Josh Brolin embodied this character. A decent, skilled guy ultimately out of his depth but damn it, he trusted himself and wasn't giving up and you rooted for him.
@@stevedownie1378 so you would place the money down next to Chigurh's feet and let him kill you based on the promise that this monster will spare your wife? am I correct? Or would you be a real man and protect your wife by trying to kill the dude off? Also I don't blame Llewellyn for taking the money. the money could have improve the quality of life for him and his wife and get them out of the trailer park but like the OP said he was out of his depth.
@@stevedownie1378 and besides she was supposed to meet him at the hotel no doubt Llewellyn would have tried to protect her if the Mexicans didn't beat Anton to him
Another good thing to say about this movie is that even the background characters aren't stupid. The taxi driver notices something is fishy driving into that motel and doesn't want to proceed. Small realistic details like that keep me invested in a movie.
Why are they so interested in entertaining us? Filmmakers have content which in some cases reached millions and billions of views. If you could address billions of people from around the world for an hour or two, what would you say to them? Let me guess, you'd start dancing and singing for them, right? Of course not. You'd spread your message to the world. Give me the earpiece of one million people and I would tell them of The World Economic Forum, Council for Inclusive Capitalism, Bilderberg Group and Bohemian Grove, Maoist Revolution, etc. Not animation and actors.
I finally realized after watching thos over and over. Llewellyn completely shut the curtains of his room 138 when he left. When he returned, room 138 curtains were open about 6 inches, presumably by the Cartel hitmen. Love this movie.
@@projectJ30 get out plenty! Was just out for a swim in the sea followed by a nice evening walk. Might I suggest that, if you hate UA-cam comments so much, you don't read them. Maybe go outside instead!
lastuberman I had never heard that expression before and I know in this context it means bad but what about in general and what originated it? I'm so old. Hahahaha
Llewellyn where d`ya get the gun? At the getting place Llewellyn, i got a bad feeling about this Well i got a good one so that should even things out Its a mess Sherriff Well if it aint, it`ll do till a mess gets here those are ripe petunias what business is it of yours where i`m from, friendo You got a screwgie?
I love how much of the story is conveyed through dialogue--and how much is conveyed by a simple sequence of actions. It's so simple, so concise. Mastery of the fundamentals of filmmaking.
story is about Tommy Lee and the relationship with his dad, rest is eye candy, like Fargo....the cops husband is painting a stamp for the US postal service....everything else is filler...
Just like the philosophy of Anton Chigurh. Moss was destined to miss that antelope and everything ends up exactly how it did through chance. The butterfly effect. An infinite amount of possibilities and small chance events led to that very moment. I can see how such endless spontaneity captivates a lunatic like Chigurh.
My life of shame and despair was caused by four beers, an untimely phone call, which was initiated by a nervous boss under undo stress, and a 3-second flippant comment (made by me) that impugned my integrity. I am just now starting to receive the flutters of the butterfly's wings. Fuck, why do I always make a bad shot and end up shooting myself, which I currently feel may be a literal comment? I say again, "Fuck."
Moss's death happens off screen for a purpose. There's a point in all human endeavor where skill, preparation and even luck becomes meaningless. The theme is touched on again and again in the movie. Anton sees himself as an agent of fate: he will overcome because the universe wills it...but he's a fool too, as the car wreck at the end proved. In the face of fate your efforts are wasted. We're pawns. All of us.
Meaninglessness doesn't necessarily require an off screen death. I'd say the problem is the audience, by that poitn the audience is so invested that showing his death would have shaken up the audience too badly. You see death scenes, but not a lot of movies with the guts to 'feature' the protagonist death. To Live and Die in LA did it fantastic, even at the beginning you are invested in one of the cops, then he's shot in the first five minutes and its unbelievably jarring. At the end the other detective gets shot and it just blows the audience away. And for the makers it might have also just been played because its so rare. I've heard writers I really respect talk about their balls in killing him offscreen like that.
Yeah anton thought himself as being an agent of death or some shit. And the crash proves that he's still just a normal human. Despite everything he does and how scary and untouchable he is. How he is essentially death personified
Well yeah after watching the movie we can say check for a Tracker... the guy was just a regular Joe didn't deal with trackers didn't even know to deal with trackers
@@magetaaaaaaimagine being the lady on the other end. And you hear this scary ass deep voice go like "IS LLEWELLYN THERE?" That would be scary. Anton's voice can crack boulders.
I know everyone always says over and over that there is no music in this movie (other than the norteño band in Mexico), but technically speaking that isn't quite true. There are actually six places in the film where musical embellishments subtly heighten the suspense of the scene. The night drive beginning at 2:52 is the third of these. They are not 'melodies', but rather mainly single notes or 'musical sounds'. I love them, actually.
@@thomasbaird7004 . Yeah, not enough experience and too many mistakes. Shoulda ditched that case, checked the money for the transponder and crushed it or put it on a train or OTR 🚚.
This is one of those films that has to be viewed more than once to fully understand it. I noticed that Moss was warned more than once that he was going to die over this money. Carson Wells warned him, Chigurh warned him and Ed Tom warned his wife that Moss was in serious trouble. Moss’s death was foreshadowed but because we the audience expects the hero to save the day, we ignored the signs. No Country For Old Men is one of the best movies I have ever seen. We need a prequel. Chigurh deserves a stand alone movie. Maybe he used to be a nice guy with a wife and kids. One day he loses everything and becomes a ruthless contract killer.
Dude was able to spot trouble in a matter of seconds with his attention to detail. Yet died by a truckload of reckless guys with machine guns. Very anti climatic death for such a badass character.
Since I don't see it mentioned in the comments, I even love the salesman at 2:22 (and later in the film). He's perfect, as are ALL the bit characters in this masterpiece.
Even the guy Anton stops when he’s getting rid of the police car is so helpful, he simply just stands still as requested as gets cattle prodded, perfect…. As an aside, in the book Anton explains to Carson how he killed a young guy in a bar who said something to him that he didn’t like, he gets arrested just to see if he could escape the handcuffs… The book adds lots more details
@@gaz4840 Also really liked the chicken farmer with the flatbed truck. So authentic. And the lady who was the clerk at the Del Rio Motel. We could go on & on.
He made 3 mistakes.. he didn't walk away the moment he saw the massacre in the desert he didn't check the money for a tracking device he came back to give water to the dying dude
@@iblackdeath5572 no..they found out about him precisely because he went back to give the water to the dying guy..then he was forced to run away, leaving his car behind, and through his car they managed to find out his identity..they would've never known It was him Who took the Money.
Tracking devices were still a new thing back then. So he most definitely didn’t expect one. As for going back to give the man water it provided him info on Anton no? But in the end the cartel found him and gunned him down
I would have been gone the same day. Left everything behind, and within a week been working as a cook or janitor with a Finnish crew on a container ship out of Long Beach bound for Beijing by way of Singapore. Coming into port I'd jump ship in the dark and swim to shore. There'd be no records of anything identifying who I was or how I got where I was going...thats for sure. And for the next 10 years I would live working off the books at a minimum wage job. Wouldnt spend a single dollar of that money. It would stay well hidden for a long, long time.
@@kopanitis holy crap I own that movie and have seen it a million times I never knew that the mother gave him away I always thought it was the lady at the hotel with the beer who was working for the cartel
@@Bringmeoneofthosechickens well she was tricked as she was old and ignorant. Beer lady is also lying dead on the pool when sheriff bell arrives at the scene.
What I love about Llewelyn’s character is that he’s an honest man. In a lot of action or thriller movies, if a main character is in a jackpot, they play the chaotic good side where they don’t hesitate to steal, cause a scene, or take out someone in their way. But Llewelyn always pays, is always respectful, and tries to save the people he involves.
Does it not stretch belief that he never checks the bag deeper than a few stacks for so long? Just to check theyre real and not full of monopoly money under the top layer?
Tesla Death Ray It definitely suspends disbelief. As much as I like the movie that seems rather highly unlikely that he never fully inspects it until late in the movie.
Since the story is being told from the sherrif's point of view, recalling events that happened years earlier, I often wonder what is real and what isn't. That is why I get so much enjoyment from this movie.
The transponder was hidden very well inside of a stack of hollowed out bills. Not likely that he would have checked every stack. The time and effort were not easy to come by.
In the beginning of the movie when he’s bringing water back to the sicario, Anton finds his truck and takes the vin. He would’ve known who he’s looking for regardless, it just may have taken longer to find him
I love how this scene foreshadows the foot chase with Moss and Chigurgh. Moss stops a driver for help who immediately gets wasted by Anton. This cabbie felt something was wrong and wanted to ditch Moss.
This film taught me to always carry a small set of hand tools and screw drivers with me in my truck or in an emergency bug out bag. Super useful in any application.
I can’t understand how a limping man holding a huge silenced gun and dragging a cylinder of compressed air manages to escape attention even when waiting in a hotel lobby for his next victim
There's a good deal of the unbelievable about this plot, and with less skilled writing and acting, this movie would have bombed. No way could anyone have left the trail Chigurh did, especially after strangling a deputy, and not been caught up with, PDQ
@@reymohammed7040 Yeah, that kinda killed the story for me. It removed all suspension of disbelief that Chigurh was killing frequently almost completely without regard for where, when, and how he did it and totally got away with it by the end of the film. I know people have pointed out Chigurh is supposed to be more of a figurative character that is used to convey a message in the story, but I just don't buy it.
What always knocks me out about this movie is that is an Aesop's Fable. Llewelyn didn't really owe that much money, and all those brand-new pistols and shotguns he found at the drug site would have more than paid his debts. He was a gun expert, after all. But..then it goes Greek tragedy when he just has to grab that bag of money.
@@zahubshahid7944 Aesop was a Greek philosopher, who supposedly collected wisdom stories in his native Greece. He is famous for phrases such as 'sour grapes' and 'slow and steady wins the race'.
@@UK-yu2nc Having grown up in a Mob town, I have the common sense to know the smell of Mob money. He could have bought a new car with just a few Sig-Sauers, but no, he gave in to temptation. Llewelyn knew how dirty that money was.
@kay doyle ITS TERRIBLE !.IT fucking SUCKS.less is sometimes less..its a guy ritchy knock off of what was left on the cutting room floor of the the worst lee major film..
That’s the way how coens brothers play with us and why is this movie so good, because it is told its own way, and break the rules of normal movie, and still watchable
Onetime in a hotel room we noticed what looked like a red bandana in the vent. We opened it up and found a Taurus 45 (Poor mans 1911) When we left the next morning some young thug was waiting by the exit trying to get in the building without a key. The first person we asked bought it.
He is first suspicious of the pickup that looks very similar to the one that shot him at the scene of the crime. And then he notices his curtains are slightly open. Superb direction
Shiiiit right?! My thoughts were he shoulda left the damn brief case where he found it and carried the money back in my shirt at the very least the dudes looking for the briefcase wouldn't know where to look or for what and who
Yeah, smart...but not infallible. This is a theme in many Coen brothers movies. Also a variant is the character who thinks he's smarter than he actually is.
I just don’t understand, with that amount of money why didn’t he just leave the state ? The device has to have a signal failure. They weren’t that advanced lol
I know the Mexican guys had a receiver just as Anton did, but how did the Mexicans know to go to the town of Del Rio in the first place? Anton Chigurh had to look up Moss's phone bill at his trailer, with which he called Lewellyn's mother-in-law in Odessa. Anton eliminated that possibility and saw Del Rio on the phone bill which finally made him search there for the transponder to start signaling, but how could the Mexicans have possibly known this without looking at the phone bill like Anton did?
Saw the movie then read the book. Moss picks up a hitch hiker in the book and the dialogue between them is brilliant, she is only 15, Moss gives her $1000 to get to california, she offers to sleep with him but he declines, she gets a gun put to her head by the cartel, Moss puts down his weapon and they are both shot, Moss was a sniper in Vietnam, Also at the end, Bell goes and interviews the boys that take Chigurhs gun. Anton returns the money to the rightful owners, Anto returns the money to therightful owners and suggests that they work solely with him now,Theres also dialogue between Anton and Wells and Anton explains why he was arrested at the start of the film (he choked a young guy in a cafe who said something to him that he didnt like and wanted to get arrested just to see if he could extracate himself from the handcuffs), also Carla jean calls the coin toss in the book and losses... It made me smile when one of the kids that bell interviews has L and R written on his trainers impying he wasnt the smartest kid... Definately read the book
Here's a smart move: if you ever find a million dollars, either return it to the owner (lol, only Japanese people would have that kind of integrity) or RUN .... take a flight to China .... in China pay cash for a bus ticket to India ... and from India take a ship to Madagascar
just pocket a few stacks and begone. Obviously someone would notice a whole briefcase full of drug money missing. Even if you think you can somehow get away, you'd be living your ENTIRE life looking over your shoulder. Such paranoia isn't worth all the money in the world, especially since the IRS will get ahold of you..
@@maaz322 but there ARE ways of truly disappearing .... especially if you don't have a family you need to drag around. I would take all the cash. But I would then do in real life, what TOR onion browser does on the internet .... travel travel travel travel one destination after next after next after next .... plane bike bus car ship train ferry swim run You do 2 weeks of that, the trails runs cold. And then you end up in a country where with money you can get new papers, new face, everything. Russia, Colombia, Chile ... who's going to find you on the side of a mountain in Chile?! :D
@@zebrino7167 Hold up, why bother leaving the country? It's not like you robbed a bank. Or the government. It's a civilian criminal force that's looking for you. Just go to Canada or the other side of the USA. Why can't that be done?
@@huntingandfishing3090 Well, I guess it all goes back to how you want to spend your money. Let's say you went far out in the middle of the desert and you spent your money to build a big mansion ... will word of it travel? it probably would. Anyways - I think we're overthinking a situation which will never happen to us :( sadly
Phone rings* hello? Anton: im giving you a final curtesy call before we close the file on you for your vehicles extended warranty. Lady: who’s this? Anton: what time do you go to bed?
I know that Chigurh represents capital E Evil and is coming no matter what, but it never stops me from being annoyed with Llewelyn for neglecting to check the money.
Only flaw was how he didn't go through the money. I mean it could've been counterfeit bills in between just the top. Why go through the trouble if most of the bills were monopoly money. If he did that, the tracker would've been found instantly.
Llewelyn pushed the money down the vent, which means all the dust in its track would've been cleared. But Anton later only sees the wire's trail in the dust when he opens the vent. I'm not sure all that dust could've been replaced so quickly.... Other than that one inconsistency, this move is a *masterpiece* !
I don't understand this plot point of putting the money in a vent and then sliding it so it can be reached from another room. Motel office knows he rented both rooms, so what is this going to do? He starts pulling it from the second room when he hears noises, then next thing you know he's hitched a ride out of town. How could both the cartel and Anton miss the fact that he had two rooms? He was pulling the money through the vent when Anton's transponder identified room 138 as having the money. If Anton drove in a few minutes later he would have identified the second room, 38, as having the money and killed Lewellyn. I don't get what Lewellyn was trying to achieve with the second room.
It is so funny that all the hindsight-experts are ranting that they would have checked the money case as soon as they took it looking for a transponder. A fair question is how many hinders thought about that at the first movie viewing. Slim to none, if they are being honest. He's dealing with a drug deal gone amok by two groups of criminals. If it was Federal then tracking devices are in the picture to check for.
It seems some people have forgotten when this movie was set because i absolutely guarantee you that if you came across a briefcase full of cash in the 80's you ain't checking it for some James Bond 007 gadget shit... Yeah the briefcase did have a tracker in it but was tech like that common knowledge back then? ITS THE 80's.
Pee Wee my question is why didn’t he Change suitcases for the money to be in he was too dumb to think that this man keep finding me everywhere I go Something isn’t right Carson found him in three hours but to him no red flag went off
Cartel can afford that kind of gear. Even back then. My neurotic ass would've tried counting it all though. If not bill by bill then at least stack by stack.
I sure as hell wouldn't be carrying a satchel full of cash. I would buy a backpack and pretend I'm a bum on the road. I also would have found that transponder real quick as I'd be swimming in that much cash
This movie is good but gets stupid towards the end of how they constantly know where he is once the tracking device is taken out. Unless somebody has an explanation for me. How does the cowboy know he’s in the hospital? How does he know where he dumped the brief case? How does Anton know where he went after leaving the original motel? It made sense when the tracking device was in, but once he takes it out there’s no explanation.
This is the reason why chigurh didnt get the money at the end (I dont know about the book, Im talking about the movie): Llewelyn wouldnt put the money in such a shallow air vent, like the one in the hotel in which he was killed. The suitcase wouldnt fit in there, but if it did, it would have blocked the vent.
Josh Brolin embodied this character. A decent, skilled guy ultimately out of his depth but damn it, he trusted himself and wasn't giving up and you rooted for him.
He wasn't decent at all. He knew he had no chance. Yet he picked the money over the life of his innocent wife.
@@stevedownie1378 what would you do in his situation? cave in to Chigurh?
@@metsrus I wouldn't take the money. And even if I did I would never put my wife in danger.
@@stevedownie1378 so you would place the money down next to Chigurh's feet and let him kill you based on the promise that this monster will spare your wife? am I correct? Or would you be a real man and protect your wife by trying to kill the dude off?
Also I don't blame Llewellyn for taking the money. the money could have improve the quality of life for him and his wife and get them out of the trailer park but like the OP said he was out of his depth.
@@stevedownie1378 and besides she was supposed to meet him at the hotel no doubt Llewellyn would have tried to protect her if the Mexicans didn't beat Anton to him
Another good thing to say about this movie is that even the background characters aren't stupid. The taxi driver notices something is fishy driving into that motel and doesn't want to proceed. Small realistic details like that keep me invested in a movie.
The main character is kind of stupid lol
sure i guess
it doesnt take a genius to question a guy who asks u to circle round a motel that late at night
@Grim Ghost
True but the OP's point was that most movies _wouldn't_ have had the taxi driver question anything.
Why are they so interested in entertaining us? Filmmakers have content which in some cases reached millions and billions of views. If you could address billions of people from around the world for an hour or two, what would you say to them? Let me guess, you'd start dancing and singing for them, right? Of course not. You'd spread your message to the world. Give me the earpiece of one million people and I would tell them of The World Economic Forum, Council for Inclusive Capitalism, Bilderberg Group and Bohemian Grove, Maoist Revolution, etc. Not animation and actors.
I finally realized after watching thos over and over. Llewellyn completely shut the curtains of his room 138 when he left. When he returned, room 138 curtains were open about 6 inches, presumably by the Cartel hitmen. Love this movie.
It completely went over my head! That’s why he told the cab driver to take him to another motel.
Nice catch
@@yodaman1985 it says 136 from what i can see?
@@DONOTEMAILME-u8e It says 138. Hell of an eye, OP.
Does that mean they were in there waiting at that exact moment or they went in earlier and searched the room?
I love the ambient sound in this movie. The sound of the wind blowing, cars in the distance... So atmospheric.
More movies, and even games need to forego music in such a way, really adds so much more to a scene than music does usually.
@@wolfkermek Very true.
That's why I never noticed it not having music. It sounded just like... being out there.
Apparently you don't get out much. God I hate UA-cam comments.
@@projectJ30 get out plenty! Was just out for a swim in the sea followed by a nice evening walk. Might I suggest that, if you hate UA-cam comments so much, you don't read them. Maybe go outside instead!
if i ever find a briefcase of money, I'll be sure to check it for a wireless tracking device...
eljamo93 Hahahhaha I think all the people who watched the movie will beware of that
That's not the only way he has of finding you.
eljamo93 What does get in a jackpot mean?
Something bad.
lastuberman I had never heard that expression before and I know in this context it means bad but what about in general and what originated it? I'm so old. Hahahaha
I always loved that line. “Look, you’re already in a jackpot, and I’m tryin’ to get ya out of it”. Dude was just driving his taxi.
Anton doesn't believe in innocent bystanders.
Right, the cartel guys waiting in his room would have happily buried both of them in the desert.
Yes that line is my favorite!
Llewellyn where d`ya get the gun?
At the getting place
Llewellyn, i got a bad feeling about this
Well i got a good one so that should even things out
Its a mess Sherriff
Well if it aint, it`ll do till a mess gets here
those are ripe petunias
what business is it of yours where i`m from, friendo
You got a screwgie?
That ‘mess’ quote from Tommy L Jones is brilliant.
The cab driver has my favorite line of the film: “Look I don’t want to get into some kind of a jackpot here buddy” 🤣
Why don't I just set you down right here and we won't argue about it.
“Let’s just call it square”
(Crispy hundred enters pocket)
I love how much of the story is conveyed through dialogue--and how much is conveyed by a simple sequence of actions.
It's so simple, so concise. Mastery of the fundamentals of filmmaking.
Aaron Mehaffey
You sell socks?
Like you’re mom
Roger Deakins' cinematography of West Texas is spellbinding throughout this movie.
But problem is it's all New Mexico
@@hennagaijin100 as someone who used to live in New Mexico, trust me, there is not a big difference between the two areas.
@@hennagaijin100 the landscapes are all west Texas I believe. The towns and cities are in new mexico
Best to ever do it
Arizona and new Mexico boy recognize the local scenes
If he had made a good shot, he would have dropped the antelope and no story.
Conveniences are the foundation of movies.
story is about Tommy Lee and the relationship with his dad, rest is eye candy, like Fargo....the cops husband is painting a stamp for the US postal service....everything else is filler...
Just like the philosophy of Anton Chigurh. Moss was destined to miss that antelope and everything ends up exactly how it did through chance. The butterfly effect. An infinite amount of possibilities and small chance events led to that very moment. I can see how such endless spontaneity captivates a lunatic like Chigurh.
It wouldn't hold still.
My life of shame and despair was caused by four beers, an untimely phone call, which was initiated by a nervous boss under undo stress, and a 3-second flippant comment (made by me) that impugned my integrity. I am just now starting to receive the flutters of the butterfly's wings. Fuck, why do I always make a bad shot and end up shooting myself, which I currently feel may be a literal comment? I say again, "Fuck."
Llewellyn Moss is one tough SOB throughout the movie considering what he ends going through. Unfortunately his luck ran out.
It was his damn Mother in Law. Really hated that character too.
I was disappointed when he was dead at the motel...
Ridley McNamara it was to show that he wasn’t the “hero” of the story
@@weed3728 who was the hero of the story? He seemed like the protagonist just as much as anybody else
Ridley McNamara the main protagonist was the old sheriff Moss himself was a deuteragonist
Moss's death happens off screen for a purpose. There's a point in all human endeavor where skill, preparation and even luck becomes meaningless. The theme is touched on again and again in the movie. Anton sees himself as an agent of fate: he will overcome because the universe wills it...but he's a fool too, as the car wreck at the end proved. In the face of fate your efforts are wasted. We're pawns. All of us.
We are kings or pawns a man once said
Meaninglessness doesn't necessarily require an off screen death. I'd say the problem is the audience, by that poitn the audience is so invested that showing his death would have shaken up the audience too badly. You see death scenes, but not a lot of movies with the guts to 'feature' the protagonist death. To Live and Die in LA did it fantastic, even at the beginning you are invested in one of the cops, then he's shot in the first five minutes and its unbelievably jarring. At the end the other detective gets shot and it just blows the audience away.
And for the makers it might have also just been played because its so rare. I've heard writers I really respect talk about their balls in killing him offscreen like that.
Yeah anton thought himself as being an agent of death or some shit. And the crash proves that he's still just a normal human. Despite everything he does and how scary and untouchable he is. How he is essentially death personified
@@mikearchibald744yeah that was disappointing on my first watch. But it really just proves how fickle life is.
One of the things I LOVE about this movie are the colors. If you pay attention you'll see how beautiful everything is.
Sir Roger Alexander Deakins CBE is an English cinematographer
Not just the colors themselves, but the whole palette literally oozes early 80’s west Texas.
I can't believe he doesn't check for a tracker in that money. I guess it was still a new thing back then.
In the book he checked for one, but didn't check hard enough.
Well yeah after watching the movie we can say check for a Tracker... the guy was just a regular Joe didn't deal with trackers didn't even know to deal with trackers
I say just carry around your own briefcase cause ya just never know
Yeah when I was watching it recently I realized it was from like the 70's.
Ridley McNamara 1980
You're already in a jackpot and I'm tryin' to get you out of it.
I love how he calls the numbers on the phone bill and just flat out asks for him, doesn't even try to make up a story.
😂
@@chimkinNuggz "Is Llewelyn there??"
"No????"
*Click*
It's her response that's all he needs. Enough to know she knows who he is.
@@magetaaaaaaimagine being the lady on the other end. And you hear this scary ass deep voice go like "IS LLEWELLYN THERE?" That would be scary. Anton's voice can crack boulders.
@@S475-pb2dp DO YOU EXPECT HIM? lol
I know everyone always says over and over that there is no music in this movie (other than the norteño band in Mexico), but technically speaking that isn't quite true. There are actually six places in the film where musical embellishments subtly heighten the suspense of the scene. The night drive beginning at 2:52 is the third of these. They are not 'melodies', but rather mainly single notes or 'musical sounds'. I love them, actually.
They aren’t a mariachi band they’re a norteño group. It’s like calling the band queen the same genre as the band nirvana
@@ernestobetancourt3216 Yes, I try to consistently call them norteño.
Great movie. Wish Moss would have made it.
I like how he didnt tbh
@@thomasbaird7004 .
Yeah, not enough experience and too many mistakes. Shoulda ditched that case, checked the money for the transponder and crushed it or put it on a train or OTR 🚚.
What’s the term?
“Subvert our expectations?”
This is how it’s done, folks.
He didn't took my advice
This is one of those films that has to be viewed more than once to fully understand it. I noticed that Moss was warned more than once that he was going to die over this money. Carson Wells warned him, Chigurh warned him and Ed Tom warned his wife that Moss was in serious trouble. Moss’s death was foreshadowed but because we the audience expects the hero to save the day, we ignored the signs.
No Country For Old Men is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
We need a prequel. Chigurh deserves a stand alone movie. Maybe he used to be a nice guy with a wife and kids. One day he loses everything and becomes a ruthless contract killer.
I’m staying at this hotel right now. It’s got two double beds!
Did you check the air ducts?
Someone should hide a bag full of fake money there, just for the LULZ!
no you fuckin didn't
Make sure to ask the desk for escorts. Theyll send them straight to your door.
Quattro 4 u better be playin cause I’m willing to go
Dude was able to spot trouble in a matter of seconds with his attention to detail. Yet died by a truckload of reckless guys with machine guns. Very anti climatic death for such a badass character.
The ending was very disappointing but I realize what they were trying to do.
@Onyx Yea.... I'm not gonna lie dude.... you kinda went all out on that reply
i think that was deliberate
It pretty much ruined the movie for me. the character deserved a final stand and the audience deserved to see it
@SubtoPolecat324 I don't care if he'd of won or not I wanted to see it Lol
Since I don't see it mentioned in the comments, I even love the salesman at 2:22 (and later in the film). He's perfect, as are ALL the bit characters in this masterpiece.
Even the guy Anton stops when he’s getting rid of the police car is so helpful, he simply just stands still as requested as gets cattle prodded, perfect….
As an aside, in the book Anton explains to Carson how he killed a young guy in a bar who said something to him that he didn’t like, he gets arrested just to see if he could escape the handcuffs… The book adds lots more details
@@gaz4840 Also really liked the chicken farmer with the flatbed truck. So authentic. And the lady who was the clerk at the Del Rio Motel. We could go on & on.
The Coen Brothers are super detailed in putting together their films.
Don`t think you mean anything bad by it but----to an actor, saying that "bit characters" is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
He made 3 mistakes..
he didn't walk away the moment he saw the massacre in the desert
he didn't check the money for a tracking device
he came back to give water to the dying dude
Your 3rd point actually saved him
@@iblackdeath5572 no..they found out about him precisely because he went back to give the water to the dying guy..then he was forced to run away, leaving his car behind, and through his car they managed to find out his identity..they would've never known It was him Who took the Money.
Tracking devices were still a new thing back then. So he most definitely didn’t expect one. As for going back to give the man water it provided him info on Anton no? But in the end the cartel found him and gunned him down
@@DGMZ00 no, It provided the cartel info on him.
I would have been gone the same day. Left everything behind, and within a week been working as a cook or janitor with a Finnish crew on a container ship out of Long Beach bound for Beijing by way of Singapore. Coming into port I'd jump ship in the dark and swim to shore. There'd be no records of anything identifying who I was or how I got where I was going...thats for sure. And for the next 10 years I would live working off the books at a minimum wage job. Wouldnt spend a single dollar of that money. It would stay well hidden for a long, long time.
The curtain was moved a little, right? That's why he went to another motel.
And the same truck that chased him (or at least a similar one) was now parked outside his room.
This movie is badass
There is no 'badass' in make-believe.
Damn, this is like me trying to avoid my stalker ex.
Did he finally leave you alone?
Buster Highman she*
@@AreMullets4AustraliansOnly Could be gay.
@@AreMullets4AustraliansOnly HAHA!
ASSUMING PEOPLE'S GENDERS I SEE
it's probably a she ex. looking at the posters channel
you go through almost the whole film thinking Llewellyn is the lead character, when actually it's Sheriff Tom, or even Anton
How did Llewellyn get killed? The beer lady set him up? The Mexicans finally caught him? How?
@@Bringmeoneofthosechickens Carla Jean’s mother was helped by a Mexican and she gave Llewelyn’s location away
@@kopanitis holy crap I own that movie and have seen it a million times I never knew that the mother gave him away I always thought it was the lady at the hotel with the beer who was working for the cartel
@@Bringmeoneofthosechickens well she was tricked as she was old and ignorant. Beer lady is also lying dead on the pool when sheriff bell arrives at the scene.
@@kopanitis Wow thank you, well if the Mexicans killed him, why was his lock busted out my Anton?
What I love about Llewelyn’s character is that he’s an honest man. In a lot of action or thriller movies, if a main character is in a jackpot, they play the chaotic good side where they don’t hesitate to steal, cause a scene, or take out someone in their way. But Llewelyn always pays, is always respectful, and tries to save the people he involves.
Does it not stretch belief that he never checks the bag deeper than a few stacks for so long? Just to check theyre real and not full of monopoly money under the top layer?
Tesla Death Ray It definitely suspends disbelief. As much as I like the movie that seems rather highly unlikely that he never fully inspects it until late in the movie.
Tesla Death Ray hipster.just fucking admit the emperor's nude.it is not a great movie.its not good.not ok.it sucks!!!
Why would drug dealers be dealing with fake money?
Buck Buck youre an idiot...
Not the only thing in this flick that stretches believability.
One of the greatest movies ever ❤
Never get yourself into a jackpot.
I'm already in a jackpot, I'm trying to get myself out of it.
@@ethnicleanserberg7975 good luck!
@Jumpy Cat Sadly not. Me and escaping jackpots do not mix very well ;)
That one shot of the parking lot with the wind in the trees...sums up the stark emptiness of this story for me.
I love neo-westerns!
Since the story is being told from the sherrif's point of view, recalling events that happened years earlier, I often wonder what is real and what isn't. That is why I get so much enjoyment from this movie.
I can’t believe curiosity didn’t make him dump it out just to see how much was in there.
Would’ve saved himself a heap of trouble if he had.
Then this masterpiece of a movie would’ve never been made.
The transponder was hidden very well inside of a stack of hollowed out bills. Not likely that he would have checked every stack. The time and effort were not easy to come by.
In the beginning of the movie when he’s bringing water back to the sicario, Anton finds his truck and takes the vin. He would’ve known who he’s looking for regardless, it just may have taken longer to find him
In movies a seedy motel means violence
We stayed in that motel In January of 2019, and I think it was the same room.
Good for you buddy
Del río Tx
Room 138?
Impressive film ...great suspense , all star actors and actresses ...miramax was smart to buy it
I Don’t Want To Get Into Some Sort Of Jackpot Here Buddy..
your already in the jackpot im trying to get you out of it
Why don’t I just set ya down right heah
Take me to another motel
One of the best movies I've ever seen.
30 people got themselves into a jackpot.
Absolute gold
I love how this scene foreshadows the foot chase with Moss and Chigurgh. Moss stops a driver for help who immediately gets wasted by Anton. This cabbie felt something was wrong and wanted to ditch Moss.
3:54
This film taught me to always carry a small set of hand tools and screw drivers with me in my truck or in an emergency bug out bag. Super useful in any application.
Josh Brolin character was cool..
Fun fact, the cab driver does the English voice of Beerus in the Dragon Ball franchise
I can’t understand how a limping man holding a huge silenced gun and dragging a cylinder of compressed air manages to escape attention even when waiting in a hotel lobby for his next victim
yea this movie made no sense whatsoever. anton couldnt have known all that where to go
he did...and he killed them all.
did you see anyone else in that scene?
@@packrcch Would need a cart load of bullets to wipe out everyone in the hotel
There's a good deal of the unbelievable about this plot, and with less skilled writing and acting, this movie would have bombed. No way could anyone have left the trail Chigurh did, especially after strangling a deputy, and not been caught up with, PDQ
@@reymohammed7040 Yeah, that kinda killed the story for me. It removed all suspension of disbelief that Chigurh was killing frequently almost completely without regard for where, when, and how he did it and totally got away with it by the end of the film. I know people have pointed out Chigurh is supposed to be more of a figurative character that is used to convey a message in the story, but I just don't buy it.
What always knocks me out about this movie is that is an Aesop's Fable. Llewelyn didn't really owe that much money, and all those brand-new pistols and shotguns he found at the drug site would have more than paid his debts. He was a gun expert, after all. But..then it goes Greek tragedy when he just has to grab that bag of money.
No average man in that time with no real video surveillance would have left that bag.
@@UK-yu2nc Agreed, but a master gunsmith with black market connections would have. He would have known that bag was full of cartel money.
What does "Aesop's Fable" mean?
@@zahubshahid7944 Aesop was a Greek philosopher, who supposedly collected wisdom stories in his native Greece. He is famous for phrases such as 'sour grapes' and 'slow and steady wins the race'.
@@UK-yu2nc Having grown up in a Mob town, I have the common sense to know the smell of Mob money. He could have bought a new car with just a few Sig-Sauers, but no, he gave in to temptation. Llewelyn knew how dirty that money was.
Best movie ever
351cleavland are you so smart you dont get my point? Is that what your saying ?
And yet i can tell you love this plain spoken peice of shit movie..interesting..
Buck Buck Just a matter of opinion, bud. Don’t insult someone because they’ve got a different opinion than you.
@kay doyle ITS TERRIBLE !.IT fucking SUCKS.less is sometimes less..its a guy ritchy knock off of what was left on the cutting room floor of the the worst lee major film..
@@buckbuck9225 Awww his opinion doesn't match yours. Boo hoo.
I found a briefcase full of trackers..should of checked for money!
This Movie is absolutely Amazing!!
I was left confused when he died. It kinda felt like he was the main character and thus makes it to the end. Guess not lmao
The All Seeing Thigh it's not that kind of movie
It's not obvious in movie, but main character is actually sheriff.
That’s the way how coens brothers play with us and why is this movie so good, because it is told its own way, and break the rules of normal movie, and still watchable
The Four Horsemen
Has nothing to do with Cohen brothers they just followed the plot of the book.
@Mdmchannel wtf!!😀
Onetime in a hotel room we noticed what looked like a red bandana in the vent. We opened it up and found a Taurus 45 (Poor mans 1911) When we left the next morning some young thug was waiting by the exit trying to get in the building without a key. The first person we asked bought it.
In that time, looking for a tracker wouldn’t have been something anyone would think about.
"Jackpot"... that expression is used in other McCarthy books
He is first suspicious of the pickup that looks very similar to the one that shot him at the scene of the crime. And then he notices his curtains are slightly open. Superb direction
basically, chigurgh was the terminator there was no stopping him
For being such a “smart guy,” Moss made a lot of stupid mistakes. Why in the world did he leave the money in the case?
Shiiiit right?!
My thoughts were he shoulda left the damn brief case where he found it and carried the money back in my shirt at the very least the dudes looking for the briefcase wouldn't know where to look or for what and who
Aragorn Stellar Script!
@@billyrobinson6815
I think for the time period this takes place, many people didn't even know about this type of new technology
Greed. If you take the briefcase you take all the money.
Yeah, smart...but not infallible. This is a theme in many Coen brothers movies. Also a variant is the character who thinks he's smarter than he actually is.
I just don’t understand, with that amount of money why didn’t he just leave the state ? The device has to have a signal failure. They weren’t that advanced lol
I'm wondering who was in the hotel room. It wasn't Anton. He came later.
Mexican cartel guys later wasted by Chigur
Didn't know they were giving out free HBO in the 70's.
TheAmbientUniverse What a time to be alive then
Story takes place in 1980
One thing that this movie taught me, that if you go to a motel, always check for satchels
I know the Mexican guys had a receiver just as Anton did, but how did the Mexicans know to go to the town of Del Rio in the first place? Anton Chigurh had to look up Moss's phone bill at his trailer, with which he called Lewellyn's mother-in-law in Odessa. Anton eliminated that possibility and saw Del Rio on the phone bill which finally made him search there for the transponder to start signaling, but how could the Mexicans have possibly known this without looking at the phone bill like Anton did?
One of my favorite movies
I can see why they call it the Regal. That is one fine looking establishment.
Saw the movie then read the book. Moss picks up a hitch hiker in the book and the dialogue between them is brilliant, she is only 15, Moss gives her $1000 to get to california, she offers to sleep with him but he declines, she gets a gun put to her head by the cartel, Moss puts down his weapon and they are both shot, Moss was a sniper in Vietnam, Also at the end, Bell goes and interviews the boys that take Chigurhs gun. Anton returns the money to the rightful owners, Anto returns the money to therightful owners and suggests that they work solely with him now,Theres also dialogue between Anton and Wells and Anton explains why he was arrested at the start of the film (he choked a young guy in a cafe who said something to him that he didnt like and wanted to get arrested just to see if he could extracate himself from the handcuffs), also Carla jean calls the coin toss in the book and losses... It made me smile when one of the kids that bell interviews has L and R written on his trainers impying he wasnt the smartest kid... Definately read the book
Well…thanks for ruining THAT one for me. People like you are the reason why we can’t have nice things
if I ever found a briefcase full of money, I'll just leave it alone...
Smart
Here's a smart move: if you ever find a million dollars, either return it to the owner (lol, only Japanese people would have that kind of integrity) or RUN .... take a flight to China .... in China pay cash for a bus ticket to India ... and from India take a ship to Madagascar
just pocket a few stacks and begone. Obviously someone would notice a whole briefcase full of drug money missing. Even if you think you can somehow get away, you'd be living your ENTIRE life looking over your shoulder. Such paranoia isn't worth all the money in the world, especially since the IRS will get ahold of you..
@@maaz322 but there ARE ways of truly disappearing .... especially if you don't have a family you need to drag around.
I would take all the cash. But I would then do in real life, what TOR onion browser does on the internet .... travel travel travel travel one destination after next after next after next .... plane bike bus car ship train ferry swim run
You do 2 weeks of that, the trails runs cold. And then you end up in a country where with money you can get new papers, new face, everything. Russia, Colombia, Chile ... who's going to find you on the side of a mountain in Chile?! :D
@@zebrino7167 Hold up, why bother leaving the country? It's not like you robbed a bank. Or the government. It's a civilian criminal force that's looking for you. Just go to Canada or the other side of the USA. Why can't that be done?
@@huntingandfishing3090 Well, I guess it all goes back to how you want to spend your money.
Let's say you went far out in the middle of the desert and you spent your money to build a big mansion ... will word of it travel? it probably would.
Anyways - I think we're overthinking a situation which will never happen to us :( sadly
That would cost about a million.
Phone rings* hello?
Anton: im giving you a final curtesy call before we close the file on you for your vehicles extended warranty.
Lady: who’s this?
Anton: what time do you go to bed?
😂!!Nice...
I went to the Desert Sands motel back in 2013. One of the filming locations. Bummer it's gone
I know that Chigurh represents capital E Evil and is coming no matter what, but it never stops me from being annoyed with Llewelyn for neglecting to check the money.
The preparation scenes in this film I absolutely love. Any recommendations for films with similar attention to detail? Or tv shows?
I'd love to watch this whole movie on the big screen.
what a great picture this movie has
I'm concerned that Llewellyn didn't get to enjoy that free HBO at the Del Rio Motel.
Only flaw was how he didn't go through the money. I mean it could've been counterfeit bills in between just the top. Why go through the trouble if most of the bills were monopoly money. If he did that, the tracker would've been found instantly.
The tension is built through nothing but just dialog, or, the exact opposite of CGI movies.
Llewelyn pushed the money down the vent, which means all the dust in its track would've been cleared. But Anton later only sees the wire's trail in the dust when he opens the vent. I'm not sure all that dust could've been replaced so quickly.... Other than that one inconsistency, this move is a *masterpiece* !
as it is a vent, the dust probably accumulated while the money was sitting in there
@@Avi-tc2ym That looked like a fair bit more than a few hours' worth of dust
This is a great movie
1:38 Is Llywelyn going to watch some Game of Thrones.
Dillon Schulz or maybe the sopranos
Not likely. The film is set in 1980, and Game of Thrones wouldn't have its first episode air on HBO until 31 years later in 2011
Old Texas I miss it.
I don't understand this plot point of putting the money in a vent and then sliding it so it can be reached from another room. Motel office knows he rented both rooms, so what is this going to do? He starts pulling it from the second room when he hears noises, then next thing you know he's hitched a ride out of town. How could both the cartel and Anton miss the fact that he had two rooms? He was pulling the money through the vent when Anton's transponder identified room 138 as having the money. If Anton drove in a few minutes later he would have identified the second room, 38, as having the money and killed Lewellyn. I don't get what Lewellyn was trying to achieve with the second room.
That suitcase burried too deep. No way that rod pulling it back.
That's what the string is for.
It’s a film...pretend..numpty
Moral of the story: if you go hunting you may be hunted
This film has strange asmr qualities to it.
Evergreen crime story
Main character needs awards
3:22 the curtains are not closed completely as they were supposed to be :o
This movie was sorta like Breaking Bad one year before Breaking Bad (a contemporary western).
It is so funny that all the hindsight-experts are ranting that they would have checked the money case as soon as they took it looking for a transponder. A fair question is how many hinders thought about that at the first movie viewing. Slim to none, if they are being honest. He's dealing with a drug deal gone amok by two groups of criminals. If it was Federal then tracking devices are in the picture to check for.
You need to go back to 'Blood Simple' to see where these masters started down this path.
When a small, inconsequential clip gets nearly HALF-A-MILLION views... You might have something that WILL stand the TEST OF TIME.
If he took out one bill from each stack he would have had a great trip.
It seems some people have forgotten when this movie was set because i absolutely guarantee you that if you came across a briefcase full of cash in the 80's you ain't checking it for some James Bond 007 gadget shit... Yeah the briefcase did have a tracker in it but was tech like that common knowledge back then? ITS THE 80's.
Pee Wee my question is why didn’t he Change suitcases for the money to be in he was too dumb to think that this man keep finding me everywhere I go Something isn’t right Carson found him in three hours but to him no red flag went off
Cartel can afford that kind of gear. Even back then. My neurotic ass would've tried counting it all though. If not bill by bill then at least stack by stack.
Jacob H he did count it. How else would he know there was 2 million dollars?
I sure as hell wouldn't be carrying a satchel full of cash. I would buy a backpack and pretend I'm a bum on the road. I also would have found that transponder real quick as I'd be swimming in that much cash
White's all I wear.
h-wear.
So racist! lol
@@Muddybuddie LOL yeah today's snowflakes would have a meltdown saying something like that
White hat vs black hat (chighur)
When she first sees you naked in white socks 😆
I started wearing black socks with my boots a long time ago.
What's a jackpot he doesn't want to get in.? Never heard that expression before!
Trouble, criminal activity or dangerous situation where you can get killed or go to prison.
Independent Sistah Thank you I had never heard that expression before.
@@ronniebishop2496 😂😂😂😂😂 because it's an old school term that is or was commonly used by some in western states.
This movie is good but gets stupid towards the end of how they constantly know where he is once the tracking device is taken out. Unless somebody has an explanation for me. How does the cowboy know he’s in the hospital? How does he know where he dumped the brief case? How does Anton know where he went after leaving the original motel? It made sense when the tracking device was in, but once he takes it out there’s no explanation.
This is the reason why chigurh didnt get the money at the end (I dont know about the book, Im talking about the movie): Llewelyn wouldnt put the money in such a shallow air vent, like the one in the hotel in which he was killed. The suitcase wouldnt fit in there, but if it did, it would have blocked the vent.
The best part of the movie is the aesthetic
Room 138. A room for misfits.
😂🤣