While out hunting antelope-using the sniper skills that had served him in Vietnam-he stumbles across the wreckage of a drug deal gone bad: seven dead men and one dying shot up vehicles numerous guns a bale of heroin and two million dollars in cash. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a decent enough man, but he makes a terrible mistake. The story amalgamates elements of the Western-particularly the setting-and horror-Anton Chighur is essentially a monster-but it is essentially a noir. mcCarthy told the Wall Street Journal that when Ethan Coen returned to his seat after winning the Academy Award for best screenplay he said, “Well, I didn’t do anything, but I’m keeping it.'īoth novel and film move propulsively forward with set pieces of violence before arriving at more elegaic final sections (longer in the book). This mystery was cleared up when it was revealed that the work began life as a film script, which the author converted to a novel when no studio was interested. While it was often claimed that Cormac McCarthy's novels were unfilmable, the Coen brothers version of No Country for Old Men was immediately hailed as a classic. Because of this ability to monopolize a person’s energy, many theologians described Mammon as “enslaving” men. Usually, Mammon’s evil grip leads to obsession once you fall under his spell, you will struggle to focus on anything other than the treasure he has used to tempt you, and you will do almost anything to get your hands on it. He inspires envy, greed, and lust so potent that even good men can be driven to corruption. Mammon’s greatest power is the influence he can exert over the human mind and heart.

Book review no country for old men