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Anton was named the most realistic movie psychopath by an independent group of psychologists. Javier Bardem’s performance is chilling.

@ThatShyGuyMatt

Жыл бұрын

It really made him respect him as an actor. I now watch everything he is in and he nails every role.

@leeboy30brasil

Жыл бұрын

oscar winning role which is hard as a bad guy

@kevinbrooks9074

Жыл бұрын

Another group of people said he did an o k job at best...

@CrispyChips007

Жыл бұрын

right when you thought Negan was the most evil character hes played lol

@jm6406

Жыл бұрын

@@CrispyChips007 that's a different actor

Fun fact: the Coen Brothers had to delay filming one day during production of No Country because Paul Thomas Anderson and his crew where testing pyrotechnics for the oil fire burn scene in his film There Will Be Blood, the smoke clouds from which could be seen in the distance. Both films became nominated for Oscars a year and a half later.

@kevinbrooks9074

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: People that use "Fun Fact" to start their comments are lame!

@lddevo88

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinbrooks9074 funnier fact: people who go out of their way to nitpick the use of a cliché in an otherwise factual comment without adding anything else of substance to the conversation are equally, if not even moreso, lame. Then again, so are passive aggressive and ironically self-aware retorts against said reply - then again still, what are KZread comments for, if not just that?

@kevinbrooks9074

Жыл бұрын

@@lddevo88 So basically what you're doing? 🤣

@nomchompsky2883

Жыл бұрын

it literally took me years to remember which title belonged to which story... as much as i love them both.

@jm6406

Жыл бұрын

​@@kevinbrooks9074 why are you such a massive loser in our presence?

It took me a couple of watches, but what I realized is that the story is about an old Sheriff. The rest of the stuff is actually going on in the background of his life, and is what's getting him down.

@versetripn6631

Жыл бұрын

Watch One False Move to see the truth of THIS film

The scene in the gas station is one of the best scenes I've ever watched. Anton represents chance and consequence. The car crash scene shows that while he represents chance, he is not immune to it himself. Great film. The author of the book this is based on, Cormac McCarthy, is my favorite author.

@woahblackbetty7691

Жыл бұрын

Which other books by him do you recommend?

@scottlyons33

Жыл бұрын

@@woahblackbetty7691 Blood Meridian, the Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain), Suttree, and the Road.

@ryanhampson673

Жыл бұрын

@@woahblackbetty7691 be forewarned though, McCarthy;s books can be BLEAK…Blood meridian and the Road particularly.

@nomchompsky2883

Жыл бұрын

what everyone should understand is Cormac McCarthy is a brilliant writer. He is literally one of those people who write masterpieces but you don't know it but the work will live in time... so yeah, read his work. it's brilliant and incredibly captivating.

@scottlyons33

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanhampson673 True. If you're looking for a happy ending, none of these have one. Suttree comes closest. However, McCarthy portrays humanity in all its ugliness and beauty. I hate to compare him to GRR Martin, but McCarthy also uses morally grey characters. It's more realistic. Nothing is culled, and little is left to the imagination. You have to have thick skin to read him.

Llewellyn is a boys name of Welsh origin meaning "Like a lion" This was the name of two princes of north Wales who held the Normans at bay for many years in the 13th century. Peace out.

@jamesalexander5623

Жыл бұрын

It is most commonly a Sir Name in Wales. Think the James Bond "Q" Actor Desmong Llewellyn.

Llewellyn is not so common as a first name these days, but a little more commonly as a surname instead. It's Welsh in origin, and apparently means "like a lion", so maybe that's symbolic for his bold character.

@johnbuck3374

Жыл бұрын

It's my mom's middle name.

@themaestro2572

11 ай бұрын

It reminds me of a scene from Inside Llewyn Davis, John Goodman's character mistakes the title character's first name as Lou N. Davis and asked what the N stood for. When Davis explains his name is Llewyn, of Welsh origin, John goodman goes into an anti-Welsh rant.

"There Will Be Blood" Daniel Day Lewis is amazing in it!

@shpadoinkel577

Жыл бұрын

I second this request. It's another masterpiece

Agree completely with your take there are chances and risks everyday. “I didn’t put nothin up” “Yes you did. You been putting it up your whole life. You just didn’t know it.” Chigurh literally says it for us. Also whenever he is hit at the end I always think of his line “Well, I got here the same way the coin did”

This and Godfather 1 are neck and neck for my favorite movies ever. Just perfection. I appreciate your style of analysis. Definitely subscribing.

Carla Jean is the counterargument to Chigur's stated outlook. He talks as if it is all chance, divorcing himself from any agency. She states the opposite, everything he does is his choice, "It ain't the coin, it's just you." This is the essence of the story, it's a dialog between these two ideas.

What I love about MRLBOID is his vast culture and commentary, which is so deep and his interpretations are extensive and satisfying. When I saw his reaction to John Wick 2, he pointed out a scene where Santino was in a museum and in a millisecond he paused and said that this could not have been filmed in the USA, but Rome, and he ponited out which museum it was and named the statues, even the author af the statues (Canova). I myself are from Rome, born and raised.

31:02 My grand folks are gone. thanks for reminding me of.... My parents were divorced. I was 12ish and in the summer I would spend two weeks at my dads house in the U district of Seattle. Dad had to work so Grandpa would stay over for a week too! We would watch Mariner games , I'd fetch him a beer and grab a rootbeer for myself. To this day , I'm a Mariners fan. Every game I watch , at some point , I say a little prayer and remember Grandpa Dutch's fantastic smile , steely blue, yet warm eyes and great , low based laugh that only a life time of smoking can produce. Thanks again. And yes, I miss my grandparents very much too.

Anton is, for all intents and purposes, The Joker without the laughter.

@o2ksumbody

Жыл бұрын

He's more like the human Terminator with no feelings and badass vibes

@LiberPater777

Жыл бұрын

*intense and porpoises

@grimerime23

11 ай бұрын

@@LiberPater777 😐

@LiberPater777

11 ай бұрын

@@grimerime23 😀

I didn't appreciate this movie was a teenager but it's impactful now 👍

One Of The Best Films Ever Made.

Modern masterpiece, no doubt. Really puts you in a unique sort of trance!

Basically anything by the Coen bros. Is golden and I will be there to share every second of it.

the legendary Roger Deakins was the cinematographer on this one. He is brilliant. He works with the Coen Brothers and Denis Villenueve, known for their stunning visual presentations, among many others.

A couple months late, but figured I'd throw my interpretation in here. I think this movie is about the way our ideas of control we have over our lives breakdown. Llewellyn is the main character we think we are. He believes that he can make it through to the end of the this story with the money in hand, his wife safe, and Anton defeated. But he ultimately dies due to circumstances outside of his control. His self concept is destroyed along with him. Anton sees himself as a force of nature. He views others as objects to be used and discarded, and he gets to act as the hand of fate. But at the end, he finds he is just as susceptible to the whims of the universe as anyone else. The car that hits him comes into his life the same way that Anton enters the lives of others. Then you have the Sheriff, who spends the film contemplating the changing of the world. His talk about his dream at the end being about the way that he was protected by his father from so many of the ills of society, that he never really saw the darkness for what it was. To him, the world was bright and didn't have the darkness. His brother reminds him that the darkness was there all along. When he talks to the other officer in the restaurant, the officer remarks about how colored hair and piercings are signs of the moral degradation of society and youth. This leads me to my favorite parallel that no one seems to talk about. When Llewellyn is injured and walking across the border, he asks for the shirt from those men. He offers to pay them even, and they become demandingband entitled. But then Anton is put in the same position at the end of the film, being badly injured and offering to pay for that young boys shirt. The young boy offers the shirt over for free, not demanding a payment like the older men were. It's in this parallel where that deputies statements about the corruption of the youths is refuted.

27:40 I would genuinely also deeply love to have these two fictional characters sit down in a dinner, and just talk about the present day, over a nice oldschool breakfast. :)

This is such a fantastic movie! The shots are so long and silent, it feels super descriptive as if you read it in a book. Unreal.

You should watch "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" too, its also a Cohen Brothers film, but it's a comedy.

@flarrfan

4 ай бұрын

Read a summary of Homer's Odyssey before you watch. O Brother is my favorite Coen bros.

The movie won a TON of Oscars including best picture of the year. I remember seeing it in theaters. Such a masterpiece from top to bottom. I also love that it was not a typical boring movie where good guy wins, bad guy loses/dies. Felt more realistic. Especially when a main character gets killed.

Come on man those people on the 14th floor know what floor they are really on 😎

Cormac McCarthy is one of America's contemporary literary masters. There are a number of other films based on his works: The Road, All the Pretty Horses, Child of God, and a film made for TV called The Sunset Limited(starring Tommy Lee Jones from the film to which you just reacted and Samuel L. Jackson). There's quite a bit lost in translation from the written work to the film in most of these. I think the one closest in tone to McCarthy(other than what you've just seen) is likely The Road(2009, written by Joe Penhall, directed by John Hillcoat), so I would recommend giving that a watch if you appreciated this adaptation, and you haven't seen it yet. In any case, I enjoyed your insights here. I'll look forward to the next one.

I think the guy who mentioned lobos was afraid that he wouldn't die before the wolves got to him. Was he asking Brolin to shut the car's door? Chilling detail, really.

@vivectelvanni

Жыл бұрын

Yes. This is expanded just a bit in the dialogue in the original book. The evil is lurking. Ain't no lobos.

@Drax514

Жыл бұрын

@@vivectelvanni Wolves have been extirpated from the entire South West region for centuries, pretty sure even in Mexico. So yeah, definitely wasn't worried about actual wolves.

@vivectelvanni

Жыл бұрын

@@Drax514 they were nearly wiped out from the 1920s--1970s and were on the endangered list when this book/movie takes place. There are wild and captive Mexican greywolves in southern Arizona and New Mexico right now thanks to a large conservation project, you should check it out. Cormac McCarthy also wrote another book called The Crossing which is centered around wolves in the southwest and the US/Mexico border in the WW2 period, great book. Better than No Country.

it's cool because you think llewelyn is a bumpkin but later on realize he was a hardened ex-soldier.. tommy lee is a sheriff with a lifetime of experience and Chigur is an assassin with impeccable skill and also so experienced that he seems to have ESP sometimes(and some kind of deal with the devil that requires him to hold to his strange code). Woody's character is also an incredibly experienced "fixer" and so all the players are wolves in a sense; the only difference being the sheriff, trailing behind and knowing just enough to know how serious it is and how much he's in over his head. all the other characters are so much not-wolves that everything going on baffles them. they just can't understand that kind of evil and violence. it's brilliant that the story is set in such a provincial and quiet southern place with such nice people. it creates a nice juxtaposition for the brutality of chigur.

Love it! My son sent the link to your reaction to this, to me! He loved it and he isn't wrong! This was a great reaction!!!! I've watched your music reactions for a long time, and love these too!!

No Country For Old Men deserves its place on the top shelf.

This was filmed near where I live in New Mexico. I remember stumbling on a few of the sets (pharmacy, border crossing, hotel, street shoot-out) while it was going on. At the time I only knew it was a Coen Brothers movie.

I saw this movie in theaters twice when it came out. I just graduated from high school, I loved movies and worked at blockbuster, and I only went to go see this movie because it got ridiculously great reviews. And I was blown away by it. The cinematography and the scenery looks so amazing on big screen, as did all the action scenes. And it amazing how their was no music or score for the movie, so you could hear all the regular sound effects clearly like wind blowing, breathing, foot steps. It made the movie so much better and intense

The main character’s name (Llewelyn Moss) is of Welsh origin. The Welsh language is a Celtic language; quite unrelated to English (which is more closely rooted to Scandinavia).

"And their aim is also terrible" Shooting while in a vehicle driving offroad over moguls while the target is also moving isn't a simple situation. That said, yeah, we'd of got em.

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I see people commenting on stuff like this all the time. They’ve obviously never had to shoot under pressure, or in a bumpy vehicle. He actually missed that Llewelyn had hit that antelope.

If you’ve not, absolutely read Emerson’s Essays. Nobody writes like Emerson. Maybe Jefferson and Lincoln. It’s so, Wow. “Compensation” & “The Oversoul” Are two of my recommendations to start

I would like to recommend the movie Lucky Number Slevin. It will top weirdest conversations on any film.

That whole gas station scene, when I first watched this, unnerved me so much on behalf of that old man, I was afraid for him.

movie is over, didn't see over half if it, no music the whole time... still have goosebumps.

Winner of four Oscars in 2007: Best Picture (Joel and Ethan Coen) Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen) Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem as Anton) Best Adapted Screenplay (Joel and Ethan Coen)

"You're rude." Understatement of the century.

Filming credit goes to the Goat Roger Deakins 👏 The genius behind movies like Shawshank redemption, Sicario, Prisoners, Blade Runner 2049, The Big Lebowski, 1917, Skyfall, Rango.. the man has worked every genre and is one of the best to ever do it.

Both this and There Will Be Blood had filming happening at the same time in Marfa, Texas; a town with a population less than 2000. Those people were just living their quiet small town life while two of the greatest films of all time were being made in their midst.

@spinin1251

2 ай бұрын

And an explosion on the set of There Will be Blood caused so much smoke that they had to pause filming on No Country for a day.

When high rise buildings were starting to be built after the technique for mass producing structural steel in the early 20th century it was customary to skip floor #13 - it was thought to be bad luck.

Cormac McCarthy is one of my all favorites. One the best writers,and modern story tellers there is.

Regarding the one floor missing scene, I remember watching something where the Coens or someone stated that it didn't have anything to do with the 13th floor. It might have had something to do with a deleted scene or something in the book or something else. I seem to remember them saying something along the lines of a floor being hidden. That it was common for a floor to be hidden if it had something to do with accounting or that they needed it to be hidden because of the nature of the businesses they were conducting. So, I wish I could remember what it was exactly. It had something to do with what I mentioned, but not a 13th floor thing, which would seem to be the obvious explanation. Unless the Coens were just making up some story.

Something that occurs to me. The Sheriff and the old man in the wheelchair “won” life by surviving to retirement but are left with boredom and emptiness as their reward.

I know what you mean about the advice of old men. There is a certain kind of responsibility you have as the man in the family, you are supposed to handle business when things go bad. If there is a burglar in the night, you're supposed to be there to defend the house. The buck stops with you. That kind of responsibility is what leads to old men giving advice on how to deal with turning points in life.

When we stand at the crossroads of 'Fate' and 'Chance,' calculations are often made in less time than it takes to flip a coin. And those choices certainly have the power to rearrange the course of the rest of our lives..

thank you for that intro number, holy shit🤣

To answer your Texas question. It was not Constitutional carry at the time set in this movie. However, it is now Constitutional carry, and has been since 2021.

I think it was deliberate that the only cussing in the movie was from the kids at the end.

I recommend The Road - another good film based on a Cormac McCarthy novel

Llewelyn is indeed a name I have heard before. More from the south west states like Texas, Nevada...etc.

No country for old men comes from the first line of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats

Tommy Lee Jones played Harvey Two-Face in one of the Batman movies, a psychopathic character who makes decisions about murdering people based on a coin flip.

[17:49] Generally, all high-rise buildings (in the US anyway) never label a floor "13". They will label them: 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, etc; omitting 13 completely. So technically all level 14s are actually 13s.

The Coen Bros. Films are PHENOMENAL. Highly suggest watching them all

Including the credits, there is 16 minutes of music. The score is by Carter Burwell. The score is very faint and mixed in very low. The coin toss scene in the Texaco station has a little music, very soft.

Llewelyn is a welch name. The Coens use a version of it again in the underrated Inside Llewyn Davis.

For your question about Texas being a constitutional carry state, the answer is yes, beginning in 2021. Prior to that, to my best knowledge, a permit was required for both open and concealed carry. Though, I'm sure it was selectively enforced prior to 2021.

Such a good watch. Both the movie and the reaction. Great content.

I always considered Anton's car accident at the end as a simple demonstration that Anton is not a monster with any sort of supernatural abilities or precognition. He's just a human, like you and me, which is far more chilling.

Your notifications were getting me this vid 😂

Great movie review and reaction!! No Country is one of my FAVORITE movies of all time and one of the greatest movies of all time also in my humble opinion. The suspense, the meaning one can get out of it- I think my favorite scene of the whole movie is when the sheriff meets and talks with his uncle. Unbelievable movie

@georgiechadwick2124

Жыл бұрын

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One of my absolute favorites.

love this movie. thx for watchin it bro

Absolutely can't wait for you to check out some more Coen Brothers movies. Since you like this one so much, two I'd recommend for you are their first indie film, Blood Simple from 1984, and then the absolute classic Fargo from 1996. Both phenomenal movies, both starring Francis McDormand.

Scaramanga, the Man with a Golden Gun, he shoots a kestrel that's just sitting on a roof. Samir way Chigurh shoots the bird on the bridge.

The conversation between Tommy Lee Jones and Barry Corbin in that trailer is my favorite scene and imo one of the best ever filmed.

Llewelyn hit that antelope. He’s a pretty good shot.

The "coin toss" scene at the gas station is probably the best and well-known scene in the film.

If you want to see more Tommy Lee Jones tracking, you should watch "The Hunted" from 2003.

Dude the reason you're the top three of my favorite reactors is because regardless what other people want to say you seem very well-read and also prepared to stand corrected and things that you may not be but with that being said if you like that shotgun battle you should definitely pick up the book they did an excellent job for a movie adaptation but right now watching you watch this part it's like that through pages

If you read the book, the ending makes sense. It was always about the sheriff.

When my man brought up a missing wallet when the woman by the pool turned up, I got 'Waiting Around To Die' running through my head. Now it'll be there all day.

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192

Жыл бұрын

Hey, having Townes stuck in your head ain’t a bad thing🙂

@matthew6427

Жыл бұрын

@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Big facts 😎

A young man wants to be taken seriously; An old man just wants to be remembered.

This and "Drive" are two movies, every time you watch you notice something new. Yes, Tommy Lee Jones is the protagonist of this movie. First time I saw this ending the first thought that came to mind was, "thief from thief make God laugh." The coin toss scene was one of (if not the) most intense in cinema history. Tommy Lee Jones starred in another (often overlooked gem) The Hunted. There is no such thing as a silenced shotgun. It's a prop specifically designed for this film. Tommy Lee Jones said in an interview that he was stunned by the actress who played Carla Jean and how she was able to switch between her mother tongue and the Southern accent for the movie. Javier Bardem was already a famous actor in the Spanish circuit. The Hollywood scene would have him sporadically in movies like Collateral with Jamie Fox and Jada Pinkett. He played the sociopath brilliantly. Mimicking human behaviour like flipping a coin or pouring but not drinking milk. All the while, living in his own world where he is king and decides who lives and who dies. You can write an essay about any scene in this film.

Tommy Lee Jones ,one of the best actors alive,who played in dozens of famous movies is " the guy from Man in black "... Really??

I think title refers to the idea that people always say the world is getting worse (Those kids with green hair). One of the main messages of the movie is that the world isn't getting worse. Rather we're getting older, more aware, and more tired.

Love this film so much. And Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy.

I was surprised how many people thought his weapon was a gun of some sort or shot "air super fast". It was a piston to instantly kill cattle. Mind you I am not a farmer or rural kind of guy. So not even sure where I learned about it.

@nastee10

Жыл бұрын

The sheriff explained all this in the movie.

The title is a reference to the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by Yeats.

Yeah, this is one of those special type of movies.

"Oh -- a lotta money! Moral dilemma -- rationalize!"

I enjoyed your reaction. I’m glad you watched this…great choice.

His shot ricocheted and caught him in the shoulder just like the sheriff Bell was recalling when the guy was killing the steer with a gun if you look when he's laying down on the ground the same exact spot that he pointed when he tells that story is where he got hit and I don't know if you ever seen an artery map but anytime somebody shot or stabbed it's almost a miracle and some areas of the body that they could survive

It is an amazing movie. So "calm" with rather slow and methodical people. For the most part no one is to hyper stressed. I would say the only times things are close is when lowellen is being chased by the car at the drug drop gone wrong, and at also by Anton at the motel. But even in those places he isn't really panicked he is still using his wits trying to get away.. So if you know what is going to happen it is a rather "slow and calm" movie that takes it times with everything and still it manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with the threat of potential danger around the courner as you do know how these people behave, and that tention is really something amazing. I also like how they just start to go away from showing the killings and we are just left to see Anton cleaning up the chicken beds from the back of the car or checking his shoes for blood instead of showing the murder, we are left with a small sence of, Maiby he left that guy alive as he did with the guy at the gas station, and parhaps the guy at the office?? And the women who "ain't giving out no information" But we are not sure about the guy at the office and the others makes us believe he didn't but it isn't 100% he killed em but we sure belive he did. I agree that the lack of soundtrack adds to it, nothing is telling us what to feel, the way we are used to the score of the movies doing for us, that keeps the suspense even in calmer scenes, but just sitting down talking still have that threat of death at any point. Ty for another great reaction mr Logical Boyd.

Llewellyn is not a super common name, but it's common enough. My buddy is named this. He goes by Lee. :)

The "game of life" is what you make it. The game in this film is about morality. Moss is moral, but very flawed. Because of that, Moss dies early. Chigurh is amoral and believes in random violence. In the end, Chigurh is a victim of random violence with a bone sticking out of his arm. The bone sticking out of his arm indicates that he will die soon because he can't seek proper help in the hospital. I remember the book states that he was never found, which leads us to conclude that the cartel disposed of Chigurh's body. The last man standing is Bell, who doesn't realize that he came out on top because he is the most moral person of the the film. There is no indication of any moral flaws in Bell's character. Bell always tries to do the right thing and worries about defeating evil. Bell worries about God never finding him, but his God is his moral integrity, which he never abandons. Moral people worry about the evil in the world often without realizing when they are doing well. His dream in the end indicates that he is following the path of another moral man, his father, who is saving a spot for him (John 14).

Great reaction and movie analysis.

Ive seen a few reactors comment on the scene where the old man at the gas station is talking about closing up. They've commented that the old man is "telling him to leave" or that he wants him to go. They don't seem to pick up on the fact that Chiguhr doesn't care. He may or may not understand that, but he's already picked out the old man as a target that's annoying him.

love yo movie reviews love listening to other people disect film

It will do until the mess gets here in top phrase list

As indicated by the title, the landscape is a character.

Some say Antoine is the most sociopathic villain ever portrayed in cinema. I’m torn between him and Kang in “I Saw The Devil”.

I remember was drought when people said didn't make classics that would last through time with movies like use to. No Country For Old Men was those rare movies in 2000s that proved them wrong imo for modern movies. There is a few more out and looking forward to discovering them.

This is a special movie, I love it

The title "No Country For Old Men" is referring to Tommy Lee Jones' character realizing that times have moved forward, leaving him and his era behind. Crime has become more brutal and senseless. Not like the old days when there was even honor among thieves, so to speak.

In my opinion , the reason Anton was so hostile with the store clerk is because the clerk saw that he came from Dallas, after killing 3 men and driving a stolen car. The old man is a potential witness. He might hear/see a description of anton or the stolen vehicle on the radio or news and will be able to supply more info to the authorities such as a more detailed description of him or the direction he was heading that might lead to him being arrested again. He gave the old clerk some small say in whether not Anton will have to murder him. Same goes for the man with the truck with the chickens. Unfortunately the chicken man wasn't so lucky.

Most buildings don't have a 13th floor.