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Critics absolutely loved it , and it won four of the eight Oscars it was nominated for, including Best Picture.Mark Strong almost played the role of Anton Chigurh, as Javier Bardem was considering backing out of the project due to a scheduling conflict with Love in the Time of Cholera. Thankfully, things worked out, and Bardem could do both movies. Additionally, Josh Brolin wasn't the first choice for the role of Llewlyn Moss, as it was originally offered to Heath Ledger.
But for the above coin-toss scene, a slight change of the setting makes all of the difference. In the movie, the conversational confrontation plays out in broad daylight. In the book, it takes place after dark."Where McCarthy gives us Chigurh's question as, 'What's the most you ever saw lost on a coin toss?', he says,"the film elides the word 'saw', but the Coens of course tend to the visual.
"The light through two windows and a door comes evenly through three walls in the interior shots. But this difference increases our sense of the man's desperation later, when he claims he needs to close and he closes at 'near dark'; it is darker, as it were, in the cave of this man's ignorance than it is outside in the bright light of truth."
It goes to show that one seemingly tiny change can make or potentially break some of the most memorable moments in cinematic history.WATCH: Brendan Gleeson & Colin Farrell on The Banshees Of Inisherin, Ireland's natural beauty & Joker 2!
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