"No country for old men" what is THAT all aout????

[Wayne]

Llewellyn Moss is a flawed doppleganger for Antwan Sugar. Consider this, when Moss is fleeing the hotel and gets shot in the left leg by Sugar, he in turn shoots Sugar in the left leg. The money is a mcguffin--it isn't important. The two men's opposition to one another is. Moss spends the movie TRYING to disappear, Sugar becomes "visible" whenever he pleases. Both are capable at improvisation (Moss with his hiding the money in the vent trick and Sugar blowing up the car so he could raid the pharmacy). Lastly, the characters names had no similarity, but I wonder if the actors were cast because they have the same initials, Javier Bardem & Josh Brolin.

I really doubt that! If they wern't available would they have had to go with Leonardo De Caprio and Les Dennis?

Imagine Les Dennis as Sugar? Instead of making someone bet their life in a coin toss he'd ask them what 100 people he asked on the street said when asked to name their most essential item they packed in their suitcase when going on holiday.

Get it wrong and he'd go 'Our Survey says.........' and then shoot them in the head.

Would have made for a terrible film

I don't necessarily believe it, but Javier Bardem is an unknown in the US and Josh Brolin isn't exactly burning up the silver screen. It's possible.

[RP33]

Llewellyn Moss is a flawed doppleganger for Antwan Sugar. Consider this, when Moss is fleeing the hotel and gets shot in the left leg by Sugar, he in turn shoots Sugar in the left leg. The money is a mcguffin--it isn't important. The two men's opposition to one another is. Moss spends the movie TRYING to disappear, Sugar becomes "visible" whenever he pleases. Both are capable at improvisation (Moss with his hiding the money in the vent trick and Sugar blowing up the car so he could raid the pharmacy). Lastly, the characters names had no similarity, but I wonder if the actors were cast because they have the same initials, Javier Bardem & Josh Brolin.

I really doubt that! If they wern't available would they have had to go with Leonardo De Caprio and Les Dennis?

Imagine Les Dennis as Sugar? Instead of making someone bet their life in a coin toss he'd ask them what 100 people he asked on the street said when asked to name their most essential item they packed in their suitcase when going on holiday.

Get it wrong and he'd go 'Our Survey says.........' and then shoot them in the head.

Would have made for a terrible film

I don't necessarily believe it, but Javier Bardem is an unknown in the US and Josh Brolin isn't exactly burning up the silver screen. It's possible.

haha, i'd say the chance that they were casted due to their INITIALS is about .000000000000000000000000001% of a chance..

That's why you have people who are PAID to cast actors..

I think the budget was prob around 20 mil for this movie, so obviously you can't have HUGE stars in it.. that would be why brad pitt and ed norton weren't the two main characters..

Casting an actor is tricky.. considering javier bardem won an award and considering the acting in this film was impeccable, i can't complain that they didn't have two stars acting as these characters.. i personally like josh brolin anyway..

also, on a personal note, i feel that when i don't know the actors i can pay more attention to the storyline.. so i generally enjoy the lower budget movies... not saying that NCFOM is low budget at all.. just speaking generally.

[Kev]

Llewellyn Moss is a flawed doppleganger for Antwan Sugar. Consider this, when Moss is fleeing the hotel and gets shot in the left leg by Sugar, he in turn shoots Sugar in the left leg. The money is a mcguffin--it isn't important. The two men's opposition to one another is. Moss spends the movie TRYING to disappear, Sugar becomes "visible" whenever he pleases. Both are capable at improvisation (Moss with his hiding the money in the vent trick and Sugar blowing up the car so he could raid the pharmacy). Lastly, the characters names had no similarity, but I wonder if the actors were cast because they have the same initials, Javier Bardem & Josh Brolin.

I really doubt that! If they wern't available would they have had to go with Leonardo De Caprio and Les Dennis?

Imagine Les Dennis as Sugar? Instead of making someone bet their life in a coin toss he'd ask them what 100 people he asked on the street said when asked to name their most essential item they packed in their suitcase when going on holiday.

Get it wrong and he'd go 'Our Survey says.........' and then shoot them in the head.

Would have made for a terrible film

I don't necessarily believe it, but Javier Bardem is an unknown in the US and Josh Brolin isn't exactly burning up the silver screen. It's possible.

Bardem especially was a very respected actor though having had a previous Oscar nod. Plus Tommy Lee Jones was in it as well. Bardem, Brolin and Jones is a very decent cast imo even before they got all the acclaim at this years Oscars.