His only mistake was worrying about the agua.
It was taking all the moneyEven if he took the tracker out how the fuck was he gonna explain to everyone where he got 2 million dollars.
>>215654118>how the fuck was he gonna explain to everyone where he got 2 million dollars.It's hard cash. He wouldn't need to explain shit
>>215654118You dont have to explain it to anyone. ont buy big things amd you can live off it forever.But if you have to spend money lije a retard, his character seemed smart enough to fogure out that you can get a greasy lawyer/accountant to help you launder it. Use your brain.
>>215654118it was the agua. He decided to steal the money, which requires cold bloodness to ensure safety. He then did a heartwarming thing instaed of the correct thing and lost as a result of it.tldr: if u decide to do something risky like that, go all in.
>>215654118>>215654151>>215654171https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6yCmdIkw_E&t=127s
>>215654081I watched this recently and remember thinking it was very dumb he didn’t check the money for anything.
>>215654553how do you even know what to check for when u re civilian pleb?
>>215654571He wasn't just anyone. He's fucking Llewelyn Moss.
>>215654735What kind of parent names their son Lou Ellen?
>>215654735i dont get it, is he supposed to be the ultimate badass?
>>215654081You dont deny a man a glass of Monster Fiesta Mango™.
>>215654081
>>215654081>the only thing that makes the story a story was his mistakeyes I bet Cormac would've had a real smash hit on his hands if the rest of the story was Llewelyn quietly living out his hardscrabble west texas lifestyle with $2m under his RV. The Point was that he tried to apply basic human decency to degenerate cartel traffickers when they would've gutted him without mercy. The movie and book mentions over and over, how times have changed and how the world was increasingly tolerant towards encroaching evil.>Tommy Lee Jones: >Here last week they found this couple out in California they would rent out rooms to old people and then kill em and bury em in the yard and cash their social security checks. They'd torture em first, I don't know why. Maybe their television set was broke. And this went on until, and here I quote... "Neighbors were alerted when a man ran from the premises wearing only a dog collar." Can't make up such a thing as that-I dare you to even try. But that's what it took, you notice, to get somebody's attention. Diggin' graves in the backyard didn't bring any.
>>215655463I don't think that's how I would describe him.
>>215655485>moxie, con hielos, por favor>we aint got no damn moxie you stupid spicwhy didnt he just give the muchacho some dang soda without being mean?
>>215654571Surely you would take it all out and count it no?
>>215655721>the movie isn't good because if I was in the movie I'd somehow intuit that I should individually count each bill to ensure there aren't any trackers because I watched No Country For Old Men and knew that the tracking device was what gave him awaywhat kind of retard wastes time daydreaming about what they'd do differently if they were in a 20 year old movie
>>215655755Huh? If I stole money I would atleast count it and make sure none of the stacks are fake bills. I would then transfer it to different bag etc I never said anything about a tracker.
>>215655794>what kind of retard wastes time daydreaming about what they'd do differently if they were in a 20 year old movie
>>215655755As keeping the original bag is silly. You would get rid of that asap.
>>215655854Does that trailer trash look like he has another bag that can safely keep that much money?
>>215655839>what kind of retard green text replies to a retard who wastes time daydreaming about what they'd do differently if they were in a 20 year old movie
It's a Christian thing.
>>215655872Its not a big big, you could even put it in pillow cases then inside a bin bag then go and buy bags with huuurrr some of the cash .
>>215655909>pillow cases>bin bagsThat bag is hard leather and keeps the cash safe.
>>215655897Steals money hurrr I better go give him a baja blast to errr say thanks for cash coz jesus said giv thy neighbour baja blast when stealing cash from them
>>215655925a few beat up bills would probably do wonders to allay suspicion
>>215655925It would be for short period of time, buying bags takes not much time. No one is going to think much of trashbags, pillow cases are cotton so tied inside would be fine, again you arent walking around with them, its in the trunk or stashed somewhere while you get two or three bags.
>>215655936Hahahaha>senhor, please...Baja Blast...
But besides the obvious fix to the bag , no one and I mean no one would return to a fucking cartel meet where multiple people got murdered and you stole money from, no one. Even the anon I already know will reply with I would no you wouldnt.
>>215654081That was his first mistake, not his only mistake.
>>215655613>He's a good guy because of aguaThen why did he take the money and not give it back?
>>215656855He was operating under the ancient by-law of Finders Keepers.
>>215656008Damn. Imagine watching movies and relating characters, themes, and scenarios to real life. That's crazy dude.
>>215654553Nigger, it took place in 1980.
get a big gulp for cheap
>>215656972That costed his life. So in the end he was neither a good person for caring for agua, or very smart
>>215656008This.If you were worried sick about being responsible for a death by inaction you would call in an anonymous tip from a payphone “I was hunting and I saw some guys with guns, and ran away but they looked injured.” Click
>>215654081He made like 100 mistakes
>>215654118He made a series of smart bets on DraftKings
>>215656972Not stealing is the foundation of all civilization, and the civilizations that are better at it are more evolved.No one would ever improve their palm shack if the next guy would just steal it the minute he goes hunting. All improvement stems from the basic idea that you can’t take something someone else has just because you want it.every thread is a pol thread if you are racist enough
>>215654118Not really hard.Just keep it to yourself, heck you could still work part time if you felt like it, wife retires of course, if a lady lady gets nosey just say your grant aunt left you a little money a few years ago (don’t say 2 million)
>>215654081That was the point. Every good deed gets punished. Like that fat lady who was a total bitch to Chiguhr. She's literally the only person he interacts with that he doesn't even contemplate killing.
>>215657275He was about to kill her before a toilet flushed and he knew she wasn't alone.
>>215654118Launder it like how every other successful criminal does it.
>>215654118Bring a bunch of money into a casino, play for a while and then cash your chips back in the form of a check. play it off as if you had won big by gambling
>>215657763the casino would tell any authority who asked that you didn't actually win anything.
>>215657784maybe if you claimed to have won millions of dollar. i doubt any authority would question if you won in the tens of thousands. that is reasonable to win in a casino.
>>215655613He was wrong in his thinking with that example. If I see someone digging in their backyard my mind wouldn't immediately go to 'welp them must be graves being dug by someone killing senior citizens'. A guy running from a house with a dog collar on garnishes more attention.
>>215654118I've thought about this quite a bit.When you see that bag you might think: "how about just take a few thousand and leave the rest?"But if you just leave the bag and everything there, that's very foolish.The big risk is that someone else comes along and finds it before the police do. Now suppose they steal it? Now the cartel are looking for people in the area. They might well track you down. And if they DO, you're in the worst possible situation, because they will think you took all the money, and you don't have it all to give them. You will die very slowly (and so will your relatives, probably).So if you're going to take nothing, or just a little bit, then you have to tell the police so they get there fast and no-one else appears and steals the rest. Or even hand the bag in yourself (although that has other drawbacks — basically it puts you on the scene).Your plausible options are:(1) Take nothing or a little bit, make sure police get the rest of it.(2) Take the whole lot, cover your tracks as best you can, sit tight.(3) Take the whole lot and run.Running immediately tells everyone that you took the money so you had better be really good at hiding, and you aren't going to be. (Also you're endangering your family of course.) So I think (2) is the way to go.Of course you take all the money out of the bag and check it all very carefully and dispose of the bag somewhere before you go back home. You don't do something stupid like taking the bag home and THEN checking for a radio transmitter, because if there is a long-range one, they already know your home address.It goes without saying that never checking for a transmitter and never ditching the bag EVER is beyond stupid and makes the whole thing utterly unbelievable, but hey, Cormac needed to get his story up and running.
>>215657678>>215657763>>215657883You guys are over thinking it. Criminal’s laundry money Becuase it is a life long threat and business for them and they are being watched.No one is going to zero in on some middle age pleb paying his landlord in cash for a 2 bedroom in bumfuck nowhere, and who eats out a little more often without having a job than is seemly.You forget a local landlord will just be as happy to take cash so he doesn’t have to pay taxes either.Sure he won’t be able to buy a house, or invest in the s+p 500, but just keeping it under his bed is fine for a couple going into retirement age. He could move states every 5 years if he really was worried about the nonexistent tax g-man knocking on his door.
>>215657236Stealing and having the capacity for violence to keep what you stole is the foundation of civilization. Louie Lynn's sin is not having enough juice to fend off the debt collector.
Even if he didn't return and found the tracker they would have been on him eventually. He mentions being "retired" right after finding the money, so he would have undoubtedly done something stupid like closing his business or leaving his trailer that would have attracted attention onto himself.
>>215658722Trust me, no one guys a fuck about you,No one is tracking every bad muchtasuce having greaser that closes his shop this year. He can just move anyways.You think they are going to have some magical list, that doesn’t exist, of everyone that rents in the 10 mile area, and then track down every one that moves in the next 2 years?
Josh Brolin has a face of a asshole.
>>215658669This. All you have to do is bleed the money into your life very gradually and no-one is going to notice. There are dozens of avenues if it's just a few hundred here and there. If you have any relatives you totally trust, give them small amounts in cash and let them pay it into their bank accounts, and then you can ask them for it if you ever need it.Visiting casinos used to be a reasonable way to launder money. It's harder now I think but in 1980 it would definitely have been do-able.The only reason criminals get caught is they are unbelievably greedy and stupid. Remember the Goodfellas scene after the big robbery where they all walk in with mink coats and Cadillacs and Robert De Niro gets pissed off lol.
>>215654081Even if he didn't go back with the agua, he probably wouldn't have found the tracker until four trucks of sicarios pulled up to his trailer home.
>>215658669You pay everything you can in cash from that box for years while the money from your job or retirement simply mounts up on your bank account. When someone finally comes to check there is nothing on your person and a full bank acccount with your own money is no crime
>>215655613>They'd torture em first, I don't know why. Maybe their television set was broke.LOL how can you not like McCarthy
>>215655613Yeah and the Mexicans in "The Counselor" were even scarier.
>>215655613>That’s all right. I laughed myself when I read it. There aint a whole lot else you can do.
Feels like everything in the movie tries to undercut a morallike going back to give the guy water is what fucks him, no good deed goes unpunished. but there's a homing device on the money toofat lady stands up to him and that seems to be some kind of moral that you should be a hardass, but actually she doesn't get murdered because of a toilet flushchigurh gets in a random amoral car wreck and a kid literally gives him the shirt off his back to help him with his bad luck. but the kids also fight over the money he tries to buy the help with to cope with his cognitive dissonance
>>215654493Llewelyn going back kept him alive longer since he left his truck behind and knew that the cartel would have pulled the VIN and got the owner's name and address. If he'd not gone back Chigur would have found him with the tracker and Llewelyn would have had no way to know.
>>215659516>Chigur would have found him with the trackerIt has a really limited range. Unless he had an idea of the area where he was staying he wouldn't have found him with that.
>>215658410It's weird how people know the correct course of action when they have all the information. Weird.
This story takes place in 1980, btw. Literally 45 years ago. The odds more than a handful of people were even born back then itt is very slim.
>>215659691A lot of driving but I think it's plausible. The range of the tracker is such that if you, say, drive up a street and the money is in one of the houses on either side, you'll know. It seemed to be a pretty sparsely populated area. There's one or two towns to cover, plus some trailer parks and so on. Might take a week or so.The issue is how far you think a hunter might have travelled to get to that exact area. If he wasn't from the immediate area then finding him is not really practicable, certainly.
I can't wait for No Country For Old Men 2 where Moss' son finds another bag of money in the desert and Anton Jr. pursues himAnd then No Country For Old Men 3: The Beginning where it's a prequel and they reveal that young Moss was a special forces soldier in Vietnam and he was tasked with finding a rogue soldier who stole some Vietnamese gold but he was wounded and a Vietnamese soldier found him and gave him a sip of Nước and that's how he survived
>>215659516Guarantee that Llewelyn would have started counting the money as soon as his dipshit wife went to work thenext day. He would have Found the tracker, and put it in the house of his asshole boss
>>215658410You're such a retard holy shit
>>215660206I want the Agua Man spin-off movie.Forrest-Gump-like, he appears repeatedly at key moments in history, always with the same desperate request, always disappointed.Who is he? What's his endgame? Why doesn't he bring his own agua?
