【转】No Country for old men FAQ(严重剧透)

What is the song in the red-band trailer?
EditHistoryDelete "Young Men Dead" by The Black Angels.

Why was Chigurh being arrested at the beginning of the film?
EditHistoryDelete The film doesn't give a reason.

In the book, Chigurh told Wells that he had allowed himself get arrested to see if he could escape. Chigurh had murdered a man in a bar fight the previous night; the man had insulted him. According the Chigurh's description, he had either snapped the man's neck or strangled him.

What time period does the film take place in?
EditHistoryDelete The story takes place in 1980.

When Chigurh tosses the coin for the gas station proprietor, he says that the date on the coin is 1958, and it took 22 years to get there. The phone bill Chigurh picks up is dated 1980. And 1980 is the date of death on Agnes' grave.

Who were the Mexicans in the first motel room?
EditHistoryDelete The three Mexicans at the Del Rio motel were hired by the man (Stephen Root) who hires Wells and Chigurh.

When Moss is being taken back by taxi, he asks the driver to drive around to "see if someone is here." He spots a truck in the parking lot, which resembles the trucks used in the desert massacre; and he also notices that the curtains are slightly open, even though he had closed them before left. Moss realizes that the Mexicans are waiting in his room to kill him. He tells the driver to take him to another motel, and in the morning he purchases the shotgun and tent poles. He rents the motel room adjacent to the one the Mexicans are hiding in. The vents are connected. As he returns to collect the money, Chigurh arrives. He is shown opening the door quickly and turning on the light. He is testing how fast he can open the door so he might get the drop on the Mexicans: in the next scene, he opens the door in the same way. And then he tests if he can shoot through the wall, which he also does in the next scene.

As Chigurh enters Moss' first motel room and kills the Mexicans, Moss is in the second motel room attempting to get the money out. He is able to escape and hitchhike a ride away from the motel.

What happens at the El Paso motel near the end?
EditHistoryDelete This part of the movie differs slightly from the book.

Llewelyn Moss goes to the motel and waits to be reunited with Carla Jean and Agnes (her mother). While waiting, the poolside woman flirts with him and offers him beers. It could be that the poolside woman had set him up and was trying to distract him. The Mexicans knew where he was headed because Agnes had told them at the bus station. They might have called ahead. During the ensuing shootout, the poolside woman is killed and her body is found in the pool. Moss is shot in the chest and dies inside his motel room; the remaining Mexicans run off as Sheriff Bell pulls into the parking lot. Moss is apparently able to shoot one of the Mexicans before being killed.

What happened to the money?
EditHistoryDelete It is implied that Anton Chigurh wound up with the money. Since he wasn't part of the El Paso motel shootout, he arrived there too late. After the police activity died down, Chigurh sneaked into Moss' room and unscrewed the vent to retrieve the satchel of money. He knew this is where the money would be because he saw the track marks inside the vent of the Del Rio motel room, and knew that Moss kept it in the vent. When Sheriff Bell arrives at the El Paso motel, he sees that the vent was unscrewed by a coin, which Chigurh used in the previous motel. Also, after Chigurh is involved in the car accident at the end, he offers the bicycle boys a hundred dollar bill, which also implies that he did wind up with the money.

Also, Moss did not have the money on him when he talked to the poolside woman; he already stashed it in the vent inside his room. When Bell goes back to the motel room, he sees track marks in the vent, which shows that the satchel was indeed stashed there and was taken (presumably by Chigurh).(Note): In the book ,the author writes about Chigurh finding the money.

(NOTE: In the book, Chigurh returned the money to a third party. Like Wells said, he did have his principles!)

What happened to Agnes and Carla Jean?
EditHistoryDelete Agnes died of her cancer some time after Moss was killed.

Even though it is debatable on whether Chigurh killed Carla Jean or not, it is implied that he did kill her. After she refuses to call the coin toss, Chigurh is seen leaving her house and checking his boots, presumably to make sure he doesn't have any blood on them. In an earlier scene after shooting Carson Wells, Chigurh sees the blood coming down the floor and puts his feet on the bed, to avoid gettin blood on his boots. (NOTE: In the book, he shot her.)

Where was Chigurh when Bell went back to the El Paso motel room?
EditHistoryDelete Chigurh was long gone when Bell arrived to the crime scene. Bell was assuming the worst would be waiting for him behind that door when he went into the room, hence Chigurh behind the door. However, when Bell opened the door, all he found was the air vent unscrewed by the dime...the same Chigurh unscrewed the vent earlier in the movie. Chigurh behind the door was Bell's imagination.

A Different Take: (Book Spoiler Alert) The movie doesn't show clearly whether or not Chigurh is in the room when Bell enters. It shows him there before Bell enters, but as said above, his presence could have just been in Bell's mind.

The novel actually has Chigurh waiting in his vehicle with the just-retrieved money next to him and a pistol in his lap as Bell pulls up to the motel crime scene in his cruiser. Once Bell enters the motel room, there is no further mention of Chigurh's presence in the motel parking lot. He could've driven away while Bell was checking the room out or after Bell left the motel scene and pulled his cruiser over to the side of the road, out of sight of the motel.

One thing worth noting is that in the book, Bell leaves the motel room and walks back to his cruiser firmly believing that Chigurh is out there in the parking lot and that he (Bell) might be killed at any moment.

So, in the book, Chigurh is in the parking lot when Bell is in the motel room, but we don't know if he's still there when Bell leaves the motel room with his gun drawn and the feeling that he's likely to be killed. However, in the movie, we are shown an image of Chigurh inside the motel room before Bell enters it, but we don't know if he's there after Bell enters with his gun drawn and the feeling he's likely to die.

In the movie, Bell's moment of truth comes when he enters the motel room. He has a strong feeling that Chigurh might be there waiting for him in the room. In the book, Bell's moment of truth comes when he exits the motel room and enters the parking lot. He has a strong feeling that Chigurh is watching him from somewhere in the parking lot.

From the point of view of the novel, if we assume that Chigurh left the parking lot while Bell was in the motel room, then from the point of view of the movie, there may be something to the idea that Chigurh had actually left the motel room before Bell entered it.

What is that tank that Chigurh uses to punch out locks?
EditHistoryDelete Chigurh uses a captive bolt pistol, which is also known as a cattle gun. The tank itself is pressurized air. Releasing the air valve powers the bolt when triggered.

What's the significance of Sheriff Bell's two dreams at the end?
EditHistoryDelete The meaning of the two dreams can be thought of as Bell's fear of some final judgment. The dreams are symbolic, so by whom Bell will be judged is up for interpretation.

Bell explains the first dream to his wife briefly, trying not to make too much of it. But, the meaning is quite significant. He says his father met him in town and gave him some money, but he (Bell) lost it. This can be seen as Bell feeling as if he were entrusted with something valuable, but failed to protect it. See this as his responsibility as a law enforcement officer, the lives of the people he was responsible for protecting, his father's wisdom, and so on. It's an acknowledgment of his feelings of failure.

The second dream is connected with the first. In the second dream, he says he and his father were riding through the mountains in the old times. His father rode up ahead of him and went on into the cold and dark with some fire. Bell said that he knew when he got to where his father was going, his father would be there waiting for him.

His father going up ahead into the cold, dark night with the fire representing his father passing from the physical world into the afterlife (whatever that may be). The fire could represent Bell's father's lifeforce, or spirit.

Bell knows he's going to where his father went, and as the final curtain starts to come down on his life, he's second-guessing his whole existence. What will his father have to say about it?

In those final speeches we see that he is really thinking about how he might be largely responsible for his own failings (the first dream), and for him, going on up ahead into the cold darkness and eventually meeting his father means just what you think: He's heading toward the end and a possible final judgment, either by his father, or God, or whomever. And Bell is afraid that if there is a final judgment, it may be a harsh one. Did he measure up to the old-time lawmen? Did he make his father proud? Did he fail more than any of his predecessors in law enforcement (his father, grandfather, etc.) did? After all, he failed to protect Llewelyn and Carla Jean Moss.

He's contemplating what many people contemplate as they get old and the curtain starts coming down on their lives: How should I be judged for the life I've lived?

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这帖很及时，我刚看完电影困得不行居然一气读完了

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是官方FAQ吗？

钱杀手拿了，还归还给公司了，人家是做事有原则的人。

警官回到案发现场的时候，有一场戏杀手就在门后面，这个只是警官Ed的幻想而已。杀手已经逃之夭夭。

沙漠中破屋的老头子只是Ed的亲戚而已。

彪悍胡须男的老婆被杀手杀掉了。

影片故事发生在1980。

什么不好叫ED

这片子有什么可看不懂的？？