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Raising Arizona Vs No Country For Old Men Essay

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From watching the Coen Brothers movies Raising Arizona and No Country for Old Men one would think that the two movies are not really similar at all. Raising Arizona is a comedy about a struggling couple who decide to steal a wealthy man’s baby, while No Country for Old Men is more of a drama where a man finds a suitcase with two-million dollars in it and a man comes after the brief case killing pretty much anyone in his way. Nevertheless both of the films focus on a similar theme, of that it is incredibly hard to be good and live a normal life around money and evil. For example, in No Country for Old Men the character Llewelyn Moss lives a normal married life until he comes across a suitcase with two-million dollars that was from a drug deal …show more content…

While both films are completely different types of genre, both Raising Arizona and No Country for Old Men share the similar motif of the struggle to live a normal life when there is money and evil present. Evil is introduced in almost every movie known to man, and it is no different in the films No Country for Old Men and Raising Arizona. Although evil is introduced in almost every movie, the thing that separates them all is how and when they introduce evil, and this is an important characteristic when it comes to comparing the two films to each other. As stated in the movie Excalibur the 1981 version by the character Merlin “Good and Evil. There never is one without the other.” Nevertheless what sets the two apart besides one being more so a comedy and the other being more of a drama is that they bring evil into play at completely different times. Raising Arizona introduces evil more so towards the middle of the movie when H.I. has a dream about an evil biker man riding a motorcycle through the desert killing everything in his path, he even

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