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| “ | Buenos días. I'm guessing this isn't the future you had planned for yourself when you first clapped eyes on that money. | „ |
| ~ Wells upon meeting Llewellyn Moss |
Carson Wells is a major character in the Cormac McCarthy 2005 novel No Country for Old Men and its 2007 movie adaptation by Coen Brothers. He was the hitman hired by drug dealers to kill and stop Anton Chigurh, the rogue hitman who betrayed them, and retrieve the drug money for them.
However, while Wells is unambiguously much more honorable and redeemable than Chigurh, Wells isn't a truly benevolent character otherwise. While Chigurh is a complete and utter monster with nothing redeeming about him at all, Wells is still a bounty hunter who was engaged in killing people, but unlike Chigurh, Wells is anti-hero, who has a strict sense of honor for not killing innocent people, and he eventually redeems himself by trying to save Llewellyn Moss.
He was portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the movie adaptation, who also played Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, Harlan DeGroat in Out of the Furnace, Charles Costello in Seven Psychopaths, Colonel McCullough in War for the Planet of the Apes, Tobias Beckett in Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Cletus Kasady/Carnage in Sony's Spider-Man Universe.
Biography[]
Little is known about Wells. He was a professional hitman before the events of the story, but while he is a mercenary, Wells is honorable and a truly affable individual. Again, he is unambiguously greedy and selfish and took the lives of people in the past, but in comparison to ruthless, sadistic, and monstrous Chigurh who claimed dozens, if not hundreds of lives in cold-blood without any remorse or emotions, Wells is benevolent and sympathetic and he was hired by drug dealers to save Moss, while killing Chigurh to get revenge on the ruthless murderer for his treason. Before the events of the novel, exclusively in the book version, Wells was engaged in his mercenary mission in Vietnam, where he saw a dead girl (it's unknown if he killed her himself or just witnessed this).
Wells confronted Moss in the hospital and warned him how dangerous and ruthless Chigurh was, and he offered his help to Moss, while understanding how risky and dangerous it was for them both. Wells offered Llewellyn protection in exchange for returning the drug profit to his bosses. Later, Wells confronted Chigurh and tried to convince him to stop, but failed, and eventually Chigurh killed his rival mercenary. However, Wells died as a hero, while trying to save Moss.
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