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No Country for Old Men
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No Country for Old Men is a 2005 neo-Western thriller novel by Cormac McCarthy, a grizzled old man who refuses to discuss his books beyond their often disturbing content.The place is West Texas; the year, 1980. When rugged Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss finds the horrific aftermath of a botched drug deal and takes a suitcase filled with money, he sets in motion a spiral of violence beyond his control or comprehension. A cynical old sheriff, Ed Tom Bell, is determined to prove that there's still a place for justice in an otherwise unfair and cruel world as he sets out to find Moss and protect him from the owners of the money.But for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, and the men behind the deal have sent ruthless hitman Anton Chigurh to retrieve the briefcase. Chigurh is a man willing to do absolutely anything — to "follow a supreme act of will," as he puts it — in order to achieve his aims... and it's no longer just the money he's after.The book would be adapted into a film in 2007, written and directed by The Coen Brothers. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Come the finale, the only major characters who haven't died are Ed Tom Bell and Chigurh. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Moss phones Wells, only to find him dead. When Chigurh speaks with him, Moss confidently asserts he has found a way to beat him without involving his wife. Moss goes to a motel to prepare, and he ends up dead, not even by Chigurh himself, but the Mexican mobsters looking for the money. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Anton Chigurh is such a potent one that he's a walking force of unstoppable evil. | |
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Ambiguous Situation: It's never made explicit whether Chigurh killed the accountant. Does Bell's dream symbolize hope, or despair? | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Anton Chigurh is stymied is when the receptionist at the trailer park office refuses to tell him where Moss works. He repeats his demand in an attempt to intimidate her, but she doesn't cave. It's implied that he is about to start beating the information out of her but then hears a toilet flush in the next room and decides that it's too risky. | |
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Deep South | |
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Deep South: The setting, although the simple folk oblivious to the evil encroaching upon them evoke shades of Sweet Home Alabama. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Sheriff Bell seems to believe that this is what the world is becoming, as does his friend in El Paso, who complains about teens coloring their hair and wearing nose rings. His old mentor later sets him straight. The world isn't becoming crapsack, it's always been that way. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Not verbally, but when Chigurh gets into a car collision that gives him a nasty open fracture (read: bone piercing skin), he asks one of two youths for his shirt as a (partial) disguise in exchange for a lot of money. Llewelyn does much the same thing earlier after getting wounded by Anton, asking three college-age kids for a coat in exchange for a lot of money. When Sheriff Bell first meets Carla Jean, he removes his hat, which she takes to mean that he's informing her that her husband is dead, and Bell has to quickly calm her down and explain that he was just being polite before she has a breakdown. Later on, they meet again, and he removes his hat once more, only this time Llewelyn is actually dead, and it takes Carla Jean a moment to understand this time. | |
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Sinister Southwest | |
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Sinister Southwest: A poacher in 1980s Southwest Texas finds the aftermath of a drug deal gone bloody in the desert and retrieves a briefcase full of money, leading to a peculiar hitman violently pursuing him across the state. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: Taken from the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. While in the original poem the speaker is an old man who can no longer keep up with the lust (Eros) of the young, Sheriff Bell is an old man who can't keep up with the violence (Thanatos) of the young. | |
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Uncertain Doom | |
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Uncertain Doom: After Chigurh kills the man who hired Wells, the accountant with whom said man was speaking asks Chigurh what he'll do to him: | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Even other hardened killers are afraid of Chigurh, and with good reason. | |
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Trespassing to Talk | |
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Trespassing to Talk: The protagonist's wife encountering Psycho for Hire Anton Chigurh in her house, having been waiting there for her to return. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Carla Jean Moss, who is genuinely innocent of Llewellyn's antics. Zig-zagged by the teenage runaway who gets picked up by Moss. She's wide-eyed and rather naive, but she also offers to have sex with Moss and will drink and smoke pot. The coroner says her corpse looks "skanky," though this is implied to be a callous opinion. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Anton Chigurh kills a lot of people with no emotion, and has a "personal code" that mostly seems to be an excuse for killing people who so much as annoy him. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Chigurh turns out to be only interesting in hiring himself out to others rather than taking the money for himself. This seems to play into his bizarre worldview. | |
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Nominal Hero | |
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Nominal Hero: Moss. He is impulsive, prideful, and stubborn, to the point that his actions get a lot of innocent people killed as well as ensure his own doom. However, we are not supposed to see him as a hero so much as an opportunistic, foolish man in a situation far out of his depth. Character-wise, the only thing he really has going for him is that the men hunting for him (both Chigurh and the Mexican cartel) are a lot worse. | |
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Missing Floor | |
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Missing Floor: Wells notes that the floor the middle manager is on cannot be accessed normally by the elevator. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: That this seems to happen more and more in the modern world is what drives Sheriff Bell over the Despair Event Horizon. | |
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The Nondescript | |
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The Nondescript: Chigurh is medium height, medium build, with a dark complexion, dark brown hair, and blue eyes. Moss thinks he looks "vaguely exotic," while one of the bicycle kids has trouble describing him, saying he "looks like anyone." | |
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The Sheriff | |
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Ed Tom Bell is The Sheriff who is trying to stop Moss and Chigurh. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Moss himself near the end. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Also discussed when Chigurh is about to kill Carson. The accountant seems remarkably unfazed considering Chigurh has just killed the only other man in the room with him; he just calmly asks if he's going to die next. But, it's entirely possible he survives, as we never do see the results of the conversation. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: When Wells is introduced, his employer asks him when he last saw Chigurh, and Wells cites the exact date. We do later learn that Wells is indeed familiar with Chigurh... but we never learn what that earlier incident was about or (given what a psychopath Chigurh is) how Wells managed to survive. | |
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New Old West | |
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New Old West: A very Western story, set in a very Western state, complete with sundowns and showdowns and gunfights. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Gunshots are not something you can easily shrug off, even if you are a trained veteran or an unstoppable killing machine. Both Llewelyn and Chigurh have to carefully treat bullet wounds they get, and both spend days recuperating. Llewelyn and Chigurh don't face off in an explosive showdown. Chigurh isn't the only person looking for Llewelyn's stolen money, and unsurprisingly, some cartel hitmen get the drop on Llewelyn instead, resulting in him being killed anticlimactically. Chigurh's car crash shows that, for all he thinks of himself as an unstoppable entity, he's still just a man, and evading death in a gun fight without breaking a sweat doesn't mean you can't be killed by something as mundane as a driver on a sleepy suburban street running through a stop sign. The fact that he only survives through pure luck just drives it home further. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: After Chigurh gets T-boned, one of the kids on the bicycles states the obvious fact that Chigurh has a bone sticking out of his arm. In fact, he states it twice. Then again, he's probably more concerned that Chigurh's showing a disturbing lack of alarm about his injury. | |
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Cold Sniper | |
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Cold Sniper: Moss was a sniper in Vietnam, and his father (also a war veteran) says he never saw a better rifle marksman. Moss has the rather stoic and methodical personality you might expect from a sniper. Ironically, the only time Moss fires a rifle in the book is in his first scene, where he misses. | |
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Fluffy the Terrible | |
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Fluffy the Terrible: Referenced when Moss mishears Chigurh's name as "Sugar." He continues calling him that even after Wells tries to correct him. | |
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Killed Offscreen | |
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Killed Offscreen: Happens to both Llewelyn and Carla Jean. | |
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That's What She Said | |
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That's What She Said: Amazingly enough. In the book, during the first exchange between Moss and Carla Jean. | |
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Pile Bunker | |
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Pile Bunker: One of Chigurh's weapons of choice. | |
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Beige Prose | |
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Beige Prose: Even more so than usual for McCarthy, thanks to it originally being written as a screenplay. | |
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A MacGuffin Full of Money | |
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A MacGuffin Full of Money: Moss has a suitcase containing $2 million. Chigurh is hunting Moss to get the money. Bell is hunting Chigurh and simultaneously hunting Moss in hopes of getting him to safety. Chigurh never catches up with Moss, and Bell never catches up with either Moss or Chigurh. Bell and Chigurh almost cross paths, but they never actually meet one another. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Not only is the deuteragonist murdered (off-screen), but then the villain murders the hero's wife (again, off-screen) and escapes justice, leaving an old man to contemplate his inability to act in the face of so much seemingly pointless violence of the world. On a slightly brighter note, we see that Chigurh is himself not immune to the impartiality of the universe. While he survives the film, he winds up wounded and without his money. The novel also implies that the police are still tracking down Chigurh, indicating that soon he will be caught. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: It doubles as a Badass Boast...or it would have, if not for the eventual subversion. | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: Sheriff Ed Tom Bell. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Moss goes to some trouble setting up a proper hideout and trying to preempt his enemy's attacks. If it were not for his quick thinking and planning, he could have been killed very quickly. | |
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The Cartel | |
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The Cartel: Real-life drug kingpin Pablo Acosta's Juarez Cartel is one of the two parties involved in the drug deal gone wrong. Their hitmen eventually kill Moss. | |
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Age-Gap Romance | |
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Age-Gap Romance: Moss is 36, and his wife is 19. They met when she was 16. Bell notes that his wife is younger than him, though we don't know exactly by how much. The difference is enough that he expected that she would learn from him, and he says she did in some regard, but he's learned much more from her. | |
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Action Survivor | |
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Action Survivor: Llewelyn Moss. Initially. Not so much by the end. | |
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Parrot Exposition | |
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Parrot Exposition: Chigurh, especially so during the gas station scene: | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: The cops are either shot or are too late — and even then, Ed Tom is either unwilling or unable to do more, such as help federals and DEA agents with investigating the bizarre murder scene. In the end, he decides he's had enough after Llewelyn is killed right before he manages to reach him. | |
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Dissonant Serenity | |
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Dissonant Serenity: One of the most chilling aspects of Chigurh. Moss notes that Chigurh simply stares at him mutely when at shotgun-point. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: In a particularly disturbing example, Chigurh steals a random passerby's car by pulling him over in a police car, and manages to get him to stand still and complacent as he punches a hole into his forehead with a cattle bolt. | |
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The Syndicate | |
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The Syndicate: The Matacumbe Petroleum Group, which is the company that owns the stolen money and hires both Anton Chigurh and Carson Wells to recover it. | |
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Improbable Weapon User | |
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Improbable Weapon User: Chigurh. He uses a pneumatic cattle bolt gun as a a lock-breaker and once as an improvised weapon, and his primary firearm is a silenced Remington 11-87 shotgun with a pistol grip. | |
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Missed Him by That Much | |
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Missed Him by That Much: Chigurh tracks Llewelyn via transponder to a motel room. While Chigurh is violently eliminating the Mexicans occupying the room, Llewelyn is dragging the 50 lb. satchel through a ventilation duct in the opposite room. The gunfire and screaming mask the scraping sounds created by the bag. By the time Anton checks the vent, Llewelyn has left the motel and hitched a ride out of town. | |
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I Gave My Word | |
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I Gave My Word: A dark example. When they briefly connect over the phone, Chigurh demands that Moss surrender himself and the money, or else he'll track down and murder his wife Carla Jean. Moss, predictably, refuses the ultimatum. At the end even though Moss is dead and Chigurh has already recovered the cash, he shows up at her house and makes good on his promise, using this exact justification. | |
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Scarily Competent Tracker | |
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Scarily Competent Tracker: Carson Wells deduces the location of Moss in three hours. Bell is able to unpack a lot of what happened at the initial shootout by analyzing the physical tracks on the ground. Actually hunting down Moss proves more difficult. Subverted by Anton Chigurh, however. Llewelyn eventually realizes that there's no way Chigurh could be tracking him so effectively without some sort of advantage. Sure enough, there's a tracking device in the money bag. | |
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Weapon-Based Characterization | |
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Weapon-Based Characterization: Bell uses a revolver for his service weapon, highlighting his old-fashioned ways. Chigurh carries a captive bolt pistol wherever he goes and also has a silenced shotgun to sneak up on targets with, demonstrating his resourcefulness and brutal efficiency. | |
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Bar Brawl | |
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Bar Brawl: Chigurh reveals late in the book that the reason he was under arrest at the beginning of the novel is because he killed a man in a bar brawl, though it took place in the parking lot. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Moss going back to give the dying man water (when he's likely already dead at that point), which is what sets the chase in motion. He even lampshades this when he says he's about to do something really stupid. | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
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Big Bad Ensemble: Anton Chigurh, the Juarez Cartel, and the Matacumbe Petroleum Group are all after the money and willing to kill for it (moreso the former two, mind). | |
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Arbitrary Gun Power | |
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Arbitrary Gun Power: In Real Life, a cattle-gun would barely be able to dent a door-lock, much less blow it completely out of the door. | |
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Black-and-White Morality | |
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Black-and-White Morality: Moss mistakenly believes that this is how the world works. | |
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Hollywood Silencer | |
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Hollywood Silencer: Chigurh's Remington 11-87 shotgun has a silencer the size of a soda can. The narration notes the deep chugging sound the silenced shotgun makes. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: "I'm going to make you my special project." | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Chigurh versus Moss. Chigurh is a relentless, cold-blooded killer. Moss is impulsive and prideful, getting innocent people like his wife in danger or killed, which ultimately leads to his own death. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: Moss is a deconstruction of the action hero, especially the older tougher variety. He thinks of himself as tough, resourceful, and morally righteous. To the audience, he comes across as greedy, vain, and stupid, never really thinking of the consequences of his actions, either to himself or those around him. Like Sheriff Bell, Moss is an archetype of an era that never existed when men never gave in to bad guys, the lines of black and white were clear, and the hero got to ride off into the sunset when it's over. He doesn't seem to realize that the world is and has always been a much darker place where men like that have no place. Unlike Bell, he never realizes, and pays the ultimate price for his arrogance. | |
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Surprise Car Crash | |
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Surprise Car Crash: One is used as part of its Anti-Climax ending. After Anton Chigurh kills Carla Jean and drives off before the police arrive, his car is struck down by another vehicle as he is leaving the neighborhood. Chigurh is as much a victim of circumstance as anyone else. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Chigurh gets T-boned by a speeding car a few minutes after killing Carla Jean. While Chigurh's shown to have fixed his wounds before, the sort of fracture he receives is going to put him out of commission for a long while (if not permanently) without real medical aid. | |
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Heads or Tails? | |
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Heads or Tails?: Anton Chigurh flips a coin to decide whether to kill a potential victim. Those that choose not to take the chance are killed anyway, because they refuse to submit to the Powers That Be. Fans actually debate over the reason why he does it. Carla Jean refuses to play, refusing to blame the coin or fate for what she believes is her inevitable death -- simply Chigurh. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Chigurh does this to everybody to the point it's impossible to deal with him. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Llewelyn, after inspecting his wounds past the Mexican border. | |
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Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be | |
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Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be: Played with. Sheriff Bell often muses about how someone like Chigurh wouldn't have gotten away with anything in the "old days," but this claim is undermined at the end when his uncle Ellis tells him a tale of how his grandfather was killed in cold blood on his own porch in 1909 by a trio of Native Americans, and then says to him flat out that claiming the "old days" were better or more moral is nothing but vanity. | |
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Stealing from Thieves | |
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Stealing from Thieves: Both the book and its movie adaptation invoke this trope to get Anton Chigurh chasing Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran who stumbles on a drug deal gone awry. He steals a suitcase full of money from the scene, only to get caught going back to the crime scene... | |
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Shoot Out the Lock | |
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Shoot Out the Lock: Chigurh uses the cattle gun to do this when he's not using it to kill people. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Played with. Llewelyn's killers get away just as Bell arrives, but he managed to kill one and sent the rest running in fear. Later, Chigurh does kill his wife, but she defies his nonsensical logic. Shortly after, a car slams into him, apparently killing him, but he manages to get out and escape after bribing some kids nearby to keep quiet — many critics saw this as a clean getaway, but even with his medical knowledge, the injuries he received are not treatable by himself, and are very likely to put him out of commission, if not kill him. It's spelled out further in the book, where one of the kids rats him out and the sheriffs know where he's going. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: Carla Jean describes to Sheriff Bell how she had a premonition that she would meet "the one" while working at Wal-Mart. When she first set eyes on Moss, she instantly knew that he was him. Moss also seems to have shared her instant attraction, as he asked her out almost immediately after meeting her. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: It's 1980. No one ever seems to find it notable that Moss met his wife when she was 16 and less than half his age. When the 15-year-old runaway offers herself to him, and he refuses repeatedly, she asks if he's gay. | |
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Good Cannot Comprehend Evil | |
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Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: A major theme of the story, embodied by Sheriff Bell. However, the inverse is also depicted, as seen in Chigurh's frustration with Carla Jean refusing to play his coin flip game and pointing out his own agency. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Moss speaks to his wife almost entirely in sarcasm. She eventually calls him on it, asking if he can tell her a straight answer about anything. He takes up the same habits when speaking to the teenage runaway. | |
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A Simple Plan | |
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A Simple Plan: A very dark take. All Moss has to do is escape the cartel, send his wife away, and run long enough to ensure he's shaken them off his tail before he returns and gets to safety with his wife and the money. Right? | |
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Not Afraid of Hell | |
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Not Afraid of Hell: The nineteen-year-old murderer at the beginning fits this trope like a glove, going to the electric chair without complaint after murdering his girlfriend for no apparent reason: | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Moss is a bit of an asshole who married a girl he met when she was 16 and steals cartel money, but he's faithful to his wife, spares Chigurh when he has him at his mercy, and gets killed because he disarmed himself to try to save the teenage runaway. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The cop in the opening. Instead of putting Anton Chigurh in a jail cell after arresting him, he turns his back on him and sits at his desk to make a phone call, believing he has everything under control. | |
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Blood Knight | |
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Blood Knight: Chigurh asserts that he allowed himself to be arrested for the fatal bar fight as a challenge to himself to see if he could escape custody. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The duel between Chigurh and Moss in the book, Moss turns on his bathroom light and hides in the dark, and when Chigurh inspects the bathroom, Moss holds him at gunpoint and escorts him down the hall with Chigurh facing away. He has the opportunity to kill him right there, but is apparently reluctant to commit murder. | |
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Contract on the Hitman | |
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Contract on the Hitman: Carson is hired to kill Anton after Anton kills the managerials who'd come out with him to survey the deal gone bad, as well as the Mexicans at the motel, causing his boss to think he's gone rogue. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Moss is probably a Nominal Hero, and Bell gradually goes into Knight in Sour Armor. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Ed Tom Bell and Loretta; Llewelyn and Carla Jean (though they snark at each other occasionally). | |
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Useless Protagonist | |
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Useless Protagonist: Sheriff Bell, who is too apathetic to even properly pursue Chigurh, unlike the hotshot deputies and the out-of-state investigators trying to piece together what's going on. One of his major scenes is his deputy trying to encourage him to go with the investigators at the crime scenes — he doesn't care, saying it'll do no good. He doesn't bother with investigating further after he fails to stop Chigurh or the hitmen from killing Llewelyn. | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: Set in 1980. | |
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Nice, Mean, and In-Between | |
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Nice Mean And In Between: A darker example than most. Ed Tom Bell is The Sheriff who is trying to stop Moss and Chigurh. Anton Chigurh is a Professional Killer who's out to get the money from Moss and kill him for the trouble. Not that the trouble really makes any difference, as he's also a psycho who ends up killing most people he meets. Llewelyn Moss is an opportunistic Jerkass who's in it for himself, but he's not psychotic like Chigurh. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: Chigurh to the poor sap he carjacks. With a cattle gun, of all things. | |
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20 Minutes into the Past | |
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20 Minutes into the Past: The book is set in the 1980s but was released in 2005. | |
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If I Do Not Return | |
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If I Do Not Return: | |
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Professional Killer | |
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Professional Killer: Both Anton Chigurh and Carson Wells are assassins-for-hire and psychopathic, but Chigurh far outstrips Wells in the latter aspect. | |
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Big Bad Wannabe | |
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Big Bad Wannabe: The middle manager of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group. He seems to be the one who arranged to purchase $2.4 million worth of black tar heroin from Pablo Acosta's Juarez Cartel, and is responsible for bringing both Chigurh and Wells into the plot that he kicked off to begin with. It's subtly implied that this may be his first rodeo and that he's in over his head, and the company's initial foray into the drug trade ultimately gets him killed. | |
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Conscience Makes You Go Back | |
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Conscience Makes You Go Back: Moss finds a dying man asking for water when he first reaches the shootout. He leaves without helping, but his conscience prickles him later at home, so he returns to the shootout scene to bring the man water... which is a mistake and kickstarts the plot. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: "It's full of money." | |
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You Keep Telling Yourself That | |
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You Keep Telling Yourself That: It practically defines the character of Anton Chigurh. The film version stresses this even further; in the book, he manages to intimidate Carla Jean into calling the coin toss. In the film, we never see her break. She refuses to give him that 'out', and it's the closest he gets to a defeat. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Subverted. During his conversation with Carla Jean, Sheriff Bell mentions that modern cattle processors use an air gun for efficient killing. However, he is unable to realize that there's a connection to Chigurh's victims — who apparently died of bullet wounds with no bullets — and dismisses it as a stray thought. | |
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Improbable Age | |
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Improbable Age: Discussed by Bell. He notes that he was elected sheriff of a county as big as Delaware at the age of 25, having already become a war hero. He recalls that a previous sheriff became a deputy by the age of 18. He also knows someone who was a pastor and a pillar of his community by the age of 21. | |
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Carnival of Killers | |
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Carnival of Killers: There's not only Chigurh, but Harrelson's character, and the random hitmen Chigurh kills. | |
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False Confession | |
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False Confession: A cartel hitman gets convicted and sentenced to death for some of Chigurh's crimes. When Bell interviews him, the man brags about committing the crimes, giving inaccurate details about how they were perpetrated. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Bell crosses it after the deaths of Llewelyn and Carla Jean. A conversation with his Uncle Ellis reminds him that criminality and senseless violence have always been part of life in the region. Bell's narration ends on an ambiguous note as he relates two dreams he had. (They seem to allude to Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece The Road.) | |
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Hates Small Talk | |
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Hates Small Talk: The unfettered, purpose-driven Chigurh does not respond well to idle chit-chat (see Evil Is Petty). | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: Llewelyn Moss, who dies several chapters before the end of the novel. | |
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Alone with the Psycho | |
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Alone with the Psycho: Most characters in the story find themselves alone and helpless with Anton Chigurh. | |
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Play-Along Prisoner | |
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Play-Along Prisoner: In his first scene, Anton Chigurh has allowed a deputy to arrest him. He slips his cuffs from back to front, kills the deputy, and steals a police car. All just to prove a point about supreme will. | |
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Hero Killer | |
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Hero Killer: Anton Chigurh murders Carson Wells and Carla Jean. | |
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Dice Roll Death | |
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Dice Roll Death: Anton Chigurh uses a coin toss to decide whether to kill or spare certain people. When Chigurh escapes the police station, he stops a driver on a highway to kill him and steal his car. The poor guy just happened to be the only one on the road. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Chigurh is one of The Terminator. Word of God acknowledged this and said that the ending where Chigurh has a violent bone break was to make him seem less like a machine. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: All the men. But Chigurh trumps everyone else; nothing, not even potentially crippling injuries, can keep him down for long. | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: Moss takes one from the site of the botched drug deal, setting the plot in motion. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: Moss is the Ego, Chigurh is the Id (representing darkness and violence), Bell the Superego (representing all that is good and rational). Going on the Good vs. Evil, with man in the middle interpretation, that is. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: Chigurh speaks in one, although the slight intonation he does have at times carries almost palpable menace. | |
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Good Ol' Boy | |
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Good Ol' Boy: Seeing as the story is set in rural Texas, there are plenty of these. Sheriff Bell, with his wistfulness for a better past that never was, is perhaps the best example. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: Played with. As noted above, with the exceptions of Chigurh and Sheriff Bell, every major character dies. A quick shot reveals that Chigurh had found the money in the ventilation system again, and left with the money, but it goes by fast and is irrelevant to the story by this point. Further, Chigurh is grievously wounded — in the novel, it's taken further, where the sheriffs will continue tracking him. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Llewelyn Moss is an opportunistic Jerkass who's in it for himself, but he's not psychotic like Chigurh. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Moss' act of mercy to bring the dying Mexican mobster water gets the cartels on his trail, though it also gives him warning that someone is looking for the cash, which sets Moss running and helps him figure out that there's a tracking beacon in the cash before Chigurh can ambush him. Moss spares Chigurh's life during their one and only face-to-face meeting. Chigurh shoots at Moss as he flees at the first opportunity and continues hunting him. Moss is ultimately killed because he drops his gun when a cartel hitman takes the teenage runaway hostage. The hitman kills her and Moss anyway, though Moss manages to kill him too. | |
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Anti-Climax | |
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Anti-Climax: The story seemingly builds towards a final showdown between Moss and Chigurh, but the cartel unceremoniously kills Moss, and the story keeps going for several more chapters, ending without any real climax. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Sheriff Bell is annoyed by Deputy Torbert's unnecessarily florid turns of phrase, such as saying "said wound" when discussing the autopsy report of the motorist. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: When the none-too-bright Deputy Torbert draws his gun upon seeing evidence of a break-in, Bell states confidently that he won't need it because everyone is obviously gone. Torbert asserts that it's better safe than sorry. When Tolbert eventually moves to holster his gun in deference, however, Bell reconsiders and has him keep his gun out after all. | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution: Or in Chigurh's case, murder is the ONLY solution. | |
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Handy Cuffs | |
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Handy Cuffs: Initially, Chigurh's hands were cuffed from behind, but while the cop is distracted on the phone he slips his feet between his hands so that the cuffs are in front of him, and then uses them to strangle the cop. The narration indicates that Chigurh has practiced this maneuver in his spare time. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: For all that he's an unstoppable monster who cannot be argued with, the old man at the gas station gets a small but powerful retort when he responds "I was just passing the time. If you don't want to accept that, I don't know what I can do for you." It seems almost to enrage Chigurh that someone would try to be friendly to someone else, even when they don't have to be, just for the sake of being nice. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: Chigurh is willing to belittle and possibly kill a gas station attendant for trying to make small talk with him. Chigurh recalls how he murdered someone over some petty insult at a bar. He can't even remember what the guy said. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Llewelyn goes back to the scene of the gunfight with a full carton of water out of sympathy for the driver he refused to help earlier ("I ain't got no damn agua") who was probably dead anyway. | |
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