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Yeah, for some reason that keeps slipping by me. I saw the grandma with the bags but still was focusing on Anton as the killer. Maybe they could have included a "Mexican shoot out" to clear up any confusion, but ultimately Moss's vices got the better of him, assuming his rendezvous with the slut was a setup or an inadvertent twist of fate that led to his death.Comment
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I think that rendezvous was a twist of fate.
Anyway, I picked up the novel along with The Road by Cormac McCarthy (as well as Oil! by Upton Sinclair) and I have read a couple pages and so far its a great read. It seems like the Coens (so far at least) really captured the imagery from the novel as close as possible. I can't wait to finish it.
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I think that rendezvous was a twist of fate.
Anyway, I picked up the novel along with The Road by Cormac McCarthy (as well as Oil! by Upton Sinclair) and I have read a couple pages and so far its a great read. It seems like the Coens (so far at least) really captured the imagery from the novel as close as possible. I can't wait to finish it.Listen to some of my covers:
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Anton had the advantage of looking at Moss's phone bill. He knew to look in Del RioLast edited by ZB9; 03-21-2008, 03:12 PM.Comment
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How did Anton know to look in Del Rio by looking at Moss' phone bill? The only thing I saw on the bill on that scene was Anton finding out that Moss' mother-in-law lived in Odessa.
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anyway, even without the phone bill....Del Rio was close to where they were. Anton probably would have looked there regardless.Last edited by ZB9; 03-22-2008, 10:56 PM.Comment
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Thought the movie was pretty good.Help/Suggestions Forum - http://www.operationsports.com/forums/steves-forum/
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good point imo
my take on it....the world was changing and Ed Tom and his old fashioned ways and values didnt fit in the new brutal, evil, crazy world.
Anton was a new kind of enemy for Ed Tom...a brutal, vicious, smart, and technological physcopath. Ed Tom wanted no part of this new evolution and pretty much gave up at the end and said screw it. It had become "no country for old men" like Ed Tom and his values.
...just my two cents on it
Great, great movie.Comment
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But I love how it ends. Ed Tom's uncle (I believe), the man in the wheelchair, tells him the story about one of his distant relatives and getting killed by Natives. "This country is hard on people" is what he tells him. Ed Tom's dream that he explains to his wife also touches on how he will have to 'own up' and face his father when he dies. He just has that expression that he fears for what his father will think of him.
Great, great movie.Comment
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btw, i think i know the reason why the story is set in 1980.
The late 70s/early 80s was when the drug trade really increased and started becoming a huge factor. The drug trade had something to do with helping to create what some people considered to be a "dismal tide" with society (Tom Bell and the El Paso sheriff called it the "dismal tide")...and it had something to do with the types that migrated to areas like Tom Bell's, and many SW border towns. Tom Bell had a hard time adjusting to the new environment.Last edited by ZB9; 04-08-2008, 01:19 AM.Comment
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After watching the movie a second time, I believe that Del Rio is on the way to the Mexican Border. Anton knowing this drove in that general direction."Good music transcends all physical limits, it's more then something you hear, it's something that you feel, when the author, experience, and passion is real" - Murs (And this is for)Comment
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i think the phone bill was a factor also. There were a lot of calls to Del Rio on that bill. It was probably obvious to Anton that Moss had people there (remember Moss went to Del Rio because he said was going to borrow a car from a family member)Comment
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