‘No Coutry for Old Men’ gets a proper trailer
I’m really looking forward to this film, and the more I see of it the better it looks. Once I watched the trailer through I don’t think there’s anyway I can look at Javier Bardem the same way again.. the guy is scary as fuck. My bones got brittle just listening to him talk.
I’m just really… REALLY glad the coens are back to the dark vibe they had in Blood Simple, don’t get me wrong i’ve enjoyed a lot of their other films but Blood Simples out on top for me. Beautiful to see the Coens are back on form with this, leaving the retarded Wayans brother in their wake…
You can check out a Flash version of the trailer here, or download a higher-res quicktime version here, or wmv here
Some links to older clips in an old article here
Having just finished the novel, I have to say: if the Coens hew to the structure of the book there’s going to be some outraged audiences in the U.S. Seems that it’s already taken Cannes. Even that bodes ill for the U.S. viewership… Those frenchy-froggy bomb-testing bastards like some fucked-up shit. I’m talking ‘Man Bites Dog’, ‘Irreversible’ fucked-up. Not that that’s always a bad thing, just there’s been some premature applause from the fan base over the Coens returning to a ‘Blood Simple’ / ‘Miller’s Crossing’ kind of convoluted morality,* and I don’t think that’s what we’re gonna get. Not if the novel is any indication.
(* no offense meant.)
I feel as though Cormac wrote ‘No Country For Old Men’ with the explicit intention of violating the straightforward thriller as a genre. Everything goes swimmingly up until page 236, the reader’s expectations being generally fulfilled, then BAM, everything goes sideways. Sort of like ‘Unforgiven’, only Cormac doesn’t try and shame you for wanting your wrongeyed version of justice to win the day, he just keeps telling the story he feels needs telling, and it’s a gut-churningly bleak and evil one.
If the Coens follow Cormac’s model, I’ll applaud ‘em all the way. I know they’ve got the brass. But I don’t think audiences will be pleased with the results. They might even be afraid. ‘No Country For Old Men’ could wind up being their ‘Requiem For A Dream’. We’ll see.