He shadows him like his doom, never hurrying, always moving at the same measured pace, like a pursuer in a nightmare.
Scenes are meticulously constructed in which each man knows the other is nearby. The $2 million turns out to be easier to obtain than to keep. You want to applaud the writing, which comes from the Coen brothers, out of McCarthy.
Listen to what they say, how they say it, how they imply the stakes. Without explaining why, he asks the man to call the flip of a coin. Chigurh has by no means made up his mind. It is clear they are talking about whether Chigurh will kill him.
Chigurh enters a rundown gas station in the middle of wilderness and begins to play a word game with the old man (Gene Jones) behind the cash register, who becomes very nervous. "He has his principles," says the bounty hunter, who has knowledge of him.Ĭonsider another scene in which the dialogue is as good as any you will hear this year. Chigurh is so evil, he is almost funny sometimes. "No Country for Old Men" is as good a film as the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have ever made, and they made " Fargo." It involves elements of the thriller and the chase but is essentially a character study, an examination of how its people meet and deal with a man so bad, cruel and unfeeling that there is simply no comprehending him. We will also meet Moss' childlike wife, Carla Jean ( Kelly MacDonald) a cocky bounty hunter named Carson Wells ( Woody Harrelson) the businessman ( Stephen Root) who hires Carson to track the money after investing in the drug deal, and a series of hotel and store clerks who are unlucky enough to meet Chigurh. The plot will involve Moss attempting to make this $2 million his own, Chigurh trying to take it away from him and Sheriff Bell trying to interrupt Chigurh's ruthless murder trail. He finds it in a briefcase next to a man who made it as far as a shade tree before dying. Llewelyn realizes one thing is missing: the money. In the back of one pickup are neatly stacked bags of drugs. Vehicles range in a circle like an old wagon train. The third major player is Llewelyn Moss ( Josh Brolin), a poor man who lives with his wife in a house trailer, and one day, while hunting, comes across a drug deal gone wrong in the desert. Ed Tom Bell, the sheriff played by Jones, is another. It propels a cylinder into their heads and whips it back again.Ĭhigurh is one strand in the twisted plot. Chigurh ( Javier Bardem) is a tall, slouching man with lank, black hair and a terrifying smile, who travels through Texas carrying a tank of compressed air and killing people with a cattle stungun. Like many of the words McCarthy uses, particularly in his masterpiece Suttree, I think it is employed like an architectural detail: The point is not how it sounds or what it means, but the brushstroke it adds to the sentence. No, I don't know how his last name is pronounced.
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