Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-winning film adaptation of “No Country for Old Men” is faithful in many respects to the Cormac McCarthy novel on which it’s based.
Yet by its very nature as a movie, there were some things that “No Country for Old Men” had to approach differently than the book.
Readers may recall that each new section of chapters in McCarthy’s novel was marked off by Roman numerals and preceded by a page or three of italicized first-person narration from Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, the character Tommy Lee Jones brought to life in the movie.
Since the rest of the novel unfolded in third-person voice, the italics gave us a window into Bell’s mind and helped establish him as the main character right from the start.That’s something much easier to get away with on the page than it would be on the screen, which is traditionally
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