Directed by Coen Brothers
Released in 2007, won the Academy Award for Best Picture
Not a western in the traditional sense, but uses themes and comments on the typical depiction of westerns
Coen Brothers very well known for subverting audience. Assumed he'd get away with the money but didn't, changed protagonist to Ed-Tom Bell
Quite anti-violent, more real
Themes of:
Change
Chance
Morality
Gives us ins to the following areas (within spectatorship):
Requires spectators to be active - not giving emotional queues via music, no clear cut protagonist etc. Pushes us to talk about readings. Beauty of the film is that it has no preferred reading (even Anton has a code he sticks to - chance and promises)
Editing
- narrative, spectatorship - auteur trait of the Coen's - they have the
ability to make a normal scene extraordinary and the extraordinary
scenes ordinary
In terms of being about
sheriff Bell, there's a real collision between what he's used to and
what he's not. For example, he rejects working with the DEA agent, he
doesn't want the vehicle checks on the Mexican vehicles and he doesn't
have radio when he finds Llewellyn. He goes back to the room to see if
he can because he's scared, when he's about to go inside they show Anton
to show what he's scared off, even though he's not actually there.
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