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No Country for Old Men - Carson Wells
I'm still cheesed off about the Coen Brothers "No Country for Old Men" and Cormac McCarthy's story. The character that sticks in my craw is Carson Wells, played by poor Woody Harrelson. I like Woody as an actor. You see him on screen, you figure you're going to laugh. Except in Larry Flynt. He was dramatic in that. So what was Carson Wells all about? The Carson Wells character in McCarthy's novel is a retired lieutenant colonel from the Special Forces or some supposedly highly-trained military organization where they, you know, learn stuff like how to kill a man with a blade of grass or how to seriously wound a guy with a marshmallow or a shitload of martial arts stuff that would make them into walking weapons of mass destruction. You would expect them to be packing a load of James Bond gadgets that would make them, well, scary. So what was the Woody Harrelson character all about? He shows up, all macho, and deals out a bunch of spooky warnings about how unstoppable Anton Chigurh is and how he's the only guy on the planet who really understands him and can deal with him. So we figure he's our guy, right? He must be well-heeled and packing some serious shit and is somebody you don't want to mess with. He ends up begging for his life in a hotel room, where he never should have gone in the first place, and Chigurh just blows him away. What happened to the ninja spin on the stairway? How about the .44 magnum belt buckle? Not even a Smith & Wesson Escort in the wallet? This guy's got nothing? All hat and no cattle? How sad. Ruined the story for me.
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