Tuesday 22 October 2013

No Country For Old Men



No Country For Old Men

After discovering a case of money among dead bodies, Llewelyn Moss thinks he can keep it quiet, but when unemotional killer Anton Chigurh locates Moss and his money, veteran Moss makes a run for it. With bodies falling everywhere Anton goes, it's only a matter of time before he catches up with Llewelyn. As this chase is going on, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is overseeing the investigation and begins to see the country in a different light than it once was.

The official trailer for this film is highly effective. The speed of the scenes are slow paced, however the tension and the action is very intense. The trailer is slow paced mostly all the way through until it gets towards the end. Towards the end of the trailer, it speeds up to match the action of killer Chigurh on the run. It grabs the audiences attention as the trailer makes them feel on edge. The target audience would be people who enjoy thrillers, action and mystery. The trailer of the film is very intense which makes the audience wonder if the film would be just as good. It gets the audience asking questions about what happens next. 

The first setting of the film shown is a deserted part of the Wild West. It makes the audience suggest that this film may just be about cowboys or some sort of Western film. The setting makes the audience judge the film before it has really started. However, the setting shows the audience where the majority of this film is set and may give some ideas about what the characters might be like. 

The film opens by Non-Digetic sound spoken by the Sheriff. The Sheriff speaks about how times change in the Wild West. It makes a big impact as it gets the audience questioning how it has changed and why the Sheriff says this. 

The costumes of this film are very different. Llewelyn Moss wears a cowboy hat, boots and carries a pistol, just like a cowboy in the Western films. The Sheriff wears his uniform, however they are very different compared to the ones now days. He wears the uniform with the cowboy hat and sheriff badge. Anton Chigurh does not look like the typical killer. He wears all black, including his hair. He does not have a particular costume to make him look like a villain. However, he does not look like a villain from the Wild West. He does not wear a cowboy hat, boots or  a pistol, in fact he only carries a gas tank.

The characters in this film are introduced very intensely. The villain, Anton Chigurh is the first character to be introduced. It is seen that he is being arrested , however he ends up strangling the sheriff who arrested him. Llewelyn Moss is introduced by firing a gun at a deer. He then walks into a crime scene and finds himself in trouble. The characters are introduced this way to show the audience what they are capable of and to show that they both are powerful. It creates an intense atmosphere throughout the whole film. 


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