![]() The stark and seemingly endless Texas floodplains Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) surveys as he aims a rifle or plots an escape through a river practically demand to be captured on camera. The Coens knew what they had in McCarthy’s story, and they knew his setting would translate to the screen. ![]() “They didn’t need any help from me to make a movie,” McCarthy said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. ![]() One might suspect that McCarthy had a hand in ensuring the film adaptation stayed faithful, but in fact he had almost no role in the Coens’ production. Virtually every scene and every line of dialogue in the Coen brothers’ Academy Award-winning film is lifted straight from Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel of the same name. If, while watching a movie with your spouse, you like to whisper “that didn’t happen in the book” (and who doesn’t?), then you’ll be sorely disappointed by a screening of No Country for Old Men. In each entry I’ll be comparing a contemporary novel to its film adaptation. This is the second in a series of posts entitled 21st Century Fiction on Screen. ![]()
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