How I Wrote No Country for Old Men | Coen Brothers' Writing Advice

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Listen to the Coen Brothers break down how they adapted the crime thriller novel, No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, for the big screen. In this video, they talk about how the write as a writing duo, how they translated the novel into the cinematic world, and what No Country for Old Men is really about.
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No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. A cat-and-mouse thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam War veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987) and Fargo (1996).
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@lichtfilme 4 года назад

Nice editing “bang there he is” 5:00

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

;)

@d4mdcykey 4 года назад

This was excellent, Cormac is my absolute favorite novelist of all-time; his earliest works particularly is unlike anything ever written, it's like his perceptive abilities are from another dimension and beyond mere linguistics.

@Zach-bt2ky 4 года назад

You’re not very well read.

@d4mdcykey 4 года назад

@@Zach-bt2ky ~ Actually, that would be "well-read", not "well read". This would be hilarious if not so pathetic after trying to disparage someone stating facts about a writer of renown. Nice try, but you made yourself look foolish. As far as McCarthy is concerned, his accolades speak for themselves... 1959 & 1960: Ingram-Merrill awards 1965: Traveling Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1966: William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel for The Orchard Keeper 1969: Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing 1981: MacArthur Fellowship 1992: National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses 1996: International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Crossing 2000: International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Cities of the Plain 2006: James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and Believer Book Award for The Road 2007: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road 2007: International Dublin Literary Award shortlist for No Country for Old Men 2008: Maltese Falcon Award, Japan, for No Country for Old Men 2008: Premio Ignotus for The Road 2008: International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Road 2008: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, for a career whose writing _"possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature."_ 2012: Best of the James Tait Black, shortlist, The Road

@ioshinigami2165 4 года назад

the intro should be "how not to ask questions to anyone, period". like its so annoying when someone decides to ram five questions into one and then just sit back proudly waiting for you to respond to their word vomit

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Exactly. They're just showing off how a smart they are, which isn't what an interviewer should do.

@xandertrejo 2 месяца назад

The opposite of an open ended question, always bugged me when interviews have those

@MissInformationAcademy 4 года назад

this is the most information i've ever gained in a coin toss

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Haha

@gabbyhyman1246 4 года назад

@@BehindtheCurtain At least they didn't Chigur-coat it.

@silastrinidad6096 4 года назад

I like their choice of making Anton Chigurh more distinctive in the movie with the strange haircut and dark greyish clothes, but I would have liked to see him talk a bit more like he did in the novel. His dialogue in the novel is filled with unique monologues and philosophy, and his interactions with his environments and people like Carson show how relentless, deranged, and unstoppable he is.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Talk about No Country for Old Men and filmmaking on our official Discord server: discord.gg/xxTqXXd

@JiggywattArt 4 года назад

not to sound crass but your videos give the impression you've interviewed people yourself when all you did was splice together interviews from footage online. Not implying you're scamming anyone but it'd be nice to see a preview of an actual interview to see if it's worth purchasing.

@TonysScrapbook 4 года назад

I know this may be random and maybe not really in your ballpark but I reckon it'd be so cool if someone applied this format of video-making to artists talking about albums they've create

@ihategodzilla 4 года назад

I did my first ever presentation on this movie, focusing mainly on the coin toss scene. Due to my love for this film and the information I provided I received the best grade in the class.

@ririampoop Год назад

I don’t give a fuck

@brentloy131 4 года назад

I love these videos so much

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Thanks, man! You've been supporting the channel for a while now and I really appreciate that.

@freddylubin 4 года назад

The most important difference between the book and the movie is that in the former Carla Jean DOES beg for her life. The change in the movie was, in my opinion, an improvement.

@Jukinj94 4 года назад

It's Stellio Cantos!

@christianulvne7905 4 года назад

nICE! Think HBOs Watchmen deserves its own video!

@TinyPple45 4 года назад

I hate people saying this should’ve been about the writer of the book 😔😔 literally most of this video is talking about the way they translated things that work in the book, like little description for the main antagonist, to film language, by taking out his longer dialogue to still make him mysterious. Like if you really like the book so much try to appreciate Why it felt like such a good and faithful adaptation in a different medium instead of just saying Well of cooooooourse it would be good, the book was gooooood Like ✨🌈🥰shut up ♥️🥰♥️

@theabstract4936 4 года назад

No country for old men is objectively one of the greatest movies of all time

@makemoneymorawski2752 4 года назад

The lack of physical description when it comes to Anton is so amazing. Makes him more phantom than man.

@joseph-fernando-piano 4 года назад

Another thing for me that sold his otherworldly presence is his bizarre last name "Chigurh" which doesn't seem to have a specific cultural origin. He reminds me of another of McCarthy's characters, the mysterious and unnamed judge from Blood Meridian...

@GSXK4 4 года назад

The Chigurh character is based on the character of Death from the 1957 Ingmar Bergman movie "The Seventh Seal." The pale face, black clothes, hood (Chigurh's funny haircut is his hood), and his plodding, inexorable forward movement combine with cold unemotion. The unique looking shotgun and the captive bolt stunner that Chiguhr used is the "scythe" used to cut down the living whose time has run out.

@GuyMcRae 4 года назад

The film in a lot of ways feels to me as though the Coen brothers wanted to make their version of Halloween

@jokerraton8183 4 года назад

@@joseph-fernando-piano the sparseness of detail is an asset, but not a rule. For instance, Judge Holden is given much more physical detail and his horrors dwarf Chighur's.

@rachelr.290 Год назад

Definitely. In the books, he’s said to ‘look like anybody’ with the exception that he has bright blue eyes. “Blue as lapis. At once glistening and totally opaque. Like wet stones…”

@MayurKoitiya 4 года назад

I don’t know, the lack of soundtrack in this movie makes it one of a kind !!

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Agreed. It's not even something I really noticed while watching either

@LuisSierra42 4 года назад

It's amazing

@deg1studios 4 года назад

Escape from alcatraz

@kiribundi 4 года назад

There is a soundtrack actually. It's so subtle that all it does is amp up the tension on a subconscious level.

@deg1studios 4 года назад

@@MayurKoitiya There IS tho

@MrBiginvegas 4 года назад

The Coen Brothers have been frustratingly and deliberately coy about their writing process for the reason they are instinctive movie writers and their process to get to a screenplay is an observational riff, back and forward lengthy discussion about what if? Their what if moments are based on a deep understanding of the genre they are working in, eliminate the obsessive need for plot points or set up and pay offs to often the most , I dunno, banal decisions made by the protagonist? A rug that is pissed on, a cat escapes from an apartment. Here in this interview they give a clue as to how they love to work in large swaths of sequences ( set pieces) that make up most of their films. No Country is no different, count them, they quickly identified the set pieces in the book and built the structure around them, the voice over of the Sheriff protagonist then focused on dialogue. The Coen Brothers might be the most underrated writers of dialogue in the business along with David Lynch. They hear dialogue, it's rhythm's, regional American vernacular conversation - they mine for that shit.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Yeah, this video project has been sitting on my hard drive for months because I couldn't find many good interviews about their writing process. Excellent filmmakers and completely unpretentious about it.

@XxzanesterxX 4 года назад

Very well said.

@Dzztzt 4 года назад

@@BehindtheCurtain I'm so happy to hear that. I look up to them so much and am glad they are upright. No one develops such a depth of their characters as well as they do.

@simonxfrederick 4 года назад

This is very well said. Though they do tend to pay off those banal decisions or have them as metaphors though. The rug that is pissed on is the reason The Dude is so invested. The cat is Llewyn. That's what makes their films so rewatchable, you figure out everything has meaning, even if it seems pithy or random. Even bits of dialogue come back later.

@Plusse 4 года назад

*its rhythms =]

@silastrinidad6096 4 года назад

Things Anton Chigurh did in the novel, but not in the movie: -He rolls down his car window to shoot a loud bird in the distance -He kills 3 clerks on 3 separate occasions, all in the same hotel that was attacked by the cartel (the same ones that Chigurh singlehandedly wiped out mercilessly) -He makes Carson cry before he blows his right hand and half of his head off -During the hotel shootout with the Cartel and Moss, he manages to shoot the head of a random old lady in her room, and Carson’s death date on the calendar beside her corpse -He speaks fluent Spanish -Anton kills a Drunk guy at a Bar parking lot with his bare hands, and flees to Texas, where the movie starts with his arrest after being stopped with the car he stole from same dead person -Anton hates changing the channel on the tv, but will stare at it without reacting to anything shown on the screen. -Anton delivers the money to the employer (who didn’t know of his presence until then) while being in a business suit, and compliments his place, and referencing the painting in his office. That’s probably implying that he was already rich and resourceful before all of the events of the story took place

@911fordummiesbydummies9 4 года назад

He killed a bird in the movie

@gazza7693 4 года назад

@@911fordummiesbydummies9 Yea the violence towards humans is already clearly established especially with the cattle gun, but him shooting the defenceless bird is a classic 'kick the dog' moment that is a trope in westerns to clue the audience in that this character basically has no regard for life, either animal or human its all the same to him.

@DamienJelaine 4 года назад

@@911fordummiesbydummies9 He misses it actually.

@ghettoeasterbasket5638 3 года назад

Sounds like Anton was way scarier in the book , he is no different from Michael Myers

@silastrinidad6096 3 года назад

@@ghettoeasterbasket5638 indeed. but to note, he has a lot of dialogue in the novel, some in which i think is meant to be philosophical on the topic of how people change their behaviour to an overwhelming unknown force. kinda makes it less scary and makes you think instead...

@seventeensixty-nine6092 4 года назад

The directors who altered how I see films, forever. Their "A Serious Man" actually altered how look at life, forever.

@jamesbrown6020 4 года назад

How so?

@LuisSierra42 4 года назад

@@jamesbrown6020 It makes you question the purpose of life or whether life has indeed a purpose and everything is not just randomness and chaos. The Big Lebowsky teaches you how to deal with that, dude

@stapth7001 4 года назад

Seriously, I saw a. Serious man some weeks ago... It is going to stuck with me. It's humour, and the whole ideology about "simplicity" hit me really hard... The way it showcases the people around the protagonist, is so absurd yet so relatable. I love this film and it's crazy that i found you here talking about it, since it's not that well. Known.

@ferise1 4 года назад

Luis Sierra it has a purpose, but be cool about it. Wow so many answers

@billt5410 3 года назад

The Big Lebowski altered how I see life forever, I smoke weed and bowling everyday.

@vilentman111 4 года назад

Anyone who's read the book knows that it's essentially a script for the movie

@atulmishra785 4 года назад

Coen Brothers are the perfect siblings.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

I would love to make films with my brother. That sounds really fun.

@rmch4070 4 года назад

*cries In Safdie

@riffhousestudios96 4 года назад

The secret is they wrote it by writing it

@musicaleuphoria8699 4 года назад

I'm kinda fascinated over brothers collaborating in film. There are times where such sibling chemistry just makes for great creations, but I wonder if there are times when their ideas clash with each other in disagreement. I have brothers and I know what we each like and dislike. Something thats always in my mind.

@JohnNobody_ 4 года назад

Nolan brothers ?

@steelbarber 4 года назад

“We had to look behind the curtain” *Ah! Ah! He said it!*

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

I HAD to include it haha

@pretorious700 3 года назад

Another interviewer in love with his own voice. I like the way the brothers are visibly annoyed with this pompous windbag.

@levinb1 4 года назад

One of my favorite stories of all time. This, and There Will Blood, western Noir and tragedy at its finest.

@אורכהן-ו7כ 3 года назад

The cool thing is, that both twbb an ncfaom ,shoot in the same time in the same location.

@sageemerald7685 4 года назад

I'm not even super interested in screen plays. I'm more engaged with written literature and stage plays, however this channel is so informationally dense. Anyone, comic book writer, authors, play-writes, have something to gain here.

@choronos 4 года назад

There's so much the medium of film can do that theater and literature cannot. I don't want to make any assumptions about how many films you've seen, but if you haven't delved very deeply into cinema I implore you to do so- you'll be richly rewarded :) Do you have a favorite novel? I could use something decent to read.

@jacqueplett1800 4 года назад

1 minute and a half in and the interviewer in still asking his long winded question.

@mankytoes 4 года назад

It's like how lawyers will make an accusation or spin a narrative, but pretend it's a question, he just wants to give his own opinion, but adds a question mark to the end so it isn't just him telling them what he thinks of their film.

@robotjox77 4 года назад

Mark Kermode loves the sound of his own voice.

@batgurrl 4 года назад

Thanks for this. Stupendous film, filmmakers and villain. I love the Coen Brothers.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

I do too. Thanks for watching. :)

@rohancassidy2402 4 года назад

Thank Mark Kermode and BFI.

@ioshinigami2165 4 года назад

much like season 1 of Fargo, this movie got that Dirty Harry vibe where the tempo of the movie takes over from the music, to the point where so many parts of Dirty Harry have no score, just the sound of the car or feet down a parking lot or shots of Clint doing detective work. its sad how so few filmmakers can still manage to make the visceral nature of film the spotlight, rather than mute that with special effects, and well know actors and bullshit narratives (as was the case with GOT and Star Wars)

@benmatthews3190 4 года назад

Bullitt is another good example of this I don't hear many people refer too. It does such a good job at using the world around it as it's soundtrack that its hard to notice it sometimes.

@mistry6292 2 года назад

Coen brother's writing advice? follow cormac's writting.

@Justin_Cunningham 4 года назад

I love watching these behind the curtain videos before I get into a writing session. Always proper motivation! P.s Have you ever thought of doing one on Terence Winters writing process for Boardwalk Empire or Wolf of Wall Street?

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Thanks, Jay. Good luck to you on your writing today. I have considered it! I have a couple of bookmarks saved actually for Wolf of Wall Street. Thanks for the reminder!

@Justin_Cunningham 4 года назад

@@BehindtheCurtain Thank you sir! I have become a more confident writer since discovering your channel. I would bet a lot of your viewers have as well.

@thevillageyid 4 года назад

One of the best movies ever made.

@nicinat0r Год назад

Amen

@samgraef3028 4 года назад

Nice job lining up the “bang” with the explosion at 5:02. One of my all time favorite films, great video.

@patrick_dy3r 4 года назад

Awesome video as always! Since No Country for Old Men is an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, maybe you could do a video on another film adaptation that takes from a non-literary form. I'd nominate Amadeus. It's based on the play of the same name by Peter Schaffer who also did the screenplay adaptation, and it's one of the few film adaptations based on a stage play that's truly cinematic and doesn't feel like a filmed stage play. (Apparently, Schaffer had to rewrite the screenplay nearly 50 times before the director and producers finally accepted it!)

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

That's an interesting idea. I'll look into it!

@MissInformationAcademy 4 года назад

"a character confronting a very arbitrary, brutal, violent world": sounds like every person in 2020.

@erichwashausen4602 4 года назад

That sounds like every person through the history of human existence.

@kascally 4 года назад

In reality the exact opposite has to be the case; the world would grind to a halt tomorrow if the vast majority of people did not cooperate or help each other constantly. As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out, every day only ten thousand acts of kindness make the enormous machine function. Our few psychopaths like to justify their violent free-riding by colouring everyone else as violent and greedy. They are the outliers, not the norm.

@jna6246 4 года назад

The world is less brutal and violent today (per capita) than for most of humanity's existence.

@peterispalka7923 3 года назад

Hi,does anyone know what the background music is?

@nishantak911 4 года назад

I love this series you do! I'm sure there's tons of hours you spend combing to get the interviews and perfectly blend it with the films. You must have done a lot of edits and picking the scenes.... Good job! Much love from India

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Thanks, man! I appreciate the support! This video in particular I've been sitting on for months because I couldn't find enough interviews. I'm glad it finally came together.

@Garymayo 4 года назад

The central theme of this film is multiple players all looking for......what? The Money. Where is the money? From the opening scene where Bell says he WAS “once” proud to uphold the law, to the final scene where Bell says he was ridding a horse towards the final judgment of his father waiting with fire. What is the first thing Moss does after he gets the money? Retire. What is the first thing Bell does after seeing the dime heads up in the motel room? Something everybody misses in this film is who and what Bell is in this film. A badge does not guarantee noble thoughts and actions. It’s assumed the gang got the money. Those folks assume wrong. This is not a good guy bad guy movie. It is a bad guy bad guy movie.

@ahnafdrubo9727 4 года назад

Loved these videos since day one mate, just wanted to show the support. Also you should do how Dan Gilroy wrote Nightcrawler

@spiritualconnection4807 4 года назад

Among the greatest directors of all time. All of their films are interesting and unique. Some of them are really deep, some others are funny, some are both. Brilliant minds. My favorite directors.

@SpacemanOutbound 4 года назад

Anton Chigurh looks just like my neighbor. Should I be worried?

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Yes

@TomEyeTheSFMguy 3 года назад

Y'all ever gonna do one on Edgar Wright?

@killthecatpodcast6300 3 года назад

This made me want to go read the book! It doesn't sound like the easiest one to adapt. Another wonderful video, thanks for sharing!

@2Tubist 4 года назад

5:00 - 5:50 what kind of background music is this? Very beautiful. Is it from the movie?

@RyanCarroll-rx3od Месяц назад

In my opinion the thing that made chigurgh such a powerful character was the fact that the coen brothers didn’t give the actor much direction on a back story or even present time motivation for why he is and does what he does but the editing made him into the evil non emotional character he was In other words it was a genius idea

@MyEnemy Год назад

I can clearly see Tommy Lee Jones playing Anton Chigurh, were the film actually made in 1980.

@MaxHanover 4 года назад

Is that Mark Kermode?

@SilojensenDK 7 месяцев назад

I think leaving the war veteran aspect of the characters out was a good decision. It's only present when the plot needs it to go on, for instance at the border passing. That way the characters can play out the universal story of a classical greek tragedy in a modern setting. And the Coens' are fond of the greek.

@SamStam12 4 года назад

The film really leveraged the visual symbolic nature rather than juxtaposition dialogues and plot. Differences in some movies I enjoy watching them, not listening to them.

@chipsarny616 3 года назад

This video has spent 8 months in travel to get to my iPhone. I won’t put it in my pocket I’ll save it to a named folder.

@meredithboswell4003 3 года назад

I wish I had a sibling

@o0BlackHole0o 4 года назад

What is the music starting around 5:00 ? Can anyone tell me ? Thx !

@a8uella 4 года назад

“And bang there he is” nice cut

@MR.PERFECTPRODUCTIONS 6 месяцев назад

This is every screenwriters dream to hear the Coen brothers talk about their writing process.

@NostalgiNorden 4 года назад

Worst fucking script ever!

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

How so? (serious question)

@reflectionsofme 4 года назад

"are you gunna kill me?" "do you see me?"

@Angels-3xist 4 года назад

I would like an exploration of villains drinking milk. Like, a really in depth one. None of that casual juxtapositional symbolism business.

@geraldjarreau 4 года назад

I saw the title and thought , wait... Cormac McCarthy wrote that. At least they talk about him in the clip. Read Blood Meridian, you'll thank me later.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite authors. I've read The Road and No Country for Old Men so far. I've been meaning to read Blood Meridian, and I might just pull the trigger on that now. Thanks.

@blackbird8837 4 года назад

God the images are awful pretty. Roger Deakins is the GOAT. How did he not win an Oscar for this? Ahh... There will be Blood. Nevermind.

@siddheshmisale3904 3 года назад

Thanks for the amazing work man ! Really appreciate it 💯

@AlexJEdits Год назад

Anyone know the music at 8:16?

@superfinevids 10 месяцев назад

Wrote a script based on a book that already exists... Most of the work is done for you. Not to take away from the skills of these two director writers but it would have been nice to hear them talk about something more original.

@BehindtheCurtain 10 месяцев назад

You ever done that before?

@ixICocoIxi 4 года назад

At 08:56, did you mean for the voiceover and the character’s lips to almost match?

@getAliKhan 4 года назад

"Hell's bells, they even shot the dog."

@brennap3310 4 года назад

after debating how many videos of yours was too much for my Watch Later, I realized I CAN SUBSCRIBE and it's all your videos in one place haha #sosmartofme #DontJustPutThatVideoInYourPlaylistBecauseThenItWillJustBeANormalVideo

@systemvoid 4 года назад

Defend Kermode at all costs #markkermodetaskforce

@ferise1 4 года назад

At the end « That l think that you will enjoy. » There’s a « that » too many there, kid.

@bfkc111 4 года назад

In terms of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, I'm afraid the Ugly's part would fall on Tommy Lee Jones in this case. (Seriously, maybe scientists should study his genetics for face wrinkles.)

@MacabreMagazine 4 года назад

No offense to anyone who liked the film but I thought it was overwrought nihilism and moved between boring (Tommy Lee Jones), to the silly, with absurd shootouts, murders, explosions and chases and no law enforcement within ten miles of the events, except for TLJ who appears to be sleep walking through the film. I guess if you stick the Coen bother's name on something everyone has an orgasm trying to analyze the deeper meaning of each and every moment.

@kennethalzamora8993 4 года назад

You deserve so much more subscribers. This is top quality content!

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Thanks, brother!

@steprockmedia 4 года назад

I really enjoyed the cat and mouse portions of this movie, but I never was following with the Tommy Lee Jones character who (upon reflection) was the one carrying the true theme. The pointless violence of a changing world and a new kind of criminal. I felt like Tommy's character had less a say in the film, so his crucial voice was lost on me and I was left wondering what the point of the movie was in the end. It's taken some time to figure it out. There Will Be Blood is a lot like this one in that regard.

@zrapboy7 4 года назад

Incredible movie.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

I agree. Thanks for watching!

@rosiemurray2611 4 года назад

Lol hi Mark!

@imcallingjapan2178 4 года назад

Hahaha, what a story, Mark.

@drewpowell8874 4 года назад

Cohen Brothers made this movie better then the book. A HUGE FAN of this movie. I have read the book and in my opinion the movie is WAY BETTER!

@Pantano63 4 года назад

It's essentially just the novel.

@aaronkottke2518 4 года назад

They should be asking this of Cormac McCarthy. The movie is so good cause it follows the book so faithfully.

@donscotuslives 4 года назад

The most disappointing aspect of this film was the Coens failure to include the sheriff's regret from his service in WWII. It is critical to understanding the sheriff's character and IMO a big failure of the film.

@victorious-dl6hk 3 года назад

I mean, they basically took the book and did everything that it described, after I read the book I was less impressed by the film. McCarthys books are fairly easy to make into films because of how film like they already are

@nemsimic 3 года назад

I would love to see someone do blood meridian in film format. I think if they got it right it would be mind-blowing

@victorious-dl6hk 3 года назад

@@nemsimic yes although I think a mini series would fit the pacing of the book more

@nemsimic 3 года назад

@@victorious-dl6hk I think you're right actually. I always thought of blood meridian as a kind of universe you can enter, rather than a specific narrative like no country. Either way, seeing it on screen would be awesome

@victorious-dl6hk 3 года назад

@@nemsimic yeah its perfect for netflix, no big distribution company affecting the directors and they can have a high budget at the same time. i just feel like it has multiple different parts with different themes and specific location and visuals. that would be awesome, sadly i dont think that will happen

@markB0SS 4 года назад

Hiya, how do you pull commentary from so many sources without any copyright issues? There seems to be no referencing also? Thanks 😊

@jebprendergast101 4 года назад

All of the movie’s memorable lines are straight from McCarthy’s book. They did veeeeeery little.

@olivercoulter260 4 года назад

One look at other films that faithfully adapt source material shows that to be no guarantee for dramatic success. Oneliners don't make a film good. How the Coen's apply McCarthy's themes and characters so cohesively and efficiently to film constraints is the achievement of their screenplay.

@TakeOffYourBoots 4 года назад

Well said. Knowing what to cut and what to keep is an art unto itself.

@amjoshuaf 3 года назад

Carla Jean refuses to call the coin toss in the film. Better choice.

@bathasleftthecave 4 года назад

No Country is as faithful an adaption of a novel as I've ever seen, so huge credit to the Coens direction for guiding the film towards the perfect tone of the novel but in terms of the screenplay, they basically just copy and pasted Cormac McCarthy into celtx or whatever haha.

@jackm4307 4 года назад

I just discovered this channel and it’s awesome.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Thanks, Jack!

@CharlieGeorge_ 4 года назад

There's so much practical advice and information in these videos, I owe you one.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

Glad you enjoy the video.

@nickpastorino5370 4 года назад

Are you suggesting you're going to write a screenplay? lol

@TheDominationNetwork 4 года назад

They didnt write this. They adapted it. They used a lot of direct dialogue form the book.

@Macroprosopus 4 года назад

If you're a fan of Cormac McCarthy novels then you should read Blood Meridian. Loved the video.

@EZ-yb4sb 4 года назад

But idk, even though it’s supposed to feel as if all the men carry equal weight throughout the movie, I still think Tommy’s character was felt the least.

@slicedbread5024 4 года назад

Masterpiece!

@madcircle7311 4 года назад

Imagine if these guys also wrote the screenplay for The winner stands alone...

@phattjohnson 4 года назад

This was a great collection of interviews, but even better is how you kept it largely spoiler-free! I haven't seen the movie in years and seeing some of those clips again make me want to go back and watch.

@alandavis3715 4 года назад

Anyone else hate this movie but at the same time be very intrigued by it?

@Justin_Cunningham 4 года назад

@AbsurdistAgent 4 года назад

When I read the title I thought it would feature Cormac McCarthy. Bummer. Edit: I absolutely love the Coen bros work though.

@BehindtheCurtain 4 года назад

I searched for a long time for a Cormac Mccarthy interview. I thought that would be a really cool addition to the video. Unfortunately, he does very few interviews. And even fewer audio/video interviews. I hope you still enjoyed the video.

@ricardopacheco8624 4 года назад

You should do FARGO (series)!

@darraghclarke2884 4 года назад

When Kermode says it’s “very faithful to the novel”, he’s actually understating it. The script and text almost identical. The only changes made were the removal two or three scenes, cutting down a few moments for pacing and changing the coin toss scene from night to day. And that’s pretty much all they changed (obviously there were other small alterations made but I’m making a point). They changed the font of the dialogue from Baskerville to Courier and copy-pasted it onto the screenplay. And that’s probably why the film works so well. It’s a Cormac McCarthy novel; it’s pretty much a given that it’s already a classic, so changing it drastically would only worsen it. Great film.

@nicofromtheweb4891 4 года назад

The dude playing the sheriff assistant also plays a cannibal in the road!

@danielcardiff3861 4 года назад

Both Cormac books.

@travispickle8185 4 года назад

Great video on my 2nd favorite movie

@abnt_official 4 года назад

...sort of.

@vanntitrises2715 4 года назад

Again feel I've seen this before. (Also how they wrote house M.D )

@johndesper9425 4 года назад

Mark Kermode is a fantastic critic.

@luisnavarrete7919 4 года назад

@azizth5893 4 года назад

I just watched it yesterday

@whynottalklikeapirat 4 года назад

Well - he started writing a manuscript called "A Country For Old Men" but eventually realised that the endless naps, the latency and repetition of conversation, the shuffling fence skirmishes with neighbours, cats and paperboys, the week old glasses of fake teeth water, the slippers, the half finished repairs, the dusty piles of newspapers of yesteryear, the noxious, sweet liqueur, the awkward relatives and the sunfaded candy, the rusting car in the driveway, no-print, saggy summer tires still on, the rattling wheezing, ill-tempered old mutts under the rocking chairs with their, the sudden inexplicable tears of sentimental rage, the growing desert of the front lawn and the ulyssean-in-scope two o'clock daily oddysees to the cornershop, just simply was less movie material and more like the winding down absurdist afternoon symphony of a single-minded fly shriveling steadily away in some dusty, sun-cracked windowsill ...