No Country For Old Men

Richard Leonard Kuklinski, known as “The Iceman” was born April 11, 1935. Kuklinski was a contract killer who was convicted of 5 murders. Kuklinski was given the nickname “Iceman” for freezing a body of a victim to mask the time when the victim was murdered. Kuklinski lived with his wife Barbara Kuklinski and 3 children in the suburb of Dumont, New Jersey. Prior to his arrest, his family was apparently unaware of Kuklinski's double life and crimes. Kuklinski was a contract killer for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families of the American Mafia. Kuklinski favored to murder people with sodium cyanide since it killed very quickly and also was hard to detect. With Cyanide, Kuklinski would simply kill the victim by either injecting the cyanide in them, putting it in the victim’s food, aerosol spray or spilling it on the victim’s skin. After killing his victim, he will dispose the body in a 55-gallon oil drum. Other ways Kuklinski would dispose the body were either burying the body or putting the body in the trunk of a car then having it crushed in the junkyard. Kuklinski says that Robert Pronge, nicknamed “Mr. Softee” has taught him different methods to use cyanide to kill his victims. Pronge allegedly asked him to carry out a hit on Pronge's

Drinking establishments, like Brennan’s, welcomed these dealers and gave them a percentage of the house take for the trade they generated. Both of the Thompsons were crooks; and they were killers. Wyatt had heard of them and, although sensing the gambler’s urge many an evening, avoided their tables. Wyatt had been in town only short term when he found himself at odds with the Thompson brothers. Lingering in the shade of a balcony outside Brennan’s Saloon one afternoon, he became aware of loud name calling bouncing back and forth between two men inside the gin mill. From what he deduced, it sounded like a simple case of card-game larceny. He didn’t pay much attention to the disturbance until Sheriff Whitney and two deputies appeared on the boardwalk and turned into the saloon. A cowboy was telling the sheriff that he had been swindled out of money by the fast hands of gambler Bill Thompson. Both the Thompsons denied it. But, when the lawman threatened to break up the game once and for all, Bill produced a double-barreled shotgun from below his chair and, at point-blank range, fired a volley into the sheriff’s chest. Horrified and dismayed, Wyatt watched the pair of deputies cower into the sidelines, then sulk out the side door without even the decency to take their boss’s body off the floor. It was more than Wyatt could take. "What kind of a town is this?" he snapped at the deputies who now stood meekly across the square. Between them, equally timid, was

There are several events that occur in this story to make up the plot. First, Lanny goes to Caney Creek to fish for some speckle trout. He only fished for speckle trout because an elderly man bought them for fifty cents apiece from Lanny. Lanny had to go to where everyone else stayed away from to catch these speckle trout. He even walked right past a No Trespassing sign and continued up the creek. Then Lanny came upon some pot plants on the bank, and he knew how much money they were worth. Lanny cut five plants down and took them to Leonard, the local drug dealer, and sold the plants for sixty dollars. Lanny knew this was easy money, so he quickly went back the next day for more. After selling the second batch of pot plants, Leonard warned Lanny that it was time to harvest and that the owners would be checking the plants soon. However, Lanny did not listen to Leonard and returned for more pot plants. He quickly learned this was a mistake when he stepped in a bear trap and found himself lying on the bank bleeding severely. Next, Lanny

As a small child, I viewed several men get hung or whipped in the town square for doing things far less terrible than I.” He answered. After Alana left the scene of the punishment she went to the governor, Lewis Morris, to interview him about crime and punishment. His thoughts on the subject were “If you do the crime you should do the time in punishment.” Alana replied, “Are you the one in charge of the punishments or is it the Puritan church leader or as I’ve heard of them as “Blue Laws”.

John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” black-and-white film tells the story of a killing of a man that helped a town progress and become civilized. The film begins when a young quixotic man fresh out of law school from the East, moves to a western town called Shinbone without knowing this town is a wilderness ruled by guns and savages. The optimistic lawyer named Ransom eventually brings law and order to the town after the local troublemaker is shot. He is then known as the man who shot Liberty Valance and ends up becoming a senator in Washington. Time passes by and he and his wife Hallie come back to the town of Shinbone for a local rancher’s funeral named Tom Doniphon. Here, the editor of The Shinbone Star asks Senator Ransom why

“I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back, and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say: “Where’s Tom gone?” and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour, rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight. It was touching to see them together — it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way. That was in August. A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken

Greene County Sheriff, Marcel Hendrix, was tipped off that two of the Young brothers had returned back to their family farm, which was a day after the New Year of 1932. Sheriff Hendrix and a few fellow officers went to the farm, carrying only handguns without spare ammunition. In today’s society law enforcement agencies would consider them to be unprepared, at least by today’s

Tom Doniphon, the outlaw hero, shot Liberty Valance To protect Hallie and Ransom Stoddard because he knew that Ransom is the right future for his town and Hallie, even though Ransom views contradict with Toms views and wishes. Throughout the movie there is a clear message; wilderness V. civilization. Shine bow, Tom, Liberty, etc., portraying the wilderness and Tom Donovan and The East portraying the civilization. Tom believed in the lawless frontier and is even Compared to Liberty by Ransom saying, "you are as bad as he is (liberty)." Throughout the film, Tom realizes that Ransom is a great asset to his Town and a wonderful man to Hallie who teaches the whole town how to live a safer, happier and more civilized life. Tom does not believe in this way of life and prefers the wilderness, but he thinks about his town and what is the best for them in the long run, showing that Tom deep down strongly supports personal Integrity. Tom lets the town believe that Ransom was the one who shot liberty because Tom wanted the town to support Ransom even more. He knew after saving Ransoms live and shooting Liberty; he had lost his lawless freedom (liberty) and the women he loved. When he told Ransom that he was the one who killed Liberty Valance, he said: "Cold-blooded murder, but I can live with it. Hallie's happy. She wanted you alive. ... Hallie's your girl now. Go back in there and take that nomination. You taught her how to read and write; now give her something to read and write about!" he called his shooting of Valance "cold-blooded murder" even though it was justifiable homicide to prevent the killing of Ransom, who he knew didn't have a chance in a gunfight. I think Tom called it "murder" not from a legal standpoint but from his perspective as a gunfighter since he "cowardly" killed Liberty from a corner instead of facing him in a gunfight. However, he realized that this was necessary to boost Ransoms' position among the townspeople because Tom saw him as the best hope for the future of Shine Bow and Hallie. That's why he said, "I can live with that." He told Ransom the truth because he wanted him not to feel guilty about killing someone and that at least one person would

This group of vigilantes, known as the black horse vigilantes sought to protect their land using their own methods. The thing that I found interesting was that the film portrays the vigilantes as useless in their effort to help catch Duke Mantee. A lot people today view vigilantes as radical and sometimes dangerous. The way this vigilante group was portrayed may reflect how people thought about vigilante groups during that time. This portrayal would be an example of how crime and justice can also influence popular culture. If the same film were to be updated to modern standards the vigilante group in the film may more dangerous to everyone involved rather than just being

Ignorant souls will probably tell you that No Country for Old Men is a film of thirst for blood, material wealth and a sheriff's investigation. Those that suggest this, however, are the same that tune in weekly for their dose of Big Brother: The Evictions and are swayed by the words of their local car salesman. The Coen brothers’ masterful 2005 adaption of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men is a standout in recent cinema history, pushing aside this year’s spit-out of Transformers from explosion-junkie Michael Bay. Taking a different approach from their usual quirky, humour films littered with three word profanities (cue: Burn after Reading Osbourne Cox fans), the Coen’s have successfully stepped into a dark, deeply disquieting drama

After a short swap of words, the owner realizes the simple conversation is starting to become chilling. As the scene progresses, the proprietor answers a question with, “Proprietor: This [gas station] was my wife’s father’s place. Chigurh: You married into it” (McCarthy 54). Chigurh is offended from the lack of control the owner has over his own life by the owner marrying into a money orientated item, the gas station. While Chigurh is aggressive of gaining what he wants from life, the owner sits back and takes advantage of other people’s hard work. As Chigurh grows weary, he takes a coin from his pocket and flips it and allows destiny to decide his life. The proprietor calls the coin correctly and unknowingly wins every possible aspect in his life in that single moment. Yet, Chigurh believes he is not the decider of life or death, but instead an instrument of fate. The fate people brought upon themselves for the lack of power, a fate that leads the gas station owner to an inevitable conference with Chigurh.

By the 1920s, the United States of America was the most economically powerful country. Their industries were very successful and they had a huge amount of resources. The USA had taken part in the First World War, but only took part late. Therefore, suffered relatively little. In fact, their industries benefitted because there was a great demand for war materials. In the 1920s the US flourished more than ever before, mainly because of mass-production techniques such as those used to make Ford automobiles cheap enough for plenty of people to buy.

Bell is a little apprehensive at first to state that the world he is inhabiting has slipped from the hands of those desperately seeking justice. He admits that he doesn’t “know if law enforcement work is more dangerous now than what it used to be or not” but he states that “some of the old time sheriffs wouldn’t even carry a firearm” (38, 63). Here the reader starts to understand that Bell misses the old days when the threat of killing someone rarely arose. He is

(12) shows Tom?s authority and the how gender roles affected everyone back in the 1920?s. Tom?s overpowering demeanor hides his actual self, he has a strong aura around him which suggests his authority on everyone around him, making him a kill joy. ¬

This shows the reader that Tom still believes in his own violent system of justice. Instead of coming up with a peaceful way to leave, Tom immediately thinks of a violent way to stop the police even if it might lead to him going to jail. Tom until the near end of the novel is a very violent and careless person.