No Country For Old Men (Shooting)

"NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN" Adapted Screenplay by JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN Based on the Novel by CORMAC MCCARTHY FADE IN: EXT. MOUNTAINS - NIGHT Snow is falling in a gusting wind. The voice of an old man: VOICE OVER I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five. Hard to believe. Grandfather was a lawman. Father too. Me and him was sheriff at the same time, him in Plano and me here. I think he was pretty proud of that. I know I was. EXT. WEST TEXAS LANDSCAPE - DAWN/DAY We dissolve to another West Texas landscape. Sun is rising. VOICE OVER Some of the old-time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lot of folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough never carried one. That's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one. Up in Comanche County. We dissolve through more landscapes, bringing us to full day. None of them show people or human habitation. VOICE OVER I always liked to hear about the old- timers. Never missed a chance to d o so. Nigger Hoskins over in Bastrop County knowed everbody's phone number off by heart. You can't help but compare yourself against the old- timers. Can't help but wonder how they would've operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. EXT. WEST TEXAS ROAD - DAY The last landscape, hard sunbaked prairie, is surveyed in a long slow pan.