NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Flashcards
directors/director
The Coen Brothers
- Ethan Coen
- Joel Coen
Distributors
Paramount vantage, Miramax
active spectatorship
When an active spectator watches a film, they watch it as an individual, and can take their own meaning from it. … For example, a viewer could draw their own conclusion of the film due to their own experience or something similar that has happened to them in their life
passive spectatorship
A passive spectator is someone who, when watching a film, reacts in the same that a mass audience would, and they accept the director’s intended meaning
characters
Anton Chigurh
Anton Chigurh is one of the main characters of the novel. The man is a cold-blooded person, who doesn’t even hesitate before killing anyone. He is definitely not a usual criminal, for he is not too much interested in money, his only one passion is killing. It is mentioned that his eyes are absolutely emotionless, therefore Anton is soulless.
Llewelyn Moss
Llewelyn Moss is one of the main characters of the story. He was going to hunt antelopes, when he found several shot up vehicles in the desert. The people in the cars were dead, save one. The wounded man asked Moss for water and since he had no water, Llewelyn started looking for it in the cars. He found money – precisely two millions – instead of water. He couldn’t resist a temptation, so he took them.
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is the protagonist of the story. He is a World War II veteran, who dedicates his life to protection of the law and order. Unfortunately, he fails to solve those crimes, for Anton Chigurh and other criminals represent that kind of evil, which Bell is unable to understand. He feels that he is useless, that there is no place for an old man like him in this new world of unreasonable cruelty.
Clara Jean Monn
Clara Jean Monn is a wife of Llewelyn Moss.
Loretta Bell
Loretta Bell is a wife of Ed Tom Bell.
Carson Well
Carson Well is a veteran of the Vietnam War and a criminal, whose task is to retrieve the money from Anton.
Torbert
Torbert is the local deputy.
Lamar
Lamar is Ed Tom Bell’s colleague.
McIntyre
McIntyre is an agent of the DEA.
Uncle Ellis
Uncle Ellis is an uncle of Sheriff Bell.
BUDGET
25 million USD
Ideology
A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
funding
Paramount vantage, Miramax
Grossing Total
first weekend box office gross: 1.2 million USD
Us box offices to date: 74 million USD
Worldwide box office: 171.6 million USD
DVD Sales/Rental Gross: 60 million USD
film festivals
initially was released in the Cannes Film Festival
Big Six
Disney Warner brothers 20th century fox Paramount Pictures Universal Sony Columbia
Big Six Subsidiaries
Warner brothers-new line cinema 20th century fox-fox searchlight Paramount Pictures-paramount vantage Universal-focus features Sony Columbia-Sony pictures classics
spectatorship
Spectatorship is the act of watching something without taking part
Didactic
intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
reception theory
Cultural theorist Stuart Hall describes representation as the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture through the use of language, signs and images which stand for or represent things. Hall developed the idea that communication is a process involving encoding by producers and decoding by audiences. He stated that there are three hypothetical positions from which messages and meanings may be decoded: the preferred reading, the negotiated reading or the oppositional reading. The preferred reading is the producer’s intended message, the negotiated is when the audience understand the message but adapt it to suit their own values and the oppositional is where the audience disagrees with the preferred meaning. In a nutshell: producers want audiences to respond in a particular way to a text. Some audiences do (preferred reading), some audiences don’t (oppositional reading) and some are in the middle (negotiated reading).
