Post by loverofbeers on May 18, 2012 22:53:50 GMT -5
So no offense to IYH, but I don't post there anymore. But I do peek over there once in a while. And I just did.
I want to start a thread here about a great topic brought up over at the Headyverse, No Country for Old Men.
I love the movie. I've watched it three times and like Vann I watched NCFOM back-to-back with There Will Be Blood. I was told to skip TWBB because it was long and full of dialogue, so I watched it on the big screen alone knowing, rightly, that I would love the movie.
Back to NCFOM. The ending.... Well, in the DVD extras the Coen Brothers stated that they wrote their screenplay lifting it from its source material, a 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy. So if the ending isn't right for you, blame the book. The Coen Brothers did the same with heir imagining of True Grit. It is closer to the book than the old John Wayne vehicle was. Anyway, I have no problem with the end.
My biggest problem was the final shot of the still alive pit-bull attack used a very fake stuffed looking dog-doll. The dead pits also looked fake, but I'll take that over a Cannibal Holocaust scenario where critters actually are slaughtered on film. But still, it could have been done with better models. They should have turned to a horror movie fx guy or gal. That is my only issue with the movie.
Now to the Mick Foley "Cheap Pop" part of the equation. I grew up in the Chihuahua Desert, in West Texas, in El Paso. Everything was perfect and authentic. Everything. It made me "pop" on my first viewing.
Woody Harrelson is from West Texas or his murderer dad was. Woody is good fuckin' people and I think he played a Texan, which he is, authentically. He played a role lifted directly from a book. He wasn't the main protaganist. His role was to play a badass who knew the antagonist enough to fear him and respect him (of sorts), and explain this to the audience during his brief time on screen. The quickness of his death, once again he was playing a major heavy, showed how truly SCARY Anton Chigurh was. And that is why he was able to walk away from the ending and the crash. Chigurh was one of the baddedst "devils" in film.
Llewelyn Moss had to die. It wasn't his story, it was the story of the narrarator, played by Tommy Lee Jones. His death was supposed to dissapoint the audiences. Break their hearts.... Feel for his lovely little lady. Some of the greatest movies make the audience not smile, but talk, or write, like Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson did for me. A death of a character you like proves that the team behind the film got you on a deeper level.
Lastly, Tommy lee Jones was perfect. He grew up in that land. He knows extreme West Texas and the desert of Chihuahua. He was authentic.
And anybody else got a thought? Once again, sorry to post here instead of IYH.
Drinking a Ranger Creek Small Batch Series No. 1, a funky wild beer out of a great new brewery and whiskey distillery in San Antonio. Good freaking folks and brewers and creators of Laughing Whiskey Spirits. Cheers! to Texas beers!
I want to start a thread here about a great topic brought up over at the Headyverse, No Country for Old Men.
I love the movie. I've watched it three times and like Vann I watched NCFOM back-to-back with There Will Be Blood. I was told to skip TWBB because it was long and full of dialogue, so I watched it on the big screen alone knowing, rightly, that I would love the movie.
Back to NCFOM. The ending.... Well, in the DVD extras the Coen Brothers stated that they wrote their screenplay lifting it from its source material, a 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy. So if the ending isn't right for you, blame the book. The Coen Brothers did the same with heir imagining of True Grit. It is closer to the book than the old John Wayne vehicle was. Anyway, I have no problem with the end.
My biggest problem was the final shot of the still alive pit-bull attack used a very fake stuffed looking dog-doll. The dead pits also looked fake, but I'll take that over a Cannibal Holocaust scenario where critters actually are slaughtered on film. But still, it could have been done with better models. They should have turned to a horror movie fx guy or gal. That is my only issue with the movie.
Now to the Mick Foley "Cheap Pop" part of the equation. I grew up in the Chihuahua Desert, in West Texas, in El Paso. Everything was perfect and authentic. Everything. It made me "pop" on my first viewing.
Woody Harrelson is from West Texas or his murderer dad was. Woody is good fuckin' people and I think he played a Texan, which he is, authentically. He played a role lifted directly from a book. He wasn't the main protaganist. His role was to play a badass who knew the antagonist enough to fear him and respect him (of sorts), and explain this to the audience during his brief time on screen. The quickness of his death, once again he was playing a major heavy, showed how truly SCARY Anton Chigurh was. And that is why he was able to walk away from the ending and the crash. Chigurh was one of the baddedst "devils" in film.
Llewelyn Moss had to die. It wasn't his story, it was the story of the narrarator, played by Tommy Lee Jones. His death was supposed to dissapoint the audiences. Break their hearts.... Feel for his lovely little lady. Some of the greatest movies make the audience not smile, but talk, or write, like Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson did for me. A death of a character you like proves that the team behind the film got you on a deeper level.
Lastly, Tommy lee Jones was perfect. He grew up in that land. He knows extreme West Texas and the desert of Chihuahua. He was authentic.
And anybody else got a thought? Once again, sorry to post here instead of IYH.
Drinking a Ranger Creek Small Batch Series No. 1, a funky wild beer out of a great new brewery and whiskey distillery in San Antonio. Good freaking folks and brewers and creators of Laughing Whiskey Spirits. Cheers! to Texas beers!