There is also the veteran Moss in the film, the huge sum of 2 million dollars he met by chance disrupted his belief in life, he wanted to use this windfall to change his life, Moss loved his wife very much, and even when he was in prison, he did not forget to arrange his wife's whereabouts.

Mark also uses a lot of detail in the creation of this character, such as at the beginning of the film, when Moss finds several corpses in the wilderness, a dying man asks him for water, which he rudely refuses. And when Morse came home, he couldn't sleep in bed. This inability to sleep caused him to carry a bucket of water and wanted to go back to that person, and it was this action that eventually led to him being hunted down, the previous refusal can be seen that Morse developed an indifference to death in the harsh natural environment, and the back of the water delivery is a trace of addiction to civilized society that he evokes after seeing the money.

Morse's death was predestined, and when he picked up the $2 million, his final tragedy was decided.

The old policeman Bell is not the only old man in the film, there are many old people in this film, and Bell is only one of the most representative members, Bell lamented that time is gone in the process of pursuing the case, and there is nothing he can do about the world, he can only chase the killer and eat the dust, and the era when he could be a good policeman without a gun has become a legend of yesterday.

He is a real old man, representing an aging era, and at the end of the film he makes the decision to retire, and Bell's rambling and inadequacy represent the other extreme, that is, the old, lost rules and traditional values of the past.

In addition to these three main characters, there is another female character in the film that cannot be ignored, which is Carly, Moss's wife.

The killer Anton finally gave the woman a chance to choose, that is, to decide her life and death by throwing a coin, but the woman did not make a choice, she gave up this opportunity, and this renunciation is actually a detail of Mark's arrangement, this woman actually represents a kind of helplessness, she has no chance to choose her own fate, she is innocent, but fate has brought her to death. This impermanence of fate is another meaning that Mark wants to convey.

"No Country for Old Men" does not have a clear ending, and this treatment gives the audience countless reveries and inferences. In fact, if you think about it carefully, the ending is not important, what the director wants to convey is not a story of good people and bad people, nor is it a story of justice and evil, when people are accustomed to the theory that good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil, they find that there are many things in real life that are not controlled by ideal values.

"No Country for Old Men" is an alternative writing about order and rules, when many things subvert traditional values, even Mark doesn't know where to go, so he finally gives the end of the story to fate and the ending to the audience.

In terms of shooting techniques, the three-lens technique of "three shots" has long been used as a method of shooting dialogue, and this spatial relationship has been used in various situations, so that when people mention three lenses, they think of "old-fashioned and old-fashioned" and ignore the correct use of their own space.

In fact, the "three shots", and even the "three shots" of the whole film, as long as they are used properly, will also produce extremely good effects, in "No Country for Old Men", not only the dialogue, but almost the entire film is promoted with the "three shots, front and back" method.

At the beginning, the cowboy went from hunting to finding the broken car to discovering the person under the big tree, and the whole way of advancing was almost to shoot the hunter forward head-on, and then shoot the thing in front of the hunter backwards, or fix the camera behind the hunter, and then shoot from the distance in front of the hunter to connect the space and advance the plot, and the appearance of the old policeman Bell is almost the same way of advancement, but the surrounding environment is different, such an appearance is very sudden and even abrupt, but it is indeed one of the core expressions of the film.

In addition to the appearance, the various situations in the whole film are also advanced by similar three shots, but the factors in Wally's three shots (each individual shot that makes up the three shots) are not bad, full of changes, Wally is constantly changing the zoom and the position of the subject in this kind of forward and reverse shots, such as the first time the hunter is chased by a car and chased by a dog, those action scenes are also from the back of the hunter to shoot the hunter, from the front of the car (dog), interspersed with panoramic methods, but such a front and back shot is different from the fixed camera position on weekdays, almost every switch, even if the camera is in the same direction, but always change the position。

For example, when the dog is chasing the hunter in the water, it first gives a panoramic view, then a medium shot to the hunter, and then a close-up backshot of the dog, which gives people the illusion that the dog will catch up immediately, including the hunter pulling out the gun later, and there is also such an illusion in it. Similarly, the action scene of the showdown between the cowboy and the killer is also similar to this paragraph, so the whole film of "No Country for Old Men" and even the action scenes have no soundtrack (except for those wandering artists), but all rely on the positive and negative combinations of various shots and the actions of the characters to advance, and it is full of charm, anyone who makes a movie knows how difficult it is to edit the charm of the action scenes without the rhythm of music.

Mark's dialogue scene in "No Country for Old Men" is, of course, also a "three-shot" Advance, but unlike most of the current use of rotten unchanged positive and negative shots, Mark's every switch is useful, and the dialogue between the killer and the grocery store owner is also one of the core expressions of the whole film, Mark handles it like this: In many times when the killer and the boss are in dialogue, almost the front and back shots are the same, and they have been fixed, with the content of the dialogue, the killer's sense of order is more prominent; 。

There are also several subjective shots of the killer and a close-up of the killer's face when he drives a car to find the room where the cowboy lives according to the signal, and the door that moves visually according to the movement of the car in the subjective shot is also one of the core expressions of the film.

The dialogue between the hunter and his wife is the least used in the whole film, such as the scene where the two sit together in front of the TV and the hunter is talking to his wife with his back to the mirror and the camera is fixed, Mark uses the most ordinary way to show the relationship between various characters.

Therefore, "No Country for Old Men" only uses "three shots" to advance the plot, but because of this, it has a rare charm, and the expression is in place, and people who want to understand some of the expressions in "No Country for Old Men" will have a clue if they don't notice the combination of these methods.

For example, the Ellison siblings and the crew looked at Mark's cut out version, and they felt abrupt, and they said, "That's it? Heath hung up like this? Who has the money? Has Blake been killed?"

Even if it is the same work, if it is launched by the Coen brothers, the audience who is familiar with the style will be able to taste the taste of it at once, but those who are familiar with the "Mark style" are questionable.

This is the same obscure poem, knowing that the author is a university professor, this is a work full of mysteries on the high level, and if it is a primary school student, it is a work full of loopholes.

Mark is enjoying this treatment now, but there are still people who know the goods, and many people praise this festival, thinking that Mark has become elegant, and during the internal test screening of MM Group, the review department and the marketing department agreed that this is a rare masterpiece, an excellent work, including the publicity director Daniel and Iger.

Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that they will shoot Mark's big ass, Mark will make a big Xiang, and some people will praise this as a chocolate-flavored Xiang.

MM, like other companies, has a film review department, and if you don't have a special relationship, if you want them to promote and distribute it, you will submit it to the film review department, and the reviewer will be responsible for watching the movie and then writing a review without doing anything every day.

MM's system is that the rejection of a film must be jointly signed by two different groups of reviewers, while the acceptance of a film is decided by four groups of people, and finally submitted to the top management, which is decided by the companies.

There are hundreds of films submitted to the company every year, but only twenty or thirty are put on the big screen, even if it is the six giants, the films released every year are twenty or thirty, including self-made films, last year, the new films released in the United States were six hundred and fifty, but compared to the annual output of thousands of films, there is still more supply than demand.

Therefore, many films can only participate in some awards, gilding their works with a layer of gold and increasing the weight of their distribution road.

Of course, Mark's film is not worried about release, even without MM Group, his film is the most sought-after, now the key is positioning, Mark listed it as a literary film, this is Mark's first time, and its box office is not guaranteed.

In fact, with Mark's reputation and full firepower publicity, it is not difficult to trick a group of people into the cinema, he has a fan base, but he is afraid that fans will scold his mother, the style of "No Country for Old Men" is by no means what Mark's previous fans liked, it is a dish of literary and artistic families.

So the strategy set by Daniel, the head of publicity, is to tell the truth, to run the work in the same way as to run an Olympic production, which is Mark's ambition, aimed at the Oscar market, and it would be humiliating if it didn't get anything at the Oscars.

Don't say that Mark is one of the MM bosses, that is, any director, after achieving such great success, will start the god-making movement and push it to the altar.

Mark is already invincible at the box office, and the next step is to be certified by the Academy.

Thank you for the big reward, thank you!