No Country for Old Men/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • This movie has several, which only work because the rest of the movie is so tense, but Chigurh's encounter with the receptionist at the trailer park really shines.
  • "Just how dangerous is he?" "Compared to what? Bubonic plague?"
  • "It's a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?" "If it ain't, it'll do til the mess gets here."
  • Llewelyn's encounter with the Mexican street band epitomizes the kind of dark, dry humor at which the Coens excel.
  • The face that Bell makes when told that no bullet was found in the body of an apparent gunshot victim. Has undergone a bit of Memetic Mutation due to the fact that Bell doesn't say anything while making the face, because he doesn't need to.
  • "That's a dead dog." "Yes it is."
  • Bell motions for his young partner to enter the Moss' trailer first. When he asks the sheriff about his gun still being unholstered, Bell dryly responds that he's behind his partner.
  • "....Look at that FUCKIN' bone...."
  • "When it comes down to a contest between man and steer, the outcome is never certain."
  • The shopkeeper's response when Llewelyn asks him if they get a lot of people coming into his shop not wearing any clothes: "No, sir. It's unusual."