More thoughts from Bill Hader on Joel and Ethan Coen's 2007 masterpiece No Country for Old Men. Source: The Rewatchables Apple: podcasts.apple... Spotify: open.spotify.c...
I'm glad Bill brought up Tommy Lee Jones as being one step behind. Jones is really just a stand-in for the audience, a character that doesn't effect change in the main story at all but has his own smaller story of a man experiencing these events and realizing he's way out of his depth
Another channel's review has some really great discourse in the comments section on different theories about the characters with one being that a lot of the action is all in Ed Tom's head as way to interpret the crime scenes and aftermath
@@leifjensen4314 makes sense as a theme. as far as pure story it seemed TLJ was on a dif journey, separate from the main story but totally informed by it
Yeah in interviews he always talks about how directing is the thing he’s always wanted to do. He has this amazing career as a comedic actor and works on SNL, which for most comedy performers is the dream, but he sort of fell into it and happened to be so talented that he just kept doing it. You’d think after Barry he will finally get the chance to direct.
Man I wish Bill would just have a podcast to express his thoughts and other stuff in general. Man is a gold mine of cinematic insight and a gem of a human being
So glad Bill touched upon the old lady character. I never understood why in the middle of this perfect movie they had a character from Mama’s Family, especially when the rest of their casting is so perfect.
Bill's story about the couple in the theater was funny. It reminded me about when I saw Pulp Fiction the first time, went into work on Monday, and told everyone how hilarious it was. A week later, one of my coworkers was mad at me, because he took a girl to see it and she made them leave in the middle. "I said it was funny, not that you should take a date to it," I said. For the next few minutes, I reminded him of some of the best parts and soon we were both cracking up. He agreed he'd have to go see it again.
Bet that coworker is no longer dating that girl. What a pill to make him leave during the movie because she didn’t like it. Had an ex who watched the original Alien w me on cable right before Prometheus came out (literally the Sunday before the Friday), and when we went to see Prometheus, she waited until we were at the ticket window to tell me she didn’t want to see it. 40 people behind us in line, so I took her aside and asked what this was about. Turns out she was “offended” by Sigourney Weaver “taking the lord’s name in vain” in Alien. GD. She didn’t get anything else out of the whole movie but that. No more R rated movies because they sometimes have nudity too. So what about this movie we came to see? She said I could see it, and she’d see another PG rated movie. So I see Prometheus by myself and she saw some kid safe movie. I had to wait in the lobby half an hour after Prometheus was over for her stupid movie to end. One reason why she’s an ex. Can’t stand uptight people like that ruining movies they can’t handle. The waiting until we were at the ticket window was so her. Gutless wonder all the way.
I had my girlfriend at the time watch it with me and it was already in my top five favorite films and she was horrified and could not fathom that that this would be one of my top picks. I'm down with the darkness.
I remember watching Pulp Fiction round a friend's house when we were about 11. There was maybe five of us and we all found the first scene with the execution incredibly tense and frightening except our mate Sammy, who found it hilarious and we didn't understand why.
I had no idea Kelly MacDonald was Scottish when I saw this. I thought she was from the south and was just slightly playing her accent up. I've lived in Nashville basically my entire life and hearing some actors try to do American southern accents makes my skin crawl, but MacDonald totally fooled me. It's an easy accent to do but incredibly difficult to so well. Amazing performance.
As a huge movie buff, Bill's film knowledge and thoughts and observations on these films just blows my mind. I don't know anyone personally that would get any of these conversations.
This is the movie that turned me into a cinephile. Then cat and mouse theme I understood while I was young, and boy was it intense. But rewatching it several times there are so many thematic undertones you completely miss. It’s an absolute cinematic masterpiece
I was all in during the opening monologue, what hooked me was “I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin' I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say: 'O.K., I'll be part of this world” Tommy Lee sells the fuck out of those lines.
2007 Q3-Q4 was an amazing time for film: No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood, Superbad, Eastern Promises, Michael Clayton, Atonement, Juno, Bourne Ultimatum all came out then
@@TheMattmatic I believe Cronenberg is the most overrated hack in Hollywood. But Eastern Promises is a brilliant film, and by far his best. Another seriously underrated film that year was Gone Baby Gone.
One of me my all time favorite quotes EVER! “All the time you spend trying to get back what’s been took from you there’s more going out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it” Absolutely goddamn right.
This movie needs multiple views. I took my now wife to this on our first date. We both looked at each other like... wtf. I enjoy it more each time I see it for a lot of the reasons Bill points out... and some I have more appreciation for now because he pointed them out. My dream job as a kid was to be in the film industry. Actor, writer, director, even critic. I enjoyed film so much. I need to watch more good movies!
For me, There Will Be Blood always outshone No Country For Old Men in all departments. I was so pissed for so many years when No Country beat Blood to the Best Picture Oscar. But now, each time I watch Blood, it loses a little of its magic, whereas No Country just gets better and better and better. Took a while, but I finally now know which is the best of the two.
For me I really loved No Country the first time I watched it and its stayed great since; whereas There Will be Blood felt a bit hollow for me in terms of how everyone rlly just praised Daniel Day and his bombastic performance and it outshines the rest of the film. In No Country EVERYONE is on their A-Game. It feels like without Daniel Day is rlly holding up There Will Be Blood, whereas with No Country obv Javier Bardem is memorable but the direction, cinematography, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, even Kelly MacDonald are all fantastic and there’s too many scenes to count that stick with u, whereas with There Will Be Blood its mainly the oil bursting and the milkshake scene. Idk maybe thats a shit take.
For me I really loved No Country the first time I watched it and its stayed great since; whereas There Will be Blood felt a bit hollow for me in terms of how everyone rlly just praised Daniel Day and his bombastic performance and it outshines the rest of the film. In No Country EVERYONE is on their A-Game. It feels like without Daniel Day is rlly holding up There Will Be Blood, whereas with No Country obv Javier Bardem is memorable but the direction, cinematography, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, even Kelly MacDonald are all fantastic and there’s too many scenes to count that stick with u, whereas with There Will Be Blood its mainly the oil bursting and the milkshake scene. Idk maybe thats a shit take
Scene Tommy Lee Jones is in his cruiser with his deputy. Deputy leans forward and turns on the radio, fiddling with the dial until we hear Kenny Rogers singing ‘The Gambler’ TLJ- I don’t wanna hear this shit He leans forward and changes the station. We hear ‘The Immigrant Song’ by Led Zeppelin Deputy- Sorry, I forgot, no country for old men.
The trailer park lady was so badass. She didn't give two f*cks about Chigurh and his psycho stare and commands. You got the feeling she knew he was prob a psycho and she still didn't care. She prob seen a dozen killer drifters come through there. So this evil mfer was nothing special to her. Reminded me of the real estate agent in American Psycho who knew Bateman was the murderer and told him to gtfo of the apt and never come back so it wouldn't ruin her listing lol
I like her mother's performance. It's actually not sketch show at all, very realistic. A lot of people act that way in real life, endless yammering and groaning. If you want to critique a sketch show aspect of the movie I would go for Tom's deputy personally, but I like him too. He adds levity to the film and is a vehicle for Coen Brothers lines. Same as the body transport and the guy transporting chickens. That's not a bad thing. I never noticed the CG personally, I don't think it's bad. It's in the distance and obscured slightly by dust. It does it's job as an effect. They could cut away, but they didn't have to because the effect isn't bad in my opinion.
The Road was a great adaptation of a McCarthy book too. Very true to the book. Loved that book... such a unique look at the father/ son relationship and of humanity at its base.
I don’t see how anyone could not love this movie and appreciate it. I’d hate to find out who doesn’t like this movie and the kinds of movies they think are good. It’s great for all the reasons Hader said, and it does it without any of that “Oscar bait” pretentiousness.
I just had a thought, and I REALLY hope this doesn't sound pretentious. That part where Bill is describing Chigurh as the harbinger of what's coming - yes, I agree, but I think there's another layer to it. The parts where he gets "fucked up" (the shootout and the car crash) - those could be symbolic of society trying to fight back against evil, but the evil side of human nature never going away. And the scene at the end where the kids help him: that's showing the younger generations keeping evil alive even with their pure, good intentions. You can fight evil/human nature all you want, but it will always get back up.
I also grew up in OK and Bill is absolutely right about the characters being just so....real. Not at all caricatures. But still just a little weird. The guy in the coin flip scene: The whole area used to be dotted with small gas stations just off the county roads like that. Notice he has fan belts hanging up behind him. They would have all the stuff a convenience store has plus any minor item you might need to get back on the road. .....and they would invariably be run by a guy like that. Probably the owner. The local farmers would hang out there for lunch. It felt like the Coen's just scouted locations, gave the locals some dialogue, walked in and started shooting. Just like Fargo. I had just moved to Omaha and worked through out the Dakotas and Minnesota when Fargo came out. I would roll into ...actual Fargo, or Sioux City or Bismark and start talking to someone and have to stifle a laugh because the locals sounded just like the characters from the movie. I knew a girl there, from Mankato, that looked and talked exactly like one of the girls in the prostitute interview scene. One time she described a guy as "kinda funny looking" and I just lost it. Nobody captures characters like the Cohn brothers, down to the last detail.
Even the most minor characters in their movies are directed as if they’re the star and the whole movie is about them. The lady at the motel who wouldn’t give Anton info about their guests was another one like the old timer at the gas station.
I attended a Q&A with the sound designer for this movie in 2012 at Vancouver International Film Fest. Super interesting process in how the final audio design was settled on.
Chigurh is such a captivating and interesting character that, up until Bill Hader pointed it out in this clip, I never even made the two face connection lol; top tier writing and performance
The first time I saw the movie I remember leaving the theater with the impression that each of the characters represented a different stage of our mental struggle to cope with the reality of a serial killer.
I know that taste can vary from person to person, but I have a real hard time wrapping my head around the idea of someone seeing No Country for Old Men and their reaction being "that was fucking terrible".
Imagine you really like musicals and sassy comedies. You believe snark is the pinnacle of human intelligence. The best TV show ever made is Friends. IF you enjoy an action movie, it’s along the lines of the first Raimie Spider-Man: likeable good guy, snazzy clothes, bright colors, simple plot. Villain chewing the scenery like a goat in a bubble-gum store.
I don’t care if DDL actually flew through the No Country set still dressed as Daniel Plainview shouting “GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY” or not, it officially fucking HAPPENED.
Moss is as emotionally detached and unconcerned about other people as Chigurh is. He brings murderers into the lives of family members, of neighbors, and of innocent strangers without giving a shit.
I firmly believe this movie for all the evil and some of the good is pure 80s Texan Americana. I remember being a kid in the early 80s driving with mom across Texas and having it cross my mind we might die on this trip. Revealed that to my mother years later as a 40 yo man and her pushing 65 and she said “I really thought we were going to die as well”. We both laughed at some of the truck stops we stopped at.
Bill makes a great point about having to see Coen Bro movies more than once. Most Coen brother movies that many dismiss are better on the second viewing. Hudsucker Proxy, Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading, and Hail Ceaser are all amazing movies, but I think people go into the Coen brother's movies, expecting them all to be Fargo.
I love the end where the boy is SO good that he gives the very shirt off his own back...and then immediately they start arguing over the blood money. Humanity in a nutshell.
I could see myself dumping someone if they didn't like this movie because it was, "boring" or "slow" because I would never be able to look at them without thinking they're idiots.
Man Bill is really good at this. I have to agree. I believe the "mom" and some of the CG was weak. She seemed over the top for the mom character. THe CG seemed like it was weak because they didnt' want to offend the PETA people when the dog gets shot. But what a movie!
Wes Anderson conducted a pyrotechnical test that went wrong that carried smoke over the set of No Country so the Coen Brothers had to stop shooting for day while the smoke cleared out.
*AAAACTUALLY*... those are not deer. They are pronghorn antelope, although not true antelope. They are, in fact, goats and are sometimes called "speedgoats" for obvious reasons.
I think Bill was referring to the lady at the motel that is confused that Josh Brolin's character wanted two rooms with double beds, not the lady at the front desk of the trailer park.
it just clicked for me how important a director is for actors , josh brolin is great in this movie , but i just realised he also played the part of oh dae su in the American remake of old boy ,took me a moment as he really blends into the character in no country and its striking how unskilled he seems in old boy ,its common sense that an incompetent director can make a great actor look like shit but its striking to see how pronounced that effect is in practice
Josh Brolin is a rare breed; his father had the same type of innate gravitas, but the son's is weightier and even more appealing. "Presence," some people might call it. Plus, he's an OG Goony.
4:00 wait what? im hammered. did daniel day drive through the set or did he flip on someone who drove through?why would he be on set? what the fxuk is bill talking about????
Here's a minor nitpick, OR it could be a fascinating thing intentionally left in. Woody Harrelson's character mentions that he spends time day trading. Was day trading even a thing back in 1980 to 1984 when this movie was set?
Gomez Addams was a day trader, on TV in the 1960s, in cartoons before that. That's why he has a stock ticker in his living room. Before the 1980s daytrading was a game for the very wealthy or licensed brokers trading for themselves while on the job. This was because of large brokerage fees, and the need for realtime news on stock prices. In old movies about the very rich you may see a scene where men at a club gather around a stick ticker to keep an eye on the market, and news that might effect it. In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (set in early 70s) the villain's alibi falls apart because he claims he heard some news on his clubs ticker when he couldn't have because the news was reported after the club was closed. Around 1980 CNN and Financial NN brought free stock tickers to the anyone who could afford cable TV, and regulation (or deregulation?) got rid of the fixed brokerage fees. Bringing day trading to the middle class. So yeah, I think NCFOM nailed it on the research
Yeah some guys would use a literal broker (an actual guy you’d call down to the floor of the exchange) to make trades back then. At least in the commodity markets
@@kevinseiler1592 I also just re read no country and It also may have been a way for harrelsons character to talk his way out and may not have been 100% true. But then again, he said he was good with numbers when talking to the guys in Houston.
I'm glad Bill brought up Tommy Lee Jones as being one step behind. Jones is really just a stand-in for the audience, a character that doesn't effect change in the main story at all but has his own smaller story of a man experiencing these events and realizing he's way out of his depth
Another channel's review has some really great discourse in the comments section on different theories about the characters with one being that a lot of the action is all in Ed Tom's head as way to interpret the crime scenes and aftermath
Affect
I thought he was the embodiment of justice. Just like Lewellen is the embodiment of greed, and Anton is the embodiment of death.
@@leifjensen4314 makes sense as a theme. as far as pure story it seemed TLJ was on a dif journey, separate from the main story but totally informed by it
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I'm so ready for Bill Hader to direct a movie already. You just know he understands and loves the craft.
Doesn't mean he'll be a good director. His observations could be made by any knowledgeable film student/fan.
@@chickenringNYCI think Barry shows he has the skill
@@chickenringNYC He's proven his quality in Barry.
Yeah in interviews he always talks about how directing is the thing he’s always wanted to do. He has this amazing career as a comedic actor and works on SNL, which for most comedy performers is the dream, but he sort of fell into it and happened to be so talented that he just kept doing it. You’d think after Barry he will finally get the chance to direct.
@@chickenringNYC he's already shown he's a great director. watch Barry
"I dont think Cormac McCarthy is a big Batman guy" was a genuine lol from me
I’m so so glad there’s another ten minutes of this
Yes, also very well edited per usual
The editing is funny because it sounds like Bill won’t let anyone speak.
“yeah”
It sounds more like they won't let him speak.
Man I wish Bill would just have a podcast to express his thoughts and other stuff in general. Man is a gold mine of cinematic insight and a gem of a human being
So glad Bill touched upon the old lady character. I never understood why in the middle of this perfect movie they had a character from Mama’s Family, especially when the rest of their casting is so perfect.
“Mama’s Family.” That’s a fairly obscure reference nowadays. 😄
Bill's story about the couple in the theater was funny. It reminded me about when I saw Pulp Fiction the first time, went into work on Monday, and told everyone how hilarious it was. A week later, one of my coworkers was mad at me, because he took a girl to see it and she made them leave in the middle. "I said it was funny, not that you should take a date to it," I said. For the next few minutes, I reminded him of some of the best parts and soon we were both cracking up. He agreed he'd have to go see it again.
Bet that coworker is no longer dating that girl. What a pill to make him leave during the movie because she didn’t like it. Had an ex who watched the original Alien w me on cable right before Prometheus came out (literally the Sunday before the Friday), and when we went to see Prometheus, she waited until we were at the ticket window to tell me she didn’t want to see it. 40 people behind us in line, so I took her aside and asked what this was about. Turns out she was “offended” by Sigourney Weaver “taking the lord’s name in vain” in Alien. GD. She didn’t get anything else out of the whole movie but that. No more R rated movies because they sometimes have nudity too. So what about this movie we came to see? She said I could see it, and she’d see another PG rated movie. So I see Prometheus by myself and she saw some kid safe movie. I had to wait in the lobby half an hour after Prometheus was over for her stupid movie to end. One reason why she’s an ex. Can’t stand uptight people like that ruining movies they can’t handle. The waiting until we were at the ticket window was so her. Gutless wonder all the way.
My friend's wife watched Pulp Fiction and said "They sure said the F word a lot".
@@congoliab Well.... she's not wrong... lol.
I had my girlfriend at the time watch it with me and it was already in my top five favorite films and she was horrified and could not fathom that that this would be one of my top picks. I'm down with the darkness.
I remember watching Pulp Fiction round a friend's house when we were about 11. There was maybe five of us and we all found the first scene with the execution incredibly tense and frightening except our mate Sammy, who found it hilarious and we didn't understand why.
I had no idea Kelly MacDonald was Scottish when I saw this. I thought she was from the south and was just slightly playing her accent up. I've lived in Nashville basically my entire life and hearing some actors try to do American southern accents makes my skin crawl, but MacDonald totally fooled me. It's an easy accent to do but incredibly difficult to so well. Amazing performance.
Check out Trainspotting
Same here. Great performance. Subsequently I've caught several other roles and I think she's as good as anyone.
She is also great in Boardwalk Empire and the excellent British mini series State of Play (which features an unforgettable turn by James McAvoy)
Never saw Boardwalk Empire? It’s worth watching. Her accent is Irish I believe but it sounds real to me.
@@robpolaris7272 Nope, she’s definitely Scottish. I’m sure she’s done an Irish accent at some point though.
My all time favourite film, seen it 20 times or more and still find new things each watch
Love that quick shoutout he gave to Roger Deakins. One of the most talented cinematographers who ever lived.
As a huge movie buff, Bill's film knowledge and thoughts and observations on these films just blows my mind. I don't know anyone personally that would get any of these conversations.
Talk to people. They might not understand film, but theu probably like movies
This is the movie that turned me into a cinephile. Then cat and mouse theme I understood while I was young, and boy was it intense. But rewatching it several times there are so many thematic undertones you completely miss. It’s an absolute cinematic masterpiece
I was all in during the opening monologue, what hooked me was “I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin' I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say: 'O.K., I'll be part of this world” Tommy Lee sells the fuck out of those lines.
2007 Q3-Q4 was an amazing time for film:
No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood, Superbad, Eastern Promises, Michael Clayton, Atonement, Juno, Bourne Ultimatum all came out then
Eastern Promises is underrated, it got lost in the shuffle a bit I think. Too many good movies at the same time.
@@TheMattmatic I believe Cronenberg is the most overrated hack in Hollywood. But Eastern Promises is a brilliant film, and by far his best.
Another seriously underrated film that year was Gone Baby Gone.
I so appreciate the Serious Man hat tip from Bill. That movie is vastly under-rated.
One of me my all time favorite quotes EVER!
“All the time you spend trying to get back what’s been took from you there’s more going out the door.
After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it”
Absolutely goddamn right.
This movie needs multiple views. I took my now wife to this on our first date. We both looked at each other like... wtf. I enjoy it more each time I see it for a lot of the reasons Bill points out... and some I have more appreciation for now because he pointed them out. My dream job as a kid was to be in the film industry. Actor, writer, director, even critic. I enjoyed film so much. I need to watch more good movies!
For me, There Will Be Blood always outshone No Country For Old Men in all departments. I was so pissed for so many years when No Country beat Blood to the Best Picture Oscar. But now, each time I watch Blood, it loses a little of its magic, whereas No Country just gets better and better and better. Took a while, but I finally now know which is the best of the two.
Totally different movie lol
There Will Be Blood is the finest movie of my lifetime imo. NCFOM is great but its not on the same level for me.
For me I really loved No Country the first time I watched it and its stayed great since; whereas There Will be Blood felt a bit hollow for me in terms of how everyone rlly just praised Daniel Day and his bombastic performance and it outshines the rest of the film. In No Country EVERYONE is on their A-Game. It feels like without Daniel Day is rlly holding up There Will Be Blood, whereas with No Country obv Javier Bardem is memorable but the direction, cinematography, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, even Kelly MacDonald are all fantastic and there’s too many scenes to count that stick with u, whereas with There Will Be Blood its mainly the oil bursting and the milkshake scene. Idk maybe thats a shit take.
For me I really loved No Country the first time I watched it and its stayed great since; whereas There Will be Blood felt a bit hollow for me in terms of how everyone rlly just praised Daniel Day and his bombastic performance and it outshines the rest of the film. In No Country EVERYONE is on their A-Game. It feels like without Daniel Day is rlly holding up There Will Be Blood, whereas with No Country obv Javier Bardem is memorable but the direction, cinematography, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, even Kelly MacDonald are all fantastic and there’s too many scenes to count that stick with u, whereas with There Will Be Blood its mainly the oil bursting and the milkshake scene. Idk maybe thats a shit take
Shame there cant be two great films in the same year. Oh well.
Find someone who loves you as much as Bill Hader loves "No Country for Old Men."
This whole movie is amazing. It's as close to the perfect movie as I've ever seen I think. So real, authentic.
Anton Chigurh is the best villain of all time. He would probably kill Michael Myers and flip a coin right before he did it.
Scene
Tommy Lee Jones is in his cruiser with his deputy. Deputy leans forward and turns on the radio, fiddling with the dial until we hear
Kenny Rogers singing ‘The Gambler’
TLJ- I don’t wanna hear this shit
He leans forward and changes the station. We hear ‘The Immigrant Song’ by Led Zeppelin
Deputy- Sorry, I forgot, no country for old men.
Hahaha
Chigurh is a master at reading what people will do and human psychology. Thus, he is already a couple of steps ahead of everyone.
i'm very glad to see that my favourite actor barry block is a fan of my favourite movie!
Had a good argument with my sis-in-law as to why this film is genius…we haven’t talked in 15 years! 😂😂
The trailer park lady was so badass. She didn't give two f*cks about Chigurh and his psycho stare and commands. You got the feeling she knew he was prob a psycho and she still didn't care. She prob seen a dozen killer drifters come through there. So this evil mfer was nothing special to her. Reminded me of the real estate agent in American Psycho who knew Bateman was the murderer and told him to gtfo of the apt and never come back so it wouldn't ruin her listing lol
I love the blood simple idea, it's just happening in the next town over, here in Texas you're on your own.
Never thought the deer were cgi until now. Thanks lol
I like her mother's performance. It's actually not sketch show at all, very realistic. A lot of people act that way in real life, endless yammering and groaning. If you want to critique a sketch show aspect of the movie I would go for Tom's deputy personally, but I like him too. He adds levity to the film and is a vehicle for Coen Brothers lines. Same as the body transport and the guy transporting chickens. That's not a bad thing. I never noticed the CG personally, I don't think it's bad. It's in the distance and obscured slightly by dust. It does it's job as an effect. They could cut away, but they didn't have to because the effect isn't bad in my opinion.
here i am at 5 million o clock in the morning watching bill hader talk about a movie we both fucks with the long way
8:52 Took me a second viewing before I realized that was Kitty ("Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!") from Donnie Darko.
I love all things skateboarding and Bill Hader
Cormac McCarthy is a writer that's hard to adapt his material I think they did a great job
The Road was a great adaptation of a McCarthy book too. Very true to the book. Loved that book... such a unique look at the father/ son relationship and of humanity at its base.
No Country started as a screenplay but he changed it to a novel. I think it's probably the most adaptable book of his
I don’t see how anyone could not love this movie and appreciate it. I’d hate to find out who doesn’t like this movie and the kinds of movies they think are good. It’s great for all the reasons Hader said, and it does it without any of that “Oscar bait” pretentiousness.
Fun fact: Kelly MacDonald voiced Merida in Brave
I just had a thought, and I REALLY hope this doesn't sound pretentious. That part where Bill is describing Chigurh as the harbinger of what's coming - yes, I agree, but I think there's another layer to it. The parts where he gets "fucked up" (the shootout and the car crash) - those could be symbolic of society trying to fight back against evil, but the evil side of human nature never going away. And the scene at the end where the kids help him: that's showing the younger generations keeping evil alive even with their pure, good intentions. You can fight evil/human nature all you want, but it will always get back up.
Cloak And Dagger, Dabney Coleman. Nice one.
I also grew up in OK and Bill is absolutely right about the characters being just so....real. Not at all caricatures. But still just a little weird.
The guy in the coin flip scene: The whole area used to be dotted with small gas stations just off the county roads like that. Notice he has fan belts hanging up behind him. They would have all the stuff a convenience store has plus any minor item you might need to get back on the road.
.....and they would invariably be run by a guy like that. Probably the owner. The local farmers would hang out there for lunch.
It felt like the Coen's just scouted locations, gave the locals some dialogue, walked in and started shooting. Just like Fargo.
I had just moved to Omaha and worked through out the Dakotas and Minnesota when Fargo came out. I would roll into ...actual Fargo, or Sioux City or Bismark and start talking to someone and have to stifle a laugh because the locals sounded just like the characters from the movie.
I knew a girl there, from Mankato, that looked and talked exactly like one of the girls in the prostitute interview scene. One time she described a guy as "kinda funny looking" and I just lost it.
Nobody captures characters like the Cohn brothers, down to the last detail.
Even the most minor characters in their movies are directed as if they’re the star and the whole movie is about them. The lady at the motel who wouldn’t give Anton info about their guests was another one like the old timer at the gas station.
I attended a Q&A with the sound designer for this movie in 2012 at Vancouver International Film Fest. Super interesting process in how the final audio design was settled on.
Chigurh is such a captivating and interesting character that, up until Bill Hader pointed it out in this clip, I never even made the two face connection lol; top tier writing and performance
The first time I saw the movie I remember leaving the theater with the impression that each of the characters represented a different stage of our mental struggle to cope with the reality of a serial killer.
Had the same reaction to the ending when i was 22. Its now grown on me the older i get
I know that taste can vary from person to person, but I have a real hard time wrapping my head around the idea of someone seeing No Country for Old Men and their reaction being "that was fucking terrible".
Imagine you really like musicals and sassy comedies. You believe snark is the pinnacle of human intelligence. The best TV show ever made is Friends.
IF you enjoy an action movie, it’s along the lines of the first Raimie Spider-Man: likeable good guy, snazzy clothes, bright colors, simple plot. Villain chewing the scenery like a goat in a bubble-gum store.
It's their brain saying "Does not compute".
I don’t care if DDL actually flew through the No Country set still dressed as Daniel Plainview shouting “GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY” or not, it officially fucking HAPPENED.
Moss is as emotionally detached and unconcerned about other people as Chigurh is.
He brings murderers into the lives of family members, of neighbors, and of innocent strangers without giving a shit.
Josh Brolin is an underrated actor. He crushed it when he hosted SNL. Very funny
Oh No Let's Go!
It's a finely crafted monster movie.
It would be very cool to have some beers with Bill and just talk about movies
I firmly believe this movie for all the evil and some of the good is pure 80s Texan Americana.
I remember being a kid in the early 80s driving with mom across Texas and having it cross my mind we might die on this trip. Revealed that to my mother years later as a 40 yo man and her pushing 65 and she said “I really thought we were going to die as well”. We both laughed at some of the truck stops we stopped at.
Javier Bardem was amazing. He's my favorite actor.
Jesus Christ a Cormac McCarthy Batman would slap so hard.
This movie made me do my PhD on Cormac McCarthy.
Bill makes a great point about having to see Coen Bro movies more than once. Most Coen brother movies that many dismiss are better on the second viewing. Hudsucker Proxy, Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading, and Hail Ceaser are all amazing movies, but I think people go into the Coen brother's movies, expecting them all to be Fargo.
I love the end where the boy is SO good that he gives the very shirt off his own back...and then immediately they start arguing over the blood money. Humanity in a nutshell.
Are we not gonna talk about that Tommy Lee Jones was the Two Face in Batman Forever?
Wow, Cloak and Dagger shout-out
Yep. 100% agree about that casting choice slash performance. Wabi-sabi?
I could see myself dumping someone if they didn't like this movie because it was, "boring" or "slow" because I would never be able to look at them without thinking they're idiots.
Man Bill is really good at this. I have to agree. I believe the "mom" and some of the CG was weak. She seemed over the top for the mom character. THe CG seemed like it was weak because they didnt' want to offend the PETA people when the dog gets shot. But what a movie!
Bill Hader might like a film called Wake In Fright. It is an old film based in Australia.
4:00 There Will Be Blood was shooting at the same time
Wes Anderson conducted a pyrotechnical test that went wrong that carried smoke over the set of No Country so the Coen Brothers had to stop shooting for day while the smoke cleared out.
Agree totally about the Mom. Also, you don’t hear too many shout outs to Cloak & Dagger. 😂
The pronghorn couldn't look any more real.
*AAAACTUALLY*... those are not deer. They are pronghorn antelope, although not true antelope. They are, in fact, goats and are sometimes called "speedgoats" for obvious reasons.
I think Bill was referring to the lady at the motel that is confused that Josh Brolin's character wanted two rooms with double beds, not the lady at the front desk of the trailer park.
I wonder how Anton Chigur would fare against John Ryder.
You can have the one next door - it ain't took.
That's great dog acting.
yeah
Where can I listen to the full thing ?
Sounds like the rewatchables pod
“Eat yer damn eggs!”
it just clicked for me how important a director is for actors , josh brolin is great in this movie , but i just realised he also played the part of oh dae su in the American remake of old boy ,took me a moment as he really blends into the character in no country and its striking how unskilled he seems in old boy ,its common sense that an incompetent director can make a great actor look like shit but its striking to see how pronounced that effect is in practice
Because of the edits it sounds like Bill over talks the other guy every second and can’t get a word in 😂 Every clip is like this lol
The Cohen Brothers should write and direct Blood Maridian...
oh f yeah
I just said the same thing in part 1.
Can watch this no sound
Josh Brolin is a rare breed; his father had the same type of innate gravitas, but the son's is weightier and even more appealing. "Presence," some people might call it. Plus, he's an OG Goony.
Somehow I never realized John Brolin’s wife in this film was the underage girl from Trainspotting lol.
Such a positive outlook. Not!!! This basically says their is no hope.
kelly macdonald is so gorgeous. wish she was in more stuff
Hate to nitpick, but those are antelope, not deer.
I came here after seeing Angela Raver having a wicked time in Ibiza… this.. by contrast lol😂lol😂lol l😂
what happens to the money at the end?
It's a mystery. Either Anton took it back already, or he never found it.
This is what happens when you worry about money, you miss the most important parts
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in the book Anton recovers and returns it to the rightful owner
Without TLJ's scenes the movie would just be a relentless action pic.
Demi Brolin
#BillHader not knowing a deer from an antelope 😅
That's what I hate about Spielberg. He had them say "saving Private Ryan" in the fcking movie. A movie about D-Day. C'mon!
“Hmmm”
4:00 wait what? im hammered. did daniel day drive through the set or did he flip on someone who drove through?why would he be on set? what the fxuk is bill talking about????
The Deer...? LOL. The Pronghorn... "Antelope"... but yes that cgi part is the worst thing about the movie....
Sorry, Pilp Fiction is the ultimate must watch 20 times to comprehend the script & film’s genius
😂 i always thought the cgi when he shot the deer looked great
And here I am. Seen the movie countless times, just now learning that was CGI!
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Here's a minor nitpick, OR it could be a fascinating thing intentionally left in. Woody Harrelson's character mentions that he spends time day trading. Was day trading even a thing back in 1980 to 1984 when this movie was set?
Day trading has been a thing since the mid 1800s.
Gomez Addams was a day trader, on TV in the 1960s, in cartoons before that. That's why he has a stock ticker in his living room.
Before the 1980s daytrading was a game for the very wealthy or licensed brokers trading for themselves while on the job. This was because of large brokerage fees, and the need for realtime news on stock prices. In old movies about the very rich you may see a scene where men at a club gather around a stick ticker to keep an eye on the market, and news that might effect it. In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (set in early 70s) the villain's alibi falls apart because he claims he heard some news on his clubs ticker when he couldn't have because the news was reported after the club was closed.
Around 1980 CNN and Financial NN brought free stock tickers to the anyone who could afford cable TV, and regulation (or deregulation?) got rid of the fixed brokerage fees. Bringing day trading to the middle class.
So yeah, I think NCFOM nailed it on the research
Yeah some guys would use a literal broker (an actual guy you’d call down to the floor of the exchange) to make trades back then. At least in the commodity markets
@@RamblinGamblinStan I had no idea. I assumed it was an internet thing. Thanks for the responses, Stan and Nicolas.
@@kevinseiler1592 I also just re read no country and It also may have been a way for harrelsons character to talk his way out and may not have been 100% true. But then again, he said he was good with numbers when talking to the guys in Houston.
She's Scottish!?!??!! Holy wow.
Who won the movie? "Humanity?"
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Totally off topic but Bill hader reminds me a lot of Norm Macdonald during podcast
#BillHader
How did bill know that they were boyfriends?
That isn't a CGI deer it's called "acting".