No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men (2007)

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Corrected entry: When Carson Wells spots the money briefcase from the bridge, it is in the bright sunlight. In the next scene we see him returning to his hotel at night, so obviously at least five hours have passed. We know that Wells did not retrieve the money, since Moss retrieves it later. It seems very unlikely that Wells would have just left the money on the riverbank after discovering where it was.

CodeCat

Correction: Carson Wells did not retrieve the money because he planned to wait until very late in the night when there was no one around to get it.

Correction: Wells did not retrieve the money because he knew Chigurh was also looking for it and intended to use its location as a bargaining chip. Unfortunately for Wells, his plan did not work out.

S. Ha

Corrected entry: Chigurh calls Moss's mother-in-law from a pay phone. When he hangs up the phone we do not hear the coin mechanism cycle in the phone, even though the camera is very close to the phone.

CodeCat

Correction: If he used an operator, and a credit card, there would be no coins to drop.

rswarrior

Highly doubtful a hired professional hitman would use a credit card to make a phone call.

Corrected entry: Late in the movie, when Chigurh is involved in a car accident, the car running the light hits the passenger side. In such an impact, the driver would be propelled toward the passenger side. However, he gets out of the car and is injured on his left arm and the left side of his head hits the driver's window as if the car had hit the driver's side.

Correction: The initial impact would "push" Chigurh to the passenger side, but once the car stops, he would then be slammed into the driver's side door, causing the injuries seen.

Character mistake: When Moss is arguing with the border guard at the Eagle Pass international bridge, he claims that he is a veteran of the "12th Infantry Battalion." There has never been such a thing as the 12th Infantry Battalion in either the Army or the Marines. Rather, they are based on a structure of 3-4 battalions per numbered regiment (i.e., 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment/2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, etc). The film takes this seriously, as the guard, a veteran himself, buys Moss' story.

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Suggested correction: He might have meant 12th Infantry Regiment. From Wikipedia: "Three 12th Infantry battalions deployed to South Vietnam with the 4th Division from August through October 1966."

If he said "battalion" but meant "regiment", then it's still a valid mistake for saying it wrong and being believed.

Bishop73

Regiments have not existed as functional units in the US Army since shortly after Korea; they are simply historic names associated with various battalions. Marine battalions are not numbered higher than 4 in any regiment, and in any case do not carry an explicit designation of "infantry."

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Ed Tom Bell: Gun out and up.
[Wendell takes his gun out.]
Wendell: What about yours?
Ed Tom Bell: I'm hidin' behind you.

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Trivia: The same black satchel that's used for the money appears in Fargo (1996), also a movie by the Coen brothers.

donroyco

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Question: How did Chigurh get his gun back? After the shootout in the hotel, when Moss is first hit, occupies the car and then shoots Chigurh, Chigurh disappears and Moss takes his gun. Moss then drives to the border with the car, and presumably dumps them somewhere or leaves them in the car. Well, when Chigurh later kills Carson Welles, he has his gun back. How did he get it back? Did he find the car, if it was in there? Did he buy a new one?

Answer: It was a different gun. He kills Carson with a shotgun, while the gun Moss picks up is a silenced SMG by the looks of it.

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