No Country for Old Men

When Bell responds to the hotel shooting, a modern Carl's Jr restaurant is seen in the background over his shoulder.

Furthermore, Carl's Jr.

was not operating in El Paso in 1980.

In addition, when he is driving to the motel, as he first hears the shots, a modern day Wendy's sign is seen behind him.

Outside of the motel after Moss is killed there is a modern day EMS unit (ambulance) in the background.

When Llewelyn finds the transponder, he leaves the suitcase open, yet when he is escaping minutes later, the suitcase is closed when he grabs it.

Just before Anton enters the pharmacy, a modern Wells Fargo bank is seen in the background on the left side.

Not only is it a modern sign, but Wells Fargo didn't operate in Texas in 1980.

In the scene where Anton is chasing Llewelyn through the streets at night, a modern day Dominos Pizza sign can be seen in the background.

The opening scene of the police car features a 1990 Chevrolet Caprice and not a 1980 (or earlier).

This is evident from the front door mounted seat belt mechanism, which was only used on the 1990 square-body models before the car was totally redesigned in 1991.

There are also numerous mid-late 80's Caprices in the film - all too new for the setting of 1980.

These cars are easily identifiable by taillight and grille design to differentiate them from a 1980-84ish car.

The glass milk bottle that Anton and later Sheriff Bell drink from is from Promised Land Dairy in Floresville, TX.

This company did not exist until 1987.

Area code 210 (San Antonio) appears on Llewelyn's phone bill, however this area code wasn't created until 1992.

In 1980, San Antonio's area code would have been 512, with the rest of Central Texas.

When Anton goes into Mike Zoss Pharmacy, you can see a bottle of Prednisone on the shelf.

This bottle was manufactured by generic drug company Watson, which wasn't established until 1984.

The $100 bills in the satchel have the signature of Treasury secretary Nicholas Brady.

$100 bills with his signature were not printed until 1989.

The newest possible $100 bills circulating in 1980 would be Series 1977 bearing the signature of secretary Werner Blumenthal.

When Chigurh enters Llewelyn's trailer and takes the milk from the fridge, you can see a bottle of Dawn Dish Detergent using the current logo.

In the gas station scene, when Anton places the empty peanut wrapper on the counter, you can see the nutrition information on the label.

This information was not on food wrappers in 1980.

The weapon Moss picks up in the drug dealers truck is a Heckler and Koch SP89, so named because it was introduced to the American market in 1989.

It was also a unique variation and was not sold in that form outside the US but modified specifically to conform with US gun laws.

In the scene where Llewelyn calls Carla Jean from a rotary bank of GTE pay-phones, there is a clearly visible graffiti tag above the phone in silver ink.

Not only would this kind of graffiti be hugely unlikely in Texas in 1980, but the tag is dated "06".

In each hotel, modern models of smoke and heat detectors are visible on the ceilings.

The ambulance used outside the hotel scene has modern multi-flash strobe lights.

Those type of lights were not introduced until the mid 1990's.

When the American border guard asks Llewelyn what outfit he was in Vietnam, the answer is "12th Infantry Battalion.

" This answer wouldn't make any sense to anyone familiar with how the army is organized and in fact would indicate that Llewelyn had never been in the army.

(Every infantry regiment has ad-hoc numbered battalions.

No regiment has as many as 12.

) An infantry soldier would identify his unit by company and regiment, or just by regiment.

The gray/blue Dodge 4x4 at the shoot-out is at least an 1982 (tail light design was changed in '82), and more likely an 83 or 84.

Also the wheels on that truck weren't introduced until the mid 80s.

As Chigurh walks through the pharmacy, away from the flaming car, a Tempur-Pedic advertisement is visible to the far left, through a window.

The original Tempur-Pedic product was invented in 1983.

In the shoot-out aftermath scene, the red Ford Bronco has a FORD blue oval emblem/logo on the grill, as well as F O R D lettering on the leading edge of the hood.

While the hood lettering was used on 1980-1982 models, 1983-1986 models used the updated grille insert with the blue oval.

This grill would have not been available in 1980, either the truck's grill or the hood has been changed from original.

After Anton blows up the car outside the pharmacy, numerous car alarms and horns sound off.

All those cars didn't have horn alarms, and loud ringing car alarms weren't prevalent until the mid 80s, but would have been very rare (non existent) in Eagle Pass in 1980.

In the scene where Anton shoots at the crow as he is crossing the bridge, the weapon used is a suppressed Tec-9 made after 1982.

During the shot of Sheriff Bell's reflection on the TV in Llewelyn's home, you can see at the far right corner of the television the reflection of three crew members.

Just before Anton's car gets wrecked, a late 90's Toyota Corolla wagon is clearly visible in the driveway of a neighborhood house.

Anton's car changes direction between 2 shots when it gets hit in the car crash at the end of the movie.

In the interior shot of Anton, the front of the car moves to the left during the crash (seen from the driver's point of view).

In the following long shot the front of his car moves to the right, inconsistent with the interior shot.

The sign that shows that Anton is driving towards Del Rio is incorrect.

There is an arrow that shows Highway 90 veering off towards the left and Del Rio veering off in the opposite direction of the fork in the road to the right.

In fact, the only highway that comes in and out of Del Rio is Highway 90.

If Anton was driving to Del Rio, he would be on Highway 90 heading towards Del Rio.

When Sheriff Bell returns to the Desert Sands motel, we see his shadow squarely approaching the motel room door, as if he's walking directly towards it and the car is directly behind him, but in the next shot, he's just passing in front of the left headlight of his car.

Moss is crossing the bridge into Mexico.

The river is shown flowing to the right instead of to the left as the Rio Grande does when seen from the Texas side.

When Llewelyn shoots and kills the pursuing pit bull at the last second the dead animal falls to the side.

It is clearly a stuffed animal.

After Chigurh blows the lock to the hotel room with the Mexican reaching for his gun, the phone on the table next to him is at an angle.

However, before Chigurh shoots the man's arm, the phone has shifted in a different direction.

When Bell is driving up to the Desert Sands Motel, a sign for Route 66 Paint and Body is visible to the right.

El Paso is over 250 miles from Route 66.

When Anton lights the gas tank of the car on fire that is in front of the pharmacy, the interior of the car explodes and blows the windows out of the car before the gas tank explodes.

The interior would have been the last thing to burn and would have most likely never exploded.

When Sheriff Bell is going to find Moss, just before the Mexican's pickup pulls out ahead of him, there is a sign for a Vietnamese grill on the right side.

Since the majority of Vietnamese immigrants did not arrive until after 1980 it seems unlikely that this restaurant would exist.

The cattle gun used to blow the cylinder out of the center of the lock is not possible as shown in the movie.

If the center of the lock was blown out, the bolt that secures the door to the frame (the large steel piece that slides out of a lock when you turn the key on a deadbolt) would still remain in place, and would still remain securing the door to the frame.

Simply blowing the cylinder out would not be sufficient for quick or easy entry it would simply eliminate the need for a key.

One would have to be able to fit a tool or their finger into the hole that was created and somehow pull the bolt back into the door, or possibly have to rotate the entire mechanism inside of the lock housing, as you would with the rotation of a key - and therefore ruining the element of surprise.

In the wide shots of the convenience store, there is a rack of nuts behind the cashier, but in his close ups, the rack is at least a few feet to the right of him.

About 29 minutes into the movie, Sherriff Bell and Wendell are looking at the car burning.

Wendell's arm(s) keep changing position between shots.

Obvious voice-over.

In the hospital scene when Carson Wells says Chigurh's full name.

"Anton Chigurh".

When in room 138, Moss slides the suitcase to the left of the HVAC duct, handle-side first.

When he retrieves the case from room 38 (the room directly opposite) by hooking into the handle the case is on the wrong side of the duct for the handle to be accessible.

Chigurh hurt his wrists badly from handcuffs in the beginning of the film.

Yet for the rest of the film - the story takes place in the span of a few days - his wrists don't show any marks or scars whatsoever, even in the close-up shots.

When Moss returns across the bridge from Mexico back to Eagle Pass, he has no clothes.

He returns to the Western store where he bought his boots, but the plot established that the store was in Del Rio, over 55 miles away.

Then he is in his new clothes by the river in Eagle Pass retrieving the satchel of money.

Did he travel 110 miles to buy clothes? The ZIP code on Moss' phone bill, 79821 is for Anthony, TX, about 300 miles away from Sanderson where Moss lives.

When Llewelyn finds the radio transponder in the briefcase containing the money, the stack the transceiver is in is actually a stack of $1 bills with a $100 bill on the top.

Which is understandable because a typical stack of one-hundred dollar bills amounts to twenty thousand dollars.

Why destroy that much cash when one could achieve the same effect (hiding the transponder) by defacing far less currency? When Sheriff Bell turns on his siren to pull over the flatbed truck with the recovered bodies loaded on it, the highway has a very narrow shoulder, less than half the width of the truck.

When the truck actually pulls over, the shoulder is very wide - nearly twice the width of the truck.

When Anton opens the gas lid on the car to blow it up, it's already wet from a previous take.

Although day trading started in 1971, NASD created the Small-Order Execution System around 1985 to enable people to become day traders in the sense that we know it now, but it's unlikely the term would be used in 1980 by Carson Wells as it would today.

The rifle case on Moss' left disappears and reappears between shots as he is registering for room #138.

A license plate is used on two different cars.

In the scene about 1hr 3min just after he crashes the pickup truck, when Anton is walking up to the pickup, the car immediately behind the smashed one has a Texas license plate 350 R2H.

At the end of the movie Anton drives away from Carla's house and the Olds he is driving has that same 350 R2H Texas plate.

When the Mexicans flee the Desert Sands Motel in El Paso, a Bank of the West tower can be seen in the distance.

El Paso has no such building.

In the scene where Moss is talking to the lady outside in the pool area you can see a newer model of a Chevy or GMC Tahoe (01-06) in the parking lot of the Carl's Jr.

It then disappears and re-appears twice.

When Sheriff Bell pulls over the flat bed truck carrying the bodies of the dead Mexican cartel members the driver states they only took the truck instead of a van because "We didn't have a van with four wheel drive.

" However at the time the driver states this you can see the lower control arm on the front suspension of the truck he is driving.

This is a characteristic of a Chevrolet truck of that era that is two wheel drive.

A four wheel drive truck would have a leaf spring straight front axle suspension.

When Anton is entering Llewelyn Moss's trailer, he picks up his mail, however there is no mail slot in the door and trailer doors are manufactured with rubber weather stripping, preventing air (or mail) from being slipped under.

When Chigurh shoots Carson Wells, he is using a semi-automatic shotgun but the action on the gun does not cycle and eject the spent round.

That would not happen with a functioning semi-automatic.

When Anton enter the Texaco Station and asks the owner behind the counter how much the peanuts cost, the owner replies "69 Cents".

As he says this, immediately to his right, viewer's left, there is a clip strip of the same peanuts all labeled 99 cents each.

(We can tell it is the same kind of peanuts as Anton later discards his wrapper on the counter.

) After Anton shoots into the room of Mexicans, the man he shot in the bathroom blinks after being shot and lying against the wall.

In the scene where Anton is in the gas station, there is a rack behind Anton with Jack Link's beef jerky.

The Jack Link's logo is one that wasn't introduced until the late 2000s.

When Chigurh is shooting at the pickup that Moss is in, the rear-view mirror is broken and hangs down at an angle.

Later, Moss adjusts the mirror to see where Chigurh is, and it is unbroken again.

When Llewelyn is talking to the INS agent at the border crossing, the same Ford Mustang passes behind him twice in the same direction.

It is true that mobile home doors are sealed in a way that would prevent mail from being slipped under the door.

However, all doors for older mobile homes were also made to swing outwards to open, never inwards.

The door in this movie swings inwards.

It is obvious that the set-makers modified this home, especially for the dramatic effect when the door swings open to reveal Chigurh standing there.

But, who is to say that somebody hasn't replaced the door in the past so that it opens inwards now? Llewellyn throws the money bag over the fence on the USA side of the border station just before walking past the border guard.

When Carson Wells spots the bag through the fence he is on the Mexican side, there is a sign visible that says "Enter the USA" above the door, indicating he is in Mexico.

In the shootout scene at the Eagle Hotel, you would think Anton would use the semiautomatic shotgun, as he did in the shootout at the motel in Del Rio.

Indeed the window shot at the Eagle Hotel shows him aiming his shotgun.

However, all the gunshots are in fact bullets, and after the truck is wrecked, they show Anton had dropped an automatic handgun.

When the Mexican in the motel bathroom is shot the shot passes through the wall, which should hit his left hand, but hits him in the chest.

As he falls his gun is firing at the bathroom door, but leaves no holes.

After Chigurh enters the motel room and shoots the first Mexican he closes the door with his foot.

He was wearing only socks but it sounds like he has shoes on.

During his encounter with the gas station attendant, Anton pulls out what he says is a 1958 quarter for use in a flip.

A quarter with this date would have been made of silver, as opposed to the copper-nickel sandwich coins in use in the United States since 1965.

The U.

stopped minting silver coins in 1964, so it is unlikely that Anton or anyone else in 1980 would have had a 1958 quarter in pocket change -- almost all the silver coins had been hoarded or otherwise removed from circulation by the late 1960s.

At the poolside scene, the same two cars drive past twice in the background within 30 seconds of themselves.

When Moss is swimming across the river after being shot in the shoulder, a crew member can be seen standing on the left bank in the second wide shot from behind Moss.

When the Sheriff is talking with his secretary he is sitting down and sweat patches are visible under his arms.

Yet when he walks over the angle changes and the patches are gone When Chigurh kills the two men who gave him the transponder the taller one is on the left and the fatter one on the right.

They both fall backwards.

When Bell sees the bodies the next morning the taller man is on the right.

When Moss is hunting antelope he does not have anything with him that would enable him to carry the meat back to his truck.

Also, no one would ever go out in that country without water.

When Bell enters the El Paso motel he draws his 45 auto and thumb cocks the hammer.

No experienced lawman would ever carry this kind of pistol in the half-cock position.

He would carry the gun at full cock with the positive safety engaged.

$2 million would consist of 200 packs of 100 $100 dollar bills.

That much money would weigh between 40 to 50 pounds.

After Anton shoots Carson, he turns towards the bed as he picks up the phone and answers the call from Llewelyn.

As he speaks, blood from Carson flows straight towards the toes of his boots, but Carson was to his left at this point and his boots were facing the bed.

Carson's blood would have had to flow towards the bed, then turned right about 135 degrees in order to flow towards Anton's boots.

When Carla Jean and her mother are riding in the taxi on their way to the bus station, the cameraman sitting in the front passenger seat is reflected in the mother's glasses.

When Sheriff Bell is driving up to the motel as the Mexicans drive away, his seat belt holder is clearly attached to the B pillar on the car.

When Bell gets out of the vehicle at the motel, the seat belt holder is now attached to the upper part of the door itself.

The film takes place in 1980, but the Dodge Ramcharger driven by Anton in part of the film is a mid-'80s model.

From its introduction in 1975 until late 1980, the Ramcharger had a removable hard top and chrome grille.

Starting in 1981 the Ramcharger had a plastic grille and the top was welded to the body and was not able to be removed.

When Moss picks a cab to take in Del Rio after exiting the airport, behind that cab is a cab with a license plate of J8R-725.

Later in the film, at the crime scene, Moss's wife drives up to the motel in a cab with the same license plate number, J8R-725, as the one outside of the airport.

No Country for Old Men is a great film for 2/3s of it after that the movie really does leave you hanging on WTF. This is a Coen brothers film which almost automatically means it will have a great story and clever writing.

Hi everyone, im from Europe, I understand movies about human emotion, about the diverse human scale of emotions and I love most of them, there are numerous films that try and work these emotions, but I just don't get this film. Its part Hollywood, part arty, part filmography and part trying to shock you.

The Coen brothers bring Cormac McCarthy's novel to the screen and it is a very faithful adaptation. It's a beautifully dark, haunting and violent film about the events that unfold when a hunter named Moss (Josh Brolin) comes across a drug-deal gone-wrong out in a Texan desert and takes a bag of $2 million.

First of all I have to say that this is a good movie (it won the Oscar for best picture last year)but this film doesn't deserves to be in the top 250 IMDb list. I think this movie deserves 7.

To me, the contrast between this film and Joel and Ethan Cohen's newer film "True Grit" is as far apart as you can get. Maybe technically, they both succeed.

2007 will go down in history as the year when two major contenders for the "Best Picture" Oscar were both in the Western tradition. (The other one, of course, was "There Will Be Blood").

I absolutely love the acting throughout especially the scenes with Javier Bardem! No Country for Old Men definitely deserved the awards it earned.

I never give a movie 10 out of 10 stars when I first see it.  The movie needs to GROW to 10 stars (more than likely from a 8 or 9 star movie) over time.

No Country for Old Men is what I call a film with great potential. The potential of being a masterpiece, potential of reaching same heights of "Fargo" or "Blood Simple".