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Was Anton really in the hotel room?
It’s an important scene and sums up what the whole story is about. Based in the light from the ‘pinched out’ lock into the room, it makes sense that Anton was in the closet & not behind the door.
Where was Anton hiding?
In Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant source novel, Chigurh hides in a car in the motel parking lot as Bell arrives and examines the room. Chigurh watches Bell intently, until the Sherriff drives off. But Bell knows better.
How did Anton Chigurh find Llewellyn?
Role in the plot. In 1980, Chigurh is hired to retrieve a satchel holding $2.4 million from the scene of a drug deal gone wrong in West Texas. He discovers that a local welder named Llewelyn Moss, who chanced upon the money while hunting, has taken it and left town. Chigurh ruthlessly tracks Moss down.
How did Anton escape the hotel room?
Moss was carrying his rifle (in a case), so he was able to return fire on the Mexicans before fleeing to his room. During this time is when Anton Chigurh visits the hotel room. When Bell returns after having coffee, the lock has been blown off the door. He stops outside the door.
Is chigurh behind the door?
1: Anton Chigurh is behind the door, and leaves as Bell walks to the bathroom without looking back (most likely on purpose). This makes sense on every level for me except one: It just doesn’t look like someone is behind the door when Bell opens it.
What happened to Llewellyn in No Country for Old Men?
He doesn’t want to let a man die of thirst in the desert. It’s too bad the good deed ends up getting him killed. That’s right—it’s when Llewelyn returns to the scene of the crime that he is caught. Tragically, even though we spend about 200 pages with Llewelyn, he’s killed.
How did Wells find Moss?
In the end, the Mexicans found Moss by tapping the phone of either Sheriff Bell or Carla Jean Moss. Carla Jean told sheriff Bell where Llewellyn was. All the hitmen knew Moss was traveling along the border and that he was trying to get back to his wife.
Why does chigurh check his shoes?
There is no doubt that Chigurh kills Carla Jean. That’s why he checks the soles of his boots (for blood) as he leaves her house. In any case, it would go completely against his character for him to have mercy on her and allow her to live.
Who is the director of no country for old men?
2007 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen. No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-noir neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel of the same name.
How much did no country for old men cost to make?
The film also stars Kelly Macdonald as Moss’s wife Carla Jean, and Woody Harrelson as a bounty hunter seeking Moss and the return of the $2 million. No Country for Old Men premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. The film became a commercial success, grossing $171 million worldwide against the budget of $25 million.
What other Coen Brothers movies are similar to no country for old men?
Richard Gillmore states that “the previous Coen brothers movie that has the most in common with No Country for Old Men is, in fact, Fargo (1996). In Fargo there is an older, wiser police chief, Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) just as there is in No Country for Old Men.
What is the setting of the Lone Ranger?
Still, the Coens open the film with a voice-over narration by Tommy Lee Jones (who plays Sheriff Ed Tom Bell) set against the barren Texas country landscape where he makes his home.