Their sudden move, then, to take on Cormac McCarthy’s ninth novel initially raised eyebrows. Grim and pseudo-serious, for the Eurotrash IndieWire-reading set, but communicating, nonetheless, in the language of dorky accents and contrarian hipness expected of post-borscht belt comedy crowds. Most of the movies that the Coens made in between were comedies. The germ of the Coen brothers‘ most acclaimed feature, which hit wide release ten years ago, could be could found over two decades before, in the grim chase of Blood Simple - the pair’s 1984 debut that also just-so-happened to center on a dance of death in the Texas badlands. “I just have this feelin’ we’re looking at something we really ain’t never even seen before.” – Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Menīut, in one sense, it was never really about the novel.
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