No Country For Old Men Analysis

Cormac McCarthy’s modern western shines both as a film and as a novel. The 2007 film directed by the Coen brothers, Ethan and Coel. The film for No Country for Old Men set very close to the novel in my opinion. The Coen brothers have built a representation for being “one of the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmakers of the late twentieth century. They bring a modern twist to classic American movie genres. McCarthy takes a bleak outlook on things. In both the book and the film, Chigurgh and Moss are both compelling, attention seekers in their own ways. Chigurgh is known for not having any sense of morals and doesn’t show any signs of remorse or compassion. Some believe that Chigurgh has his own set of morals in his own way.

The sherrif was a “war hero” from Vietnam before he was a sherrif. He is known as a war hero being that he was the sole member of his troop to survive an attack. This starts playing effect when we find out that sherrif is not a “war hero” at all. He is in fact a coward some might say. He ran away when the attacks began, not defending his country with the rest of his troops. Later he talks to one of his commanding officers and tells him what he did back in Vietnam. The man gave the sherrif some advice saying to keep this to himself, you were to survive and thats all one can hope for. Sheriff Bell often rambles throughout the novel about his “personal doubts” and his views of the world and everything going on around him. After this case, Sheriff Bell starts thinking about retirement. The pace was different between both the novel and the film. They both are set in a relatively straight forward chase, one-step forward and two-steps back some may say. As the Coen brothers continue on with their tale, Bell is never the “extent” to the book. They kept the pace up with a different way that adds more elements to the