The guy's wife is the Scottish actress who was Renton's schoolgirl love interest in Trainspotting. She does a great job with the American accent. She's a brilliant actress. Underrated in my opinion.
@@seanstinchfield-mp2xm I didn't realize that was her. She was Irish in that I think. Being able to believably do accents seems to get her a lot of work.
By 'great', if you mean overly broad, which is how she would have been directed, then yeah. And she was great in Boardwalk Empire, too. Though some take issue with her Irish accent there.
That reaction is probably the only immediate defensive action with any potential of success with Chigurh. "You... you mean I'm not your dark inexorable fate...?" "Naw brah, let's us go 'ave a beer." (Later climbs out of toilet window while Chigurh is making tricky jukebox decisions)
Llewellyn did 2 tours in Vietnam. He had been in the shit, and seeing a drug deal gone wrong pales in comparison to the horrors of war (especially one as miscalculated as Vietnam). He was practical in the way he approached the scene (and tracking the money). He just shouldn't have gone back.
He might've been tracked down still. He should have reported it to the police. By taking the money, he puts Chigurh on his trail, and mixes his wife up in it.
@@MikeB12800 It was a proximity tracker with a short range. Chigurh didn't even get a reading until he was about a quarter mile away. If Llewellyn and Carla Jean picked up and left (with no truck to lead Chigurh to them), he would never have found them, and he would have had time to break down the money and remove the tracker in the process.
Plus. After you hit a certain age, and especially if you are a person of the earth (farmer, hunter, outdoorsman), the less rattled you are by life and death. And at the same time, more appreciative.
The air tank weapon is known as : a captive bolt pistol or a cattle gun . It is used in the beef industry by slaughterhouses in the United States to humanely euthanize cattle before processing them into meat. The compressed air drives forward a sharp spring loaded steel bolt from the grip/handle .
The first time I saw this film, I was mad the way Brolin died off screen. I wanted the epic showdown. Upon further watches, I realize how brilliant it is
Me too. Like her, I didn’t even realize that was him on the floor in the room. I didn’t care about a big showdown but yeah, the way he was killed off was a very poor choice, imho.
Llwellyn's off screen death is actually foreshadowing for the unseen death of Chigurh, just after the end of the film. Chigurh says to Carson, "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" He didn't see that it applied to him too; he thinks his rules and behaviour keep him safe, yet he has an infected leg wound, a broken arm, a head wound, and possibly abdominal injuries, all from insisting on doing things his way, and there are sirens in the distance as he tries to walk away, one armed, and unarmed. All the main characters insist on doing things by their own rules, and all die off screen. The only one that doesn't have a violent death is Ed Bell, because the rules he follows are to take the safe path, to think twice, to go home, to listen to the common sense of others, and his way allows himself to back down and retire.
min 0:03 Who told you its not a western? Oh fer Pete's sake! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Westerns are all about iconic visuals, a good guy v. bad guy struggle locked in a mythical narrative, along with various elements including cowboys, villains, gunslingers, saloons, horseback riding, shootouts, and the vast, rugged landscapes of the American West...all of which this movie has IN SPADES!🥰🥰🥰
Watching your videos is guaranteed to make me laugh, Dawn Marie. "Beer with benefits" I never would have been able to put that situation into those words.
Don't worry Dawn - When you get caught, eventually, I will wait for your release or escape, whichever comes first. By the time you leave, I'll bet you'll have everyone in your whole cell block liking and subscribing.
My sister was stopped by a fake police officer. Terrifying. Luckily, she sensed the danger and drove off after he approached her car. Though he did not carry a captive built gun, he was definitely up to something evil.
@@ianinkster2261 You explain to me how Breaking Bad can be a western. You do it right now. Just because 40% of the show happens in the desert and there's a plot about Mexican outlaws and fighting the local law enforcement and there's a bunch of shootouts doesn't make it, oh wait it might actually be a western...
No music, the three main characters never acted a scene face to face, even the gunfight was in the dark at a distance. Parts are left unsaid and to your imagination. One of the best written movies in years.
This isn't a movie about the "story". It is a philosophical film about good and evil, life and death. About the older ones always thinking things were better in the past, and they never were. "You can't stop what's coming".
I think it’s less about good and evil and more about violence and consequence being a force in itself. That’s what makes the car crash scene so awesome to me since the whole movie Anton gets build up as this force of nature himself who acts more like a calamity than a human. But in the end even he is not safe from sudden violence he’s just a human like everybody else
@@shotbybrady8793 And yet my first experience with her was in Boardwalk Empire where she played an Irish woman, she was captivating as always. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wd7aXppS4Nw.html
Don't remind her about that guy. Remember how gutted she was when Wild Bill was killed.... until she didn't really care about it a few episodes later. 😉
When the trailer park manager refuses on principle to divulge information, Chigur spares her life because he respects her adherence to principle, for which he himself is a stickler. Had she wavered, he'd have done the coin thing.
@@Bothorthand WHY would THAT matter....what makes you think THAT would stop him from killing anyone?! there's just as many scenes where he kills a room of at least 2 or more ppl together than scenes with him killing a single person.
It's not that it has more labels than floors (skipping 13, which is common), but that there are FEWER labels than floors, implying there is a hidden, non-public floor.
All this time, I never considered that the reason behind this humerous dialogue, and I've been in plenty of building that go 12 to 14. I always just found it do be funny stuff from the Coen's, but that makes so much sense (and obvious).
Cool that you mentioned Raising Arizona - it's the same directors. Also did The Big Lebowski. You should definitely check out more Coen brothers films: Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Miller's Crossing, etc.
Because they were laundering money/making drugs, they were missing a floor button in the elevator, and Wells mentioned it to the accountant as a way of demonstrating his skills and knowledge.
His dreams of his father I took as being in heaven (the father going on ahead and he'd be waiting when he got there). Waking up is him returning to the hell on earth he still lives in... where people kill others for sometimes unknown reasons. There's a lot of symbolism with Chiguhr being an angel of death handing out people's fates at times with a flip of a coin. Llewelyn's offscreen death is subverting how most people think they are the hero of their own stories, but in actuality evil sometimes wins instead. Even good people on Earth meet untimely fates like being accidentally shot when attempting to kill a steer, a mom getting cancer, or stopping to help someone whose car runs down and being killed. It's a very pessimistic story about life.
Bell’s allegorical dreams genuinely encapsulate the meaning behind No Country for Old Men. The retired sheriff doesn’t appear to give much thought to his first dream, but it symbolizes his lingering guilt over Moss’ death all the same. Like in his dream, he was entrusted with a task but failed, despite his promise to Carla Jean. It is implied that Bell feels this failure subconsciously, but he can’t put the feeling into words, hence the dream. The second of Bell's dreams is where people become split over the No Country for Old Men meaning. As Bell notes before recalling the second of his dreams, he’s 20 years older than his father ever was, meaning he has become the old man his visions enact. He and his father are back in simpler times in the dream, riding through the snow and cold together.
@rx7dude2006 Also, his dream father is "carrying the fire" referred to in Cormac McCarthy's other novel, _The Road_ . In that, "carrying the fire" means love and hope and the passing on of honour and knowledge through the generations, making moral decisions, something that makes us human.
For my money, Javier Bardem's portrayal of Anton Chigurh is the most frightening screen villain of the last 50 years. And for the record, the Coen brothers insisted on that haircut to make him scarier. As for Tommy Lee Jones' character, his world is disappearing, the society he knew. "You can't change what's coming" which is why he needs to retire. It's no country for old men.
Yeah Deadwood, Dawn, the actor that was the Sherriff's deputy played Jack McCall in Deadwood that killed Wild Bill. He returns later in the show as another very odd character in Deadwood. You need to continue that one, for sure!
I remember so many reviewers commenting on the hairstyle when it first came out; "sporting a _terrifying_ pageboy(!)," and the like 😆 ...Yeah, I agree, it's ugly af, but come on!
Fun Fact: The actress that plays Carla Jean, Kelly Macdonald is Scottish and has a Scottish accent in real life. I was pretty surprised to find that out because she delivers an American Texas accent so well. It sounds completely natural to me.
A lot of southern US accents were derived in large part from Scottish settlers, or so I've heard. Over the centuries, in gradual and subtle ways, both have changed from what they were to what they sound like today. Obviously, there were other influences as well, and currently US accents are flattening to where there's less and less difference between US regions. When I hear 1950s Pennsylvania people speaking in old news reels, they sound incredibly different from what my PA relatives sound like now. Even Chicago, where I live now (moved here from PA in the late 1960s), many people no longer sound like those SNL "Da Bears" characters. I think it's the god-awful internet that's causing it, mostly.
Your pigeon idea was brilliant. The airspeed velocity of a homing device laden homing pigeon is sufficient to fly far away. Much better than even an African swallow.
There are some people that remain calm and cool under any situations ie) soldiers from elite military units , bodyguards / protective service agents etc etc
To answer a couple of your questions: Woodie found the brief case in the grass because crossing that bridge is the only path berween the US/Mexican border there. He is guessed that he would not chance trying to take it into Mexico, that he was in a hurry to hide it, and it was a decent hiding place being a "no man's land" between the borders. As to the case in the hotel vent: he rented the room, put the case in the vent because (1) is was a decent hiding place and (2) he could retrieve it from another room if he had to. The Mexicans tracked him down and were waiting in HIS room, the same room Chigur shot them all in.
Oh, you're the kind of person who gives to much of a shit about dogs. A man is actively being attacked by a dog and all you can say is "find another way" and I've heard the excuses but if it was a person who "didn't know any better" or was "trained that way so it's not their fault" whether it was becuse of a language barrier or because their humanity and free will was stripped from them there would be alot less empathy. I don't mean nothing by it. But I'm just tired hearing people gush about dogs like they can do no wrong or that anyone can just not like or love them unconditionally just for existing like any other animal, then immediately shit on a character because they didn't act perfectly in their eyes.
Together with "there will be blood" (coincidentally shot around the same area and time), 2007 gave us 2 bonechilling characters with Anton Chigurh and Daniel Plainview
This film is absolutely chilling. Javier Bardem has got to be one of the most intense villains. And the middle part is so suspenseful. By the way, you do a great southern accent! If you ever want to see another side of Javier, 'Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona' is excellent.
Woody knew the briefcase was likely thrown over the fence because Llewelyn didnt have it in the hospital with him after he crossed the border. Took me a few times to figure that part out. I love this movie so much
Have to remember that Moss was a Vietnam Vet so all that he goes through is probably almost like a boring day at the office for him, which would explain his rather calm demeanor throughout the movie.
@@Hexon66 Yeah and you can blame on the Cohen brothers, who could have even made it a much better film... but for whatever reason decided to stick with this ending... never read the book but am assuming it was very much like that...?
Cormac McCarthy (the guy who wrote this book) also wrote a book called "Blood Meridian" .... a story so diabolical that movie studios tried several times to adapt a screen play for a movie but had to change/cut so much they trash canned the whole thing
The deputy towards the end while Bell is reading the paper is played by Garrett Dillahunt. He played the Jack McCall (the guy that shot Wild Bill Hickok) in Deadwood. He also plays another, different character in a later season of Deadwood. Which, by the way, you need to get after watching season 2!.
Never have i seen someone enjoy Anton's character before lol... like he's really good as a character but to LIKE him as a person... That's a bold strategy cotton, let's see if it pays off for her.
14:00 To validate parking means the establishment reimburses the cost of the parking lot. This is an illegal business so it's a joke at that he wants them to pay for his time *and* have his presence there recorded on the books which is obviously not going to happen. Then the bit about the missing floor on the building is two fold. Woody Harrelson is showing the man that he's observant and it shows that the business is hiding the existence of this floor, because it's an illegal operation.
Dear Dawn, I think Luellen's vomit was that color because the infection "BILE" had built up because of the band-aids and his body just said get OUT! Anywho that's my hypothesis. I love your posts ta ta...🤮
Dawn Marie, You did such a nice job editing this. I was hesitant about watching this as I've never seen this movie before. But with your editing skills and insightful commentary on full display, I was able to follow right along. Best Editor Ever! -Thomas Hamilton, Southern California
The movie is a great adaptation of the book... and very well cast.. But yet.. you must read the book!... Don't make me emote a force choke here... READ THE BOOK!!!
You're right. This is not a western. DEADWOOD is pretty much a western... What happened, Dawn; I thought you were enjoying DEADWOOD - liking the characters, having a good time. I certainly was. ... what's the story, morning glory?
"You need to find a John Wick doctor" LOL!!! "You should strap it to a pigeon" LOL!!! "I wonder where he gets his hair cut" LOL!!! 😂 Enjoyed your reaction!! If you want to see another fantastic Texas country crime movie, I highly recommend "Hell Or High Water"!!! Promise you will love it!!!! It has Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine!
