|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
58.110.44.212
Could I just sum it up as "You don't see it coming" as the girl by the pool says almost at the end and just before she is killed?
Follow Ups:
to the scene of the danger, because he can't just mail her the money, or walk into the Pinkerton office and pay $20M for armed guards around her house for the next month, and he knows the bad guy is outside his room ready to come in; and instead of hiding behind cover to his left so he can shoot the guy without being shot, he sits on the bed, in the center of the room, silhouetted, and rather than throw the transmitter out the window so the bad gut thinks the money is outside, running away; he tells wife to meet at the motel instead of the airport where it is full of people so no one will likely shoot them, and the bad guy has no air tank coming up the steps of the Eagle Hotel behind Carson Wells so how does his air gun shoot, or does he walk with a rifle through the lobby of the hotel where the desk clerk he killed the night before, and
> > to the scene of the danger, because he can't just mail her the money, or walk into the Pinkerton office and pay $20M for armed guards around her house for the next month, < <As Wells said, "no, you don't understand". Moss was trying to keep this quiet and he was trying to get his wife out of town. Neither Chigurh nor the mexicans would have known about the hotel if not for the mother who blabbed to the "nice mexican".
> > and he knows the bad guy is outside his room ready to come in; and instead of hiding behind cover to his left so he can shoot the guy without being shot, he sits on the bed, in the center of the room, silhouetted, < <
He had just gotten up, turned on the light and found the transponder. He had no idea that Chigurh enters rooms by punching the deadbolt so that it would propel directly into his chest. You need to watch that scene again. It is done absolutely brilliantly. One of the most suspenseful sequences in cinema history and the ensuing shootout is equally brilliant.
> > and rather than throw the transmitter out the window so the bad gut thinks the money is outside, running away; < <
Moss purposefully set it on the night stand because he wanted Chigurh to come to him to get the confrontation overwith.
> > he tells wife to meet at the motel instead of the airport where it is full of people so no one will likely shoot them, < <
Again, he didn't anticipate the Mexicans would have figured out his plans. They only got to him through his wife and they only got to his wife through her mother.
> > and the bad guy has no air tank coming up the steps of the Eagle Hotel behind Carson Wells so how does his air gun shoot, or does he walk with a rifle through the lobby of the hotel where the desk clerk he killed the night before, and < <
Why did he need the pressurized canister? He had been hiding out, waiting for Wells and found him. If you're willing to suspend belief that he could rig a car to explode without being seen, it's not hard to imagine he could carry a gun into a hotel without being seen.
When you make a better movie than No Country, let us know.
-------------Call it, friendo.
Moss had the upper hand once he relalized the beacon would bring "you know who" right to him; could have been an ambush plain and simple -- but then the film would have been a short.
Moss should have blasted the through the door once he saw the shadow from beneath the doorway and heard Chiguir's receiver pinging like a giger counter -- but I guess this was a MOVIE.
I got the DVD, and still have yet to figure why Sheriff Bell survived at the Motel if the keyhole refections were "real-time".
I guess the book is best source to complete the picture.
Moss had the upper hand but Chigurh heard Moss ready the weapon and walked away to turn out the hall lights. Moss didn't realize how Chigurh opens doors. By the time he figured it out, Chigurh had the upper hand and Moss had to jump out the window. Yeah, if he had it to do over again, he'd have blasted through the door as soon as he saw a shadow, but well, he had to set his gun and he didn't anticipate Chigurh would walk away, turn off the lights, come back and he'd get thumped with the deadbolt.
The images of Chigurh hiding behind the door were in Sheriff Bell's mind. When Bell pushed the door open, it went all the way to the wall without resistance. No one was behind the door. If you read the book, it turns out Chigurh was in the parking lot at the time. Bell actually had very good instincts to avoid getting himself killed.
-------------Call it, friendo.
For me it was less a criticism than a realization that up to a point, the fun creators of an artful movie have is to pull our legs just enough so we won't spill our popcorn in disbelief.
however maybe the Coens used a little poetic license so we could 'suppose' what may have been going on and we could see the little things ones life may hang on to to survive in these circumstances.
I choose to believe something along the latter idea and give the Coens credit to let our imaginations wander and fill in the gaps (also the ending is in the same vane).
In two scenes, someone buys clothing off of another person. First, Moss buys a jacket from the boys crossing the Mexican border, and later, Chigur buys a shirt (to use as a sling) from the boys who witnessed the car accident. Does anyone know if this is a literary, mythological or biblical allusion of some sort?
We don't need to have every last loose end sown up.
Life just isn't like that.
Too many movies fall over in the last 20 minutes trying to make everything make sense and be obvious to a blind bat.
The most innocent character in the film is snuffed out.
-------------Call it, friendo.
The idea that wherever Chigurh was when the Sheriff entered the Motel, he got to live because he was the truly innocent one and twisted as it may be, Chigurh actually had a code and didn't kill for no reason.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
...those reasons are so unique to Chigurh's pathology as to render them unreasonable -- part of the "fun" I guess.
Great villain = great movie to try and dope out.
Carla Jean was the only innocent character in the movie. Bell had undoubtedly used his gun--for justice no doubt--but he was no longer innocent. The thing is, Bell was doing is job, and as long as Chigurh wasn't cornered by Bell, he had no reason to kill Bell. Of course, Bell knew that too, and it's one reason he retired. He didn't understand the force presented by Chigurh, but he sure as hell didn't want to get snuffed out by it.
-------------Call it, friendo.
stay away from Fellini pictures.
.
how people can be so literal.
nt
I didn't think that was her floating in the water, especially since there was the sound of a woman screaming as the sheriff pulled up.
Baba-Booey to you all!
but they 'cut it short' masterfully by having him chat with that chick right before the shootout.
.
Watched the movie twice, and read the book in between. You'll love it!
and for as many times as you've seen the film and posted about it you could have read the book, which fills out ALL the characters except...
You should read the book.
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
.
There's a muscle on her arm
With a red and blue tatoo
That says
Fort Worth I love you
.
FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: