Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to the 100th episode of Beyond the Screenplay.

The podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.

Today we are talking about the 2007 film, No Country for Old Men. Again, I'll get into that

in a second, written and directed, of course, by the Cohen Brothers based on the novel by

Corman McCarthy. I'm joined by the Beyond Screenplay team, Trisha Arandt. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner.

Hello, friendo. And Alex Cayetos. Hi. So here we are, 100 episodes later.

It's kind of insane.

That's a lot.

And so the reason that we're talking about no country is that way back when over two years ago, apparently, when we were, so basically this is like the inception of the podcast story.

It was like hanging out, all of us as a team talking about movies and someone had the idea

of like, this could be a good like podcast maybe, but wanted to try it out and do a first,

you know, a first go at it. So we all met up in my living room, sat around a table, and talked about

no country for old men. It was rough, but fun. Afterward realized that the good audio with the

good microphones was not recording. So we only had a backup that was recorded on my iPhone. So we released that to patrons. So that exists

that that very first conversation. You can listen to it. I don't know if anyone ever has,

but it's out there. But we haven't. And we thought it would be fun for 100 episodes to go back

to the very beginning and do a new episode about no country for old men.

So none of us have listened to that original episode.

I really don't know what that conversation was like, but we're going to have a new conversation about one of the greatest films of all time.

Which I'm very excited about, Trisha.

It's obviously a big favorite of yours.

You have a very big grin on your face.

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