In 1989, film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen began writing the script for a film eventually released as Miller's Crossing. The many threads of the story became complicated, and after four months they found themselves lost in the process. Although biographers and critics later referred to it as writer's block, the Coen brothers rejected this description. "It's not really the case that we were suffering from writer's block," Joel said in a 1991 interview, "but our working speed had slowed, and we were eager to get a certain distance from Miller's Crossing." They went from Los Angeles to New York and began work on a different project.
Barton Fink
(1991)7
" What’s in his head"
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| Spoken Language | english |
| Runtime | 1 hr 57 min |
| Budget | $9 000 000 |
| Premiere: World | $6 154 538 August 20, 1991 |
| USA | $6 153 939 |
| Other countries | $599 |
| Box Office – Budget | – $2 845 462 |
| Premiere: USA | $6 153 939 August 8, 1991 |
| theaters | 189 |
| rollout | 131 days |
| Digital: World | August 18, 2008 |
| Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, ... |
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A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.Сast and Crew
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A creative personality in the millstones of studio Hollywood does not feel ok. I reviewed it after 9.5 years and give it: 9.5 out of 10 (there was a ten)
What a familiar situation with neighbors, especially if the adjacent apartment is nothing more than a daily hotel. The surreal atmosphere of the hotel envelops you from all sides with its paranoia. And this is, really, good. The script attempts are just boring. But "a friend gave me problems" and it became, really, more fun.
The film is far from my understanding of the word "comedy", but watching such a surreal mind fuck about creativity is something (I was even scared!). The Coens, of course, do not give answers to the questions.
A paradoxical presentation of the material. One of the Coen brothers' best early films, largely due to the acting skills of Goodman and Tarturro.
What’s the worst thing for an artist? – creative crisis. And when he also drives you to madness, it’s already creepy. Here there is a satire on Hollywood and a thriller with elements of surrealism, even Polanski is felt, and not only him. True postmodernism.
In the beginning was the Word, and through the Word all things came into being. If God is a great writer, then the writer is also a little god. Heavy is the burden of the creator, whose life of reason gives birth to the world, for the fool will say in his heart, "Lord, your creation is good for nothing!"
At the same time, the film is about the creative crisis of the author/creator, about stupidity and arrogance, about isolation from simple life, about the clash of commerce and creativity, the harsh times of producer cinema and the death of art. In short, a treasure trove of meanings, one of the most difficult Coen films.
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