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In Reply to: RE: Duncan Shepherd, on the problem of books, in "No Country". posted by clarkjohnsen on December 19, 2007 at 11:54:57
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about my points, that is :-)
To wit...
"One thing that pulled me out of the film a little was the anticlimax of Luellens (sp?) demise. After being with him for basically all of the cat and mouse with Bardem it was strange to be so far from him when they had their final showdown. Suddenly the movie was all about Tommy Lee Jones.
It was an interesting and kind of bold choice but for me at least it had a slightly negative impact."
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
...Tommy Lee's honorable man and his take on a changing era from the gitgo. That's why his narrative opens the movie. New drugs, new greed utterly changes his world...remember when this film is set.
Yes, I liked and identified with Lewellyn's charcter and his "bad decision" is a key point that sets the movie plot in motion. We spend a lot of time with him. But I never thought the movie was *about* him.
And I never thought the filmmakers ever set the movie up for a showdown either.
I was certainly aware of TLJ's place in the movie and the importance of that opening narrative but as the movie went along I got caught up in the Lewellyn/Bardem storyline and it's not that I felt we were set up for or expected a showdown (except, maaaybe a little, by Lewellyn's wife and stepmother's encounter with the Mexican gangster dude) it was the way we came upon what was obviously a showdown - involving the person we'd been experiencing most of the movie thru/with - and we were basically left out of it. It's not like it ruined the movie for me (or even came close to doing so) but it did have an effect. I'm looking forward to a 2nd viewing.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
c
The abrupt left turn was less of an issue on the page.
On the screen, I think it appealed mightily to the Coen's sense of the fatalism and the absurd. I can see where it frustrated audiences who were expecting a bit more of a conventional structure. Or Blood Simple. Always tough with a likable character too. But thats...Cohenland. And McCarthyland too.
I was expecting the left curve.
I will see this movie again.
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