The Coen brothers' work can always be so compelling that even such a small incident can grow into a movie.
When a KB playwright turned film writer, a magical and terrifying encounter in a small hotel made him write what he thought was his best work.
Reality, imagination, and dreams are mixed together, and we no longer distinguish whether the scene in the play is a real dream, we just need to appreciate the whole event.
It seems that in addition to Westerns, the Bible, witchcraft, playing high-tech and drag racing, the old beauty likes setting scenes in old and gloomy hotels. In addition to "Room 1408", this is also a masterpiece.
The Coen brothers have always been well-known as independent producers, rejecting any form of infiltration and infringement of their own works, in order to ensure their own style. This one also reflects the uninhibited style of the two brothers very well.
The film is actually quite a satire on the Hollywood production system. The studio owner Michael Lerner can be described as the finishing touch. The middle-class mansion swimming pool, fat and fleshy, the dazzling gold chain and gold ring, and the smoothness of the words make people overwhelmed. catch.
The work has strong traces of stream of consciousness, I don't know if it is a tribute to Fellini.
In 1962, the famous director Fei made a famous film "Eight and a Half", which is a typical example of "introspective film" that emphasizes intuition. It describes the difficulties and crises encountered by a film director named Guido in the preparation of a film. The director is preparing to make a new film about the end of mankind. To this end, he came to the hot spring sanatorium to prepare for filming while recuperating. However, he found his creation in crisis. The main set of the film has been set up, but his conception is still hazy, with obstacles and contradictions everywhere. At the same time, he is also in a crisis of personal life, unable to communicate emotionally with his wife, and his mistress against him. Tangled. As soon as his imaginary women of thought appeared, they immediately revealed an equally harrowing mundane state... Finally, he held a rambling press conference and danced a rumba with his guests. This film is a sign of Fellini's creative turn toward expressing the inner reality of man. It explores the spiritual crisis of modern man through a metaphorical "story".
The Coen Brothers' film has many plots, all of which are very similar to the eight and a half movies. Fink turned into a film director, and his creation was deadlocked. The weird atmosphere of the hotel left him completely uninspired, and then a series of appalling events happened. But it inspired his creative inspiration. When he finished writing what he believed to be the best work in his creative career, he went to dance, which was also the beginning of expressing his inner reality. Finally, the film was on a beach, a hotel scene. The woman appeared in reality, reality and fantasy were mixed up again, but everything was over.
Of course, the films of the Coen brothers are more of the elements and practical significance of genre films. The plot is very simple, but the invincible playwrights can make small things fascinating, and they will find a way out after pushing the protagonist to a dead end countless times.
Turturro's acting is great. Literary and stubborn, he is a good young man, and it is this tragic character that makes him unable to integrate into this world and then be ruthlessly abandoned by this world. . The script was rejected, and the beach woman laughed. .
Crazy Goodman, and studio owner Michael Lerner also did a great job.
The characters are a highlight of the film.
The antique old hotel scene is still a plus.
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