"But I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand." The way this bit of narration hits when we see Anton's weapon just adds to its weight.

One of the greatest openings ever. I would say Once Upon in the West and No Country have the greatest openings.

great oppening scene!

Anton at 2:08 "You shouldn't have done that."

When you reflect on the movie's title... and the fact that the sheriff's monologue opens and closes the story... you realize that this isn't really Llwellyn's story. That's just something for the sheriff to observe and mull over.

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Maybe the most poignant intro to any movie'

세상은 변했고 일단 상식있는 정치인 젊은이 중년 노인이 미국 질서를 잡는게 맞다고 생각함.

미국 중부 남부에 사는 60대 노인의 무기력함이 느껴짐.

Oh man it’s just an unbelievable scene

The dialogue with Tommy Lee Jones is what makes this a really good movie. Acting at its best.

This monologue is very boring

2:06

Beautiful words and deliverance.

This movie is an absolute masterpiece. Greatest film ever made

This was a jaw dropping flick. The 15 min line is memorable

Someone help me identify this classic piano song- Miigwech!

Love how he picks that brass up #goirisH

ONE of The Greatest Movies of ALL TIME!!!💯% I mean, no music even!!! Just the atmosphere. Amazing!!!💯%

It's a country of Dollars...Not People.

I’m gonna try to perform this at next card game with friends.

This is were thing's went wrong!!!

i feel like this is like a homage to their first film “blood simple” (1983), i watched both of them once

This film has one of the most compelling opening scenes and ending scenes of any I have ever watched in my 60 years. What a masterpiece of movie making and story telling.

I know I was….. that line always gets me

What’s crazy is I saw this movie when it first came out and never paid this opening line any thought. A year later I became a cop. 15 years later I find myself thinking exactly this and I can’t wait to get out either.

0:30

I just have to echo what all have said here in that this is incredible cinema - every aspect of the medium is executed at the highest level, the effort coalesces into a cohesive emotional feeling that is beyond powerful. Incredible.

the CC is awful

I'd like to know how that deputy got Anton at the beginning...

I was traveling east from Ft. Bliss (El Paso) and some of the landscape reminded me of this, so I put it on. I was shocked when I read the town I passed through, Marfa, is where the opening scenery is shot.

A-lot of your old time sheriffs here in Wyoming didn’t carry a side arm. And I know this for a fact I’m talking from Rod about 1895 on up to right about 1945. To this day I have have 4 people in my family in law enforcement. One of them is a deputy US Marshal here in Wyoming.

Said if they turned him out he’d do it again said he knew he was going to hell; be there in about 15 minutes

''He killed a 14 year old girl. Papers said it was a ''crime of passion'' but he told me there wasn´t any passion to it. Told me he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember, said if he'd turn him out he'd do it again.'' He's dealing with an inexplicable evil. Something he doesn't understand.

As good as Javier Bardem is in this movie, I keep going back to the Tommy Lee Jones scenes. I appreciate his performance more with each passing year.

Be there in about 15 minutes..

I love this monologue so much it's my favorite movie scene ever

I have a hard time understanding what he is saying

2:27 That is Ranch Road 2810 south of Marfa,Texas. I was there a few months ago. Nothing but road, dust, wind, and sky. It’s so quiet and peaceful. Most remote road I’ve ever been on.

When you understand the whole movie is the Sherrifs story.

Perfect way to open the film. It makes you think instantly that Bell needs to retire, and this last case (the plot of the film) is how he will finally do that. I never thought that the first few times I saw it but now the message is loud and clear.

Hands down the best monologue in film history.

I love Tommy Lee Jones in this movie cause he’s from west Texas and has a perfect west Texas accent. For anyone with an ear for it it positively sings to you.

How did that cop even arrest Anton?

I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough'd never carried one; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville Hill here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. "Be there in about fifteen minutes". I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."

The good of the scorpion is not the good of the frog~Charlie Kelly

I’m a Native American Coast Salish wood carver in the PNW of America. I come from a long and proud line of wood carvers. There’s an old wood carver man named Duane who is a 92 year old Korean War vet, he is still carving. Whenever I feel down and out, stuck, or just stumped by the world around me; I go to Duane. I do chores around his house, I do all kinds of manual labor and help him anyway I can, just to sit down with some black coffee and hear his stories. And when I leave his house, I feel reinvigorated, I feel better. I love this opening scene, and Duane loves this movie. He said in his youth, listening to the old timers was priceless and that that resource goes so quick. To all you who have an old timer in your life or have memories of an old timer, cherish them. Remember them. They won’t be here forever, and neither will you.

Season 9 not 3.

This is, without a doubt, the best intro of any movie made so far

I always knew youd have to be willing to die to even do this jaaaaab