No Country For Old Men - Opening

No Country For Old Men is a story of an ordinary man to whom chance delivers a fortune that is not his.

The start of no country for old men is very effective in creating suspense. Quite a few people die in the first few minutes of the film, this makes you want to carry on watching as you want to find out who this character is and why he is killing all these people. Also the fact that the film is set in an isolated place causes a lot of tension and makes it seem eary as it is quiet and windy. The murderer in this film seems very sinsister and ominous as he doesn't give anything away. He acts calm when questioned by the man he pulls over at the side of the road, and just repeats for him to get out of the car. It's as if he is rehearsed, he acts as though he has no emotions, his murders are passionless.

The sound at the start of No country for old men is non-diagetic, it's as if the sheriff is speaking directly to us. This hapens a the start and the end of the film. This is effective as it is showing that he must be playing a great role in the film to be a main part at the start and end.

The opening can be broken down into;
C - costume
L - lighting
A - actors
M - make up
P - props
S - setting

Costume; Villain is wearing all dark, dull clothes. Suggests darkness and perhaps evil. Shows deffinate signs of villain
lighting; Nothing is given away about the antagonist, shadows cover his face.
Actors; Only the villain is shown in the first sequences to the thriller, others are shown but we do not know who they are.
Make up; pale make up is used on the face and dark around his eyes to emphasise that Anton Chigurh is the villain.
Props; Oxygen tank is used for the murders.
Setting; Isolated dessert, eerie as there is no one near to help in bad situations.

Analysis of Anton Chigurh;

Costume;

• dark, black clothes
• nothing is shown about the character
• suggests his emotionless and perhaps evil
• suggests his a villain, wears mysterious clothes

Speech, language and tone;

• minimal amount of speech, simplistic, calm and monotone
• uses nicities to get his way
• talks with questions, he is in control

Manerisms, actions and responses;

• not many actions
• calm but argumantative
• no remorse or compassion
• emotionless
• intimidating
• little physical contact with others
• symplistic

Representation in film;

• one dimentional character
• outcast
• doesn't have a background
• morally complex
• stands for death, evil?