Why didn’t he check for tracking devices earlier?

You're right. Guess he was just stoked then and not thinking.

But as pointed out - he'd probably have to have been thinking specifically of a tracker or something similar to have gone through the bills in such a way.

It was 1980 you dumb fuck.

WHAT?

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>It was 1980 in hicksville nowhere
This
But also he WAS a hick, youre mistaken if you think he was a smart fella. He was good at warfare cause he had military experience and he had good intuition but thats pretty much it.
Ex. he saw a dude dying begging for water, left him, went home, grabbed a bite to eat, fucked his wife, tried to go to bed, and eventually left to give water to the nigga cause his conscious was nagging at him.
everything in the movie happens because of his stupidity

>>It was 1980 in hicksville nowhere

That has absolutely nothing to do with it. You always discard the container you find money in and just keep the money. Like when you find a wallet. You don't keep the fucking wallet, you take the cash and move on. Maybe even throw the wallet somewhere else so one else ever finds it. Ever.

>and eventually left to give water to the nigga cause his conscious was nagging at him.
>everything in the movie happens because of his stupidity

Consider the "smart" version where he didn't go back out. He's on day three of wondering how to use the money when there's a knock on the door. He opens and gets shot.

He wouldn't have found the tracker in time. He lived close to the area where it happened. Chigurh would have been doing search grids until he picked up the beeps.

Absolutely not an excuse. Spy movies were well-known components of popular culture by that point. The average dude on the street had a general notion could, and often did, have a general notion of homing devices via popular media. The point being that knowledge of such technology was widespread in the general population. However, it wasn't ubiquitous to the point of total saturation, the flip side of the same coin. Llewellyn just happened to be on the left-hand side of that particular bell curve at the time, despite his resourcefulness and ingenuity in (ironically) other spy-related/intelligence gathering/self-defense activity (procuring equipment and further armament within hours, moving self and woman to safety at same time).

Llewelyn was just an unlucky, anecdotal guy who had this one blind spot, needed to propel the story forward. But it's still true that people in 1980 knew what a fucking homing device was.

Moss was out of his league- plain and simple.

Carson found him and the money easy enough and Anton beat him and his bosses easily.

They probably wouldn't think Mexican cartels had them.

I feel that if the character can look back at the movie and ask the same question, then it's not really a plot hole. Things just slip your mind and he had a lot on it.

A lot was going on within a few hours, and that's another possibility. Llewelyn also knew that he had to make good his escape in the initial getaway, and in that initial period, it makes total sense not to bother closely examining the package. I don't fault the character for not closely examining the package during the initial discovery... UNTIL he's back in his truck and has put some miles between himself and the site.

This is when you act. You are in the privacy of your own truck, a mobile private space, and not at home with your nosy woman. The film makes very clear that there are endless wastes of borderland where you can park for a few minutes and enjoy total solitude. And if someone approaches? You just drive away and pick another spot. Yes, someone could walk up and peek inside your truck, but this is very low odds if you play things right. And you do the package handling below the bottom of the vehicle's window-line, in the passenger footwell, say. That way the only one anyone can peek in is if they're right on top of you, or in a semi, or something. Not to mention that you could jury-rig a screen if you're that paranoid, but that's a problem too because it calls unwanted attention toward yourself. Personally I wouldn't bother with that.

The last time Yea Forums discussed this fun topic in depth, a large minority of anons recognized the following as a reasonable tactic: "do a quick check of the money/contents (finding the tracker), ditch the tracker and bag itself, and move the money into your own container". He has some sort of towel or tarp in his backseat that he can use. And if not, he sure as fuck can buy a container, now. Checking the package and moving its contents (even if requires leaving the vehicle for ten minutes while you go to the store) are the calculated risks you take in a situation like this, if you're stupid enough to try to keep the money for yourself in the first place.

Popular media wasn't so widely consumed back then. There were wasn't an internet. Hell, if there wasn't a movie theater in his town it's likely he didn't see any. At most he had an antenna on his trailer.

this reads like a reddit post. I can't even begin to describe the layers of delusional faggotry.

It's exactly the other way round. People watched television (note that Llewelyn had one in his own home) and went to the theater because they didn't have smartphones and internet. Now you've got me curious as to whatever radio/tv programs are playing in the film's "background noise". IIRC some health/weight loss thing is playing while Anton performs his self-surgery in the motel room (a fitting choice). I forget what Llewelyn/Carla Jean were watching/listening to the first night.

I told ya, I ain't got no Pokemon creatures.

You don't get to dismiss the reasonable points made in the post with your stupid buzzword. Nor is the post delusional. Everything that I wrote is reasonable, and you are dumb.

Even so I could imagine some folk just not attending movies altogether. Llewlyn was a veteran who spent most of his free time alone, hunting. If anything he'd strike me as the type to pass on "those hollywood fruitcake flicks".

You wouldn't have checked for one either if you didn't see NCFOM

It was the early 80's nigga only hardcore nerds knew about that kind of shit. Not some blue-collar welder from bumfuck TX.

The reason why the character doesn't check for the tracker isn't because he's stupid, or technologically illiterate - the film demonstrates the contrary (of the latter point, at least). Rather, the story itself simply requires the oversight in order to proceed. A reverse-plot armor. Also he made his choices hastily.

He's not technologically illiterate, but that doesn't mean he'd immediately assume there'd be a tracker in the case.
By the time he found it he realized it was what allowed him to be so easily found due to his cunning, probably regardless if he realized exactly what the tech was.

He went back to the site at least a good 7 hours to bring the Mexican in the truck water, why did he think he'd still be alive by then

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This, what a dumbfuck

It's the mother-in-law that was stupid.
She told those beaners they were going to El Paso.
Moss was in the clear until that.

The MiL wasn't aware of his intentions and why they were going to El Paso.

He figured he was probably dead, but he couldn't ignore his conscious. Maybe it's some solider thing. He even said to Carla Jean "i'm fixin to do somethin dumber than hell"

he was too busy drinking a refreshing pepsico™ mountain dew™ baja blast™

even better question, why was the tracking device so big?

>baja mountain dew, por favor

>last people to have the suitcase are all dead
>better grab it, what could go wrong?

Moss was an idiot

because it was 1980 and thats how they would look

1970/80s technology (they just loved to house things in big clunky plastic-y housings, you see it in computers and early video game systems for example), plus the need to have a simple yet instantly-understood prop.

This applies both to the homing device/tracking "seeker" prop (0:40 on first clip, which also sits in the passenger seat of Anton's current ride as he pulls into an earlier motel, zeroing in on Llewelyn), and also to the "target" prop, discovered by Llewelyn at 0:00 on second clip after muttering "there just ain't no way" (that they could follow me unless there's something else going on). Notice the look of intelligence when he finds the prop, albeit much too late: he understands exactly what it is once he sees it. At the very least, he's correctly intuited it. He simply hadn't thought to look for it before.

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It's the age old question though, you would turn away and not take the money?

Like the other user said, dude was a moron. He didn't have the smarts to think of something like that.

Unironically: yes, I would. I would have appreciated the seriousness of the situation and that I can go happily my entire life without giving whatever sorts of people are capable of doing this kind of thing, any reason whatsoever to come after me. This is Moss' original sin, his original stupidity.

More like it's just a plot device so Anton can keep chasing him.... in reality guys like him pulled info, papers, maps, and intelligence from dead VC and always put that into new bags to be passed along to Army intelligence

dumb character =/= bad writing

This canard has been pre-emptively dispatched both here and here The Llewelyn character gets what a homing device/tracker is. He /did/ have the smarts to think of/intuit such a device, hence the Del Rio motel discovery just pointed out. He just did it too late because the plot requires the character to have this oversight.

Is Rambo versus Mexicans worth seeing?

Agua

Better question is why he went back

Why is this so fucking funny?

The plot "requires" it but I hope you are not suggesting it was a contrivance.

Again, plot. The sorta-good white guy has a bit of stupid sympathy (even he knows it's stupid), which allows us to root for him along conventional moralfag lines, and also misidentify him as the main character. But it gets even dumber once you start thinking through what he might have done if the guy were still alive and he brought him out. What, take him to a hospital? "Yes I was shot and this nice gringo helped me out after he brought me a nice pollo soft taco with an accompanying churro and a 2 liter Fanta, also a Jumex. For dessert there was authentic Mexican Coke (did I say Coke? I mean, Coca-Cola) Dios mio I could have used some helado but I had to make do, he was very kind to come back."

Mountain Dew Baja Blast

That depends.

What contrivance do you mean?

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Coen bros movies are always full of stupid characters making stupid decisions.

It's their thing.

How was it implied he fucked his wife?

>Ima take you out in the back and screw ya.
>...big talk.
>Keep it up.
He got to fuck Kelly Macdonald. I fucking hate him so goddamn fucking much desu

Sir?

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>Pablo Acosta is alluded to in Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men.

mfw anton chygur's boss was a member of miguel angel felix gallardo guadalajara cartel IRL

mfw Anton is part of the Narcoverse
mfw Anton confirmed Narcos Mexico S02

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The scene where he comes back to give the beaner some water and those two men find his car was so poorly done. The set up was great and built some nice tension but they killed it when he as quickly discovered and it just turned into "plot armor guy can't get shot by baddies who are 5 yards away from him" garbage. Also the quick transition from dawn to bright daylight was jarring as fuck, obvious editing issues. That scene just cemented to me that the cohen brothers are fucking hacks