The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
The script supplies too many contenders for a single settled best quote, led by the coin dialogue, Ellis on vanity, and Chigurh’s rule question.
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- “I got here the same way the coin did” and Carla Jean’s rejection that the coin has any say distill the final moral conflict.
- Wells describes Chigurh as akin to the bubonic plague.
- Ellis’s warning that what Bell faces is not new, the country is hard on people, and he cannot stop what is coming is a favorite.
- Chigurh’s “not in the sense that you mean” answer about Wells and his question about the use of a rule that led Wells to death are highlighted.