How was this random redneck such a smart, thrifty badass?
Is there any way he could’ve won? Or was he fucked as soon as he went back for water and they knew who he was from his car?
How was this random redneck such a smart, thrifty badass? Is there any way he couldve won?
He was fucked as soon as he took the money. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
I literally just a free Subway sandwich last week
I dumpster dive all the time for free food
>t. poorfag
get a real job and they'll give you so much free shit you wont even want it
>get a job
>free
are you retarded or what
He fought in Vietnam
So did literal retards. How does that make you competent for fighting against a hitman and the cartel?
Weapons training. And if you served in Nam and made it back, it's likely you saw action and probably even smoked a few morons, meaning you know what it's like to actually kill a person. Are you really this retarded?
>And if you served in Nam and made it back, it's likely you saw action and probably even smoked a few morons, meaning you know what it's like to actually kill a person.
There are a bunch of guys who never fired their rifle or even got off the battleship who made it back home.
Usually film characters that "served in nam" are written as they saw some type of action
heh, now i want some edgy bad ass action movie but the main characters really defensive about his past. he was in nam!...behind a desk doing paper work.
So what does that make me - your buddy?
he was in nam and hunted for food
so in other words a boomer power fantasy
Wasnt he at least ex army?
There are 3 no country for old men threads up what's the beef
It's a good movie. Good movies have the capability of creating discussion even decades after they came out.
This happens a lot, some fag here makes a thread, and then another fag sees the movie, and makes another thread about it like they just suddenly remembered a question and makes it. The final retard is the biggest one of them all, he see's two threads of the same movie and they make the third fucking thread becasue they coudlnt just post the question in one of the two threads available.
Very autistic board.
I'm about to make another one, gay.
The board is healing
/ftl/ is just containing the newfags for now. When that show ends it's going to be a shitshow
he wasnt smart cause he didnt realize there was a tracker until it was too late
How common were trackers in the 70’s to be fair? Would anyone think of it before wondering how he got tracked down?
It was 1980. And not common back then, but not unheard of, either.
How did that thing even work? You had to be within a few miles to detect it then play warmer-colder with the beeping?
If he lived a little bit more out of nowhere maybe anton would never have detected it
Sure do love driving around Texas with a beeper waiting for it to beep faster until I find a guy in a hotel. Only 5 hours of driving for it to beep a little faster and I've got the fucker
It was a very rudimentary transmitter and transponder. And like you said, you had to be pretty close to it to pick up a signal. If he would have gotten way the fuck out of Dodge and stayed off main roads/highways, Chigurh may have never tracked him down. Like a retard, he kept stopping at hotels along main roads.
It's basically a western. If you have any common sense and a gun you could survive in a lawless world like that but when the bad guys have modern Mac 10's, tracking devices and silenced shotguns you're fucked. Isn't that the whole message of the movie?
>How was this random redneck such a smart, thrifty badass?
Naturally smart, Vietnam vet, grew up in Texas gun culture. He could have won if he had smoked Chigur during the hotel shootout ... and he came close. Not checking the money for tracking devices, and then going back to give water to the dying dude both fucked him. Just getting rid of the tracking device and he would have gotten away scott clean. No one likely knew he was poaching out in the field, nor would have anything to go on to try to track down the money, assuming he doesn't start spending around town. He would have had to bury the money and then dig it up 2-3 years later before relocating, because moving away suddenly is a give-a-way in itself.
How would killing Chigurh stop the rest of the cartel coming for him and his family?
>How would killing Chigurh stop the rest of the cartel coming for him and his family?
It wouldn't. But OP asked if there was any way he could have won. Killing Chigurh and getting away with his wife would have been the only way at that point. Chigurh was his main obstacle. The cartel was half-retarded.
This was 1980 too.
Pretty sure just moving to Oregon or Canada with your millions and legally changing your name would be enough to lose their trail. They don’t wanna draw more heat by killing people that far north
Yeah, getting away was pretty doable. But they knew who he was, so his wife and mother-in-law were fucked. He was obviously not ready to get his wife killed. He should have taken her along and gotten on a cruise ship to Asia or something, then just disappear in Thailand or Laos or some shit. $2 million over there would be like $10 million.
he put his guard down by having beers with the girl at the end. not so smart
>How was this random redneck such a smart, thrifty badass?
There are (or were, anyway, in that generation) a lot more of them than you think
I've known a number of old mechanics and Vietnam-era vets, and they would surprise you with their...the word that comes to mind is 'canniness', just broadly very capable dudes
if you threw at them some random novel problem, I'd expect them to be able to engineer a solid, workable solution—eminently practical, sure-handed people
>Is there any way he could’ve won?
really his big mistake was not emptying the case immediately
very first thing would be to ditch anything that wasn't the bills themselves, including the currency straps, which might themselves be marked/traceable/otherwise distinctive
his goose was cooked once they knew who he was
He was a war vet and a hunter, did you even watch the movie you utter retard
>Is there any way he could’ve won?
Yeah, he shot Chigger first just a little bit low.
Even if he killed anton the mexicans would get him and anton's boss would send another hitman if the mexicans failed.
everyone in this movie is so smart i would have been dead before I even found the money
>hey 10/10 wife I just found a sack of money under extremely dangerous circumstances and there are definitely violent men trying to track it down. Let's spend the night here, maybe I'll go back there and give a dying man some water too.
It takes place in the 80's you know. What the fuck is a tracking device back then.
he knew that he got away with it completely then. nobody had saw him at that point, and even without leaving town the bad guys would have assumed the money was taken by someone at the meet and not a town over. the whole point is that he fucked up by going back, but obviously not know what a tracking device is either
9/10 he didn’t have Baja blast
Zoomers be like
>how he know how to use gun?!
Now you just sound like a brown person trying to mimic an American millennial
what kind of tiktok handydandy can i watch
Why’d Anton kill the two guys sent to help him track the dude?
He enjoys murder simple as
He's just insane, that's all there is to it, the guy is a psychopath that loves killing, no need to look deeper, you won't find anything.
Why does he keep getting hired if he’s fucking up your organisation by killing your own men then
It was established twice in the film that Chigurh didn't want anyone tracking Moss alongside him. He didn't want the chase cluttered by others, nor did he want anyone else stealing his glory. He killed the executive in the office building, the two guys assigned to help him, and also Carson Wells. It was not simply because he was a psycho who liked to kill. That is fucking idiotic. Once they found Moss' truck and the vin plate, Chigurh knew the other two dudes would relay the info back to the cartel and it would make Chigurh's job a thousand times harder having to compete with a 100 people all looking for Moss. So he killed them before they could tell anyone.
>peeeyuwshhh
Yeah that shotgun sounds unrealistic
Going back with water was fucking retarded but it allowed him live longer.
If he did not leave his car behind he would not have the urgency to leave his home. So if he didn’t return with water he would have just stayed home and they would have found him at home unaware with of the tracking device.
He lives in a trailer park. How many hundreds of yard, or miles did that tracker work for? I can’t imagine far
Was Anton meant to be some counter point to the Judge from blood meridian? He’s smart, unrelenting, near supernatural like the judge.
However he is not charismatic, and unlike the judge ALWAYS tells the truth. He does not deceive to get the job done, let alone for fun like the judge does.
Him being shown as extremely vulnerable in his various injuries too, but uncaring makes him less some force of nature like the judge and more human
Any idea what Cormac Macarthy may have meant by this
Yes. The judge is a force of nature like being masquerading as a man. Chigur is a man masquerading as a force of nature. Anton uses the idea of him being a force of nature as a justification for his evil. It absolves him of responsibility because if him killing these people is due to pure circumstance he is not the one making the decision whether they live or die. It is fate. This is best shown in the coin scene. He sees himself as an instrument of fate. But as the film shows and lewellyn's wife shows at the end of the book/film. There is no fate present. All the decision-making is him. The ending with the car crash is almost like a spit in the face to Chigur with fate actively trying to stop/kill him. Then he offers the kids money for their shirt and they actively make the decision to help him.
i saw the thumbnail and thought that this pic was going to be some guy cosplaying as the angry trumpet goblin.
came here to post this, it's like a doppelganger from the thumbnail
>smart
Goes back to give criminal water.
Doesn't check bag
Doesn't listen to Carson Wells
Has sex with hoe gets himself killed by mexicans
Gets wife killed
He was a white man and felt entitled to someone else's shit; literally the most dangerous combination of things.
>Takes the money
>doesnt even take one brick of the heroin
What was he thinking???
why fuck around with heroin if theres cash sitting right there