This article delves into the unlikely connection between two cinematic masterpieces, 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Will Be Blood,' both filmed in the small town of Marfa, Texas. It explores how their simultaneous productions led to a humorous, albeit inconvenient, encounter caused by the pyrotechnic needs of 'There Will Be Blood'.
It's not often that we get a monumental landmark in cinema in any given year, but 2007 gave us two such landmarks, in No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. The twin masterpieces by the Coen Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson , respectively, were both highly touted as the pinnacles of two careers of similar legacy yet vastly different methodology.
Both were given major accolades by mainstream awards bodies, including a head-to-head Best Picture contest that No Country for Old Men ultimately won. But the connections between the two go even deeper than that, as the productions crossed paths with each other in a most unfortunate way that served as a funny speed bump on the road to glory. Both films did location shooting in the small town of Marfa, Texas, with a population of around 2,000 people, and it's known for its wide range of rustic land and diverse variety of location aesthetics. According to Robbie Friedman, location manager for No Country, the main appeal was in how'you can drive for hours. The terrain changes. The vegetation changes. You never know when you're going to step on a rattlesnake,' and how everything is out in the open plains with'the wind howling.' The Texas Film Commission, meanwhile, attested that the There Will Be Blood crew loved the'ranches with grassy rolling hills' and how they gave the right feel for early-20th century California. While the two productions weren't usually shot in exactly the same parts of town, they did have a tendency to cross paths once or twice, which is what led to the strange interruption in question. There Will Be Blood involves a small handful of scenes that involve huge explosions of fire, so that required the crew to conduct pyrotechnical tests for the sake of practice and safety.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN THERE WILL BE BLOOD FILM LOCATIONS MARFA TEXAS PRODUCTION INTERRUPTIONS CINEMA AWARDS COEN BROTHERS PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
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