Stuck in a writing rut, the Coen brothers decided to quickly work up a story about a screenwriter in Hollywood. It remains their masterpiece. An appreciation of 'Barton Fink,' released 30 years ago today
were not just formalist genre-film brats but bona fide geniuses. Both Joel and Ethan claimed they had no real axe to grind with Hollywood — “Our professional life [there] has been particularly easy,” the former said, “which I’m sure is very unusual and very unfair” — yet they managed to come up with a particularly vicious, nightmarish take on the Dream Factory.
ny resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental” doubles as a deadpan joke here — there are a number of real-life figures thatborrow key elements from. Fink is modeled somewhat after Clifford Odets, the playwright and Group Theatre member whose worksespoused proletariat empowerment and the earthy nobility of the working class; Turturro reportedly read the author’s diary to prep for his role as the righteous, self-proclaimed defender of the little guy.
And Charlie Meadows, Fink’s next door neighbor at the Hotel Earle , the traveling salesman who hawks peace of mind? He’s every Willie Loman who’s pounded pavements, lived on the road, harbored a secret life. The Coens purposefully cast John Goodman as the blustery lug, taking advantage of, per Ethan, his “warm, affable image” to draw the audience in — all the better for pulling out the rug underneath them later.
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