No Country For Old Men question

After the big fight at the hotel, Moss goes to Mexico to heal up a little. He (from bad memory) pulls up to a convenient parking place right by the bridge. Is the vehicle he drove to the bridge the same pickup truck he tried to drive from the passenger side when the driver was shot?

Thinking about the movie: if he would have gone out the window as soon as he found the tracker, and put it on some random vehicle, he could have saved himself a lot of trouble :slightly_smiling_face:

YES. But I think Moss would’ve been too stubborn and confident to run from the inevitable confrontation, and as I remember it, by the time he discovered the tracker he knew Lurch was already very close by and ambush was the best option.

About the truck- good question.

I happen to have a copy of the screenplay, just checked it. After the gunfight with Chigurh…

….He looks up and down the street.
Nothing to see.
He goes to the pickup truck, driver’s side. He opens the
door and reaches over the driver’s corpse for his lap belt.
EXT. EAGLE PASS BORDER AREA - NIGHT
Deserted.
The pickup truck rattles into frame.
Moss emerges. He hoists out the case. He leaves the shotgun
…

So yes, it’s the same truck.

A favorite movie of mine. It’s not the kind my wife likes, though.

Chigurh was one bad dude.
Moss thought he could handle him. But, wrong.
Bell was wise to retire. Quit while you’re still ahead.

May none of us ever experience some random guy coming up to us with a quarter, he’s about to flip the coin, and he says,

“Call it.”

In the book, Moss runs the shower, then hides behind the bed. Movie Moss wasn’t as smart.

Agreed.

In this case, Quit while you’re still alive.

Psychologist say he is the best depiction of a psychopath in any movie.

Indeed.

According to a January 2018 article in Business Insider, a group of psychiatrists studied 400 movies and identified 126 psychopathic characters. They chose Javier Bardem’s portrayal of Anton Chigurh as the most clinically accurate portrayal of a psychopath.

Sorry, but I cannot hear about this movie without thinking of Starburst Berries and Cream candies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW4capPlnWI

“Friendo.”

In my mind’s eye, that store owner is indistinguishable from the store owner in Raising Arizona that sold the balloons and diapers, and had to resume counting down when he saw they were coming back.