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Film Scene Analysis - 'No Country for Old Men' - Coin flipping scenes

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First coin flip scene:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLCL6OYbSTw Second coin flip scene:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfvV3Syud8 The film, 'No Country for Old Men' is a hard hitting 122 minutes of suspense and conflicting duality, however, twice during its course the character known as Anton Chigurh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chigurh ) presents a two different individuals with a near impossible dilemma, he actively puts everything they are into a single coin toss, conveying the philosophy that life and death are just two sides of the same 'coin' and that chance is the only real divide between them. In doing this Chigurh trivialises the very idea of being alive/human and ultimately embodies the concept of death and how it can seek you out whether you believe it to be your time or not. The first coin toss scene is featured in a small time shop located to the side of a long, dry, unforgiving road; roads are used a consistent theme throughout the

60 second (or more) interpretive Western, filmed by Jean luc, edited by Amber, acted by Jamie and Robbie

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This is a short film which we were assigned as a group of four to complete, the overall filming process took around two lessons (whilst the editing process was completed by Amber Philips in her own time). As a group, we all pitched ideas as to how to shoot this film, however many of the dynamic shots were performed by our own Jean-Luc Burch (with the use of the college's collection of camera tools and items).