20 Things You Didn't Know About No Country For Old Men
6. Bloody Expensive
It’s no secret that Hollywood movies require ludicrously large budgets to pay for production sets, special effects and actors with huge name values that will hopefully see the producers of the film recoup their money, and then some, when the movie hits the box office.
You wouldn’t imagine that fake blood would be a large expense for a movie, but on No Country For Old Men, they were paying “something like $800 a gallon”, according to co-director Joel Coen.
How many gallons of blood did they need?!
This was due to the scenes where multiple extras had to “lie in the sun covered with blood on the desert floor, essentially for hours at a time.”
Therefore, the considerate Coen brothers didn’t want to use the typical method used for blood in films, which consists of mixing food colourings with syrup, as it would attract animals and bugs that would be crawling over the actors. Instead, they used a sugar-free substitute that was flown over from England especially for the movie.