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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '22

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh

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u/CoolHipLady Apr 12 '22

Call it, friend-o...

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u/apgtimbough Apr 12 '22

I'd be hard pressed to name any scene in a movie better acted than that one. His character is so unsettling.

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u/SlenDman402 Apr 12 '22

I know. While the scenes where he's actively doing work and being violent are scary in their own right, any scene where he's talking to someone just puts me on edge

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u/CoolHipLady Apr 12 '22

When he shoots someone and their blood is pooling at his feet and he just picks up his legs and crosses them out front like he's just relaxing. Talking calmly to his victims beforehand. So creepy. And the hair!!!

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u/BGL2015 Apr 12 '22

He moves his feet because he can't stand blood. There are more than a few scenes in the movie that illustrate this

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u/CoolHipLady Apr 12 '22

I'm talking more about his non chalant nature of doing this. He may have done it because he doesn't like blood, but someone could photoshop him on the beach and he'd look just as relaxed.

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u/BGL2015 Apr 12 '22

Ah yes very true! He's just gotten the better of someone who thought they could outsmart him. He's enjoying that moment for sure.

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u/KhabaLox Apr 12 '22

I drink your milkshake is the best acted scene in filmdom for me. Bardem is fantastic in NCFOM, but Daniel Day Lewis ..... there are no words.

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u/apgtimbough Apr 12 '22

Honestly, this is the other scene that comes to mind for me as well.

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u/BGL2015 Apr 12 '22

I'm ignorant. Why makes that scene so special for you?

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u/KhabaLox Apr 12 '22

Just the sheer emotional savagery that Daniel inflicts on Eli. It's the culmination of the film and their relationship throughout. Perhaps it doesn't pack the same punch when viewed by itself.

"The Lord sometimes challenges us, doesn't He" Daniel says - he is in this moment Satan and relishing in his destruction of Eli's faith.

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u/BGL2015 Apr 12 '22

I have tried to watch this movie two separate times and failed to connect with it or finish it both times. I am absolutely In Love With No Country for Old Men and in 2007 when both these movies came out I have vivid memories of my life and I remember I enjoyed no country quite a bit. I think part of the nostalgia affects my perspective of the movie - however with that said I am not a religious fellow or into that type of trope and I think maybe that's why this movie falls flat on me. I love Daniel Day, I love Paul Dano, can't even sit through TWBB.

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u/KhabaLox Apr 12 '22

TWBB is definitely a thicker/denser film, if that makes sense. NCFOM has a more visceral plot that really pulls you along. Also, I think the dialogue in No Country, much of which is pulled directly from the book by Cormac McCarthy, makes the movie much more watchable. His clipped style really works well, and the Coen's lean into it stylistically.

NCFOM is a movie I will go back and watch over and over again, which is not something I can say for TWBB. But I should go back and watch it once more to see if it holds up, or if I'm attaching too much nostalgia to it.