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No Country for Old Men (2005) is a novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The novel was adapted for the movie by American film-making brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, who also produced and directed the movie. No Country for Old Men won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Picture.

It comes from the first line of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium", written by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats. In it, an elderly man at the end of his life contemplates death and wonders what the afterlife will be like. This theme is seen in Sheriff Bell, who is nearing retirement, and ponders what it will be like in his "afterlife," i.e, his life when he is no longer a lawman.

That's Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) from Terrell County in Southwestern Texas.

The film suggests that Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) was caught trying to sneak into the country. In the book, Chigurh tells Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson) that he had allowed himself to get arrested to see if he could escape. Chigurh had murdered a man in a bar fight the previous night; the man had insulted him. According to Chigurh's description, he had either snapped the man's neck or strangled him.

The story takes place in June 1980. When Chigurh tosses the coin for the gas station proprietor, he says that the date on the coin is 1958, and it took 22 years to get there. The phone bill Chigurh picks up is dated 1980, and 1980 is the date of death on one of the graves.

A sound-suppressed Remington 11-87 Semi-Auto shotgun with a sawed-off barrel. The suppressor is probably custom-made, perhaps by Chigurh himself, who likely has military training and may have learned how to make one. The shotgun itself is anachronistic since it was released in 1987, while the film clearly takes place in 1980.

Though shotgun silencers and silenced shotguns do exist, they are not nearly as effective at reducing the muzzle report as pistol or rifle silencers. The silencer Chigurh has attached to his shotgun is intended only for cinematic effect and would actually do very little to reduce the muzzle report of the shotgun he uses. Generally the noise of gunshots (silenced or otherwise) are added to a film's audio after filming, as microphones do not accurately record the sound very well.

It is explained in the book that the seventeenth floor is missing from the building's directory because of the illegal business that goes down there. But given that explanation is left out of the film, it could be inferred that Wells was giving another "attempt at humour" by suggesting the missing floor was the 13th floor, due to superstition, older buildings would have the 13 removed from the floor numbers. The Man Who Hires Wells, annoyed with Wells, simply saying "We'll look in to it."

"Young Men Dead" by The Black Angels.