Third time's a charm: saw No Country for Old Men (2007) on a screen large enough to pick up more of the Coen Brothers' meticulous attention to detail. Thoroughly enjoyed it -- the story, the framing and themes including luck, fortune, fate, and the sometimes shifty nature of both good and evil. It's a pleasure when artists can pull off the subversion of easy expectations and formulas with seeming ease. Source novel: Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men (2005). Title source: William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium" (1926, 1928).
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
Javier Bardem as the "ultimate badass," a relentless hitman with memorably bad hairdo -- Anton Chigurh. The film is set in 1980 along the Texas-Mexican border.
Today's Rune: Breakthrough.
2 comments:
Yeah, I liked both the book and the movie a lot. Adn if this guy has bad hair, which he does, I'm not gonna tell him.
Ditto! He even has his own word: friendo.
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