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An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
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It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.
It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.
They probably do, those sick b*stards. But I can't say I've ever felt punished in that regard, even with the films I'm not crazy about.
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 36236 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.
I can't say I've ever felt punished in that regard
It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.
I can't say I've ever felt punished in that regard
It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.
my reading of the coens is that they're misanthropes, and that even the most endearing of their characters are in fact dupes of various stripes. not all, but most.
so there is a political valence to their stuff that is quote/unquote bad. i can suspend that shortcoming because they're very good writers and make good pictures.
to your original q. I find the pastiche in hail caesar to be lots of fun & as "authentic" as can be hoped for, in a movie like this. it's filled with great scenes. why? if I find them funny. and though I never found much use for his thinking, i liked seeing one of the more visible exponents of the frankfurt school in a hollywood movie. clooney has been a wonderful comic instrument for them and he is here, too, and this movie adds josh brolin to their character repertoire of capable idiots. no grand argument. just plays to my predictions and pretensions
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