No Country For Old Men
Many fine novels buck and bridle under the constraints of movie adaptation. Others open up to the form as if it was a natural evolution, the film complimenting the book and vice versa. John Huston's The Maltese Falcon is a classic example, the movie and Dashiell Hammett's novel are now virtually indivisible to anyone who is familiar with them both. The Coen brothers' film of Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men is of this ilk. One of contemporary American literature's great prose stylists,
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