No Country For Old Men: Character Profiles

Image result for no country for old men Llewellyn Moss

Llewellyn Moss is the main character (protagonist) in No Country For Old Men. Throughout this film we see that Llewellyn is a quite average man, with clear hopes and aims for the future. From the clothes that he wears and the things people say about him as an audience we immediately gain the opinion that he is local to the area that it is set, and so therefore may be quite familiar to the other characters. During the film we see that Llewellyn's main aims are to keep the money, keep his wife happy, and ultimately safe and to keep himself safe; the latter of which he never achieves. Even though Llewellyn is not portrayed as  the typical  hero because of his somewhat questionable morality, he is the closest thing that the audience gets. The fact that his death is of scene so of creates an idea that we are not always given what he are oad in life ( the audience not getting to see his death is a symbol of this). 

Anton Chigurh 

Image result for no country for old men anton From the very beginning of when we are introduced to Chigurh we understand that he is no other character in the film. We first are introduced to Chigurh during the speech by Sheriff Bell when he speaks about his fear of the unknown. Even though he is one of the main character in the film, we as an audience don't ever get to find out about his history or his background. His hairstyle, outfits and accent are used as ways of creating a sense of mystery. The fact that he does not speak until the second scene that we see him in also adds to the feeling on disorientation for the audience. Throughout the film we see him kill a number of characters however, all of his murders seem to be motiveless which suggests that either enjoys causing suffering or does not feel anything at all. In this sense he sort of portray as being inhuman.

Sheriff Bell 

Image result for no country for old men sheriff bell

Sheriff Bell is one of the main characters in No Country For Old Men. In the opening monologue we find out about his background, what he wants to achieve and his fears. In this sense Sheriff Bell is portrayed as an open book. In his speech he speaks about his father and his grandfather being a Sheriff before him, which tells us straight away that he has been raised seeing the law enforcement having the respect of the entire town and wanting this to continue. From the very beginning we learn that the thing that scares Sheriff Bell is the unknown. Whilst he is saying this Anton Chigurh walks into the shot. This immediately tells the audience that he going to cause Sheriff Bell problems. The fact that Sheriff Bell is unable to stop Chigurh from committing the murders that he does shows the audience that Sheriff Bell is a symbol of the outdated system of enforcing law and so in a sense literally symbolises the fact that there is no country for old men. 

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