"No Country For Old Men" Coin Toss Scene / Call it

This scene was shot in September 2007 BEFORE the movie was released in Oct 2007, we were having fun... who knew it would become such a famous scene. This is a non-union production with non-professional actors and non-union crew. Sam P Whitehead as Anton Chigurh.

from Wikipedia: Miramax Films: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a mesmerizing new thriller from Academy Award® winning filmmakers Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize winning American master Cormac McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. Featuring a cast that includes Academy Award®-winner Tommy Lee Jones ("The Fugitive," "Men in Black"), Josh Brolin ("Grindhouse"), Academy Award®-nominee Javier Bardem ("The Sea Inside"), Academy Award®-nominee Woody Harrelson ("The People Vs. Larry Flynt") and Kelly Macdonald ("Trainspotting"), NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen and executive produced by Robert Graf and Mark Roybal.

The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (BARDEM) - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines.

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[miketheratguy]

This was really made BEFORE the film? That's awesome if so. Good stuff either way.

[chickenhow]

Yeah, we shot this scene 2 months before the movie was released. Some people have been critical of the killer's performance here but maybe they're comparing it too much to Javier's performance. Please don't! This guy here is an amateur, an actor who does it for a hobby. My God - there's no comparison to Javier. Javier won an Oscar for that!

[6Ott7]

Nobody can do Anton Shigur

[Purehate66613]

Forest gump as Anton lol

[tannerkish616]

I like this. Because the movie is so popular (rightfully so, it's a personal favorite), people tend to believe the FILM is of original creation. But it's not. The book is the source material. Therefore, I can respect alternate adaptations of this scene. This....I respect. Sound editing isn't great, though. Shouldn't have been any music at all.

[SeoulChronicles]

Good sound, lens and color correction would have made this really professional. Awesome job.

[OutTheWindowFilms]

wow - hadn't seen the movie in a few years and you guys done good especially since you were doing this scene from the book

good on you!

[Clay4legacy]

Very good acting guys, do you have more work?

[rneu0324]

What is funny is both gys did o.k. at times(keeping in mind that you hadn't seen No Country to judge them on). The clerk showed signs of brilliance and the customer was overall pretty good. On the other hand, it goes to show you how good the actual movie was with casting, sound camera angles etc. Whwther or not this was made before the movie is up in the air.

[The121Hammer]

This isn't too bad, overall, especially if it was done before Anton Chigar. Not a bad effort considering the characters lethality hasn't been established. The real scene can't be duplicated so, not bad at all. This relied on music to try and set the tone and the real deal is dead silent and truly menacing 'til the end. That, and this punk would have been apprehended 12 hours later with a rusty .22, one round and sleeping in a stolen car with a mini meth lab in the trunk. Sugar don't play that.

[ousooners5193]

"Nobody can do Anton Shigur" like Javier Bardem can*

[BLACKFANGj29]

i liked that it was word for word

well done

[NowRiddleMeThis]

@6Ott7 actually someone can

[kanyeezy24]

above average acting, but the beauty of the original scene is how deathly quiet the atmosphere was, the slurpee machine noise kinda killed it for me