NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) MOVIE REACTION!! - First Time Watching! 

FARGO react to that Coen Bros. movie 100%

The writer is Cormac McCarthy (hence the literary depth) and the Coens honored his work. Plus, they are the Coens.

“If the rule you followed led you to this, if what use was the rule?” The ending of the movie is often misunderstood. Anton is a dead man. He has murdered both sides of the drug exchange and stolen the money and now needs medical care. Not the first aide he gave himself earlier but a serious hospital stay. The film (and the book) are meditation on free will (Moss) and predetermination (Anton). The Cohen’s changed the ending so that Anton doesn’t get away with it. “The coin don’t have no say.” If he just let Carla Jean go Anton gets away with it. But because he lives by his rule of predetermination he is destined to be at that intersection when some random guy runs a red light. In the film he’s a dead man walking, we just don’t see it. We know this because the film gets less and less violent after the confrontation at the motel. Only one death is shown that being the management of the American side of the cartel. Carson, the chicken man, the beer lady, the Mexican cartel members, the mother, Carla Jean, and after the credits role Anton all die without us seeing it happen. The only good man, Tommy Lee Jones character, gets out alive but still feels like a failure.

@@user-fw3qe5ue7z sorry bud...but thats only your opinion. Its a pleasant fiction though...

@@BabyNoah22 Believe what you want. But the filmmakers made choices to differ from McCarthy. In the end she does call it and dies. Anton gets away with it. The car crash doesn’t happen. That’s not my opinion, but their interpretation of the story. Anton has made enemies of both murderous cartels. He needs real medical attention or he’ll die of infection. It took Carson 3 hours to find Moss in the hospital. It’s all there in the movie.

Absolutely 💯

Amen. Some days I don't even recognize the world anymore.

I was 28 when this movie came out. I'm 44 now and the world I grew up feels like a dream compared to the world as it is now.

You're missing my favorite, O Brother Where Art Thou, which is worth watching just for the soundtrack and the magnificent Roger Deakins cinematography, and that's not to mention the most creative adaptation of The Odyssey ever filmed.

@@flarrfan I do like O Brother but it’s not a favorite of mine

I would consider There Will be Blood, Whiplash, Arrival and Inglorious Basterds as masterpieces as well.

@@tannerlink566 hard agree with u. It still amazes me neither Paul Dano or Amy Adams earned Oscar nods for There Will Be Blood and Arrival respectively.

True Grit bangs so hard. Killer performances from Steinfield and Bridges.

BUT BUT NO PEW PEW SHOOTOUT THO!?!

It's about his retirement. And death. To a man who defines himself through work, retirement IS death. That is where his father has "gone before". Into death. He's waiting for him in the afterlife.

Even the instrument of death himself is subject to the whims of nature.

In the book the cartel was tapping the sheriff's phone, and when Carla Jean told him her whereabouts, they sent a single killer in a Barracuda to kill Llewelyn.

It's pretty typical; at least it will get them interested in other cinematic works.

He might have slipped up as well. The 2 aren't mutually exclusive.

In the book he was found interacting with a teenaged girl (17 IIRC) but because Llewelyn is dead he can't explain what they were talking about or if he was cheating on his wife. I think the conversation with the pool lady and fade to black was meant to replicate that. It's up to the audience. In the book it's extra sad because Carla has to deal with that information as well.

@@PillarOfWamuu It's implied in the book he was faithful. The Sheriff makes a point of verifying that.

@@r.plante2916 I think most people that knew him till believe he cheated. Or something to that effect. It's been a while.

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Moss, as well.

does that then take away the theory that anton isn’t real and is a metaphor for death?

@@kiamckenz He kind of a "Grim Reaper", but not free of death himself, as shown end of the movie in the car crash.

and yes, that is a slaughter house dispatch air gun. My father was a truck driver in the 70s and took me to one......................eating beef now is difficult for me. I would rather eat an old, hunted buck in the last years of his life.

O' Brother, Where Art Thou as well.

@@deadassdgaf100 Fargo is my personal favourite by them. But there are so many worth watching. Barton fink...The big lebowski...burn after Reading...Raising Arizona. Some classics not seen by many

@@michaelhandy4968 I rank Fargo higher than No Country because, like their best films, it was original with the Coens. No Country is artfully filmed (Roger Deakins great as usual) and it's a pretty faithful adaptation of a novel, with the typical Coen touches. But O Brother is my favorite, for the creativity of the concept, filming the Odyssey transported to the Depression era South with a great Americana soundtrack and that Deakins cinematography. Then there's the highly underrated Hudsucker Proxy among their classic earlier works, Raising Arizona, Fargo and Lebowski.

@@flarrfan Fargo is in my top 10 movies of all time. It came out when I was in school and I loved it ever since. It's a classic

"It's directed by two brothers?" Welllll sounds like these guys have a lot of movies to see haha.

Most people didn't like it? I think most are just surprised.

The Coens were a perfect match for Cormac McCarthy. He once said that all the great stories are about life and death.

No. He got into the car wreck because even the instrument of death himself is subject to the randomness of nature.

Yeah, the American buyers (the Matacumbe Petroleum Company) also gave the cartel a tracker, which further pissed Anton off. "You use the one appropriate instrument" was his philosophy.

Those people on the 14th floor know what floor they're really on

@@woahblackbettybamalam Mitch Hedburg. 😊

There's that, but I also took it was a security measure by the Matacumbe Petroleum Company. The office had a special coded elevator.

His conscience and guilt got the best of him.