No Country for Old Men, latest Coen Bros. film..
...is WELL worth the price of admission. Just got in from viewing it with my son and a friend. Tommy Lee Jones (Sheriff Bell) is his usual excellent self and the villian is a world-class psycho. Great acting, FANTASTIC writing and storytelling. You gotta see it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/
This is a better synopsis, taken from the website of the author of the novel upon which the movie is based. From this, it would appear that the movie follows the novel quite faithfully. I understand that McCarthy actually co-wrote the screenplay along with the Coens:
quote:"No Country for Old Men (2005)
The following description is from the publicity department at Alfred A. Knopf.
Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy.
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and over two million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches along and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
A harrowing story of a war society wages on itself, an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, and a novel of extraordinary resonance and power."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/
This is a better synopsis, taken from the website of the author of the novel upon which the movie is based. From this, it would appear that the movie follows the novel quite faithfully. I understand that McCarthy actually co-wrote the screenplay along with the Coens:
quote:"No Country for Old Men (2005)
The following description is from the publicity department at Alfred A. Knopf.
Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy.
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and over two million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches along and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
A harrowing story of a war society wages on itself, an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, and a novel of extraordinary resonance and power."
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Synopsis: "Mexican American border/Psychpathic killer/Dead body in car/Dog killed/Hospital..."
Sounds like a winner.
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quote:Originally posted by Polite Psycho
Synopsis: "Mexican American border/Psychpathic killer/Dead body in car/Dog killed/Hospital..."
Sounds like a winner.
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Like the synopsis for Star Wars might have been: primitively futuristic, young people in laws-of-physics-defying space craft, plastic costumes, chirping robots. [:p]0 -
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Quote: One man asks another, "How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?"
Do people in real life talk like this? One reason I gave up on movies. Sometimes the acting is really good but the dialogue comes out of some screenwriter's alcoholic mind.0 -
quote:Originally posted by john carr
Quote: One man asks another, "How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?"
Do people in real life talk like this? One reason I gave up on movies. Sometimes the acting is really good but the dialogue comes out of some screenwriter's alcoholic mind.
I guess I should give up on you people. The "quote" you cite above is NOT in the movie. Rather, as written, it is a quote from the SYNOPSIS of the NOVEL upon which the movie is based. At "worst," it's quoted from the novel itself. (They also don't use the page numbers from the book in the film. [;)])
Yes, some educated people DO talk like that in real life. They have vocabularies that exceed the F word, the MF phrase, and S#it, you know? For real? Know what I'm sayin'? Ya'eard me?
Ebonics is not in this film--not even any black people [:0]--and the F word only shows up very near the end, spoken by a kid in response to a horrific scene before his eyes. In my opinion, the people talk pretty much like normal people would under circumstances portrayed by the story. But for your assurance, no one boasts of their college degrees or spends time in libraries in the film, either.
Of course, you could wait until Spike Lee does a remake if you want dialog like REAL people talk. [:o)]0 -
I'd give it a 8.2 0
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