The Most Iconic Book-to-Film Adaptations in the History of Cinema

13. No Country For Old Men

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The film is based on the 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy. What is it about the Coen Brothers’ inconsolable No Country for Old Men that still chills the blood, even under the South Texas sun? The story of a drug deal gone wrong soon reveals its true theme: The futility of being good and just in the face of abject evil. The Coen Brothers had to streamline the plot of the grand No Country For Old Men, but the result was film gold.