I aim to explain why the character, described by Rolling Stone reviewer Peter Travers as “a monster for the ages,” has attained exceptional notoriety. In this article, I will analyze him as a villain-as an antagonistic force integral to the meaning and moral vision of No Country.
Scholars have debated whether Chigurh is best understood as a man or ghost, a cipher or a force of nature (King, Wallach, and Welsh 2009). Chigurh, the story’s villain, is given relatively more screen time in the adaptation than he was lines in the novel, but the reason Cant’s statement is true has more to do with the character’s chilling on-screen presence per se than with its duration. In the words of literary critic John Cant (2012), “ No Country for Old Men is Sheriff Bell’s book, but it’s Anton Chigurh’s film” (98). The Coen Brothers’ neo-Western thriller No Country for Old Men (2007), adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same title (2005), does the same things and hits the same notes as the original-with one notable exception.
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