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| released = | runtime = 122 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $25 million | gross = $171.6 million }} ''No Country for Old Men'' is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, it tells the story of a Texas welder and Vietnam vet to whom chance and greed deliver a fate that is neither wanted nor denied; a cat-and-mouse drama set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. Themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance are explored; ones that the Coen brothers have previously explored in ''Blood Simple'' and ''Fargo''. The film premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. It won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay, allowing the Coen brothers to join four previous directors honored three times for a single film.〔The others are James L Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson and Billy Wilder.〕 In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) including Best Director, and two Golden Globes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Nominations and Winners-2007 )〕 The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year,〔 〕 and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007. More critics included this film on their 2007 top ten list than any other,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home Page – Best of 2007 )〕 and many regard it as the Coen brothers' finest film to date., as well as one of the best films of the 2000s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Best Films of the 00's )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The best movies of the decade )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The best films of the decade )〕 ''The Guardians John Patterson said "the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based Western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors," and Peter Travers of ''Rolling Stone'' said that it is "a new career peak for the Coen brothers" and "as entertaining as hell." ==Plot== In 1980 West Texas, Anton Chigurh, a hitman, strangles a sheriff's deputy to escape custody and steals a car by using a captive bolt pistol to kill the driver. While hunting in the desert, Llewelyn Moss comes across the aftermath of a drug deal gone awry. He finds several dead men and dogs, a wounded Mexican begging for water, and two million dollars in a pilot's case. He takes the money and returns home. That night, Moss returns to the scene with water. He is pursued by two men in a truck and escapes. At home, he sends his wife, Carla Jean, to stay with her mother, then drives to a motel in the next county, where he hides the case in the air vent of his room. Chigurh, hired to recover the money, kills his employers. He uses his bolt pistol to blow the lock out of the door and searches Moss's home. Arriving later to investigate, Sheriff Bell notices the blown-out lock. Using a tracking device hidden with the money, Chigurh goes to Moss's motel and kills the Mexicans preparing to ambush Moss in his room. Moss has rented a room adjacent to the Mexicans' room with access to the same vent. Chigurh unscrews the vent with a dime and finds it empty. In a hotel near the Mexican border, Moss discovers the tracking device, but Chigurh has already found him. Their firefight spills onto the streets and both are wounded. Moss flees to Mexico where he collapses and is helped to a hospital. Carson Wells, another hired operative, fails to persuade him to accept protection in return for the money. Chigurh cleans and stitches his own wounds with stolen supplies and kills Wells at his hotel. Moss telephones the room and Chigurh answers. Lifting his boots to avoid Wells's blood, Chigurh tells Moss that he will kill Carla Jean unless he gives up the money. Moss arranges to meet Carla Jean at a motel in El Paso to give her the money and hide her from danger. Instead, she reluctantly accepts protection for her husband from Bell. Carla Jean's mother unwittingly reveals Moss's location to a group of Mexicans. Bell reaches the rendezvous in time to see a pickup truck speeding from the motel where Moss lies dead. That night, Bell returns to the crime scene and finds the lock blown out. Chigurh hides behind the door. Bell enters Moss's room and sees that the vent cover has been removed with a dime and that the duct is empty. Later, Bell visits his uncle Ellis, an ex-lawman, and tells him he plans to retire because he feels "over-matched". Ellis points out that the region has always been violent. Carla Jean returns from her mother's funeral to find Chigurh waiting in her bedroom. She refuses his offer of a coin toss for her life, stating that the choice is his alone. Chigurh leaves the house and carefully checks the soles of his boots. As he drives through town, he is injured in a car accident and bribes two boys for their silence. Now retired, Bell shares two dreams with his wife. In the first, he lost some money his father gave him. In the other, he and his father were riding through a snowy mountain pass; his father went ahead to make a fire in the darkness and wait for Bell. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「No Country for Old Men (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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