TIL Woody Harrelson's dad was a hitman and died in prison while serving a life sentence for killing a Federal Judge.

How Can Movies Be Real If Actors Aren't Real?

What part's not real? The only thing I didn't verify was the quote from the novel. The rest checks out in the wiki articles linked.

It comes from Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
– Those dying generations – at their song,
The salmon‐falls, the mackerel‐crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing‐masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come

His character figures there is no place for him in his own country as it is a country for the young, his decaying body becoming useless. So he sails to Bizantium (not Istanbul nor Constantinople) as a Pilgrimmage. There, he hopes he can enter exit his mortal body as a golden bird signing about eternity.

Either, way there is no mortal country for old men.

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Never thought of it that way. I took it simply as that the sheriff is getting too old and can't keep up with the world anymore, hence [this is] no country for old men. Your explanation makes sense though in line with the old man's story.

Section 5. Title of article No Country for Old Men %28film%29:

The title is taken from the opening line of 20th-century Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats' poem "Sailing to Byzantium":

"THAT is no country for old men. The young

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I don't really agree with this. I mean it may as well be true, but during the opening scene (if i remember right) he explains that he has seen this sort of pure, random evil long before the events of the movie.

choo-choo!

Blood Meridian dude - get on it. Difficult read but one of my favorite books.

Love the book too. Super disappointed in the movie.

The Road is a nice book. It's one of the few books we've read in high school that isn't completely depressing at the end. (fuck you Steinbeck)

You don't poop at work? What is wrong with you man? Getting paid to poop is literally the best part of having a job.

I do literally none of that. We're nothing alike.

Sad day.

hold on. one or two comments? That's not gunna fly

Ew you're gross

50 year old + publicist who didn't understand how reddit worked either? That's too bad. But he should come back on and laugh at it with a more helpful PR person.

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The AMA mods actively try to arrange proper threads. So they are contacted by agents looking to have their client do an AMA and they get all the details.

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Pretty sure the top comment was basically accusing him of statutory rape.

That "story" set the tone for the whole thing. As soon as that got voted to the top, it stopped being a fun "direct with fans" interview, and became a chore.

As much as Reddit users claim to not be a hivemind, it really kind of is. You can tell right from the get go what the tone and mindset of a thread will be. Especially in AMAs. I've seen a few where it starts out as unnecessarily combative.

The guy who wrote that was quite douche-y about it too.

Yea, I suspect that the anonymous accuser was simply a really shitty troll that hated Woody.

Some totally anonymous person makes a random accusation with zero proof or even a reference of any type and then everyone on Reddit jumped on board and believed the anonymous person over the guy that denied it.

I can hardly think of anything more shitty than that behavior. Reddit lost lots of legitimacy that day.

It is still the number one place to go read and entertain yourself, but that AMA is proof that that anonymous people on the Internet can act shitty like a mob.

Not that I would ever suggest changing anything about the anonymity of the Internet, because I think it is vital. But that simply is something people will have to accept and learn to deal with. I know question absolutely everything I read from anyone, even if it sounds totally legit and well written.

That's an awesome term for how he's changed his career. If you look at his filmography, he's been nominated and/or won a fuckload of awards in the past 3 years.

And it doesn't hurt that he's doing Interstellar with Nolan this year.

Alright now ladies

my jaw was literally dropped the entire sequence.