Anton Chigurh Isn't Real - No Country for Old Men. 

That's not an air compressor mate xD The gas is already compressed inside the cylinder.

@@neithanm oof, right! 😂 I don't really know what the funk I was thinking but I should've said "compressed air" or whatever gas was in the cylinder (let's assume he's refilling it?? lol)

@@gensoumusic2145 When I read your comment I actually pictured him with an actual compressor, with its power cable and everything, and I thought shit, I missed something in the damn movie xD

Gensou Music koi

Gensou Music Anton Chigurh: *takes out quarter*

I KNOW RIGHT. CANT HELP BUT WATCH EVERY ONE OF THEM THOUGH

Analise this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l6rjfJfWbuA.html

Imagine seeing this movie 5 times in theaters cause you liked it so much, then everyone you talk to about the movie, respond with, “That movie was boring,” or “There has to be a sequel to explain what happened at the end,” or “I don’t see what the big deal is,” or “This is the kind of movie only white people could like.”

Copy that, Luke! NCFOM is almost - for me, anyway - a PERFECT Movie: 1.) Great story - about the thrill and danger of discovering something both fantastic and catastrophic, and the cat-and-mouse aspect as well. 2.) A brutal "Soft" Movie. - that's my term for a film that doesn't have hardly any music, and not too much dialogue (just contrast that with all the bombastic, popcorn crap) and 3.) the Props, Wardrobe and Hairstyles: you almost believe you were transported back to a dusty, gritty 1980 West Texas landscape. In Joel and Ethan We Trust!

Still...

Heads I pass it and tails you tell me what that oxygen bottle is for.

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@@Offline76 you got me!😭

Would say I cant - I dont see you -

Or the pepper. It's your choice

But Anton ends up pretty 'scathed'! Llewellyn gets him with the shotgun in his leg then he's T-boned by the station wagon, "Mister - you got a bone sticking outta your arm!" So, in the end, no one gets away with anything. None of us.

@@wes11bravo Considering all the evil Anton did, it's still a sweet bargain. Respect and cheers!

@@franciscogerardohernandezr4788 i agree that he ends up relatively unscathed. Its true about crime most murders end up forever unsolved.

@@wes11bravo But he is alive - just walk away - his arm will heal and he will go on with the killing. So there is no karma there.

The thing is they don't ever really get away from justice in the end.

Cinema will remember that performance for decades. It was flawless, the movie even by Coen bros. standards. To 25 feature films in history; it will never be replaced, and has endless preview value, layers upon layers. So excited to hear what your genius brain makes of it.

I know 😄. I meant they're both beefed up 9mm front load pistols. I know the differences are bigger than that.

Same same. Handle in back of magazine, short little drug dealer gun. Jesus, maybe the “gun community” can go back to jerking off to John wick.

No one in the gun community cares about John Wick....they care about Palmetto dropping an MP5 clone.

yea I deleted my comment because people who arent obsessed with guns tend to not care about the details lol

Justin La I think he was meaning in looks only.

The deer represents the group of drug dealers, and maybe when he sees the pit bull, it's actually just a very small flash forward to right after he comes across all of the dead bodies. The dog limping away and looking back at him is supposed to symbolize the "último hombre" trying to get away with the suitcase full of cash before collapsing by the tree.

You just answered one of my questions! I just asked how did he kill the paisas, solo. Thanks dude that insightful! You are a detective.

@@drewlavay Or he didn't come across the dead bodies, he shot the "Deer" but really was shooting one of the drug dealers setting off the cascade of them all killing each other.

Also Anton uses a device used to kill cattle. Llewelyn was hunting a heard of animals similar to cattle.

a red neck bigoted white vtrash response..no class. no intellect, only idiotic response to stimuli...

I like this theory. Anton represents the evil (ultimately unstoppable) force of nature that Ed Tom spends the whole movie afraid of.

I love this because the way the old sheriff talks about Llewelyn, saying he kindly doubts he did this, means maybe they were war buddies or at least had both been in the war so had that affinity. So to refuse his war buddy as the one taking the money and killing to get away he mixed the Anton as some other guy on his tail? And he's trying to save and help a friend.

You mean like, it's the old sheriff's exaggerated imagine of what the bad guy did? That'd be pretty cool. Like, in reality it was just a normal criminal dude. But the way he imagine it, it's this terminator like monster.

@@karenamyx2205 I more meant he refused to see his friend capable of doing this so he imagined Anton doing it when it was Llewelyn the whole time; but your idea is cool too!

The sheriff, Llewelyn and Anton are all the same guy…

He brushes over a lot of stuff to try and make this crackpot theory 'work'. It doesn't.

He also thinks Llewellyn could have or should have seen the shoot-out location. But just because a landscape seems flat doesn't mean it is. The shoot out obviously took place in a hollow (or a "holler"), which from a distance couldn't even be perceived, never mind its contents.

this dude’s videos are consistently bad, now you know

Its at Mexican brown dope.

Heroin

She actually said the coin have no “say”

This is a stretch, but Llewellyn meaning "like a lion" actually might help. There's a few scenes related to cats/felines. Llewellyn watches the cat drink the milk in the hotel. Anton drinks milk in Llewellyn's home (like a cat). At the end of the movie, Ellis talks about his cats, saying that "some are outlaws" but also "some are HALF wild" (half, 50/50, coin toss, etc.). This might be a glimpse into Llewellyn's true nature, being Anton inside, a stalking predator much like a lion/cat. Idk just a thought.

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Cool fact ty

Fun fact - he actually uses an Interdynamic MP-9

I'm english and know nothing of guns, but any scene with guns in it has RU-vid comments with people correcting gun types, sounds, range, etc. The only thing I feel could match in terms of depth of knowledge is drinking tea and the queen.

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Interesting. Do you think it was a mistake or a purposeful hint?

Anton couldn't be real because of the scene he killed the cop along the highway. The cop was doing the trick draws and showing off his skills, but Anton easily killed him with a gun in a vertical shoulder holster. You could practice a life time with that holster and still get out drawn by Barnie Fife. It would have been plausible if the cop had missed, but it could be Hollywood plot armor.

But why the coin toss then?

@@kas1680 maybe as a way to disassociate himself from the action of killing, he thinks by giving them a 50/50 chance it's fate that kills them. Again just thought up on the spot haha

@@kas1680 the real guy could have been using that, or it was his imagination.

@@jasonrhodes9726 Which scene does he shoot a cop?

but what if the Russian and WhatisAntiLogic are really the same person ?🤔

​@@AtoningSon😂

I love this😂

TOAOM123 oh but don't you remember at the beginning of the video... He doesn't make theories.

@@algsunshine7075 Which is why i made the theory not him ;)

TOAOM123 oh no he made a theory as well, he just doesn't want to call a spade a spade. You know, lmao 😂

LoL!... I was going to leave a comment like yours until I realized it's a trap!

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The same goes for mafia movies/shows.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Apocalypse Now

This is the first movie the reviewer has seen apparently.

@@SuicideVan hey, we all got to start somewhere.

Yes but he he didnt have anything to drink on him. Why leave. Go buy boots. And wait until night. Dudes gonna be dead.

Cormac Mccarthy + the Coen bros

@@inleblack1136 Apparently, I need more Cormac McCarthy in my life.

@@ignatiusjackson235 I highly recommend him.. Have a read of Blood Meridian it's amazing, also The Border Trilogy.. Pretty much everything he has wrote I love but those books will suck you in to his writing. 📚😁

@@inleblack1136 Thanks for the recommendations!

Nice.

@Mat 11 yes but the actual point of the book and movie need to be stated for the brainlets in the audience who might think all this pulling from straw that's more convoluted than the intended meaning of the movie is somehow smart or profound.

His own father tells the sheriff that he's just getting old and that other sheriffs have gone through the same change in mind. It's not the world or the criminals who are changing. It's people like the Sheriff getting older and not being able to keep up.

You basically disregard all the info from the video with a pseudophilsophical statement.

Yes and no. The "no country for old men" philosophy is more general and summarized everything that makes a person feel as tho the world is changing too fast, and that they can't and don't want to adapt to the changes that are depreciating to a society's values.

"fate and chance" Yup.

Yup, and anton is a real person in this film, but he’s more of a hyper personified grim reaper... so his outlandish branding of the big gun and cow piston and not being seen, thats all real.. it’s just dramatized to enhance the viewers sense of his foreboding nature.. he’s death itself. He’s the fate that is unstoppable. As far as many of the other things mentioned, i know he said he’s just doing it for entertainment but i don’t think any of these hold water. Anton is meant to be a real person in this movie, just a heavily personified one for effect. And they did one hell of a job. He mentioned about how anton knew how he was in the hotel etc... i mean.. as the viewer, those details aren’t really important, you almost don’t even consider it bc of who anton is... he’s an unstoppable hit man. That’s his job to hunt people down. I find those types of questions in movies a bit boring. When going to see a film we kind of agree to suspend belief a little bit depending on the film.. not everything has to be SO perfectly explained or 100% realistic. You would lose the exciting nature of most films and it would take you out of the film i think. The one thing i like about this movie is you almost forget you are watching a movie, it sucks you into the characters so much that you don’t need to question these very intricate and at times slightly unrealistic parts... again.. we suspend belief and give the director artistic room to entertain us. And in my opinion, i didn’t really question any of the things like.. how could anton go around with this big gun without being seen because the movie was done so well in making you realize that he was just this force of nature/fate that could do anything. But at the same time when he gets hit by the car and breaks his arm it balances it out showing you he is still human. Still one of my favorite movies

The way he looked when he strangled the deputy was disgusting. He got pleasure out of doing it. That’s what drives him. He may not even take much money other than expenses. He does it for the pleasure. He loves the hunt. The power. The mind messin. The act. And getting away. That’s what’s so bothersome about life and the film. Is the injustice of getting away with something. Justice is served to capitalist in office for dealing illegal drugs at others expense- ruined addicted lives and death. Justice for taking the money. Twisted justice in the bounty hunter making a living off other people being bad. And the injustice of death of innocents like deputy the driver the clerk the wife the wrong drug dealers mistake for the thieves but is justice too. That’s how I see it.

its a layer

@@jasonborne5359 the car scene also shows fate because the light was red, the car that hit him ran the light. I agree with your breakdown too, and it's a splendid movie. He is just death personified.

Maybe Chigurgh is how Ed imagines Llewellyn to be. Ed is an aging sherif find it hard to keep up his work, and is also embellishing the story to discourage new recruits from digging too deep without proper support, especially a big case that involve a total of 4 million deal. Something like that needs enough boots from at least two counties to handle.

*said in Frances McDormand's Minnesotan accent* "ohya."

"Are we square?"

*Whippersnappers

smiled a bit.

Tom Foolery what does it mean

Jason Eaton www.techtimes.com/articles/97976/20151021/bo-jackson-unstoppable-tecmo-bowl.htm I couldn’t explain it any better than the article does.

Really because literally everyone I know is under 30 and knows who Bo Jackson is and what Tecmo Bowl was, and how OP he was in the game, i don't think I've met someone who doesn't

I was about to write almost the same thing. Like they say, just ask the author.

Never saw, "Vanilla Sky".

If they ever manage to commit the judge to celluloid, I don't think I'll ever stop watching it.

Yeah, I hope the creator of this video reads the novel. I think that'll give them more depth for their analysis than just the movie. There's a *lot more* going on in the novel. (Also I just really like Cormac McCarthy's novels so I'll tell people to read them whenever I get a chance.)

@@icarussuraki9929 I'm reading Blood Meridian. It's not easy.

@Entity Water What? He’s imaging confronting Anton and avenging Moss, but in reality old time justice (the Sheriff) doesn’t work anymore. Anton isn’t really there, he’s hoping he might be or fearful of it. Instead, he’s faced with the disappointing reality that he won’t catch the man he’s hunting, and that Moss died for seemingly no reason.

@Entity Water No bro didn’t you notice? Ed Tom and the fat woman from the trailer park are the same character.

@Entity Water --No, she said she knew he was crazy when she saw him sitting there. Is that really something you'd say to an intruder? Watch that scene when he comes home with the money again and how they interact: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--LOTMXnuLpg.html

He was almost unstoppable in real life, too.

Most definitely

I’m not sure that he was as unstoppable as Tyson in Punch Out.

@@guitarguru.3572 you are BUGGING. All of us beat Mike Tyson on that game eventually. If your boy chose THE RAIDERS??? There is no way he not getting 300 yards on you with Bo rushing the ball.....and that's on the low end.

I lost it when he said that. The epic Tecmo Super Bowl intro immediately started playing in my head.

Couldn't have put it better

Judge Holden is a vehicle to convey the dark aspect of our psyche, and consumes " the boy" in the end. Blood Meridian is a story about a guy who never had a chance, broken from boyhood. " All are fated to darkness below the votive lamps. Bears that dance, and bears that don't." ~Judge Holden

Ah, The Dance.. What really draws us all to this place.. dancing, dancing, forever dancing Alone.

Yes! I just posted about this, citing it as being an unpopular theory. Lo and behold, I am not alone. There are so many clues that the judge is a figurative evil residing in the heart of the kid/the man. It's baffling that so many fans of the novel still interpret otherwise.

I haven't read chamberlain's book yet, but I have a pdf, are you telling me the judge features in that too?

@@POPEASS1 That's the only source in which the Judge appears and why he was probably just an invention of Chamberlain's. Could you somehow provide a link or reference to the pdf of My Confession please? I looked but couldn't find one.

She even said "My husband wants me dead? That don't make no sense"

What if Carla actually killed herself because she lost her mother and husband at the same time

Perhaps a dream to cope with some unsolved case under similar circumstances year before hand. He's never been able to get the death of Luann out of his head.

Yes

Especially in horror films

Yes, but I digress.

That’s not how I want to put it. It’s how it is.

It was only good in American Psycho and Fight Club, nothing else

It's like the critic never read The Telltale Heart in middle school, but I don't think he got that far before ending up in "day school."

rlly late, but Im pretty sure there's just a motif of people doing nice things ends up getting them killed throughout the entire movie, that's how I saw it.

avega2792 he has empathy.

avega2792 Well said

In the book he’s a former sniper who has seen men like that die and his conscience is haunting him he also says he did 2 tours in nam

He knows it's stupid, calls himself an idiot and fearing he'll "get his dumb ass shot", but he also felt it was the right thing to do. Wasn't a plan he had.

Agreed, I come to this channel because I absolutely disagree with this guy all the time, so I'm glad to see comments like these.

Good thing we're talking about the movie and not the book

The author has toyed with characters being personification of evil and leaving it open ended on if they are real or not. I don't necessarily agree with the diagnosis, but the end is ludacris.

The main thing is, if Anton Chigurh was Llewellyn Moss's alter ego/dissociative personality state, why would he kill his own wife? And why didn't Carla Jean comment on the fact that it was her own husband attempting to kill her? even something as subtle as "what happened to you?", besides, she talks about her husband in third person after he is found dead at the motel, though that was not likely Anton's handiwork. And also, if Anton Chigurh and Lewellyn moss are the same person? Moss is confirmed dead by Sheriff Ed Tom Bell at the motel, likely killed by the Mexican cartel goons, yet Anton Chigurh still appears on screen and continues to terrorize everyone around him and kill Lewellyn's wife, again, completely impossible for them to be two minds in one body in this instance, because Moss's body is full of bullets! The two personality states, if that was the case, simply cannot exist if the body is dead. In addition, Llewellyn was recovering from being shot in the hospital, and Anton called him from the hotel after killing Carson Wells, something that would be completely impossible if they were the same person. Anton is more than a man, he is a force of nature, likely death, or evil itself, incarnate, and that explains how he's able to track people down and that he's almost unkillable (Lewellyn commented on this during his phone call with Anton, saying "you know she won't be there" and Anton responding with "it doesn't make a difference where she is") because he is functioning on a level far higher than virtually any human possibly could, because he isn't one, he is something else entirely in human form. Anton was hired to get the bag of money back and yet he tells Carson Wells "I know something better...I know where it's going to be. It will be brought to me, and placed at my feet" which is really quite insane when you think about it, any normal, "sane" hitman would respond with "fine, go fetch me the money right now and I'll spare your life" or "take me to the money and I'll let your family go, I'm not going to tell you you can save yourself, because you can't". Instead of having Carson Wells bring him the money in 20 minutes, he kills him, he probably knew that Moss was going to call him and he offers the latter deal to Moss, yet his objective the entire time was to get that bag of money and he killed one of only two people who knew where the money was, it would have been so much easier to have Carson Wells bring him the money and give him the "coin toss" treatment or some sort of deal, and then track down Moss and kill him because Moss was the one who took the money in the first place. But because he operates by a set of principles that transcends money or drugs or God or morality, he is able to cut out the middleman. its ironic that Carson Wells was ALSO hired to retrieve the money, though it's unknown whether Chigurh and Wells work for the same drug kingpin or cartel, and yet he is killed by Anton, because Anton would rather jump straight to the guy who took the money in the first place and offer him the deal that any other hitman would have offered Carson Wells because he was also after the money, knew where it was, and it would have been infinitely easier to complete the objective by having Carson Wells bring him or take him to the money. But his unusual, almost alien principles come before everything else, even his objective (he even kills two employees working for the same drug dealer/kingpin, which is again, quite insane when you think about it). There are many moments in the film where Anton and Moss are in two separate locations, doing two different things. For example, Moss was pulling the satchel of cash out of the ventilation shaft in his motel room while Anton had just blown the lock off the door off of the adjacent room, and is eliminating everyone in there with his infamous suppressed shotgun. If they were the same person? This is simply impossible. That's the one major thing that makes this theory fall apart, though it is an interesting theory nonetheless and it is truly amazing how we are still debating this film over a decade later.

And having read Fight Club, I can tell you Marla was real as well.

In the book, he was not just a Viet vet, he was a sniper. So field craft and thinking about how the enemy would act and react would be important to him.

“Yeah I wuz in Nam’”

Of course he’s good with weapons

Bro what if it’s the PTSD

@unusual guy69, you're kidding, right?

тоже пришел проверить бред это или нет)

ну наверное чбу как раз и взял это из этого видоса

Весь контент ЧБУ это версии с реддита

Случайно отчекал и нашёл. Немного разочарование...

@@Dastan1595 😁😁 Прошёл ещё время , новая версия Чигур вовсе не Чигур

i believe you mean his name is Raoul Silva

His name is JOHN CENA

How dare you

Go down a level lol

They never show Anton and Moss together in that scene, never in the same frame.

Skip to 1:51 to see Anton and Moss in the same frame. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GKt6dCi-LJo.html

It's just character building. He's a good guy but broke and lives in a trailer. Lol plus it keeps the story rolling.

Ed Tom and Anton are the same guy that's why Luellen doesn't ask who he is and says I thought you looked crazy.

@@WisdomThumbs -- I don't see them in the same frame. What are you talking about?

Minor characters are just one of the Coen's fortés. Nail it every damn time

Loved that scene. The unstoppable force meets the immovable object.

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I think she’s related to the old waitress in Hell Or High Water.

Its the most insulting dissection of the film i've ever had the displeasure of experiencing.

Agent Migs 😂 I must agree.

Yea this guy is a complete fucking idiot! 💀

Amere Mortal you realize, when you study literature, journalism, or anything like that, you’re trained to search for alternate meanings, metaphors, transfers of subject and hidden messages.

A movie could work on different levels and have alternate meanings. It simultaneously explores the themes of faith, fate, changing of times, nihilism and could be seen with the lens of theories which could bring whole new level of appreciation to the film.

I appreciate that. I'm working on something now. Should be out Sunday 🤞🏼

whats that?

@@bigbri7519 Confirmation Bias is a logical fallacy, which states that someone is more likely to find and appreciate information that promotes their own ideas, while intentionally or unintentionally ignoring and down-playing information which contradicts or does not support their ideas.

Yeah it got more and more convoluted the longer it went on and he was basically making a whole new story

It is not a logical fallacy, but a cognitive bias

@@igs_ granted the beginning of the video explains that’s what he’s doing is re writing the story on his own theories.

True; but effectively they are. 9x19 SMG that has the magazine outside of the grip and a barrel shorter than usual. Your average person would confuse them and if made to equal build standards there wouldn’t be much difference at all. For cinematic purposes this is interchangeable; basically representing the same weapon but being used by two different sides of the same coin.

@@FreedomsLife1776 Nevertheless, if the script writer/McCarthy intended to suggest it was the same gun (and maybe the same person), he would have made it the SAME, not similar.

@@miblish5168 I hear ya and I agree. Just explaining why he would come to that conclusion. This theory has me fucked up hahah I’ve been doing the analysis myself while watching the movie and he is on to something.

It's pronounced heckler and coke

@@miblish5168 That’s just like, your opinion, man

@GazB well, as rational as you can be when rewriting a film we have all seen.

Olin Caprison Thats a great point! It is a novel point of view and one can see how great characters could come out of this point of view.

@GazB absolutely agree. i hate atomization. compassion and altruism are necessary for survival, and anyone that says otherwise is just repeating a *misinterpretation* of darwinism propagated by capitalism. mccarthy dissects the viewpoints promulgated in the myth of the american west, that's why his worlds are so bleak and occupied mostly by men haha

it's not the book he's talking about, but the film, there is definitely mirroring going on, so it is a question of interpretation. Perhaps the Cohen bros. were thinking along the lines of what is being described here or maybe they had some other reason for doing it.

Except the movie is almost exactly the same as the book in this adaptation except for omitting one scene that explains why Anton kills the people he is supposed to be working with

@@ajwall1 The book also goes into more detail before the shooting at the motel with the girl he meets there. But yes it's an amazing book for anyone that hasn't read it yet. I read the book first and was amazed at the level of detail and consistency between the film and book.

One jams no matter what and the other is fine craftsmanship

They’re both 9mm. I think that’s what he’s alluding to,

He means they are both Heckler and kochs. The H.K. and MP5 Is an H.K.

No they are not both HK. One is the MP5K, it shoots 9mm and is manufactured by H&K of Germany. The other is a TEC 9, it shoots 9mm, and is made by Intratec of Miami Florida 🤮 The TEC 9 is a POS

@@ThisPageIntentionallyLeftBlank i thought it was something like H&K's UMP. i heard him saying "T-9" in the vid, but thought he was wrong. But ure right. The right one isnt a H & K

why doesn't the guy just use pay phone tip if he cares about the man in the truck? get him help immediately if he wanted him to live? it's a big flaw in logic. definitely a cat and mouse masterpiece--well saber tooth tiger and mouse anyway

​@@porkfrog2785 Llewellyn bringing the water back to the scene actually SAVES him, because had he not gone back he would have sat in his trailer with the money which was bugged with a device that both the Mexicans and Anton had a tracker for. The only reason Anton and the Mexicans don't immediately find Llewellyn is because Llewellyn KNEW they had his truck VIN and went on the run. If he had just sat at home he woulda been toast. So the "rule" Llewellyn followed actually saved him. However, his rules end up killing him as well when he turns down the pool lady's offer for beer in her room, which would have let him spot the Mexicans from inside her room.

@@edwardw3345 I'm not disagreeing, just saying it's not logical and believable. Also, I think it's an assumption he sits tight with the money otherwise. The tracker had a very limited range, as the vid says, and may even be that way so it could be followed in a trailing vehicle on a double-cross. So with the range so limited no witnesses and no clue where to start? he'd have to be an idiot not to assume the baddies wouldn't be looking either way and not leave town soon-too soon for him to be found. We do know from the rest of the film, he's pretty sharp. I do not disagree with your analysis of how his move affects the plot--it's essential to the plot and to get things moving--it also creates a jaw-droppingly original swimming chase scene...I literally put down my weights and stopped my workout, utterly floored and enchanted

Guys I'am Pennywise the dancing clown not The Coen Brother's. How the fuck should I know?

@GazB He was gutshot which fucks w/ attention to detail, and he could change his appearance, but its good thinking regardless

Holy shit, that's a good way to look at it.

So kinda what he already said at 6:13 🤷🏻‍♂️

Exactly like Anti-Logic says near the beginning of the video?

@@_JayRamsey_ in a way, yeah but extending that even Llewelyn storyline is not real, not just Anton's side of it

That's just as brilliant as the video. Fantastic concept.

@@biffbutowski2447 Anton being "unreal" does not mean that horrible evil doesn't surround his image or affect the minds of those who believe in him. Some of the greatest evil in human history has come to pass because people were obsessed with ghosts, devils and vampires.

Yes, but it just doesn't fit. Carsen said "I know him every which way." He talked TO Lewelyn ABOUT Anton." That theory completely negates that one scene.

@@bigbri7519 They are all characters in Sheriff Bell's dream, which ends moments before the film concludes. Just like Wizard of Oz. The film begins with Bell's narration, and it ends with him talking about dreams he has.

@@bigbri7519 He is talking to Lewelyn about a killer, that we perceive as Anton, but he has never seen him. It is entirely possible he is talking to Lewelyn about Lewelyn without knowing it. The assumptions McCarthy, and the Cohen bros give to the viewer/reader is what makes you believe these two things could not be congruent, but that does not mean they could not be. It has been a long time since I read the book, but I am tempted to do so again just to see if I could pick up anything to support this perspective within McCarthy's original writing. His books are all traumatic to read though, so I am reticent to try and read them anymore.

Anton is absolutely real

Damn...😳

Exactly, and the book goes more in depth with character decisions, like bringing the gallon of water, and the whole philosophy of Anton Chigurh and how he works. The theory seemed too far fetched to me to be honest.

I don't know how much the Coens deviated from the source material, yet it is not uncommon for films to deviate quite a lot.

The movie is fairly true to the movie, Cohen brothers aren't the duo to diverge from the source material. It's fun what if to think about but doesn't hold up even to light scrutiny. Both characters are likely Vietnam veterans, and Moss and Chigurh aren't opposite sides of the same coin, Moss represented the once "good" giving in to sin and Chigurh - as he said - is an inevitability.

@@blazinchalice They dont diverge a lot..its the same thing word for word, scene for scene

@@blazinchalice The movie is somewhat simplified in places, but much of the dialog is, or is nearly, word-for-word and the action is largely straight from the book. And "simplification" in order to make a viable screenplay doesn't necessarily equal "deviation" from the original story (which I just read two months ago, after seeing "No Country" a few times over the years).

yes, but he DID. He got out of there with the money... everybody was dead. It just happened and nobody else knew. He got caught when he went back. they were waiting for him.

Big Bri They weren’t waiting, they just happened to show up at the time he decided to bring that guy some water. It was just shitty luck. Similar to the good luck/shitty luck he had in finding the money in the first place.

Blood Meridian is my all time favorite book as McCarthy uses violence as almost a character or a background setting

This is a great comment. I agree.

@@anonymousbosch9265 I decided to start with that one, now in the middle of it.

same

A less perverse version of the Judge, I'd say

Besides all the killing (and other than Wells&Carla Jean - He is doing his job...in fact even Wells & C.J. he does due to his personal code), Chigurgh is the least greedy, lazy, emotional, irrational, characters in the story...I have read the book over 30 times, seen film almost 20...just a great story ALMOST flawlessly adapted by the 2 best filmmakers of the last 30 odd years. Chigurgh IS real, but I like to think that he's isn't exactly Human...One of McCarthy's Best characters - and that's saying a lot! The dude knows how to tell a story and I don't want him to ever not be a storyteller - but I always forget that we're MORTAL....phhhh. suxxxxx!

He's not cosmic or demonic, only archaic. Killers with a code of honor used to be called nobility. They are rarer now than they used to be, and they don't rule anything anymore (besides maybe a special forces unit) but some still exist. And I imagine they'd be pretty fucking scary to have as enemies.