New Mexico Is No State For Old Mexicans

30 January 2008, 2:15 PM. By Alex Alvarez

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The Coen brothers, the masterminds [Ed. note: Oh, am I editorializing? Work through it.] behind No Country For Old Men answered some questions about the production of their Oscar-nominated movie and shared certain amusing little bits of trivia, including the following:

The U.S.-Mexico border station was actually built by a production design team in New Mexico, a few hundred miles north of the actual border.

However:

That didn’t stop some locals from mistaking it for the real thing.

Meaning… that border “fence” everyone keeps talking about? Will probably end up somewhere around Schenectady.

‘No Country for Old Men’: mysteries dispelled (?) [PopWatch]

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  1. Cindy Casares
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    La Cindy wrote

    That would explain why, in the movie, Josh Brolin strolls across it with a freaking open beer bottle in his hand and a gun wound the size of Kansas gushing blood all over the place. Realism ’twas not, brothers Cohen.

  2. (+1)
    JAV!ER wrote

    so locals get hassled even at a fake border

  3. (+1)
    la roncha wrote

    i was thinking the same thing JAV!ER …can you imagine all those confused mexicans! That is fucked up ey!

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