Comparison of scenes from No Country for Old Men
In No Country for Old Men, there are many iconic scenes with a lot of iconography in them. Two of the most memorable scenes from the film are the two coin toss scenes. These scenes are so memorable because of the mystery behind Anton Chigurh. It is never explained what the meaning of the coin toss is or what it means to Chigurh, which adds to the mystery of the missing narrative which the Coen brothers love to use.
In the first coin toss scene, Chigurh is very positive and seems quite happy with himself that he is successfully winning the verbal exchange between him and the shopkeeper. There is a lot of tension in the scene and it seems as though he is thriving off of it. The strangest part of the coin toss is that Chigurh almost doesn't think that it is him that is murdering someone. He claims that the coin travelled years to get to the person on the victim's side. The camera angles in this scene are traditional over the shoulder shots most of the time, but there are occasions where there are shots of the shopkeeper by himself to shoe that he is isolated and alone. A nice feature is the background props in the scene. There are nooses behind the shopkeepers head and ironically, there are smiley faces.
In the other coin toss scene, the mood is a lot more negative and it seems as though Chigurh is a lot more reluctant to kill Llewelyn's wife. There is no music in this scene, whereas in the last scene there was one note. We still do not work out a lot about Anton's personality in this scene too. The performance from Javier Bardem's character in this scene (and in the whole film) just adds to the chilling feeling we get from it. The editing in both scenes is very smart and not flashy to make the scene feel more real and raw.
In the first coin toss scene, Chigurh is very positive and seems quite happy with himself that he is successfully winning the verbal exchange between him and the shopkeeper. There is a lot of tension in the scene and it seems as though he is thriving off of it. The strangest part of the coin toss is that Chigurh almost doesn't think that it is him that is murdering someone. He claims that the coin travelled years to get to the person on the victim's side. The camera angles in this scene are traditional over the shoulder shots most of the time, but there are occasions where there are shots of the shopkeeper by himself to shoe that he is isolated and alone. A nice feature is the background props in the scene. There are nooses behind the shopkeepers head and ironically, there are smiley faces.
In the other coin toss scene, the mood is a lot more negative and it seems as though Chigurh is a lot more reluctant to kill Llewelyn's wife. There is no music in this scene, whereas in the last scene there was one note. We still do not work out a lot about Anton's personality in this scene too. The performance from Javier Bardem's character in this scene (and in the whole film) just adds to the chilling feeling we get from it. The editing in both scenes is very smart and not flashy to make the scene feel more real and raw.
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