Monday, May 4, 2009

Coen Brothers

The Coen brothers have a really different style that is calming, entertaining, and bizarre at the same time. The way they subtly end scenes at punch lines adds to the hilarity and brings relaxment--like they aren't digging for laughs, they just come easily.
In Raising Arizona I feel like there is a lot of this, where you just want to laugh out loud at what you're viewing in front of you. They also aren't afraid to be completely realistic at times and comepletely fictional at others. Raising Arizona has cartoon-like aspects to it and the feeling is just silly. In Fargo the entire movie is filmed realisticly with the beginning even claiming that all the events are true. But then we find out that they fabricated the entire story, misleading us.
In No Country For Old Men the film is really realistic, showing all graphics and violence mercilessly. They try to show all moments as detailed as possible to have the story be perfectly plausible as if in real life.