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= No Country for Old Men: Translation from Book to Film =



Book By: Cormac McCarthy

Film By: Joel & Ethan Coen

Starring: Tommy Lee Jones Javier Bardem Josh Brolin Kelly Macdonald Woody Harrelson

Project by: Isaac Feldberg Block 2

In the book //No Country for Old Men// by Cormac McCarthy, a middle-aged man living with his wife in Southern Texas is out hunting when he uncovers the bloody remnants of a drug deal gone wrong out in the desert. Llewellyn Moss is the man's name, and when he takes two million dollars in cash from the scene of the crime, suddenly the most volatile, relentless snd brutally effective hit-man in the country, Anton Chigurh, comes hunting for him. Forced to flee the life he's always been satisfied with, Moss unintentionally unleashes a powder-keg of explosive, Texas-sized violence that threatens to destroy him and everyone he holds dear.

The Coen Brothers, directors of critically-acclaimed films like //Fargo//, //Blood Simple//, //The Big Lebowski// and //O Brother Where Art Thou?//, brought //No Country for Old Men// to the big screen in 2007. Their adaptation was extremely faithful to the book, sometimes lifting lines directly from the book and never deviating in large ways (even from the shocker ending). Minor items, like the sheriff's backstory and a teenage runaway who joins Moss as he flees Chigurh, are removed, as is the personality of Carla Jean Moss during her confrontation with Chigurh, but it is obvious to a viewer that Joel and Ethan Coen were big fans of the book and didn't feel any need to alter main events in the book noticeably, only smoothing over sections of the book that would have disrupted the film's flow. The film was a commercial and critical success, raking in $74,283,000 in the United States alone and being awarded many awards, including Academy Awards for Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Adapted Screenplay (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem) and Best Picture.

Interesting Aspects of the Book and Film:

 * **Text:** In both the book and film versions of //No Country for Old Men//, there is a surprisingly little amount of dialogue used. In the book, this lack of dialogue helps to convey a sense of gritty realism lacking in most popular books. All of McCarthy's works use minimal dialogue (he doesn't even use parentheses to indicate when words are spoken), including books like //The Road// and //All The Pretty Horses//. Scenes that could make very effective use of description to describe setting, character traits and background information instead require readers to envision what the scene would be like using only a small amount of information. When hitman Anton Chigurh enters a gas station and talks to the owner, this is visible:

"What's the most you ever saw lost in a coin toss? Sir? I said what's the most you ever saw lost in a coin toss. Coin toss? Coin toss. I dont know. Folks dont generally bet on a coin toss. It's usually more like just to settle somethin. What's the biggest thing you ever saw settled? I dont know. Chigurh took a twenty-five cent piece coin from his pocket and flipped it spinning into the bluish glare of the fluorescent lights overhead. He caught it and slapped it onto the back of his forearm just above the bloody wrappings. Call it, he said. Call it? Yes. For what? Just call it. Well I need to know what it is we're callin here. How would that change anything? The man looked at Chigurh's eyes for the first time. Blue as lapis. At once glistening and totally opaque. Like wet stones. You need to call it, Chigurh said. I can't call it for you. it wouldnt be fair. It wouldnt even be right. Just call it. I didnt put nothing up. Yes you did. You've been putting it up your whole life. You just didnt know it. You know what the date is on this coin? No. It's nineteen fifty-eight. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And I'm here. And I've got my hand over it. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it. In the blue light the man's face was beaded thinly with sweat. He licked his upper lip. You stand to win everything, Chigurh said. Everything (55-56)".

The scene in of itself isn't descriptive. You don't know what the man in the gas station looks like, sounds like, or is thinking. The same goes for Chigurh. We are only given small clues as to how to interpret the scene: Chigurh's firm persistence that the man call the coin indicates that the fate of the man is inexplicably tied to the coin, and the beads of sweat on the man's brow suggest that he is unnerved by Chigurh and that this is not a typical conversation. There is far more at stake than is usually decided in a coin toss. Like with McCarthy's writing style, there is far more to this scene than it would appear upon first glance. This scene also introduces us to Chigurh as a character twisted beyond humanity but with his own set of morals. For example, he refuses to call the coin for the man, saying that it would unfair to do so, but he feels that it is necessary to flip the coin to decide the man's fate anyway, despite the fact that the gas station owner is uninvolved in what Chigurh is doing. In the movie, the scene is shown in exactly the same way, but the feel of the [|movie scene] is much more sinister. The man behind the counter is obviously terrified, and Chigurh is clearly hostile. The first impression that the audience is given is that Chigurh is a dangerous man who could easily kill the gas station owner and walk away without second thoughts. However, the dialogue is sparse and nearly word-for-word out of McCarthy's book. The book and movie both rely on the audience's ability to read between the lines. In this way, the movie version of //No Country for Old Men// successfully captures the feel of the book.


 * ** Casting/Acting **: The casting director for //No Country for Old Men// did a phenomenal job of choosing actors and actresses who could successfully bring to life the characters in the book. Tommy Lee Jones played Ed Tom Bell, the sheriff of the county where Moss is from. Jones was perfect for the role, playing him with the gruff, weathered and weary personality of Bell in the book. Whenever Jones spoke on screen, viewers of the film were transported to southern Texas, to a time when anarchy ruled and only a select few stood against the tide of blood and violence. Jones's prior experience living in Texas shone through in this role. Josh Brolin was Llewellyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran who used to be a welder and now lives with his wife and hunts in his spare time. Brolin also acted well, and he was believable and exhilarating to watch as a man who is forced to go on the run after taking money from a drug deal. Javier Bardem, however, was the real star of this movie. As ruthless and crafty hitman Anton Chigurh, Bardem was the most memorable and terrifying villain to hit the big screen in recent memory. He turned the innocuous phrase "Call it" into a chilling line that preceded death and destruction, and turned a captive bolt gun into a weapon as feared and effective as the Grim Reaper's scythe. Bardem played the character with a cynicism and wit along with a tendency to kill everything in his path, transforming Chigurh into a larger-than-life villain who represented evil in it's most carnal form. This performance garnered Bardem a well-earned Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Kelly MacDonald and Woody Harrelson were secondary characters but played their small parts so well that they leave lasting impressions.

WHO'S WHO IN NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN?

 * Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) - Bell was a World War II veteran in his younger days who is haunted by an experience in which he was forced to leave his platoon to die when they were attacked by German forces. Bell received the Bronze Star for this action because he was wounded and continued to defend the position until dark, though he sees his retreat as a terrible mistake that constitutes a failure. He has spent his entire life trying to make up for this shortcoming. Throughout the book, Bell pens journal entries that reflect on his time as sheriff and what he has learned from his job. Bell is certainly disillusioned and tired of being the only thing standing between order and total chaos in his Texas town. A new breed of evil has converged on Texas and he is an old man in this country who is unable to adapt to understand and then stop this new type of criminal. This reflects the title of the book, 'No Country for Old Men', which is taken from the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium' by William Butler Yeats. Bell's generation has played it's part in the world and now the world has moved on without them. He says "Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real. I have seen his work. I walked in front of those eyes once. I wont do it again. I wont push my chips forward and go out to meet him. It aint just bein older. I wish that it was (4)". Bell is disturbed by the new evil present in the world, and he knows that he is a remnant of the old ways and that he will soon disappear and the world will fall into chaos. This revelation constitutes a crisis of faith for Bell. His former belief in the goodness of the world has been ravaged by the terrible things he's seen and read: two strangers meeting up and killing people across the United States, and a kid who killed his girlfriend to see what it felt like are just two examples. He also says in response to a question posed by a deputy of what kind of person could make a hole in another's head without a bullet, "I dont know. I used to say they were the same ones we've always has to deal with. Same ones my grandaddy had to deal with. Back when they was rustlin cattle. Now they're runnin dope. But I dont know as that's true anymore. I'm like you. I aint sure we've seen these types of people before. Their kind. I dont even know what to do about them even. If you killed them all they'd have to build an annex on to hell" (79). These criminals are not the same ones Bell was trained to deal with; Bell is outgunned, outmaneuvered and outnumbered by these criminals day after day, but he is a hero because he has not given in yet. Bell is a wise and moral man who feels that " The people of Terrell County hired me to look after em. That's my job. I get paid to be the first one hurt. Killed for that matter. I'd better care."




 * Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) - Moss was also a veteran of a war, however, he was in Vietnam for two tours as opposed to Bell's experience in World War II. He lives in Bell's county and has a young wife named Carla Jean, whom he treats with respect and kindness. He was once a welder and hunts in his spare time. When he is out hunting one day, he finds the bloody aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong. Cars are trashed, blood is splashed across the desert floor, bullet-riddled bodies are strewn carelessly around the area and there is lots of heroin in the back of a pickup truck. Moss also finds two million dollars in cash and takes it. Moss is a believable character in the book and movie because he is very flawed but still likable. He is self-confident but also cocky, and he is resilient and stubborn to the point of pig-headedness. He also exhibits the greed shared by the secondary villains of the movie and book. Moss is forced to go on the run after a hitman comes after the money and starts to kill everyone who gets in his way. Brolin's performance as Moss is brilliantly understated and he delivers his lines with a grizzled cynicism that perfectly captures the essence of the character. Not much else is known about Moss in the book as there is no physical appearance given for any character and the only backstory for him is what is brought up in conversation or is evident from his actions. The movie gives Moss a face but not much of a backstory. Because of this, Moss is one of the most unexplored characters in the story.




 * Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) - When Moss takes the money from the site of a drug deal, the man who coordinated the drug deal sends possibly the most dangerous person in the world to recover the money. When the book first introduces Chigurh, he is in a police station, having been arrested (the film suggests that this is because he was trying to cross over the border into Texas). The arresting officer is on the phone when we first realize how deadly Chigurh is: "Chigurh squatted and scooted his manacled hands beneath him to the back of his knees. In the same motion he sat and rocked backward and passed the chain under his feet and then stood instantly and effortlessly. If it looked like a thing he'd practiced many times it was. He dropped his cuffed hands over the deputy's head and hauled back on the chain. They went to the floor. The deputy was trying to get his hands inside the chain but he could not. Chigurh lay there pulling back on the bracelets with his knees between his arms and his face averted. The deputy was flailing wildly and he'd begun to walk sideways over the floor in a circle, kicking over the wastebasket, kicking the chair across the room. He kicked shut the door and he wrapped the throwrug in a wad about them. He was gurgling and bleeding from the moth. He was strangling on his own blood. Chigurh only hauled the harder" (5-6). You can watch the film version of this [|here] (play from 2:00 to 3:34), but keep in mind that it is NSFW because it is very violent. The Coen Brothers were very careful in casting Chigurh, and choosing Bardem paid off. He steals every scene he is in with dark humor and cold dead eyes that show everything there is to know about the character in one gaze. Chigurh is a firm believer in fate and destiny. He justifies killing by way of the idea that his victims were put in his way for a reason. He also occasionally uses a coin to decide whether or not to kill someone. He uses this method in the gas station and when he is talking with Carla Jean towards the end of both the book and the movie. Chigurh can turn almost anything into a weapon, killing many people with a cattle gun which shoots a metal rod into someone's brain then retracts back into the chamber, and killing others with a makeshift car bomb. Many more are mowed down with machine guns and others with shotguns. One is garroted. Everyone Chigurh meets or comes after is terrified of him as he seems to represent death and complete evil. Chigurh is repeatedly injured by things that would kill others; he is hit by cars and peppered with a shotgun, for example. Both times he walks away. One interesting aspect of the character on film is that he has a strange haircut which alienates him from the rest of the characters in the movie. This is a director's trick to show that the character is aloof from the rest of the characters in the film, far different than anyone else. Bardem won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance.




 * Carla Jean Moss (Kelly Macdonald) - Carla Jean isn't in many scenes in the movie or the book, but when she has a scene, she makes a big impact on the story. Carla Jean is Llewellyn Moss's young wife. She loves him dearly and trusts him completely. When Moss becomes involved with the money, he realizes that bad people will be hunting for him and he doesn't want them to find her. So, he sends her to Odessa to live with her mother for a short period of time. She is first interviewed by the sheriff, who questions her on Moss's location. She truthfully answers that she knows nothing but is brought into the fold by Moss when he realizes that Chigurh will go after her instead of continuing to chase him. What she says to the sheriff in the book leads to trouble for Moss. After all of the action with Moss has played out, Carla Jean is targeted by Chigurh, who promised Moss that, no matter what happened, Carla Jean would die. Macdonald was a great choice for the role, bringing to life Carla Jean's innocent personality, nailing the Texan accent and making the audience wonder just how much Carla Jean was aware of during the course of the story. She finally stands up for herself when Chigurh confronts her:

"None of this was your fault. She shook her head, sobbing. You didnt do anything. It was bad luck. She nodded. He watched her, his chin in his hand. All right, he said. This is the best I can do. He straightened out his leg and reached into his pocket and drew out a few coins and took one and held it up. He turned it. For her to see the justice in it. He held it between his thumb and forefinger and weighed it and then flipped it spinning in the air and caught it and slapped it down on his wrist. Call it, he said. She looked at him, at his outheld wrist. What? She said. Call it. I wont do it. Yes you will. Call it. God would not want me to do that. Of course he would. You should try to save yourself. Call it. This is your last chance. Heads, she said. He lifted his hand away. The coin was tails. I'm sorry. She didnt answer. Maybe it's for the best. She looked away. You make like it was the coin. But you're the one. It could have gone either way. The coin didnt have no say. It was just you (258)".

With that statement, Carla Jean proves herself much wiser than she had appeared throughout the rest of the book and film. Macdonald was a great casting choice because that conversation, and her heartbroken face during it, shown [|here], continue to echo around the mind of anyone who reads the book or sees the film for weeks after.




 * Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson) - When Moss's attempts to escape from Chigurh land him in the hospital, a man named Carson Wells comes to visit him. Sent by the same people who hired Chigurh, Wells is also looking for the money but is less interested in killing Moss. Wells believes that Chigurh is a loose cannon, as do his employers. As such, the employers sent two men to ensure that the money was recovered. When Wells encounters Chigurh after leaving Moss in the hospital, Chigurh and Wells face off to decide who will continue to pursue Wells. In the few scenes that Wells appears in during the film, Harrelson is memorable. He says his lines with dry humor and comes across as an amiable hotshot who prides himself on efficiency. Even when he is trying to save his life in a [|conversation with Chigurh], Harrelson makes the character likable. Sort of a less villainous antagonist, Wells is cocky, laid back, friendly and outgoing. He is also just a "day trader", meaning that he isn't as involved in the mercenary business as Chigurh is. Wells also fears Chigurh. When Moss considers cutting a deal with Chigurh in the movie, Wells says, "No no. No. You don't understand. You can't make a deal with him. Even if you gave him the money he'd still kill you. He's a peculiar man. You could even say that he has principles. Principles that transcend money or drugs or anything like that. He's not like you. He's not even like me". Chigurh is different from everyone else in the movie, including the other antagonists. Harrelson was a good choice for the role, taking his cues directly from the book's Carson Wells.




 * [[#No Country for Old Men: Translation from Book to Film-Interesting Aspects of the Book and Film:-Themes in No Country for Old Men//: In both the film and book //No Country for Old Men, there are many themes and motifs clearly present. One theme is fate. Throughout the book, Chigurh repeatedly claims that fate is beyond the control of any one being. As he remorselessly slaughters innocents in the film, he justifies his actions by way of the idea that it was their destiny that led them into the line of fire and it is not up to Chigurh whether they die or not. Chigurh emphasizes this by flipping a coin to decide the fates of several characters: "Call it". The coin, or fate, has the final say. Chigurh has no motivation to kill his victims; it's all fate. Another theme is chance: the coin represents chance. Flipping a coin is something done to decide small, trivial matters, but Chigurh uses it to decide whether to kill or let live. Unpredictability is certainly present in the film and the book. Reading or watching a version of the story for the first time, nothing is certain. When talking with Carla Jean, Sheriff Bell confirms this using an anecdote: "You know Charlie Walser? Has the place east of Sanderson? Well you know how they used to slaughter beeves, hit 'em with a maul right here to stun 'em... and then up and slit their throats? Well here Charlie has one trussed up and all set to drain him and the beef comes to. It starts thrashing around, six hundred pounds of very pissed-off livestock if you'll pardon me... Charlie grabs his gun there to shoot the damn thing in the head but what with the swingin' and twistin' it's a glance-shot and ricochets around and comes back hits Charlie in the shoulder. You go see Charlie, he still can't reach up with his right hand for his hat... Point bein', even in the contest between man and steer the issue is not certain". Unpredictability is also a major force in the book because of what happens to the characters. Take Carson Wells for example. When we first meet him, he seems like an important guy. He is hired by the same man as Chigurh, with the same intentions as Chigurh. He quickly comes into contact with Moss and offers him a deal. However, SPOILER WARNING he is removed from the story just as quickly as he came into it when Chigurh gets the drop on him in a hotel room and carelessly shoots him dead when Moss calls, having accepted Wells's deal. Nothing in the story is certain. END SPOILER Moss is camping out at a motel when he is accosted by a poolside woman who begins to flirt with him. Even though she doesn't feature in the book much and is never even seen up close in the movie, she makes a valuable point when she asks Moss what he's looking for. He says that he's looking for what's coming and she replies, "But no one ever sees that". SPOILER WARNING This statement is immediately relevant in both the book and the movie, because immediately after this encounter, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is driving down to the motel when he hears gunfire and sees anonymous Mexicans (after the drug money as well) jumping into a truck and driving away. He enters the motel, finds the woman face-down in the water then sees Moss dead in a doorway, full of bullets. Arguably the main character in the film, Moss is brutally and suddenly killed by a mostly unseen (to Moss and the audience) predator that has been closing in on him even as he has been evading Anton Chigurh. He isn't even killed on screen in the movie or in a scene in the book. Once so full of life, Moss is now dead and his fight is over. END SPOILER Also, though Chigurh is eerily in control throughout the entire film, even he cannot see what's coming. Towards the end of the film, Chigurh is T-boned at an intersection. The man who is always deciding the fate of others is privy to fate as well, so it seems, and no one can see what's coming. The unpredictable nature of life is a main theme in the film and book. There are also several uses of symbolism in the movie. Chigurh's method of killing (the cattle gun) is a symbol of changing times- such an inhumane way of killing would not even been considered in Sheriff Bell's time. Indeed, Bell doesn't even make the connection between recent murder victims with holes in their heads containing no bullets and the cattle gun when he mentions it in conversation. Llewellyn Moss is a symbol of the old ways, as is Sheriff Bell. Moss hunts game but not people (unlike Chigurh), lives with his wife and doesn't communicate with her, tracks his prey on foot (as opposed to Chigurh's transponders and cars) and is a true representative of the Wild West. Bell is also old-fashioned, unable to conceive of the ways that criminals thrive in a new era of crime, and even more incapable of stopping them. More subtly, kids riding by the location of a scene on their bike represent coming death. This is noticeable when Chigurh SPOILER visits Carla Jean END SPOILER and when Moss checks into the motel towards the end of the movie. Chigurh himself represents all the evil in the world. Moss represents our unsuccessful attempts to flee from it and to keep ourselves distant from evil. Bell represents the average American, trying to no avail to make sense of all the carnage in the world.]] ** Themes in // No Country for Old Men //** : In both the film and book //No Country for Old Men//, there are many themes and motifs clearly present. One theme is fate. Throughout the book, Chigurh repeatedly claims that fate is beyond the control of any one being. As he remorselessly slaughters innocents in the film, he justifies his actions by way of the idea that it was their destiny that led them into the line of fire and it is not up to Chigurh whether they die or not. Chigurh emphasizes this by flipping a coin to decide the fates of several characters: "Call it". The coin, or fate, has the final say. Chigurh has no motivation to kill his victims; it's all fate. Another theme is chance: the coin represents chance. Flipping a coin is something done to decide small, trivial matters, but Chigurh uses it to decide whether to kill or let live. Unpredictability is certainly present in the film and the book. Reading or watching a version of the story for the first time, nothing is certain. When talking with Carla Jean, Sheriff Bell confirms this using an anecdote: "You know Charlie Walser? Has the place east of Sanderson? Well you know how they used to slaughter beeves, hit 'em with a maul right here to stun 'em... and then up and slit their throats? Well here Charlie has one trussed up and all set to drain him and the beef comes to. It starts thrashing around, six hundred pounds of very pissed-off livestock if you'll pardon me... Charlie grabs his gun there to shoot the damn thing in the head but what with the swingin' and twistin' it's a glance-shot and ricochets around and comes back hits Charlie in the shoulder. You go see Charlie, he still can't reach up with his right hand for his hat... Point bein', even in the contest between man and steer the issue is not certain". Unpredictability is also a major force in the book because of what happens to the characters. Take Carson Wells for example. When we first meet him, he seems like an important guy. He is hired by the same man as Chigurh, with the same intentions as Chigurh. He quickly comes into contact with Moss and offers him a deal. However, SPOILER WARNING he is removed from the story just as quickly as he came into it when Chigurh gets the drop on him in a hotel room and carelessly shoots him dead when Moss calls, having accepted Wells's deal. Nothing in the story is certain. END SPOILER Moss is camping out at a motel when he is accosted by a poolside woman who begins to flirt with him. Even though she doesn't feature in the book much and is never even seen up close in the movie, she makes a valuable point when she asks Moss what he's looking for. He says that he's looking for what's coming and she replies, "But no one ever sees that". SPOILER WARNING This statement is immediately relevant in both the book and the movie, because immediately after this encounter, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is driving down to the motel when he hears gunfire and sees anonymous Mexicans (after the drug money as well) jumping into a truck and driving away. He enters the motel, finds the woman face-down in the water then sees Moss dead in a doorway, full of bullets. Arguably the main character in the film, Moss is brutally and suddenly killed by a mostly unseen (to Moss and the audience) predator that has been closing in on him even as he has been evading Anton Chigurh. He isn't even killed on screen in the movie or in a scene in the book. Once so full of life, Moss is now dead and his fight is over. END SPOILER Also, though Chigurh is eerily in control throughout the entire film, even he cannot see what's coming. Towards the end of the film, Chigurh is T-boned at an intersection. The man who is always deciding the fate of others is privy to fate as well, so it seems, and no one can see what's coming. The unpredictable nature of life is a main theme in the film and book. There are also several uses of symbolism in the movie. Chigurh's method of killing (the cattle gun) is a symbol of changing times- such an inhumane way of killing would not even been considered in Sheriff Bell's time. Indeed, Bell doesn't even make the connection between recent murder victims with holes in their heads containing no bullets and the cattle gun when he mentions it in conversation. Llewellyn Moss is a symbol of the old ways, as is Sheriff Bell. Moss hunts game but not people (unlike Chigurh), lives with his wife and doesn't communicate with her, tracks his prey on foot (as opposed to Chigurh's transponders and cars) and is a true representative of the Wild West. Bell is also old-fashioned, unable to conceive of the ways that criminals thrive in a new era of crime, and even more incapable of stopping them. More subtly, kids riding by the location of a scene on their bike represent coming death. This is noticeable when Chigurh SPOILER visits Carla Jean END SPOILER and when Moss checks into the motel towards the end of the movie. Chigurh himself represents all the evil in the world. Moss represents our unsuccessful attempts to flee from it and to keep ourselves distant from evil. Bell represents the average American, trying to no avail to make sense of all the carnage in the world.

//No Country for Old Men// is both an extraordinary book and a brilliantly realized movie. Both follow the same plot-line and use the same words to move the story along. Cormac McCarthy's writing style is one of the freshest and most fascinating styles in popular fiction today, which makes the book well worth reading. Reading the book also prepares you mentally for the movie. The film is also worth seeing for the fantastic performances, thrilling plot, thought-provoking ending, fantastic cinematography and awesome screenplay. The book is a tough, though rewarding read, while the movie is more easily accessible to the general public. Ultimately, the movie triumphs both as an adaptation and as an excellent motion picture independent of the original story. If you were to pick one, the movie works well as an introduction to Cormac McCarthy's books and the Coen Brothers's films, and surpasses the book as a multi-layered metaphor for good, evil and those caught in between the two. Though McCarthy's novel is one of the most fascinating and intriguing books to emerge over the past decade, the film //No Country for Old Men// is a modern classic and, unusually for movies based on books, builds on the story McCarthy laid out, improving it.









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