Jayhawk
10-04-2007, 07:03 AM
Based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug- runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (BARDEM) - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/nocountryforoldmen/
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As always with the Coens, this looks really good. I've held off reading any Cormac McCarthy, but since I'm coming to the end of all my Elmore Leonard westerns, I might have to give Cormac a chance. I probably won't read this novel first, because I find it (almost) always makes the movie seem worse than it is.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/nocountryforoldmen/
http://images.apple.com/moviesxml/s/miramax/posters/nocountryforoldmen_l200708081612.jpg
As always with the Coens, this looks really good. I've held off reading any Cormac McCarthy, but since I'm coming to the end of all my Elmore Leonard westerns, I might have to give Cormac a chance. I probably won't read this novel first, because I find it (almost) always makes the movie seem worse than it is.