No Country For Old Men Analysis

The Coens brothers did a good job of illustrating a typical western movie but at the same time they added a few twist and turns of their own that makes it different from a western movie. Many western movies follow a similar path. There is always a bad guy that rides into town and tries to start trouble and usually the sheriff is the good guy that saves the day. Before the sheriff saves the day there is usually a big shoot out in which the bad guy is killed and then everything is resolved.
A western movie usually takes place in 19 century. When someone thinks western they thing of people riding around in horses and hanging out in a bar. The bad guys are usually Indians and the good guys are Americans. No Country for Old Men applies some of these parts of the old west. You see Moss riding around hunting for food. But then you see cars, something a person would have never seen back in the …show more content…
There is always a big shootout between the good guy and the bad guy. In the end the good guy ends up killing the bad guy and makes sure that their town is safe, if there is ever anyone in trouble the good guy always gets there right in time to save them. In this movie you don’t get any of that. Moss they good guy is killed and they don’t spend much time showing it. This is strange for a main character like Moss because the viewer kind of takes this journey with him and he ends up getting killed by a random person. Also Chigurh also kills Moss’s wife. Chigurh is never killed but he does get in a car accident at the end of the movie. The fact that Chigurh didn’t die makes it the biggest difference from a normal western movie.
Overall No Country for Old Men has a few similarities to old western movies but in reality is shouldn’t really be considered a western because of the big differences throughout the movie. It’s great to be able to look at a movie enjoy and the Coens do a great job of changing up the typical western