It is. I should watch No Country and count it for the challenge. This is some bullshit. I'm gonna take this to the parliment, eh.

Sheridan uses land-ownership as a theme in a lot of his works. While No Country doesn't mention anything specific about land or manifest destiny, it does give the impression that men are greedy and want a lot of money. Brolin may have very well bought some land with the money if he could, right? While westerns may have traditional bandits, No Country does have people fighting over a fat sack of cash, slinging guns (and air guns?) at each other in desolate rural settings. One could equate Brolin = cowboy, Javier = outlaw, and Tommy Lee Jones = sheriff. It seems like an obvious fit.

I don't believe a western needs to be restricted to a certain era, and I'm glad that modern westerns can exist, though I think with the advent of technology, classification of the genre becomes something to nitpick about. Then again, No Country was set in 1980, which is to say there wasn't any big computing tech out there. So they should really file this under western.