Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by powermatic (A) on August 31, 2007 at 16:28:11

In Reply to: RE: good call on the coens posted by musiclistener on August 31, 2007 at 15:04:02

but then again, it might have just been the keyboard keys....

Yeah, I knew it would be a, ahem, 'controversial' pick, which is why I devoted a bit more ink to my reasoning. When you look at their library, you see the obvious great stuff ('Miller's Crossing', 'Barton Fink'), but even the movies that seem like fluff have so much more care and thought behind them than most directors would give. In 'Raising Arizona', for instance, the use of the Biker from Hell as a metaphor for the Blackness in All Men's Hearts is more than most mainstream directors could pull off (even though it's fairly obvious from the beginning, and shoved in your face at the end), but a more subtle gesture is the 'unfinished furniture store' owner, who in virtually any other movie would be a cartoonish buffoon, but whom the Coens bestow with a personal strength, thoughtful intelligence, and higher morality than any other character, while still maintaining a down-home, shit-kickin' persona.

Anyway, thanks for the positive nod in the midst of a tough crowd.

vaya con dios

Edits: 08/31/07