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‘No Country’ Villain: Hot or Not?
Currently sporting a 95% Rotten Tomatoes rating and a Metacritic score of 93, the Coen brothers No Country for Old Men is among the year’s elite, and it’s impact on the Oscar race would appear indisputable. Many are calling the film, which turned in the Coen’s highest limited opening weekend ever, a “shoe-in” come Oscar nom time - although Gold Derby is wondering if the predominately male reviewers are fixated on the rampant bloodletting and not the big picture, as it were, of No Country’s overall worth. I can’t weigh in because my city hasn’t been selected yet.
In the meantime we’ll focus on the meaty issue - namely star Javier Bardem’s portrayal of Anton Chigurh, the cold blooded killer with The Year’s Most Discussed Film Haircut - which The IFC Blog has helpfully pie-charted out for us. Referred to as The Buster Brown, The Dutch Boy, and The Prince Valiant - the hairdo left Bardem lamenting during the shoot, “Man, I’m not going to get laid for three months!”
Contrary to all this, Best Week Ever’s Michelle Collins feels “Anton Chigurh is kind of hot. Like, in a serious, manly, ‘I will blow your brains out of you betray me’ kind of way.” She leaves the final vote for the question of the day: Anton Chigurh, Hot or Not? - up to the reader.
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