Final Paper – No Country For Old Men
Firstly, the title of the film I used is No Country For Old Men, this title is acquired from the beginning line from the Irish poet, W.B. Yeats’ famous poem “Sailing to Byzantium.” The title is self-explanatory, but as I was watching this film the title increased in depth more and more, because the end of the film is summarized in the five words that make up the title. Especially the final scene where Tommy Lee Jones’s old character Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is sitting and discussing his dream with his wife Loretta Bell, played by Tess Harper. The Coen brothers (Joel Coen Jesse Coen) directed this film and they did a phenomenal job. The story takes place in 1980 West Texas’s desert countryside as a welder man
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The editing styles can be either categorized into the intrusive editing style or the interpretive editing style. The editing style used in this film is classical cutting, which allowed the directors to inflect their narrative and point of view of this intense Western sequences. This editing style shows distinctions and prominence in the final product, making it gorgeous and enriched with quality. The sequence starts when Chigurh goes to the Texaco gas station and fills up the car and gets some snacks, there are mostly crosscutting back and forth between this one scene, with different angles. The scene consists of Chigurh and the store clerk, talking to each other trying to pass the time, the clerk gets the vibe that this is not a peaceful customer, which brings trouble with him. So they talk back and fourth to pass the time, Chigurh’s lines are very intimating and insulting, because the audience are still getting introduced to his character, so this scene cemented his character and the editing helped greatly with that. For example when Chigurh chocked after the clerk told him that this place is his wife’s father’s, Chigurh told the clerk that he married into the gas station that it is technically not his, the clerk tried to deviated for the insult, but Chigurh kept telling him that he did marry into the place, until the clerk gave in and admitted that indeed he did merry into it. This editing sequence shows how persistent and serious Chigurh is and that everything is either black or white, you can’t sugarcoat anything with his character, it’s just the way it is. The shots are over the shoulder shots, the way those shots are cut and edited together is amazing, the scene flows smoothly because of that, also there’s an icebreaker part of the scene that’s shot in a Bird’s-eye view of the snack wrapper, which I thought was the Coen brothers use of dark humor due to the intensity of the rest
In Bridger Wells, Nevada in 1885 two characters known as Art Croft and Gil Carter ride into town and enter Darby’s Saloon. When these two entered the environment was repressed due to recent incidents of “cattle-rustling”. The townsfolk suspect that Art and Gil are hustlers. Shortly after a man enters the saloon and announces that a person named Larry Kinkaid which was a rancher has been murdered. Immediately after the townsfolk form a posse to pursue the person responsible for the murder.
People walked around with Stetson’s on their heads, revolvers in their belts, and said “partner” to everyone. All the pretty Horses starts us off in the year 1948, therefore, this “Cowboy” time in America’s history takes place about a century before John Grady was born. This observation houses the blunt fact that the real Cowboy is gone during John Grady’s time, and this is why he goes to Mexico: to find his Cowboy dream. John Grady could not follow his dream in the U.S., there is electricity powering everything, cars going everywhere, and the cowboys were now drunk gamblers like his father. Along with these things, his family ranch was being given away, so there was no solace for John Grady, no place for him to escape the modern world.
The concentration is on comparing and finding the changes that history made to this movie genre, especially considering the gender roles. Results will clearly explain the psyche of society in two different periods, which confirms that people reflect the movies as movies have an impact on people. The Introduction It is often said that the element of surprise makes the movie more interesting and leads the plot. There are many masters of storytelling
Ewen and Ewen show that US film culture went through a significant shift from the 1910s to the 1920s. In the 1910s, movies and movie houses offered spaces and stories that spoke directly to working-class immigrants, and particularly immigrant women. By the 1920s, movies began telling very different stories to immigrant women. According to Ewen and Ewen, in what ways did movies in the 1910s speak to working class immigrants, and in what ways did movies start to tell different stories in the 1920s? Explain how this shift in movie culture relates to the concept of antiseptic electrical space.
Two characters from each media that could be compared are Lady Macbeth from Macbeth and Doctor Noyes—also known as Noah—from Not Wanted on the Voyage. In this essay, the film and the novel will be utilized
Bell and Moss’ struggles with the loss of identity and the ability to conquer them shows that Northrop Frye 's theory of literature is present in No Country for Old
Tuttle’s film is based off of Vonnegut’s short story, however, through the portrayal of individualism, humanity, and a corrupt government, 2081 depicts a more realistic society than the short story “Harrison Bergeron.” Individualism is a more prominent theme
These men worked hard herding, branding, and tending to cattle from sun up until sun down. However, over the years the image of the cowboy has been blurred by media. Often times when someone thinks of cowboys they think of a vicious gunslinger who is always looking for a fight. In reality, many cowboys could not even afford a gun. Regardless, throughout Kelton’s novel, The Day the Cowboys Quit, he was able to effectively portray the correct speech patterns, distinguishing characteristics, and lifestyle of the Texas
This essay will discuss the uses, strategies and the meanings that are generated by editing in cinema. The films that this essay will be focusing on are Psycho and Singin’ in the Rain. Both of these films are very different to each other and therefore use editing in varying ways in order to give the audience a different perception of the characters as well as the setting that these characters are involved in. Psycho focuses on building suspense for the audience throughout the film using editing, camera work and sound. This essay will be primarily focusing on editing with the discussion of camerawork where relevant.
This essay will discuss how the film uses these two techniques, in reference to the film, and to what ideological and political ends are the techniques used in the films with specific references from the film to support the argument. A Man with a Movie Camera is based around one man who travels around the city to capture various moments and everyday
To summarize this essay, there are several points that highlight differences between the two films, yet the overall context of the film remains the same. One common theme that tends to drive the force between the reasoning in why the two films have varying aspects is because they were made for slightly different audiences at different times in society. Though both versions of the movie have small portions that vary from one another, the main emphasis is the same and both versions are loved by the
During the 1920s, American society began to adopt values that threatened the traditional values that remained from the 1800s. Many of these changes were a direct result of the youth culture of the time and how their uncertainty of who they were helped contribute to these changes in values. Throughout the decade, the struggle between modern and anti-modern values was exemplified in literature, drama and silent film of the American culture. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” represents the conflicting modernist and anti-modernist sentiments of the time through its use of cinematography and characterization. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans”, the 1927 film by F.W. Murnau, is a shining example of the struggle between modern and anti-modern values that
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The old western films’ solid black and white boundaries between good and evil characters are no longer relatable in a time where most members of society fall into the grey. The unique morality in No Country For Old Men is representative of the constant changes in modern day society and the adjustments in the moral standards of society that accompany those
From the perspective of a Southern writer, this piece provides detailed information on the Southern culture that the film portrays. In addition, it explores the countless influences that the film draws from Southern stories, myths, and traditions. This article will help me explore the Southern aspect of the film and the ways the Coen brothers paint a canvas of this culture. Thoughts and quotes from this article will be integrated into my discussion of Southern culture as I forward these thoughts into discussing the Coen brother’s subtle critique of this same