This scene makes me anxious every time I watch it (No Country for Old Men)
This scene makes me anxious every time I watch it (No Country for Old Men)
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This scene makes me anxious every time I watch it (No Country for Old Men)
Anxious yes, but damn, what fine acting.
The angel of death walks into your little store….
Why would anyone let that creep put something on their head?
The store owner is great. The Cohens always find great people for these bit parts.
Am I crazy or is “and it’s either heads or tails” adr’d?
I love this scene. And the dinner scene in Black Mass when Johnny Depp (Whitey Bulger) asks for the steak recipe https://youtu.be/7a9g6mvCGWU
>Is there something wrong with anything? Is that what you’re asking me?
Every time this line hits, it reminds me of the Lil Wayne deposition.
>[Isnt it something that I would remember that?](https://youtu.be/n_kbtKL3Z94)
Doesn’t really make any sense out of context
This movie makes me so uncomfortable I keep on finding myself watching it.
still may or may not watch this on netflix
It’s nihilism.
The Coen brothers are fascinated by nihilism, you can see it cropping up over and over in their films.
> Are these men Nazis Walter?
>
> No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
The reason (maybe) this scene disturbs you is the pointlessness of it. There is nothing to gain, Chigurh gains nothing by killing the shopkeeper, but he would have done it without hesitating based on that coin. He’s proceeding through life, with no morals and there are no consequences for this.
There is no happy ending, the good guys do not have their moment. Nobody. Cares.
The idea of the film is to pull everything out from under you. Life isn’t funny, or happy, or sad, or meaningful. It’s bleak, and pointless; it must be otherwise Chigurh couldn’t do what he does.
God damn this movie is so good
My wife seriously cannot watch this movie and that scene in particular made her leave the room.
It is an impressive piece of directing and acting.
Saw the movie in the middle of the night during my second 65-hour work week. I was having one of those existential crises on why do I have to work, live,… etc. Needless to say, this scene was the pinnacle of the night, and relived a lot of my stress for unknown reasons!
Saw this for the first time recently and I damn near walked out of the theater at this part because I was so damn anxious. Amazing that cinema can make us feel so strongly sometimes.
At [4:14](https://youtu.be/BqMdQBox15s?t=254) he makes the [“Would you look at that”-face](
https://youtu.be/EF8GhC-T_Mo).
i love this movie, but the writing in this scene always pissed me off. He comes in just doing business, paying for his goods and the fuel, the shop keep begins to small-talk with “you getting any rain up your way?” and Chigurh takes exception to the intrusive question, it’s set the scene as the unassuming shop-keep to be the antagonist baiting in the villians hatred to nosey questions and small talk. Chigurh calls him out asking him what business it is as to where he is from and staples the point home with “friendo.” He keeps calling out the shop keep on the intrusiveness of his innocent question to prove his greater point. But then Chigurh volley’s back with his own intrusive questions about “what time do you close?” and “you don’t know what you’re talking about do you?” “what time do you go to bed?” “you live out back in that house?” Chigurh is taking the more evolved roll of small talk being awkward and intrusive in nature and has no place in the “new country” where only goal oriented communication is the path we should take and evolve as a species to only speak when absolute facts need to be spoken.
Such a good movie. One of my all time favorites. Faithful to the book and it’s themes. Just fantastic.
well ya its supposed to
I heard someone say it was stupid to have a “favorite movie” recently.
To them I say suck my wrinkled peanut wrapper friendo, No Country for Old Men is my favorite movie.
This is one of the greatest scene in movie history
For those who didn’t know, this title is taken from a Yeats poem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_to_Byzantium
Best scene in the movie. Reminds me of the, I’m a clown? I’m here to amuse you? Scene in good fellas.
Agreed
Most people hate the ending to this movie. But life doesn’t have an end. Which is exactly how this movie ended. Loved it!
Dayum… I’d definitely have the quivering-from-fear butthole if he came into my store.
All of that to get out of paying for gas, a damn fine job if I must say.
runs more showers over my back during that short sequence than michael myers, freddy kruger and chucky could ever do in all their (and coming) movies. it is definitly on one level with the first hannibal/clarice scene in silence of the lambs.
Call it
When he says that the coin has been travelling 22 years to get here it blew my mind.
https://i.imgur.com/tD59FFG.png
lawful evil motherfucker
This is like an Abbot and Costello routine. Set it to whimsical music and it’s a comedy bit.
I’m going to get downvoted to hell and back, but honestly I didn’t like this movie. I found it boring and slow. Bad-haircut didn’t creep me out. Mustache looks like he wanted to be Burt Reynolds. Was Tommy Lee Jones in this one, or am I thinking of a different movie?
Either way… my partner claimed it was a terrifying movie and the first time he saw it, he couldn’t sleep.
I just… was bored. Maybe I was in the wrong mood, but it lacked suspense. They even robbed us of the <spoiler> mustache death scene </spoiler>.
I totally know this is going to get me blasted, but the fact remains I just didn’t enjoy this movie at all. I don’t get what all the fuss was about.
wtf did I just watch?
Love this movie. However, I feel like any old Texas gas station attendant would have a big K frame smith and Wesson under the counter. In a movie about encountering things that are more evil and violent than you expected, It would be an amazing plot twist if Chigurh encountered that in the simple gas station clerk.
I always thought it was a way not to pay for the nuts and gas.
I love the gun fights in this movie so much. The scene where Moss escapes the cartel guys showing up to the deal gone wrong right before this scene and the one where he is escaping his hotel room are so damn intense.
He didnt pay for his gas.
If you just read the dialogue from that scene you would think it’s the most boring, mundane scene. But watching it played out, it is simply amazing to see how much a good actor can inject into a scene without using the dialogue.
I wasn’t that anxious when I first saw it. I mean, the guy didn’t do anything wrong, there is reason to kill him. He is not going to… oh… wow… he killed him… damn.
He told me he was going to hell. Be there in about 15 minutes. I just don’t know what to make of that.
I still havent been able to find a movie that can match no country for old men. The scene where the guy returns to his motel and sees another truck pulled infront of his room made me anxious as hell. Anyone have any recommendations for similar movies? or any movies shot as well as this one, even if the plot and style is completely different. Every website i’ve found for recomendations just says “sicario, cartel land, other generic action movies”