The main idea of "Three Kings Escape" is still the theme, religion, and money that the Coen brothers have always used. The film is set in Mississippi in the 1930s, which is actually what the Coen brothers did on purpose. Anyone familiar with American culture knows that Mississippi is the most anti-black state in the southern United States, and it is still the case today. At the same time, American country music originated in the American South in the 1920s. Therefore, it was this cultural background that brought the Coen brothers' creative source.
The whole film is accompanied by sharp irony, but also bitter tears. The Coen brothers joked about the "banshee" plot in the Odyssey, which actually alluded to the Coen brothers' religious thoughts on the original sin of sex. And "Cyclops" alludes to money as one of the sources of our scourge. In order to rescue their friends, the three protagonists sabotage a "secret activity", which insinuates the struggle against politics - the persecution of black people. And that farce-like gathering turned into a political speech, which also vaguely satirized the chaos of the Vanity Fair in politics. And when the three protagonists were about to be executed, they began to pray, a miracle happened, the flood came, they thought it was a gift from God, but it turned out that it was only what the Mississippi Dam project expected to bring. flood.
The three protagonists described by the Coen brothers have seen all the ugly phenomena in the process of escaping from prison. This is exactly what the Coen brothers wanted to satirize and say - sex is the original sin, money is uneasy, politics is a farce, and religious belief remains nihilistic. The three protagonists actually represent the general predicament and psychological state of the vast majority of the bottom people in that era. Different from other works, the Coen brothers in the film not only satirized, but also paid tribute to the founders of American country music and the "gold diggers" who contributed to the "American Westward Movement". Like the later "Thunderbolt", this film is also a tribute to the Coen brothers to Westerns!
This is the work of the Coen brothers, their irony makes us laugh hard, this is the work of the Coen brothers. Their films always have a tribute to their predecessors!
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