RARA-AVIS: Re: No Country for Old Men (the movie)

From: jacquesdebierue ( jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com)
Date: 09 Nov 2007


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Zeltserman" <dz@...> wrote:

> I would argue about it being well worth seeing. The last half hour
> dissolves into one of the biggest piles of pretentious crud any movie
> has given us in years and was interminable (at least to me). Btw. I'm a
> huge Coen Brothers fan, I even liked The Lady Killers (and I might be
> the only one!) but this was an absolute waste of 2+ hours.
>

I'm a huge fan of Cormac McCarthy, but was very disappointed by _All The Pretty Horses_. I am now curious about the Coen Bros. version of NCFOM, particularly how they handle film time versus literary time, which McCarthy handles masterfully. One question: if it's so faithful, how can it become crud in the last half hour? That part of the book rocks...

Best,

mrt



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