He mentions how back in the day police officers rarely wore their guns a la the friendly neighborhood sheriff in the Andy Griffith Show. The film opens with the world-wearied reflections of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), an old-dog officer straight out of a classic Western film, as he reflects on his career as a Sheriff since the age of 25 just like his father and grandfather. The story takes place in the 1980s in West Texas as a drug deal goes awry. It continues a familiar Coen Brothers theme: the world is misanthropic, cold, calloused, unforgiving, random, and unjust. No Country For Old Men turns many of the classic Western tropes on its head. In a highly accurate adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s excellent 2005 novel of the same name, No Country For Old Men is the Coen Brothers’s Best Picture-winning darkly themed high-octane crime and genre-bending Western/Noir thriller.
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