Monday, December 3, 2012

Plot

No Country for Old Men is a "American Thriller" which was originally a novel written by Cormac McCarthy. The movie is set in the mid-to-late 1900's in Texas, following the main character, Llewelyn Moss. The increasing violence in the region causes Moss to come across a "drug deal gone wrong". In this scene you see the aftermath of the drug deal where there is many dead men and dogs.

One man, however, is still alive and begs him for water, but he does not have any. In addition, Moss finds a satchel filled with $2 million dollars in cash. With mixed emotions, Moss goes back home where he stores the satchel under his trailer. He wakes early in the morning and returns to the place where the drug deal was to bring the desperate man some water. Upon arriving, Moss is cashed away by men in a truck and dogs. He is forced to leave his truck and continue home by foot. When he gets home, he tells his wife, Carla Jean, that she is to leave the county and stay with her mother. 


hit man, Anton Chigurh, is hired to find the cash that was left at the drug deal scene. You learn that Anton is a very dangerous man by his ability to escape jail time by strangling a cop, and killing a man for his car. In addition to Anton's dangerous persona, he also carriers a receiver that is linked to a tracking device concealed in the satchel of money Moss possesses. 


After getting his wife to leave the region, Moss finds a hiding spot in a motel, but still is not aware of the tracking device in the satchel. Anton finds the motel and bursts into a room filled with Mexicans that are also looking for the money, and kills them all.  Moss knows that Anton is near so he quickly leaves the motel and hits the road. 


After getting away from Anton, Moss buys a room in a boarder hotel, where he finally finds the tracking device. However, Anton has already found the hotel he was in, and a fire-fight between them breaks out. Both are wounded, and Moss is able to get away across the boarder, but later collapses then is taken to a near hospital.


 He wakes up in a hospital bed greeted by Carson Wells, an operative whom offers Moss protective in exchange for the money. However, Carson Wells offers little help because he is found and killed by Anton. Anton receives a call from Moss, and Anton tells Moss that if he gives him the money, his wife will go untouched, but Moss is defiant and says he will go after him instead. 


Moss arranges to meet with his wife in El Paso to give her the money and send her away from harm. Prior to meeting with her husband, Carla Jean meets with a sheriff, Ed Tom Bell, who is aware of the danger Anton possesses and that he is tracking her husband. Carla Jean accepts his help and tells him where he is and what is going on. Bell goes to the motel that Moss is staying at, but is to late and finds Moss shot dead and a group of mexicans fleeing the scene. 


Bell is overwhelmed with the amount of violence and retires. With Moss dead and the sheriff retired, Carla is left unprotected and Anton finds her and wants the money. She explains that she does not know where the money is, and he replies with the deal he made with Moss. However, he offers her a chance to live with a coin flip. He leaves the room where Carla lie dead.


After leaving the scene, Anton is in a car accident where he is injured badly, but is able to get away before the cops show up. The movie ends with a scene where Ed Tom Bell is telling two dreams to his wife, both involving his deceased father. 


Scripthttp://www.youknow-forkids.com/nocountryforoldmen.txt

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