NCFOM/TGTBATU parallel

[UT wildcatter]

Anybody else see a parallel between No Country for Old Men and The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly about the bringing the water to the soon to be deceased harbingers of death?

In NCFOM Llewllyn Moss goes back to bring the Mexican water opens up the whole book/movie for the disaster that follows. The plot unfolds because of this.

In TGTBATU Tuco goes to get the dying man in the stagecoach(Bill Carsons) water as Angel Eyes crawls over to hear the information that the grave next to Arch Stanton's was where the gold was stashed. Thus the whole dilemna of who knows where the cemetary is and who knows the gravesite.

Wonder if Cormac McCarthy had this running through his mind when he wrote the book?

Eerily similiar, I think.

 

[iiiisofTX]

I'm a little hazy on my recollection of GBU but wasn't Tuco trying to get water so the stagecoach guy would tell him?

Moss already had the money in "No Country" so his was a decision of conscience. He had already left the guy in desert.

I guess what we learn is don't get water for dying people in the desert. OK, now I need a glass of water.

 

[Bookman]

William Munny let that guy get water for his friend after the friend got shot. And Munny's always been lucky when it comes to killing folks.