![]() ![]() At some level, the Coens still seem like two movie-mad brothers lying in their bunk beds, daring each other to imagine ever-more-shocking scenarios: “Dude, what if Javier Bardem went around killing people with a cattle stun gun?” That would be awesome, bro. The Coen brothers have taken McCarthy’s mythical, fallen West and made it their own-and maybe that’s the problem. Brolin, Bardem, and Jones give monster performances. Like most of the brothers’ films, it looks and sounds terrific, with a spare Carter Burwell score and impeccable cinematography from Roger Deakins, who also shot the season’s other big Western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I can’t speak for the McCarthy cultists, but I predict the Coen-heads will be thrilled by No Country for Old Men. and pedophilia all occur at regular intervals in McCarthy’s narrative, as the book. The Coen brothers and Cormac McCarthy share something else besides a bleak worldview: Both the directors and the writer have attracted passionate cult followings in addition to their considerable mainstream success. from McCarthy’s sprawling neo-Western No Country For Old Men. ![]()
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