The black humor of the Coen brothers: The Coen brothers are best at telling stories. Their stories seem ordinary, but they take the most sudden and unexpected changes on the development trajectory predicted by the audience. This kind of reversal of the story brings strong The black humor effect, and this black humor always contains a little helpless taste, which makes people feel empathy.
Marty, the bar owner, is actually an image of a victim. Knowing that his wife had an affair with one of his subordinates, he sneaked into Rey's house. Marty, who should have been strong, was accidentally injured and was kicked by his wife in the deadliest part. , suffered physical and mental pain and walked into a dead end, and was laughed at by a pair of men and women who betrayed him. This walk into a dead end also hints at the development trend of the story. Marty wants to ask someone to kill the dog and the girl, and finally kill Huang Quan.
Marty invited Detective Wes and gave Wes $10,000 to ask Wes to kill Rey and Abby. In normal movies, the development of the story will usually be that Wes killed Rey or was killed by Rey. They kill them, and finally there is a decisive battle with Marty, but Weiss is not an ordinary killer, and he knows from the beginning that this is a cunning character. Faced with 10,000 yuan, he has two choices. One is to kill the Reyes and take away 10,000 yuan, but Marty will hold the handle in this way. Who knows how much harm this handle can bring to him. The other is to kill Marty and put the blame on the Rays, so that not only can they get ten thousand yuan, but they can also escape successfully. Two choices, the first is the most natural, the second is an unexpected choice, but it is reasonable. At the beginning of the story, the image of Weiss’s money-loving, self-confidence and cunning, as well as the unpaid wages and emotional entanglements between Marty and Rey, all gave Weiss the opportunity to create false impressions, so it is reasonable for Weiss to choose the latter one. Smart decision, it is estimated that Weiss thinks the same way.
The Coen brothers used this sudden turn to bring a strong dark humorous effect to the story, and this reversal was foreshadowed, not an abrupt choice of an alternative decision, through the foreshadowing of dark lines, to achieve such an unexpected This is the cleverness of the Coen brothers' storytelling.
The absurd world of the Coen brothers: In this world, there are no heroes, no legends, only ordinary self-righteous people. This world is full of helplessness and funny.
The Coen Brothers movie is full of absurd flavors, and the most absurd is Abby's gun, which has only three bullets is undoubtedly the most comical flavor. Weiss accepts Marty's 10,000 yuan payment, but kills Marty with the gun and leaves the gun on the scene to create an illusion to blame others; then it is Rey who comes to the bar and sees the slain horse Ti, saw Abby's pistol, so she took it for granted that Abby killed Marty for love, and she had to clean up the scene and protect her lover, so there was the most exciting scene in the film. But it evolved into being buried alive, and it was the gun again. The resurrected Marty fired three shots at Rey, but there was no bullet, so the hysterical Rey frantically chose to bury Marty alive. In fact, at this time, Rey's psychology has a lot of activity. Originally, it was just to help his lover to make sense of the scene, but now he was buried alive. He was charged with murder for Abby, and it was the most cruel way. Rey still chose to be buried alive, so The first thing I did when I was exhausted in the morning was to call Abby and say "I love you". This is the first time in the film, a love born from a pistol!
The Coen brothers are very good at using props, and the fake photo is a key prop in the development of the whole story, which is also full of funny flavor. That photo with a low level of forgery cost the lives of three people. The first is Marty, but Weiss, who wanted Marty's life, forgot the photo on the scene. This oversight made the whole clever plan fail, so there was the last moment when Rey shot for Abby, and there was Abby killed Weiss in self-defense, and it was the pistol that killed Weiss, a three-shot pistol. At the last moment, the dead Whis looked up at the dripping sewer pipe. How ironic, he thought that the plan was perfect, but still dripped water because of the fake photo and died in the yellow spring!
Whether it is a pistol or a photo, it is a prop with clues, but this pistol undoubtedly has a deeper meaning and is endowed with irrationality and absurdity. It is the best witness to this absurd world.
For these four people, the Coen brothers have no praise, only ridicule, a funny and absurd world, no legends, no heroes, a couple cheating, a bar owner who doesn't love his wife, a fat detective who is addicted to money and self-righteous . Human nature is constantly changing in this process. The boss goes from enduring to revenge, the detective goes from the first detective to the killer to the final conspirator, and Rey goes from the first part-time worker to the cheater to the murderer. The development of the plot changes, whether it is for love, for possessiveness, or for money. Of course, Abby's changes were small and the least aware of the whole truth, and didn't understand it until the end! (Alas, in the face of men who don’t like to express themselves, women can only guess, and guessing is often wrong. In reality, women like to make men guess, and most of the time they guess wrong. Is this another black story of the Coen brothers? Humor?)
It's the Coen brothers' small-budget debut, and fame. The pattern of the story is small, but the way the Coen brothers tell the story gives a whole new experience. The absurd world created by the Coen brothers becomes their stylized thing. In the following "Raising Arizona", the world of the Coen brothers is even more. Absurdity, and this kind of absurd world is not something that Zhang Yimou can create after paying a lot of money to buy the copyright
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