Comedy And Violence In Movies

Violence is a commonly used theme that has various ways it’s represented in fiction and film. Brutality allows films and stories to move forward through endless suspense as each part is a surprise. However, when you add violence and comedy together, you get a suspense-filled story with random moments of comical relief before or after a violent moment. “No Country for Old Men” and “Good Men Are Hard To Find” showcase an up-and-coming genre filled with both violence and comedy that creates a new suspense. The comedy is usually meant to reduce strong reactions to the cruelty in movies and stories. However, Flannery O'Connor and the Coen brothers don't use comedy to soothe reactions to their violence. Instead, they simply want to take the focus …show more content…
The western and southern settings set a language for the character’s that they can develop. Also, this story uses plenty of foreshadowing, like the grandma mentioning her cat and that her son doesn't like it, which results in the accident. Also, the family is on a trip keeps the story moving. At the same time, the violent and comical aspects are present throughout their trip, like when they pass the plantation and the grandmother sounds about the deaths that happened there. In addition, western as a genre has violence resulting in lots of death and although the film has plenty of violence they add an ominous aura to create a compelling and captivating story. Being within the western genre, in turn, brings danger and violence as western movies often involve killing for money or a possession. Both make it seem that violence is normal, and the reactions to these events are in calm nature. Also, the grandma barely has any reaction when the killers come back with only her son's shirt in hand, or after hearing the shots that killed her family. Meanwhile, Moss goes hunting when he comes across the drug deal that went wrong and when he sees the money, over a million, he takes it and leaves, without a thought or a response. Each plot has you wanting to know more and needing to know more information that you never get to understand the film. This is because the savagery in the actions is never expected. However, you never …show more content…
It seems that O'Connor wanted to make her characters seem disposable as if their life has no meaning since they will die. Meanwhile, Cormac McCarthy, “No Country for Old Men” author, wanted to leave Chigurh with just that as his name, without any physical attributes' given, as it makes him seem more like an idea than a person. McCarthy chose a name that was untraceable to create a mystery or mystery killer. The film adaptation, though you see the actor, still tried to keep this aspect in the movie to keep him preserved and distant, again untraceable. Whereas Moss is a common person, a connector for the average male, so this just draws more attention to the mystery that Chigurh is. “Good Man is Hard To Find” is a story that mostly focuses on discussions, while “No Country For Old Men” focuses more on the physical, what they're doing, and not what they’re saying. Meanwhile, in O'Connor's story, the violence lacks the focus on the physical, as she’s trying to make her characters have a “clash of values”(Furnell 98), which they aren’t expecting. Also, the film doesn't pay much attention to their language as most of the attention is on the physical, or actions. This intensifies the experience as you pay attention to the small tics that they do to truly get the character’s story. And thus creating an ominous vibe that’s intensified through their violence by the lack of language because each