Cormac Mccarthy's No Country For Old Men

Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men, later adapted into a movie directed by Ethan and Joel Coen in 2007, is about a man who is risking his life and the life of his wife in order to keep money he stole from a drug deal gone wrong, he must escape from Anton Chigurh, who is also after the money and will stop at nothing to get it. The distinction between Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country For Old Men and the film No Country for Old Men (2007), is that some of the characters are portrayed differently than they are in the novel, there are more specific details to the background of the characters and the setting in the book, and the elements in the movie are made dramatic for the audience to find it more appealing whereas the book is more …show more content…
In No Country for Old Men, the main character is Sheriff Bell because the reader understand what he feels and he tells his point of view of law enforcement and the world. There are a lot of small elements in the book that are missing in the movie because there is no need for the extraneous amount of detail. The movie is condensed to only show the most important, or key parts of the book. The book also includes background information that isn't essential to be able to understand what is happening while watching the movie. For example, in the book there is a lot of detail about the background of who Bell was, something that would not be important to understand what is happening in the movie because it focuses more on Llewellyn's journey of trying to escape from Chigurh. The book takes more time to explain each character so it gives a little more depth on why the characters are the way they are and how they came to be. In the book, it also states the viewpoint of Llewelyn and other characters, whereas in the movie it is just assumed what they think in the way the way they express themselves or