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Post subject: Re: Film: No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers)
Posted: Tue November 20, 2018 5:05 pm
I Have A Third Nipple
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I feel like I'll never be able to recapture the feeling I had when I first saw this movie. It's on cable so much that I frequently flip by it and end up watching 45-minute chunks of the middle, and it just doesn't feel the same.
Post subject: Re: Film: No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers)
Posted: Tue November 20, 2018 6:17 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
tragabigzanda wrote:
Well i guess i can understand why you might dislike it, on account of it lacks subtlety. But again, Llewelyn acknowledges it with "sumthin' dumber n' dirt, but i'm fixin' to do it anyway." It's a fine device to move the plot forward, because it also adds a ton of character development with just a few lines.
I love Llewellyn Moss, one of my favorite literary characters of all time. His simple life with his loving wife in their trailer, hunting antelope, nowhere to go and nowhere to be. He has everything right in the palm of his hands when he stumbles onto that shootout, and through his empathy -- not his greed, as 99% of all other writers would have done -- he sets himself up for failure, and he even had an inkling it would happen.
I know I won't change your mind, but the discussion has helped me better define why I like that part so much.
One of the few books that I've re-read as an adult. Well, the second time was an audiobook and it was still great. Easier to track conversations too but I wonder how much of that was that I'd seen the movie so it was just easier to picture the actors.
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