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No Country for Old Men

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No Country for Old Men	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
No Country for Old Men / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Come the finale, the only major characters who haven't died are Ed Tom Bell and Chigurh.
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No Country for Old Men / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
No Country for Old Men / int_15b2cab3	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
No Country for Old Men / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Anton Chigurh is such a potent one that he's a walking force of unstoppable evil.
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No Country for Old Men / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
No Country for Old Men / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: It's never made explicit whether Chigurh killed the accountant. Does Bell's dream symbolize hope, or despair?
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No Country for Old Men / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
No Country for Old Men / int_1f799027	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
No Country for Old Men / int_21718ffc	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
No Country for Old Men / int_21d70919	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
No Country for Old Men / int_237404cc	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_23ce4798	type	Sinister Southwest
No Country for Old Men / int_23ce4798	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
No Country for Old Men / int_27690f66	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
No Country for Old Men / int_2854b56d	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
No Country for Old Men / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging:
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No Country for Old Men / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
No Country for Old Men / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Even other hardened killers are afraid of Chigurh, and with good reason.
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No Country for Old Men / int_2bfabe7	type	Trespassing to Talk
No Country for Old Men / int_2bfabe7	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
No Country for Old Men / int_2cac89cf	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
No Country for Old Men / int_2d4fa515	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
No Country for Old Men / int_2d6f00e4	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
No Country for Old Men / int_2de7bbf1	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_2e10c4ab	type	Missing Floor
No Country for Old Men / int_2e10c4ab	comment	Missing Floor: Wells notes that the floor the middle manager is on cannot be accessed normally by the elevator.
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No Country for Old Men / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
No Country for Old Men / int_2e8441c9	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
No Country for Old Men / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_33576bdb	type	The Sheriff
No Country for Old Men / int_33576bdb	comment	Ed Tom Bell is The Sheriff who is trying to stop Moss and Chigurh.
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No Country for Old Men / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
No Country for Old Men / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Moss himself near the end.
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No Country for Old Men / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
No Country for Old Men / int_396e1c2a	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
No Country for Old Men / int_3c0a4666	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_3dc6aa5b	type	New Old West
No Country for Old Men / int_3dc6aa5b	comment	New Old West: A very Western story, set in a very Western state, complete with sundowns and showdowns and gunfights.
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No Country for Old Men / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
No Country for Old Men / int_3ed23024	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
No Country for Old Men / int_3eee0728	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
No Country for Old Men / int_3f6d2c98	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
No Country for Old Men / int_41d5f145	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
No Country for Old Men / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: Happens to both Llewelyn and Carla Jean.
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No Country for Old Men / int_44c385ee	type	That's What She Said
No Country for Old Men / int_44c385ee	comment	That's What She Said: Amazingly enough. In the book, during the first exchange between Moss and Carla Jean.
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No Country for Old Men / int_45d60174	type	Pile Bunker
No Country for Old Men / int_45d60174	comment	Pile Bunker: One of Chigurh's weapons of choice.
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No Country for Old Men / int_49b1fe0	type	Beige Prose
No Country for Old Men / int_49b1fe0	comment	Beige Prose: Even more so than usual for McCarthy, thanks to it originally being written as a screenplay.
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No Country for Old Men / int_4c583974	type	A MacGuffin Full of Money
No Country for Old Men / int_4c583974	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
No Country for Old Men / int_4e3d253b	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
No Country for Old Men / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: It doubles as a Badass Boast...or it would have, if not for the eventual subversion.
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No Country for Old Men / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
No Country for Old Men / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Sheriff Ed Tom Bell.
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No Country for Old Men / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
No Country for Old Men / int_50f66629	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_51589353	type	The Cartel
No Country for Old Men / int_51589353	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
No Country for Old Men / int_52196c03	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
No Country for Old Men / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Llewelyn Moss. Initially. Not so much by the end.
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No Country for Old Men / int_54243cf7	type	Parrot Exposition
No Country for Old Men / int_54243cf7	comment	Parrot Exposition: Chigurh, especially so during the gas station scene:
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No Country for Old Men / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
No Country for Old Men / int_59907e4f	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
No Country for Old Men / int_5f146203	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
No Country for Old Men / int_62fd5552	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_6552b710	type	The Syndicate
No Country for Old Men / int_6552b710	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_6a2ae11f	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
No Country for Old Men / int_6e27397	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
No Country for Old Men / int_6fb5cb83	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
No Country for Old Men / int_6feaf27b	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_7098892d	type	Weapon-Based Characterization
No Country for Old Men / int_7098892d	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
No Country for Old Men / int_716d9138	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
No Country for Old Men / int_7286e96d	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
No Country for Old Men / int_72cdfc33	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_76a83c72	type	Arbitrary Gun Power
No Country for Old Men / int_76a83c72	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
No Country for Old Men / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Moss mistakenly believes that this is how the world works.
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No Country for Old Men / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
No Country for Old Men / int_7d53bc0b	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
No Country for Old Men / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "I'm going to make you my special project."
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No Country for Old Men / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
No Country for Old Men / int_8767b1f3	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
No Country for Old Men / int_8ae880f7	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_8b5df221	type	Surprise Car Crash
No Country for Old Men / int_8b5df221	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
No Country for Old Men / int_90e31482	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_91495e52	type	Heads or Tails?
No Country for Old Men / int_91495e52	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
No Country for Old Men / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Chigurh does this to everybody to the point it's impossible to deal with him.
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No Country for Old Men / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
No Country for Old Men / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Llewelyn, after inspecting his wounds past the Mexican border.
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No Country for Old Men / int_9e07f1f8	type	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be
No Country for Old Men / int_9e07f1f8	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_9ea277d2	type	Stealing from Thieves
No Country for Old Men / int_9ea277d2	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
No Country for Old Men / int_a6c99b08	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
No Country for Old Men / int_a70223	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
No Country for Old Men / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
No Country for Old Men / int_aabe2fb	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
No Country for Old Men / int_abe1e24e	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
No Country for Old Men / int_ae3d6438	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
No Country for Old Men / int_b0e81c37	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_b27e39b1	type	Not Afraid of Hell
No Country for Old Men / int_b27e39b1	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
No Country for Old Men / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
No Country for Old Men / int_b58b4e3c	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
No Country for Old Men / int_b7c53a22	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
No Country for Old Men / int_bce16d24	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_be85ff22	type	Contract on the Hitman
No Country for Old Men / int_be85ff22	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
No Country for Old Men / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Moss is probably a Nominal Hero, and Bell gradually goes into Knight in Sour Armor.
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No Country for Old Men / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
No Country for Old Men / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Ed Tom Bell and Loretta; Llewelyn and Carla Jean (though they snark at each other occasionally).
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No Country for Old Men / int_bfb14b83	type	Useless Protagonist
No Country for Old Men / int_bfb14b83	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
No Country for Old Men / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: Set in 1980.
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No Country for Old Men / int_c1cef253	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
No Country for Old Men / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Chigurh to the poor sap he carjacks. With a cattle gun, of all things.
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No Country for Old Men / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
No Country for Old Men / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: The book is set in the 1980s but was released in 2005.
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No Country for Old Men / int_c57a6051	type	If I Do Not Return
No Country for Old Men / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return:
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No Country for Old Men / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
No Country for Old Men / int_c601fc37	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_c67af1b0	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_cafca250	type	Conscience Makes You Go Back
No Country for Old Men / int_cafca250	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: "It's full of money."
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No Country for Old Men / int_d0b94038	type	You Keep Telling Yourself That
No Country for Old Men / int_d0b94038	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
No Country for Old Men / int_d129e13e	comment	"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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No Country for Old Men / int_d33456e7	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_d609b01a	comment	Carnival of Killers: There's not only Chigurh, but Harrelson's character, and the random hitmen Chigurh kills.
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No Country for Old Men / int_db015585	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_dda99fa8	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_ddb444ef	comment	Hates Small Talk: The unfettered, purpose-driven Chigurh does not respond well to idle chit-chat (see Evil Is Petty).
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No Country for Old Men / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Llewelyn Moss, who dies several chapters before the end of the novel.
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No Country for Old Men / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Most characters in the story find themselves alone and helpless with Anton Chigurh.
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No Country for Old Men / int_e116fedc	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_e16fb8ca	comment	Hero Killer: Anton Chigurh murders Carson Wells and Carla Jean.
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No Country for Old Men / int_e3f7524b	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_e5421161	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_e567510d	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Briefcase Full of Money: Moss takes one from the site of the botched drug deal, setting the plot in motion.
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No Country for Old Men / int_e8cae797	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_e90a93b2	comment	Creepy Monotone: Chigurh speaks in one, although the slight intonation he does have at times carries almost palpable menace.
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No Country for Old Men / int_e9544bad	comment	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 Country for Old Men / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Llewelyn Moss is an opportunistic Jerkass who's in it for himself, but he's not psychotic like Chigurh.
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No Country for Old Men / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
No Country for Old Men / int_eb8f64a6	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
No Country for Old Men / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_f360fc33	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Or in Chigurh's case, murder is the ONLY solution.
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No Country for Old Men / int_f7602ddc	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_f8e010ce	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_fe64d5a1	comment	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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No Country for Old Men / int_ff7f34c5	comment	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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