>You know I counted the floors to this building from the street...>"And?">...There's one missing.What was the significance of this?
>>214213702Wouldn't an American be aware of the trend American hotels have of labeling the 13th floor as the 14th floor?
>>214213702That they were on the 13th floor and it was bad luck.
>>214213702To further establish there are sinister places where dark forces are at work hiding in plain sight.
>>214213789that's it? lol. pretty lazy writing honestly.
>>214213702Americans are afraid of the number 13, so they do not have a button for it in the elevators.
>>214213702Superstition. Why didn't he just draw his pistola on Anton?
>>214213702It shows he has an attention to detail and is a worthy adversary. So when he gets bushwhacked by Chiggers it elevates Chiggers persona.
>>214213702even spooks are superstitious
>>214213802yes that's the reason, same in Japan there are no 4th floors usually
He was bad at maths which foreshadowed him failing at everything else. Maths is the universal language and if you are bad at maths you're generally a retard who's gonna fail at everything. He couldn't find the money, couldn't convince Llewelyn to give him the money, got ambushed by Chigur then couldn't convince him to even give him a 50/50 life/death coin toss let along spare his life
>>214213823That's far from universal. Some buildings will make it a service floor as employees don't have the luxury of refusing floors with that number. Plenty of office buildings and hotels have a 13th floor. Residential buildings are the most likely to skip it because the sales office will blame poor sales on that floor due to superstition. Very few cities allow addresses to skip 13. Vancouver, Canada does not allow buildings to skip floor numbers. >In a 2007 Gallup poll, 13 percent (kek) of American adults reported that they would be bothered if given a hotel room on the thirteenth floor, while 9 percent indicated that they would be sufficiently bothered to request a room on a different floor. Research on thirteenth-floor effects on real estate values presents a mixed picture. Several prominent American real estate developers have claimed that they are unaware of any reduction in the value of thirteenth-floor offices or apartments. On the other hand, in studies conducted in Russia, Antipov and Pokryshevskaya, and Burakov found that thirteenth-floor apartments were less likely to sell compared to apartments on twelfth or fourteenth floors. This effect, however, was eliminated if developers offered buyers a 10% or greater discount on the cost of thirteenth-floor apartments.
>>214213892Chigurh was never going to give him a coin toss. He was too dangerous to let live
>>214213702it's a glownigger op, he's in a gov office to discuss recovering their money
>>214213740That's not particularly common
So was he CIA?
>>214213740I've never seen a place actually do that, yurocuck
>>214213823I'm American and I can't think of a single building I've been in where that is true
>>214213702To establish this character is retarded. That is why he is easily taken out by suger: because he is a retard.
>>214213702>counts the floors of the building>knows the date he last saw Chigurh>drops some deep pipe lore the moment he meets LlewlynHe has Aspergers, you fucking retardsJesus fucking christ, a whole website full of """autists""" and you guys can't see one in front of you. You guys really are a bunch of frauds. Keep wishing the Jesterman is autist and you are "just like him"
This is how I know 4chan is comprised of jeets and East Asians now.>Saaar is because thirteen is very unholy dangerous number saaar we do not number our rickshaws to thirteen you see saaar
two things,first i am an American and have been in many hotels in normal parts of the country and even in big secular places like NYC, they skip the 13th floor on elevators. Do not listen to the people in this thread denying it they don’t know what they’re sayingAlso, the line in this movie obviously wasn’t about that, but rather it implied the drug syndicate stapler guy was involved in had a secret floor on the building for nefarious purposes. It’s just a typical McCarthy hint of the entrenched evil of the world and such.
>>214213702>No honestly can't say charm has had a whole lot to do with it*slaps his assWhat was the significance of this?
>>214216797>4chanTry the internet. The days of assuming every stupid take about Americans is from Europeans are gone. It's generally super uncommon though, and I think it's mostly a new york thing
>>214213802also establishes that he's observant, but only for inconsequential details
>>214216797> whitoid superstitions are actually the rest of the world's fault
>>214213702The cartel has a secret crime floor in the building or something
He miss counted.
>>214218099>>21421374099.9 percent of American buildings higher than 13 floors will have a button for the 13th floor. This avoiding numbers because they’re bad or unlucky is literally East Asian shit
>>214213702He should have just kept his mouth shut and not been so curious.
>>214217008>it implied the drug syndicate stapler guy was involved in had a secret floor on the building for nefarious purposesBut they're not on that floor?
>>214216564so you've never been to a hotel in america
>>214213702The obvious inference is that they're on the 13th floor, which may be suppressed from the elevator button system. Triskadekaphobia sometimes shows up in skyscraper floor numbering schemes, with the number 13 being passed over. Also, the approximate timing of the elevator ride and the view outside strongly suggest that they're about 13 floors up. If you're going to run a clandestine business, it's nice to have a "hidden" space that not many know about.The number 13 is regarded as unlucky, and stands both for death, and also for latin gangs and drug cartels, L being the thirteenth letter of the alphabet. The written sign "13" also looks very similar to "EL", backwards, where the latter is pronounced just like the letter. This is a violent world and all men, and many places, are coded for death, with the string "EL" or "ELL" showing up in many names:LLEwelyn mossed tom bELLdeputy wendELLterELL county, texasEL pasodEL riouncle ELLis"old aunt ELLa"Furthermore, Llewelyn is found dead, and the crime scene roped off consists of motel rooms 112 and 114 (113 being the number in between). Later, Ed Tom investigates the scene alone, and Anton may or may not be present, or perhaps Ed Tom is simply imagining that he may be present. A shots shows Anton hiding in a cramped space behind a door (or something very similar). Later, there is a suggestion that Anton somehow escaped, ghost-like, into an opened grate far too small to fit a body. It is as if Anton is inside the walls between 112 114, in the space 113, which is death.The numbers from about 11 through 15 show up repeatedly throughout the film, and, I believe, non-coincidentally. Also, the facade of the Del Rio motel is a real exterior, and it features a second and third floor window set. Each set of windows is a set of 13, and each one looks a good deal like a tombstone. The death and violence of the drug deal is repeated over the course of the film, almost exactly.
>>214218482I think for more modern buildings you probably couldn't do that shit even if you wanted to unless you're in an area really really lax fire martials/fire code (which incidentally probably means places that don't have a lot of buildings that high anyway). It's probably all stuff that's grandfathered in
>>214213702The floor the crime boss is on is not listed in the building, so it doesn't officially exist. this anon got it>>214213801it also shows that the character is perceptive and a thinker
>>214213992>Research on thirteenth-floor effects on real estate values presents a mixed picture.because people can pull shit like this in a working economy where supply is higher than demand. In this shit economy they'd suck 13 cocks if it meant even a small discount. This is literally the poster child for a 1st world problem, which the US is not anymore.
