Ever notice in "No Country For Old Men"
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When Anton flips the coin at the gas station that it is 1958 quarter. He states the coin has been traveling 22 years, which puts the current year at 1980. Later in the movie when he pulls out a handfull of change to use a dime to pull the screws out of a vent cover, it appears that all of the coins in his pocket are silver. Why would someone in 1980 have nothing but silver coins in his pocket?
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Proprietor: Sir?
Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say.
[Chigurh tosses a quarter in the air, catches it, then places it on the counter with his hand over it]
Chigurh: Call it.
Proprietor: Call it?
Chigurh: [sighs] Yes.
Proprietor: Well - we need to know what we're callin' for here.
Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.
Chigurh: Yes you did. You've been putting it up your whole life. You just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Proprietor: No.
Chigurh: Nineteen fifty-eight. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails, and you have to say. Call it.
Proprietor: Well look... I need to know what I stand to win.
Chigurh: Everything.
Proprietor: ...How's that?
Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Proprietor: All right. Heads then.
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the proprietor made the correct call]
Chigurh: [suddenly] Well done! [pause] Don't put it in your pocket, sir.... Don't put it in your pocket, it's your lucky quarter.
Proprietor: Well where do you want me to put it?
Chigurh: Anywhere, not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin... Which it is.
As to your question....I'm not sure if the balance of the coins are all silver in the dime scene...............if they are maybe it's all symbolic?........MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
What a nice guy. Ya, they gave him a bad haircut for that movie
MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
<< <i>Why would someone in 1980 have nothing but silver coins in his pocket? >>
Free publicity for the film on Internet forums?
Ethan and Joel messing with your mind?
Something in Continuity that fell through the cracks?
Perhaps when the sequel comes out he'll have clad coins.
Can't wait for that.
Did he kill the lady at the end??
<< <i>Ever notice in "No Country For Old Men" >>
Yes, that is how I dated the movie as depecting the year 1980.
Those two bros know how to direct an action flick, that is for sure.
My guess would be because Chigurh generally doesn't have a need to buy much of anything. Yet, on the rare occasion that he does have a need for money he uses money that he received in the order in which it was received.
--Severian the Lame
Sorry, OT.
Garrow
<< <i>they needed something to deflect from the most over-rated and convuluted movie ever to win an oscar >>
Disagree 100%
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
<< <i>Yes, he killed the wife at the end. Remember, he is a man of principles. He promised her husband what he would do if the man didn't cooperate. He also checked the bottoms of his shoes on the porch to see if there was any of her blood on them.
Sorry, OT.
Garrow >>
Yea I figured so. HE did it in the book too.
Great Movie in my opinion and a few others it would seem.
<< <i>they needed something to deflect from the most over-rated and convuluted movie ever to win an oscar >>
The movie was excellent. Sorry you didn't like it. Too unconventional or unformulaic for you?
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<< <i>they needed something to deflect from the most over-rated and convuluted movie ever to win an oscar >>
The movie was excellent. Sorry you didn't like it. Too unconventional or unformulaic for you? >>
Neither; it just didnt live up to the hype that it was given
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<< <i>they needed something to deflect from the most over-rated and convuluted movie ever to win an oscar >>
The movie was excellent. Sorry you didn't like it. Too unconventional or unformulaic for you? >>
Neither; it just didnt live up to the hype that it was given >>
I saw it right when it came out, pre-hype. I thought it was a fine thriller, although the ending was weak.
I also thought it was far from the Coen Bros best movie, but that's just, like, my opinion, man...