No Country for Old Men (film) - Quiz.

Question 1

Who wrote the book No Country for Old Men?

Accepted Answer

Cormac McCarthy

Question 2

Who can be argued to have been an aesthetic influence in No Country for Old Men?

Accepted Answer

William Eggleston

Question 3

When the Coen Brother's approached Javier Bardem about playing Chigurh, what did he say?

Accepted Answer

"I don't drive, I speak bad English and I hate violence."

Question 4

Ethan Coen said that the original book was about: "...finding some kind of ????"

Accepted Answer

beauty without being sentimental.

Question 5

"Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is symbolic of the influence of time."

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Ambient noise and breathing is almost the only sound in which scene?

Accepted Answer

Where Bell returns to the scene of Moss' death.

Question 7

What was the inspiration behind Chigurh's (very bad) hair cut?

Accepted Answer

A random guy in a picture from West Texas, 1979.

Question 8

"Carla Jean is the only person to talk to each of the main characters."

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Which of the following can it be argued that Anton Chigurh symbolises?

Accepted Answer

Death, Time, Modern Amoral Utilitarianism, Evil

Question 10

When is the film set?

Accepted Answer

1980

Question 11

"No Country for Old Men is most notable for its overwhelming use of dialogue."

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

Roger Deakins (cinematographer) comments that they never use a certain shot in the film, what is it?

Accepted Answer

Zoom.

Question 13

Finish the quote from Joel Coen: "... [we are] naturally attached to subverting ____."

Accepted Answer

Genre conventions

Question 14

"The loops of wire behind the shopkeeper in the Coin Toss represent the humor in their conversation."

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

When Bell visits his long retired Cousin, Ellis, what do they discuss?

Accepted Answer

The nature of facing up to evil.

Questions 15