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Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47020 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
I'll never understand the love for The Man Who Wasn't There. It's such a vague story about a vague man (hence the title I suppose). Beautifully shot and performed, but the lack of any real staying power or impactful narrative arch places it really low on my Coen list.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47020 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Who are some of your favorite lesser Coen characters? The side characters, the co-stars, the people with just a few lines...Many of them are quite brilliant.
Gus Pertch (Cedric the Entertainer), Intolerable Cruelty "If you want an ass nailin', you call me."
Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), True Grit I admit I didn't love this guy until I heard Brolin talk about how he crafted that character with the Coens, now I think he's brilliant.
Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson), O Brother Where Art Though I know he's on the poster, but obviously he was sort of second tier next to Clooney and Turturro. But I think he steals every scene he's in.
Brother Shamus (Jon Polito), The Big Lebowski This guy shows up and somehow makes an already hysterical film even funnier.
Richard Jenkins, Burn After Reading The way he delivers "We just don't give out that sort of information at Hardbodies," like he's a knight in shining armor, breaks my heart.
Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya), Blood Simple The only time Dan Hedaya has delivered a knockout performance? I can't think of another one.
??? (Stephen Root), No Country For Old Men Loved his take on the scummy Texas businessman who hires Woody Harrelson to track down Anton Chigurgh. Great casting, because his performance and lines paint him as an unscrupulous SOB, but I can't help but smile a little given all the other times that Root has made me laugh.
Barton Fink The Hudsucker Proxy Fargo Inside Llewyn Davis No Country for Old Men O Brother Where Art Thou? A Serious Man Raising Arizona Miller's Crossing Burn After Reading The Ladykillers The Man Who Wasn't There True Grit The Big Lebowski The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Intolerable Cruelty Blood Simple
Barton Fink The Hudsucker Proxy Fargo O Brother Where Art Thou? Inside Llewyn Davis No Country for Old Men Burn After Reading A Serious Man Raising Arizona True Grit The Ladykillers Miller's Crossing The Big Lebowski Hail, Caesar! The Man Who Wasn't There The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Blood Simple Intolerable Cruelty
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