Since I just finished watching "Ice and Blood Storm", I was fascinated by the coldness of the Coen brothers, so I watched this "Dalboski" immediately. At that time, there was a feeling that it was like a mocking version of "Ice Blood Storm", especially the story was centered around ransom and kidnapping, but without the constraints of "the true story", neither the protagonist nor the supporting role need to be like the former. Realism, there is more space for creation, and the relationship between the various characters leads to a variety of weird and absurd plots amidst the complexity.
Director Joel Cohen said: "I think "Murder of Green Toe" is a "Ice Blood Storm" that took place in Los Angeles! But the place and people’s living habits here are familiar to us, and Ethan and I I have studied all kinds of crazy and absurd things that people face in such big cities. "Murder of Green Toe" is a collection of all kinds of impossible ideas, which absolutely surprised the audience!"
Compared with ice, this film is violent. It’s a lot of water down, less blood and gunshots, but the head drills the toilet, the bowling hits people, the weasel drills the bathtub, and the fat John Goodman vents his anger to the car. They are all creative. The head drills the toilet. It was also imitated by later Ning Hao.
In the setting of the male protagonist, the two Leboskis have opposite settings. Of course, it is too much to say that the old Lebosky is the protagonist. But just like the Asian man in the ice storm is like JERRY's mirror, the old Lebosky's setting also serves the governor. The final result is also the opposite. Old Lebowski was thrown by Goodman and chewed on his shit, and his face was scandalized, while the governor continued to be content with his friends in the bowling alley after "there is no step past the hurdle", "Hope. Able to make it to the final".
Similar to Jerry’s vacancy, insignificance, and powerless neuroticism in Bing Li, Lord Governor has no effect on changing the progress and ending of things. When events move forward step by step, they are all instructed and called upon by others. For a while, Lao Le asked him to pay the ransom, and then his friend Fatty Goodman asked him to hide 1 million and dropped the box. Then the naked artist Beauty Moore asked him to see a doctor, and three nihilists came to him. Asking for money, porn tycoons and so on. Even the black taxi driver drove him out of the car like a dog, and when the three dumb nihilists asked for money, he couldn't wait to give out 5 yuan to tell the fat guy not to make trouble. As a result, the fat man settled down, and Downey (Steve Buscemi) was also frightened to a heart attack.
The black humor of the Coen brothers is performed to the extreme in this film. It seems that the role setting of Lord Du and others is for black and humor. After the master was pushed into the toilet, his makeup was completely lost, but he did not forget to pick up his sunglasses and put on them; the floor was smashed, he was thinking of the carpet that was urine; when he saw the repairman walked into the porn star's house in the A film, he What I think is that the TV will be repaired next...wait, there are a lot of tears in laughter.
Goodman's Walter is even more funny. It is the rules that talk about the rules all day long. It is him who pulls the pistol in the bowling alley. It is also him who makes the noise in the cafes and funeral homes. It is an irrelevant person. It was him that the car he just bought was scrapped-and that he kept his mouth in the Vietnam War. When Downey fell, he called the ambulance like on the battlefield, and when he scattered the ashes, he also mentioned the Vietnam War, just like the Governor said. " What happened to the TMD Guanyue War"... The
whole film was shot in the bowling alley for a lot of time, but whether it was the Supervisor Jeff Bridges or the fat Walter from start to finish, they didn't officially play once in the stadium. Only Downey is really playing. Of course, because he was playing ball, he seldom participated in the topic of the Governor and Walter. Every time he inserted two sentences, it was because the donkey's lips were wrong, or he was thinking about the burger restaurant. . . The miserable Downey has been playing seriously. Before the end of the film, he found a ball left after playing-I don't know what the hint here, anyway, he died after going out.
Compared with Bing, there are no fierce and evil people in this film. The seemingly evil and evil people are actually "paper tigers". There is no such tender police officer as Joel’s wife Maggie. The only police officer who appears is An old guy with the appearance of a villain. Every character is ridiculous, including the Jesus golfer sodomy expert (and even his boyfriend), the performance artist played by Moore, and the sissy man. Every plot is absurd, including finding his home through elementary school homework and being smashed. The owner of the car is indeed a neighbor, but the neighbor retaliated by smashing the car that was broken like a scrap.
Finally, many of the Coen brothers' stories revolve around MONEY. Except for this film, "Old Nowhere", "Ice Blood Storm", and "Blood Labyrinth" are all like this, but MONEY eventually disappeared in the movie without a trace.
Whether it’s the dark and dark night, the desolate and deserted west, or the icy sky and cool snow, they are all in the style of realism. In this film, the Coen brothers finally focus the camera on the city, but the absurd and playful style is shot. It's not bad, but it still makes me feel that it is not enjoyable enough. I hope to see a powerful city movie by the Coen brothers, aiming their sharp lens at the people in the reinforced concrete.
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