![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Minimalist like Blood Simple and Fargo, No Country for Old Men is noted for its lack of music. You can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. He says: “What you got ain’t nothing new. In this sense, it is modernity and the War on Drugs. However, Ellis, Ed Tom’s cousin, provides a foil to this, telling Ed Tom and the audience that the evil has always been there, it just comes in different forms. Positioned as a remnant of a bygone era, he embodies the central philosophical theme of the novel and film, that the world is changing and is bringing with it a new form of evil. Tommy Lee Jones’ portrayal of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, perfectly brings McCarthy’s character to life. However, the film takes the blood-drenched nihilism of the book, and turns it into a serene masterpiece, a new construction of the revisionist westerns of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, brimming with juxtapositions. ![]()
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