Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: No Country for Old Men
We’ve had a successful relaunch of the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series. I say relaunch because we have done this type of thing before. For the next month, I will be spotlighting previous movie scripts we have studied.
Today: No Country for Old Men (2007)
Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, novel by Cormac McCarthy
IMDb plot summary: Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Links to the entire June 2012 series:
General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
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For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.
Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.
Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.