No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men (2007)

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Corrected entry: When Chigurh pulls the driver over at the beginning of the film and murders him with the cattlegun, a mist of blood emerges at the back of the man's head, presumably from the exit wound. However, Sheriff Bell later states that there was no exit wound.

Correction: The mist of blood comes from the front of the man's head. The man's head is knocked back and then comes forward, leaving a cloud of mist near the back of his head.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Josh Brolin has just landed on shore and pulls his pistol to shoot the pit bull, he racks the slide on his pistol and ejects an unfired round.

Correction: If you did that, and there was a round in the chamber, that is what would happen.

pross79

Corrected entry: Josh Brolin hides the bag of cash in the air vent in one hotel room, then later retrieves it from the air vent in the room next door. This was impossible. The air vents were in the center of each room. That would mean they were approximately 10 to 15 feet apart. Josh Brolin slides the money bag to the back of the air vent in the first room and then nudges it to the left down the perpendicular connecting air vent. Then when he returns he gets the room next door, takes down the grate of this air vent and looks in and sees the money bag at the back of the air shaft. If it is visible at the back of the first air shaft it could not be seen at the back of the air vent in the room next door.

Correction: He doesn't retrieve it from the room next door. He retrieves it from the room *behind* it (on the other side of the bathroom wall), making it quite possible to be retrieved.

JC Fernandez

Corrected entry: Chighur uses a cattle bolt gun to execute the first victim on the road by putting it against his forehead and firing it. Problem: since the bolt only extends an inch or two and them immediately retracts - we know it does that as it has virtually no recoil - it can't be used to kill. It isn't even a very effective stun weapon and it certainly can't penetrate a skull, much less destroy the brain tissue underneath. That guy would wake up a few hours later with a bad headache and that would be it. Nor would there be an entry wound, just a skin hematoma.

Correction: If it works on cows, it'd work on people. Why couldn't two inches of metal violently thrust forward from a starting position directly against a person's forehead not penetrate into their brain? This entry makes absolutely no sense at all.

Phixius

Correction: I worked in a meat packing plant for years slaughtering cattle. Don't tell me that bolt gun won't penetrate a human skull! It will kill you if you get hit in the head with it. I have seen it take knee caps off people by accident.

Corrected entry: As Sheriff Bell approaches the door of the motel room in El Paso, we see Chigurh hiding behind it with his shotgun. However when the door is opened, we see no evidence of Chigurh - the light streams across the floor where his feet should be, but we don't see any feet. Also, the door bangs against the back wall, which it could not do if Chigurh were there.

CodeCat

Correction: This scene is meant to be symbolic - Chigurh is not really there, it's Bell imagining him being there, and "not seeing" him whether he's there or not - that ties in with the dreams in the end, of Bell feeling guilty because he consciously let someone get away with murder.

Correction: Chigurh was in the adjoining room. In the shots before Bell enters the hotel room, you see the police tape covers both room 114 and 112. Moss had likely rented both rooms, as he'd done before. Chigurh has taken out the lock in the adjoining room door and was behind that ready to shoot should Bell open that door as well.

No, he's not. If he was in the adjoining room, he would be behind the door, looking to his right. As shown, he is looking to his left as the door swings open to the right of the room. The adjoining room would have the door swinging open to the left.

Corrected entry: Worst rubber 'dead dog' ever. Shot in mid air, it's stiff as a board as soon as it hits the ground. (00:20:10)

johnrosa

Correction: If you watch closely the dog moves its hind leg ever so slightly, so it had to be a real dog on the ground at some point.

Corrected entry: By the time the action reaches El Paso, Anton Chigurh has killed 11 people (deputy, 1st motorist, 2 drug dealers in desert, hotel desk clerk, 3 Mexicans in hotel, pickup truck driver, chicken truck driver, Carson Wells) including a sheriff's deputy. There were also several additional murders in the desert in the beginning. Yet there is no massive manhunt, just old Sheriff Tom Bell alone hunting for him. There should have been a major police presence hunting him.

Correction: This sort of thing comes under the category of we don't see everything going behind the scenes. First, we don't see enough outside of the Sheriff's world. We don't know what other authorities such as the FBI are up to so they might be on to him but might not. Secondly whether the authorities were linking up that all the murders were connected is left unknown. Maybe same gun but no specific M.O. Finally Anton was almost like a ghost leaving little to no trace behind of him. Even if they were on a manhunt, what would they look for? A man who has killed virtually everyone who has taken a good look at him, no real physical evidence and perhaps no background file on him.

Lummie

Corrected entry: The playbill of the movie shows Josh Brolin escaping from the Mexican killers with his rifle and the case with the money. This never happens in the movie. When we see him both with money and rifle, he's simply returning to his car; when he's running from the killers he's got neither his rifle nor the case.

Correction: Differences between movie posters, DVD covers or any form of advertising are not considered a mistake in the movie.

Corrected entry: As Moss runs away after jumping out of the hotel window Chigurh shoots at him. There is a quick flash of light that allows us to see the silhouette of Chigurh standing in the room as he fires the shotgun and we see the pattern of pellets strike the sidewalk. We are supposed to believe that the flash of light was from the muzzle flash of the shotgun, but that is impossible. The muzzle flash would be in front of Chigurh, but in order to show Chigurh in silhouette the light source would have to be behind him.

CodeCat

Correction: The silhouette is visible because of the lit hallway, NOT because of the flash. It's visible all the time while he's jumping, EXCEPT when there's a flash.

Corrected entry: In the first motel where Moss stashes the money in the vent, it is implied that the Mexicans also have a transponder just like Chigurh does (Chigurh mentions this when he shoots the man who hired him). So we are meant to believe that being in that room all night and into the next day, the Mexicans were unable to locate the money which is stashed in a vent just a few feet away from them. This seems unbelievable since Chigurh figured out where the money had been put practically right after he did away with the Mexicans.

logician

Correction: This is a theory - an assumption that the Mexicans are as smart or cunning as Chigurh is. In addition, it is entirely possible that the Mexicans do not understand just exactly what a transponder is and that the beeps on their "receiver" may simply be telling them that the money had been in the room (as if it had left a scent) and therefore the easiest thing is to just patiently wait for Moss to return to their trap and make him lead them to the money.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Llewelyn goes back to the site of the drug deal to give the man the jug of water, it is pitch black out when the Mexican gangsters first begin chasing him in the truck. By the time he jumps into the river to get away from the dog, it is fully light out.

Correction: Yes, because Llewelyn went back in the early hours of the morning, like 4 AM or so, just before the sunrise. There's enough time for the man in the truck to die from his injuries while Llewelyn is searching through the site, and he is interrupted by the gangsters arriving back on scene. It is starting to get light out already when the gangsters arrive, and is entirely possible for it to be completely light out by the time he jumps in the river, since the sun rises above the horizon quickly in the desert.

Corrected entry: Chigurh sucks up a small amount of fluid in the syringe, but injects a full syringe when patching himself up in a hotel.

Correction: He injects himself twice, first with lidocaine (an anesthetic, to numb the area he's about to work on), then later with a full syringe of something unknown, but probably an IV antibiotic as that much of a pain killer, like morphine, would kill him. We never see him draw the second syringe, only the first one.

Corrected entry: In the first motel room when Llewelyn pushes the case into the air vent, he forces it to the left at the junction so that the handle of the case is not visible. Later, when he retreives it from the room behind, it is on the right-hand side, from his perspective, with the handle visible. The way he originally positioned it in the vent, it should have been on the left side when viewed from the second room.

Correction: He retrieves the case from the room on the opposite side, so everything is reversed. That means from this room the case would be on the right side, not the left.

Do you mean he stayed in room 139 or 137, because he wanted to stay in room 38 which is behind the room the Mexicans were in so it doesn't make much sense.

Corrected entry: Moss loses his boots during his escape in the desert; he rips his shirt up and wraps them around his feet. But when he gets back home that night and his wife finds him under the trailer, he is wearing boots again.

Correction: At a first glance this may appear to be the case, but if you look a little closer you will see that he is simply wearing very dirty white socks as would be expected after diving into a river and walking a great distance through a desert in them.

Cnyvek

Corrected entry: In the scene where Lewelly gives his fiance a lift to the bus, the interior of the bus looks totally 1990s. Especially telling: the seat fabric and design wasn't used until the early 1990s.

Correction: This type of mistake is impossible to verify. It's one thing to make a claim that say a certain object, material might not be invented or available at the time a film is set. However to say a fabric and design wasn't used is far too broad and borders more on opinion than fact.

Lummie

Corrected entry: When Bell is in the Hotel room in El Paso where Chigurh is hiding he looks down and notices the vent screen screws lying on the floor, which means Chigurh un-screwed them to see if the money was in the vent shaft, but why did he do this when he knew there had been an incident there where Moss was shot and the money was taken by the Mexicans, why was Chigurh even in the room anyway.

Correction: The money was not taken by the Mexicans. Chigurh clearly has the money at the end of the movie when he purchases the boy's shirt to use as an arm sling. The Mexicans never found the money because they didn't know where it was. Chigurh previously knew that Moss hid the money in a ventilation duct and correctly guessed that Moss hid it in one again.

Phaneron

Corrected entry: Sheriff Bell carries a Colt semi-automatic single action pistol. As he prepares to enter the motel room in El Paso we see him draw his pistol and cock the hammer. This implies that he was carrying the pistol with the hammer down with a round in the chamber, which would be very unlikely since it is well known that that is the most dangerous way to carry such a gun. The standard way that most professionals carry this gun is in a "cocked-and-locked" condition where the hammer is cocked and the thumb safety engaged.

CodeCat

Correction: Not a plot hole if a character is behaving dangerously.

pross79

Corrected entry: When Chigurh shoots the Mexican in the shower at close range with his shotgun if should have produced a much bigger mess than was depicted in the film.

CodeCat

Correction: Not necessarily. Depends on several factors like what kind of shot he's using, etc.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Josh Brolin searches through the case of money and finds the homing device and sets it on the night stand. He then hears the approaching Chigurh. He gets his gun and sets himself on the bed facing the door. He is not shown closing the case nor does he have time to fold the tops together, thread the handle through, and snap the left and right locks. But, when he makes a quick escape out the back window, the money case is securely closed. Most of this scene the camera is on Brolin. Occasionally we see the door. We do not see Brolin close and lock the case nor do we hear the snaps of the case being locked.

Correction: Time compression has been used. They didn't show him reclosing the case, nor did they show him putting the money that was not cut out back in the case, and we don't see any of that cut money left out. From the time he took out the transmitter, got his gun ready, and sat on the bed, there are a lot of steps missing, so we have to accept that time compression was used.

Corrected entry: In the scene in which the psychopath enters the residence, he bends down to pick up the mail on the floor (as if it had been dropped in through a mail slot in the door). But when he swings the door shut, there is no mail slot on the door so the mail would have no reason to be on the floor.

Correction: How is this a mistake? The mail had been slid under the crack in the door, something very common for residences with no mailbox or mailslot.

Factual error: When Chigurh is in the gas station and throws the wrapper on the counter, the "Nutrition Facts" are visible on the label. Set in 1980, the "Nutrition Facts" label wouldn't have been available for at least another fourteen years, as nutrition labels were started in 1994.

Thomas Ernst

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Question: The movie does not have a soundtrack at all, yet during the end credits, music is heard. What is the name of that music?

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