No Country for Old Men character analysis

Llewellyn Moss

When the audience are watching no country for old men moss is presented as the typical hero in a western film. he is not always portrayed as going good but more what he thinks is right.He is the man who is on an adventure and is trying to get the 'prize' at the end of it all. He is also presented as an every man character as he has only stumbled upon this money and was not searching for this but does have experience with firearms as he is Vietnam veteran. In the end what kills him is his ignorance as he is talking and possibly flirting with another woman. This shows how he may be quite a human character as well as he makes mistakes with imminently lead to his downfall. The audicne also don't see his death and it is not committed by Chigura which does not fulfil the audiences wants and also show that the Coen brothers want to show life is not fair and death can strike when you wont  expect it. 


Ed Tom Bell    

Bell is presented as being the typical good guy as well as the Sheriff.We never see him actually doing anything physical or action related.The audience do however get a sense of his authority and how high his status is.We can tell that he is from that area and has been there for a long time as he knows the land. He opens the movie with a prologue and ends it with an epilogue and rounds off the movie. He spends most of the movie sitting down showing that his status in the film is probably not very high and always turns up too late anywhere to help as things have already gone badly. Bell also represents the old values of the West as he does not know or understand the new criminals in the world and as the title suggests this country is not a place he will live well in.



Anton Chigurh 

Chigurh is one of the first characters that the audience see and when we first see him he is being arrested so the audience feel he has got his comeuppance but they do not know what his crime has been and already they see he is a bit of a dodgy character as unlike the other characters are in stetsons,cowboy boots and plaid shirts but Chigurh is in all black with a very unusual haircut and just looks out of place as well as his accents being non place able. He seems like he has come from a different film genre entirely and is not meant to be in any of the scenes. He also seems sub-human at some points as whenever he injures himself he can quite easily heal himself and treat it like it is not really a big deal. The place where he seems most unusual is in a few scenes particularly when he is at a gas station and seems to decide whether to kill a man or not based on only the printable of flipping a coin. This makes it seem like he does not feel that he is the one committing the murders but fate is making him do it and he has no control.In the last scene however his principle does not work when Moss's wife refuses to pick heads or tails and we see this deeply unsettles him as he doesn't want to decide and doesn't like how she is not playing by the rules of his game. Chigurh is a very unpredictable and oddball character as we do not know his back story and his when the film ends it ends without wrapping his story up but more seems like a snapshot in his life and though it is always like this.