How was this random redneck such a smart, thrifty badass? Is there any way he couldve won?

How was this random redneck such a smart, thrifty badass?

Is there any way he could’ve won? Or was he fricked as soon as he went back for water and they knew who he was from his car?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    He was fricked as soon as he took the money. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I literally just a free Subway sandwich last week

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I dumpster dive all the time for free food

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >t. poorgay
      get a real job and they'll give you so much free shit you wont even want it

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >get a job
        >free
        are you moronic or what

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    He fought in Vietnam

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      So did literal morons. How does that make you competent for fighting against a hitman and the cartel?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Weapons training. And if you served in Nam and made it back, it's likely you saw action and probably even smoked a few asiatics, meaning you know what it's like to actually kill a person. Are you really this moronic?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >And if you served in Nam and made it back, it's likely you saw action and probably even smoked a few asiatics, 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.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Usually film characters that "served in nam" are written as they saw some type of action

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      So what does that make me - your buddy?

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    he was in nam and hunted for food

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      so in other words a boomer power fantasy

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wasnt he at least ex army?

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    There are 3 no country for old men threads up what's the beef

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's a good movie. Good movies have the capability of creating discussion even decades after they came out.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This happens a lot, some gay here makes a thread, and then another gay sees the movie, and makes another thread about it like they just suddenly remembered a question and makes it. The final moron is the biggest one of them all, he see's two threads of the same movie and they make the third fricking thread becasue they coudlnt just post the question in one of the two threads available.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Very autistic board.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm about to make another one, homosexual.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The board is healing

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        /ftl/ is just containing the newbies for now. When that show ends it's going to be a shitshow

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    he wasnt smart cause he didnt realize there was a tracker until it was too late

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      How common were trackers in the 70’s to be fair? Would anyone think of it before wondering how he got tracked down?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was 1980. And not common back then, but not unheard of, either.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It takes place in the 80's you know. What the frick is a tracking device back then.

          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

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            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 fricker

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            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 frick out of Dodge and stayed off main roads/highways, Chigurh may have never tracked him down. Like a moron, he kept stopping at hotels along main roads.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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 fricked. Isn't that the whole message of the movie?

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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 fricked 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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      How would killing Chigurh stop the rest of the cartel coming for him and his family?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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-moronic.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          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

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, getting away was pretty doable. But they knew who he was, so his wife and mother-in-law were fricked. 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.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    he put his guard down by having beers with the girl at the end. not so smart

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    He was a war vet and a hunter, did you even watch the movie you utter moron

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Is there any way he could’ve won?
    Yeah, he shot Chigger first just a little bit low.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Even if he killed anton the mexicans would get him and anton's boss would send another hitman if the mexicans failed.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    everyone in this movie is so smart i would have been dead before I even found the money

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It takes place in the 80's you know. What the frick is a tracking device back then.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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 fricked up by going back, but obviously not know what a tracking device is either

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      9/10 he didn’t have Baja blast

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomers be like
    >how he know how to use gun?!

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Now you just sound like a brown person trying to mimic an American millennial

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    what kind of tiktok handydandy can i watch

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why’d Anton kill the two guys sent to help him track the dude?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      He enjoys murder simple as

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why does he keep getting hired if he’s fricking up your organisation by killing your own men then

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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 fricking 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.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >peeeyuwshhh

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah that shotgun sounds unrealistic

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Going back with water was fricking moronic 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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      He lives in a trailer park. How many hundreds of yard, or miles did that tracker work for? I can’t imagine far

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    i saw the thumbnail and thought that this pic was going to be some guy cosplaying as the angry trumpet goblin.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      came here to post this, it's like a doppelganger from the thumbnail

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    He was a white man and felt entitled to someone else's shit; literally the most dangerous combination of things.

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Takes the money
    >doesnt even take one brick of the heroin

    What was he thinking???

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      why frick around with heroin if theres cash sitting right there

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