Daily Dialogue — May 25, 2016

“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.”

— No Country for Old Men (2007), screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, book by Cormac McCarthy

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: The Coen Brothers.

Trivia: When Joel Coen and Ethan Coen approached Javier Bardem about playing Chigurh, he said “I don’t drive, I speak bad English, and I hate violence.” The Coens responded, “That’s why we called you.” Bardem said he took the role because his dream was to be in a Coen Brothers film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Another Coen side of dialogue which zeroes in on a central theme of their story, Ed Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is an anachronism, a fish-out-of-water. The violence of modernism, as represented by Chigurh, is too much for his kind. His fate must be to quit and get the hell out of Dodge… which he does.