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Mar. 15th, 2020 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
between_time_and_42This week I rewatched a couple Coen brothers movies- The Hudsucker Proxy, and Miller's Crossing- and I liked them both more than I did the first time I saw them. I have some stuff to do so I can't write out all my full thoughts right now, but I will say:
-If there's anything the Coen brothers are good at, it's getting great performances from their actors. Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy lights up the screen in every scene- you can't take your eyes away from her, and you hang on every word. Every scene of Miller's Crossing that has John Turturro in it, I'm straight up riveted. I kept saying "he's so GOOD" under my breath throughout the whole movie. Even the minor characters, like Buzz who's got the fuzz and makes the elevator do what she does, or motormouth Mink, are so intriguing and filled with such life. They're the bright spots of what I first considered sterile and emotionless films upon first viewing.
-Miller's Crossing makes so much more sense and is much easier to follow after the initial viewing... once you know who all the characters are and understand the dialogue. Also, I watched it while keeping in mind the theory that Tom did everything for Leo because he was in love with him, and that also made it ten thousand times more understandable. I don't know why, since there were actually canonical gay characters in the movie, Tom couldn't have had explicit feelings for Leo (I don't believe he ever loved Verna, she's just full of herself to think that). It's the same exact shit they pulled with Inside Llewyn Davis, where the fact (I take it as fact) that Llewyn was in love with Mike would have pulled the entire story together.
-This isn't about either of these movies, but you can tell a lot about a person from which half of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs they prefer (the correct answer is the second half, accept nothing else).
-Despite my love for Inside Llewyn Davis and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, I think early Coen brothers is best Coen brothers. Even if I don't like the movie, I do love the ambition behind it.
-If there's anything the Coen brothers are good at, it's getting great performances from their actors. Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy lights up the screen in every scene- you can't take your eyes away from her, and you hang on every word. Every scene of Miller's Crossing that has John Turturro in it, I'm straight up riveted. I kept saying "he's so GOOD" under my breath throughout the whole movie. Even the minor characters, like Buzz who's got the fuzz and makes the elevator do what she does, or motormouth Mink, are so intriguing and filled with such life. They're the bright spots of what I first considered sterile and emotionless films upon first viewing.
-Miller's Crossing makes so much more sense and is much easier to follow after the initial viewing... once you know who all the characters are and understand the dialogue. Also, I watched it while keeping in mind the theory that Tom did everything for Leo because he was in love with him, and that also made it ten thousand times more understandable. I don't know why, since there were actually canonical gay characters in the movie, Tom couldn't have had explicit feelings for Leo (I don't believe he ever loved Verna, she's just full of herself to think that). It's the same exact shit they pulled with Inside Llewyn Davis, where the fact (I take it as fact) that Llewyn was in love with Mike would have pulled the entire story together.
-This isn't about either of these movies, but you can tell a lot about a person from which half of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs they prefer (the correct answer is the second half, accept nothing else).
-Despite my love for Inside Llewyn Davis and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, I think early Coen brothers is best Coen brothers. Even if I don't like the movie, I do love the ambition behind it.
