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The Coen Brothers award winning film No Country for Old Men delivered one of the most terrifying villains in movie history. Javier Bardem, as Anton Chigurh, delivers a bone chilling performance that could rival any horror villain of the last 30 years. He is quiet, but calculated, going after anyone that might get in his way. No Country for Old Men will be remembered for a lot of things, but Anton Chigurh will be at the top of that list.
Written by Chris Teregis & Richard Kuras
Edited by Dan Smiley
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What do you think is the scariest scene in film history?
Everybody assumes Chigurh was going to kill the guy if the coin had come up tails, but we don't really know for sure. Yeah, it's highly likely, given everything else he does in the film, but it also could've been a case of the coin coming up tails, and Chigurh smiling and saying, "You've freed me from my terrible task, friend-O," then walks out of the gas station yelling "Anton's FREEEEE!" just like Smeagol/Gollum did in LOTR. He then goes on to live a life of philanthropism.
I stop what I’m doing to watch this movie!!!! I only have two movies that I really love Fight Club and No Country for Old Men
This movie captured the ambiance of a modern day wild west.
The real victim is Anton Chigurh because of that haircut.
1:05 – Michael Myers doesn't 'run around' ……he silently struts with swagger, style and above all, a deathly patience!
Also the empty wrapper that Chigurh places on the counter, very subtle, as it wrapper unfolds. — just adds to the tension!
What makes this scene so terrifying is that you and I know that this guy is a complete homicidal maniac who can kill anyone at the slightest whim.
We see the grocer as a lamb led to slaughter and we want to warn him, but can't.
Not “terrifying” just cool
You talk too much and show the same 3 secs of film over and over and over.. 🙂
The quarter is from 1958. Which sounds nothing like 1957, given the extra syllable. Oh, well, why double check everything.
"Why is this one of the most terrifying scenes in film history?"
Probably because it has Anton Chigurh in it.
If you ask me, Anton Chigure would have made a perfectly ruthless person in the Marines. That is, if he completed basic training, and didn't kill the Senior Drill Instructor (like a recruit shot and killed him in the restroom from another movie we all saw) and sent off to kill the enemy in another country. We'd conquer the enemy within a week.
THIS scene was indeed the most frightening in the entire movie, in my opinion. 😵💫😵💫
I was really stressed during this scene
I think what makes the coin toss so effective is that it allows for the possibility of the victim escaping the inevitable. We are rooting for the underdog whom we know is most likely going to die. The gas station attendant is first . That gives us a kind of twisted sense that Chigur plays fair and in some way is a man of his word. What he did in the gas station he did purely for sport. The coin toss in the scene with Woody Harrelson where we knew he was going to kill him was interesting because he had spared the attendent so what would he do if Woody won the toss? Even though we never got to know what would have occured because of the phone call, Chigur was going to kill him anyway. Theres still a little bit of the fair player left over from the gas station. When it comes down to the scene with the wife I believe he had no desire to kill her. Flipping the coin was his only way out since he was "a man of his word" and he gave his word that she would be killed if the husband didn't give him the money. It was part of his insanity that he turned responsibility over to the coin. She refused to call it and so he had no choice. Had she called it and won I believe he would have let her live . The coin bit was a brilliant vehicle to show us the complexity of his madness. Her insistence that the coin had nothing to do with it was undeniably correct and tragically wrong at the same time . Calling heads or tails would have given her a fifty fifty chance.
Play the scene first before you analyse it so we can make a judgement along with you as opposed to just listening to your personal opinion.
I feel like Anton is more of a horror character than ur giving him credit for, almost supernatural with no emotions about killing ppl, I mean that’s basically michael myers, just cuz he’s a “regular” person doesn’t mean he can’t be a horror character, not saying it’s a horror movie but his character definitely has horror elements
Anton isn’t like those horror characters bc he is what they want to be. He was voted as one of the most accurate depictions of a psychopath in all of film by actual psychiatrists
Bòring!
Way over anylized.
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