9/21/16 - Michelle Cella

In class today, Mr. Rivers started the class off by asking us what intertextuality meant. The definition of intertexuality is the relationship between literary texts. After the class discussed the meaning of intertexuality, Mr. Rivers played the first four minutes of the film, No Country For Old Men. Before we started the movie, Mr. Rivers divided the class in half to analyze the film. One side evaluated the similarities of the book and the movie, and the other side evaluated the differences. The purpose of this was to eventually write intertexuality sentences between the book and the movie. (We read the first four pages of the book yesterday in class.) After watching the beginning clip of the movie, we had to write our intertexuality sentences with our group, and post them on google classroom. My group had to find the differences between the text and the film. Our sentence(s) were,“The intertextuality in No Country For Old Men, is the contrast between the novel and the film as shown in the main character's name. In the novel, he is given the name Chigurh, however, in the film he is not given a name. This choice creates suspense and mystery within both the plot and character.” Some similarities the class examined between the book and the movie, was the Sheriff’s opening monologue about the young boy and Chigurh’s murderous actions. For me, I’m not a huge fan of murder/suspense novels/films. The first four minutes of the film are very graphic, but it wasn’t too bad to watch. However, the film and the book demonstrates the perfect meaning of intertexuality, which was the lesson of class today.Reading the text and now having seen the beginning of the film, help me understand and analyze intertexuality between novels and films a lot better.

The character Chigurh from No Country for Old Men