Inspiration for 'No Country For Old Men'

One similarity I noticed between these two professional killers is how they allowed themselves to be caught easily. Chigurh at the beginning of the movie lets a cop arrest him just so he can see if he can escape. Watching Le Samourai I wondered if vanity wasn't involved in the easy way Jeff was caught by the police at the beginning. I can't think of another reason to explain his complete lack of attempt at keeping a low profile after the murder. Instead he goes to a place where he knows the cops will look for suspects and he doesn't even bother to get rid of his coat and hat. Either he's insane, he's testing himself, he's an idiot, or he doesn't care.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

There were alot similarities. Also, i notice a similarity in the "self-healing"scenes of both films. Both very meticulous. Chigurh is like a Jef Costello from hell. Sorry for the bad english.

It didn't reminded me of "No Country For Old Men" at all, but of "Ghost Dog".

But my favorite film regarding the theme of a professional assassin is "Murder by Contract" (1958), by Irving Lerner _the protagonist of this one makes Jef Costello seems an amateur.

There's some good stuff - both pro and con - on here, and everyone knows that Jarmusch loves this film, and that John Woo (The Killer is directly influenced by it) and Tarantino do also.

While I see what you're saying in relation to No Country for Old men, the film that is closest to this in my opinion - even though the main character is not a hit man - is Walter Hill's The Driver. Structure and theme follow Le Samourai very closely.

Also, thumbs up to the poster who mentioned Murder by Contract (a favourite of Scorsese's, incidentally) - and some advice: to check out Blast of Silence, which makes a nice companion piece to Murder, and is surely an influence on Melville's masterpiece.

read up to the ending of the second paragraph until i realized you're one of those idiots.

next time announce your stupidity in the first sentence so as not to waste people's time.

thanks

Your analogy sucks and NCFOM is a great movie, just like Le Samourai.

Cursing somebody on his birthday....

Thoo.

good god you're an idiot.

You must ask Cormac McCarthy about that, and as of this moment he is still alive for you to do it (2016). I see no real connection. Chigurh has some curious ideas and a less purely professional approach, such as the coin toss business, and some definite anger toward the world at large as demonstrated early on when he challenges the store owner to a coin toss that the owner does not know was for life or death, over nothing at all or at least a most trivial slight. Chigurh has a serious chip on his shoulder, and seems to see himself as something of a force of a twisted kind of justice. His primary victims can be seen as bad, mainly greedy, and deserving of punishment. Of course he is just a psychopath at base, as when he turns that contained bolt on people who just get in his way, or have a car he wishes to borrow without witnesses.

Answering back to a 2001 post.

So

CB

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