No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-western film- adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel , No Country for Old Men reached 'best film of the year' the film has won four Oscars. The plot and story-line follows of a man who has gone out hunting, who has stumbled and come across a drug-deal, got caught up in the drug-scandal and to save his life, he kills the drug men who try to kill him for intruding; the hunter- Llewelyn takes the drug money of $2 million, delivering us into the film. 

The trailer for the film is very effective, it uses a lot of scene cuts, to add suspense, the non-diegetic sound is very sharp and loud furthering the add of a thriller theme, and in adding suspense. On Youtube alone, the trailer has 3 million hits, titled as being 'awesome'. The target audience that the trailer leads us to believe it is aimed at are people who enjoy action, guns, explosions and blood; the film more-over aims towards the older, middle-aged men. This is because the title talks about men, and more older men in general, also the majority of men like all of them main themes just mentioned, and the title itself having the word 'men' in, draws the men in, as it applies to them, which leads men to think that the film could potentially relate to them in a particular way.

The film is a typical cat-and-mouse hunt, with the main lead Llewelyn Moss, after finding the $2million, is being perused by not only the cops (Ed Tom Bell) but also a psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh. Set in 1980's West Texas, all three men manage to cross-eachovers path, with Anton and Ed Tom trying to pursue Lleweyn for either to kill, and the $2million. Repeated themes and ideas of the film are of fate and circumstance, which can be seen in different scenarios and parts of the film.  

The opening of the film is set in the Texas desert, it makes us feel like the characters are alone, and everything is isolated. The costumes are made to look like everything is realistic, giving us the sense that the film is real or very realistic, heightening our feelings and emotions towards the film. The sound used in the opening included diagetic sound and non-diagetic. The diagetic sound is all realistic and natural sounds-includding sounds of the desert, a rattlesnake to set the mood and setting and show how realistic the film is. The non-diagetic sound includes unrealisitc sounds and narrative of a sherrif talking about how times are different and how he just had to put a man to death for murdering a 14 year old girl just because the murderer felt he 'had to kill', this links in with the opening because the main villain is being arrested for whatever reason showing to us that we aware that this man is a villan/antagonist, however we do not see his face suggesting the man is a mystery.

Anton Chighurh is the villan/antogonist of the film/novel. He is regarded as a ruthless, psychotic murderer, he is a hired hitman who kills even if it isn't in his contract to kill someone, he shows little emotion or compassion and wears black clothes and a strange dated hairstyle suggesting he doesn't conform to society's standards and has a theme of strangeness and mystery about him. His overall character is based mainly on his actions as he has little dialogue furthering his theme of mystery; his actions tend to be of killing people, however he is seen as compassionate when he offers the man in the gas station a toss of the coin, probably for life or death.