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Article on American filmmakers
The Coen Brothers (Joel and Ethan)
Sums up their career as follows:
"The Coen Brothers are a pair of
Brothers from Minnesota that
Make movies about fringe
American cultural stereotypes
And their botched crimes"
Which, believe it or not,
Sums up their filmography
In a way they probably would
Have agreed with. A Coen
Brothers movie holds the
Distinction of being instantly
Recognizable due first
Of all to how their characters
Talk. Whether it's hapless
John Turturro getting a verbal
Barrage from Michael Lerner
In Barton Fink or Frances
McDormand talking Minnesota-
Nice in Fargo, the dialogue in
Their movies are a feast for
The ears; arcane, inventive,
Charming, off-beat, or just
Plain verbose, if "the Dude
Abides" doesn't enrich your
Speech, what will? Then there's
All the botched plots, from the
Off-the-wall wackiness of
Raising Arizona to the in-
Comprehensible brilliance
Of Barton Fink; the pitch-
Black idiocy of Burn After
Reading to the befuddled
Head-scratching of A
Serious Man; the brutally
Funny out-of-control
Kidnapping plot of Fargo
to the straight adaptation
Of True Grit. With a Coen
Brothers movie, you never
What twist will come next
In their ever inventive plots
To keep their characters
Suffering blatant misfortunes
And cursed blessings. The
Genre-blending work of
The Coen Brothers has
One consistency among
Them: every one of their
Films is one part crime
Comedy; what the other
Part is you can only guess.
The same filmmakers who
Created the ultimate laid-
Back flick The Big Lebowski
Also made the bleak air-tight
Thriller No Country For
Old Men, with the fast-and-
Loose Homer adaptation
O Brother Where Art Thou
In the middle. They crafted
The cynical gangster movie
Miller's Crossing, and the
Cynical country music
Drama Inside Llewyn Davis,
Everyone from hitmen to
C.I.A. men to men suffering
A midlife crisis had been
Depicted in the quirky,
Unpredictable genius of the
Coen Brothers. They epitomize
The outlandish original that
Spins stories only they want
To tell that only they can
Come up with; their camera
Goes places most would not
Dream of to go; their style,
It ties the room together.