The Daily Telegraph argued that "Chigurh never develops as a character ... with material as strong as this, one would think they could do better than impute to him a sprawling inscrutability, a mystery that is merely pathological." We liked the fact that the bad guys never really meet the good guys, that McCarthy did not follow through on formula expectations. With the Coens, there's zero compliments, really zero anything. [55][56] Numerous critics cited the importance of chance to both the novel and the film, focusing on Chigurh's fate-deciding coin flipping,[57] but noted that the nature of the film medium made it difficult to include the "self-reflective qualities of McCarthy's novel. "[18], Director Joel Coen justified his interest in the McCarthy novel. [85] It became the biggest box-office hit for the Coen brothers to date,[86] grossing more than $170 million worldwide,[87] until it was surpassed by True Grit in 2010. 'It's refreshing for us to do different kinds of things,' says Ethan, 'and we'd just done a couple of comedies. Moss flees across to Mexico, stashing the case of money in weeds along the Rio Grande. As the lawman in a West Texas bordertown circa 1980, Ed Tom is pursuing two men. "[33], The project was a co-production between Miramax Films and Paramount's classics-based division in a 50/50 partnership, and production was scheduled for May 2006 in New Mexico and Texas. It is also a lament for the way the young neglect the wisdom of the past and, presumably, of the old ... Yeats chooses Byzantium because it was a great early Christian city in which Plato's Academy, for a time, was still allowed to function. "[49], While No Country for Old Men is a "doggedly faithful" adaptation of McCarthy's 2005 novel and its themes, the film also revisits themes which the Coens had explored in their earlier movies Blood Simple and Fargo. The website's critical consensus reads, "Bolstered by powerful lead performances from Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men finds the Coen brothers spinning cinematic gold out of Cormac McCarthy's grim, darkly funny novel.