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Article: A classic villain.(LIVING)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- November 29, 2007
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Byline: Jim Keogh
COLUMN: Film Clips
Anton Chigurh.
Even his name is unsettling. A tangle of clashing letters that falls somewhere between "cigar" and "sugar," never quite at home in either pronunciation.
No, Chigurh is as lone a wolf as names get. One isn't sure that, if pressed, Anton himself would be able to decide on its correction interpretation.
In "No Country for Old Men" the man with the funny name is an assassin, delivering chaos wherever his boots come to rest. Sometimes, he gives his prey an out. He tosses a coin into the air, and if they can correctly predict heads or tails, they live. If they fail, they are ...