No Country For Old Men.
The trailer for No Country For Old Men is very effective in the way that it cuts from scene to scene. Most of the scenes in the trailer are full of fast-paced villain action and this entices the audience to view the full movie. The target audience is most probably adults because of the amount of violence involved in the film, seeing as it contains very gory and shocking violence scenes, for example;
The starting scene where the police officer is murdered by Anton (the Hitman). Anton manages to kill the police officer by chocking him with his handcuffs and he manages to cut his throat quite deeply. This scene has lots of blood involved and this is a prime example of why it isn't aimed at a younger audience, or to those with a particularly bad nervous disposition.
The film is set in Texas and the beginning scene shows lots of empty field with some wide open landscape scenery. this gives us the feeling that there is not going to be many people in the film, as the open and empty land makes it appear very isolated. Perhaps even deserted. The voice over from the Sheriff whilst looking at the empty scenery builds a lot of tension and makes you want to look away because you think something is going to pop out and scare you. This is from the deep voice of the Sheriff, and the way that he talks about the past. It is as if he is reflecting on what has happened and that we are going to watch his memories.
There is a continuous drum and rattle throughout the opening scene which itself is quite unnerving. Both the speaking from the Sheriff and the instruments being played are non-diagetic sounds.
The clothes worn make us assume that the taller man (Anton) is being arrested for not belonging to that particular part of America, and not being allowed to cross the border into that particular state. I am swayed to believe this because he is wearing completely different clothes to the police officer. The audience is made to believe that Anton is going to be put in a cell and that we are going to find out what he has done. He in fact murders the police officer and breaks free of the handcuffs and then escapes.
I believe that it is important that we see the villain in the first scene because we then know who we are looking for when later problems occur. The fact that we see Anton first is also important because we are constantly throughout the film on edge because we don't know if he is going to appear or if he is going to cause anymore trouble and murder more people. This differs from other Thriller movies because we normally don't see the villain until considerably later on in the film. The fact that Anton Chigurh barely speaks during the film creates more tension and builds more fear in the viewers because his lack of dialogue makes him seem more and more shady by the minute.
