never let the characters in on the joke – Coen Bros secret

a hallmark of Coen Brothers’ success as comedic filmmakers – even in deadly serious Oscar winning fares like ‘no country for old men’ is that their characters are really caricatures of unthinking, low level, and worst habits of human behaviour. People who are stubborn, one-track minded and do not change, because they are either uneducated, [...]

Coen Bros films – story formula (if there is one)

- excerpted from this book :  Joel and Ethan Coen – blood siblings,
edited by Paul A. Woods
Coen Brothers make some of the most interesting films because they write some of the most memorable characters….
… short sighted, stupid and heartless ….

Crux of their storyline is often that the viewers know the motivations of all the characters,while [...]

6 filmmaking lessons from Coen Brothers

Coen Brothers and the making of Blood Simple.
(as told to Stephen Lowenstein)
Ethan and Joel Coen have put together some of the most fascinating and memorable films since making their debut in 1984. Last year, they won an OSCAR for ‘No country for old men.’ Before that, they were most famous for ‘FARGO’ and the [...]

A Japanese girl looking for Fargo’s million dollars..?

Death in the snow | Culture | The Guardian
Death in the snowA body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods. The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. But the story didn’t end there. By Paul Berczeller
* Paul Berczeller [...]