РОМАН КОРМАКА МАККАРТИ «СТАРИКАМ ТУТ НЕ МЕСТО» И ЕГО ЭКРАНИЗАЦИЯ БРАТЬЯМИ КОЭН

Abstract

In 2007, McCarthy's novel became the first experience of screen adaptation in the Coen brothers’ career, who had previously developed their own scripts only. They cut several key scenes of the novel. For example, those when each of the three main characters having their military background manifests himself as a Nietzsche’s Übermensch, ready to confrontate with others (the Coens made one of them be the protagonist, it's Sheriff Bell who does not accept the incomprehensible new world because of its total immorality). The person with healthy instincts, Bell had transformed by the Coens into a sort of a perfect knight, the new generation calculated killer Chigurh – in a total psycho, and his victim Moss – just in a man “who's been underestimated by others for so long that he's come to overestimate himself”. McCarthy's bitter irony grows out of his novel structure (mise en abyme) mostly. At the same time the Coens movie brilliance is based on their canticle of Absurd, when the crazy killer flips a coin with his victims.