The Coens have moved from the film-noir stylings of Blood Simple through the cartoon comedy of Raising Arizona, the gangster genre of Miller's Crossing, the Hollywood satire/horror film cross of Barton Fink, the antic 1940s-style comedy of The Hudsucker Proxy, the realistic thriller mode of Fargo, and on to the mystery/pothead combination of The Big Lebowski. [...] For the most part, though, they gave the script a kind of omniscient point of view, which allows the audience to know more of the truth than any of the characters. [...] And some of the incidental speech, such as the evangelist on the radio while Ray drives through the night with the supposedly dead Marty in the backseat (". [...] This sequence, perhaps the most talked-about part of the film, uses some of the hor- ror tropes that Joel learned from Sam Raimi and others; the dead that will not stay dead, the hand that suddenly reaches out to grasp the hero, the burial of the still-moving body. [...] And the very last moment, envisioned in the script and fulfilled later in the shooting, is an odd little joke, as the dying Visser, sprawled beneath the bathroom sink, watches a single drop of water gather on the pipes above his head and start to fall.
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- 791.43/0233/092273
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- 1550224247 9781459307803
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- PN1998.3.C6635
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- L48 2000eb
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
- INTRODUCTION: THAT COEN BROTHERS FEELING 8
- CHAPTER ONE: SIBERIA, U.S.A OR, HOW TO GROW UP JEWISH IN MINNESOTA 12
- CHAPTER TWO: PULP FICTION: BLOOD SIMPLE 24
- CHAPTER THREE: TRIAL RUN: CRIMEWAVE 48
- CHAPTER FOUR: BABY WRANGLING: RAISING ARIZONA 54
- CHAPTER FIVE: GANGSTERS WITH HEART: MILLER'S CROSSING 70
- CHAPTER SIX: THE WALLPAPER MOVIE: BARTON FINK 92
- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE COMEDY OF BUSINESS: THE HUDSUCKER PROXY 114
- CHAPTER EIGHT: BLOOD ON THE SNOW: FARGO 130
- CHAPTER NINE: CALIFORNIA STORY: THE BIG LEBOWSKI 150
- CHAPTER TEN: ETHAN COEN, AUTHOR 166
- CONCLUSION: MORE MOVIES, BIGGER CAMERAS 170
- BOOKS BY AND ABOUT THE COEN BROTHERS 180
- SOURCES 181