What Happened to The Coen Brothers?
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2023
- Has there ever been a better filmmaking duo than the Coen Bros? Joel and Ethan Coen have made some of the greatest modern films, hitting it out of the park with their 1983 debut Blood Simple. From there, the list of classics goes on and on. There’s Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis - the list goes on and on. Yet, following the release of 2018’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, this formerly inseparable duo spit, with Joel directing The Tragedy of Macbeth and Ethan making the Jerry Lee Lewis documentary, Trouble in Mind. What gives?
In this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity, which is written (with Brad Hamerly), narrated and produced by Taylor James Johnson (with the enigmatic Roderick Jaynes editing), we dig into the careers of perhaps two of the greatest filmmakers of our era. We examine the long list of classics, some of which are begging to be discovered by those of you who haven’t seen them, while also examining why the two split. While the boys may have temporarily gone their separate ways, the good news is that both Joel and Ethan are still in the game, churning out movies, so the Coen Bros legacy is alive and well.
What are your favorite Coen Bros movies? Let us know in the comments!
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The whole chase scene in "Raising Arizona" is still one of the funniest sequences I have ever watched
Such a great film
And it STILL holds up today!!.....,"just drive fast."...."aghhhhhhhhhh!!!!" Epic.
"Don't forget the Huggies!"
Also love bad santa
So much deeper than people give it cred it for.
O Brother is such a fever dream, a true classic.
I love The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and Oh Brother, Where Aren't Though. Their dark comedies are my favorite. But, their best movie is Garfield.
I understood this reference.
burn after reading for me, lol.
Fargield
Nice🤣
That Brother ever figger out where they aren't?
Amazing catalogue of movies, most of which I adore. No Country for Old Men always stands out to me as a movie that has so much but is made with so little. It's ruthless efficiency blows me away every time I watch it, which is regularly. And The Big Lebowski is usually the first thing that comes to mind when I'm asked what my favourite all time movie is, but that's just like my opinion man.
I’m sorry your step-mother is a nympho
The books is amzing too
No Country and Fargo are two of my all-time favorite films, but The Big Lebowski didn't tickle me. It's so popular, I watched it a second time (many years later) because I thought maybe I missed something the first time around, but again it left me cold. Personal taste is a mysterious thing, isn't it?
A Serious Man is as sublime a film as can be made.
*Edit: Thanks for making this one gang🙏🙏
My favourite is the totally underrated Miller's crossing. I actually met Gabriel Byrne and we had a chat were he talked about the Coen brothers and the scene with Albert Finney with Danny Boy playing in the background. Was totally starstruck.
If only that was real
Miller's Crossing is easily my favorite Coen Bros film and gangster film.
@@laurarules3642 Yes it's a real story. I worked in a restaurant in Dublin and he used to be a regular there. Nice fella.
One of my all time favorites.
@@laurarules3642 shut up Laura.
Fargo is my favorite film they’ve made. One of my favorite comedies with some of the best dialogue and acting in a film. I love their movies and hopefully they will reunite to make another film together. Thank you for the video!
Check out the show, too. First season. Very good IMO.
Small nitpick on Kumiko the Treasure Hunter. The girl it was based on Takako Konishi did travel to the US, first to Minnesota and then to North Dakota where she sadly passed away. The reason everyone believed she came to the US in search of the missing briefcase of money from Fargo was due to the media spinning this narrative when they reported on her death in 2001.
They made up this idea that she believed the Coen Brothers film was real and she came to the states explicitly to search for the money. It didn't help that Takako had gone to a police station and pointed to an area on a hand drawn map asking the police for directions there and even mentioning Fargo a couple of times.
That led the media to link her death to the film Fargo. However its more likely that Takako traveled to the states after losing her job and going through some personal issues decided to come to the US in search of an American businessman she once dated. She wasn't able to find the man and her increasing depression caused her to binge drink and using heavy amounts of drugs, leading up to her death near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Her death was ruled as a suicide as her family received a letter from her while she was in the US stating she intended to end her life.
Was searching for a comment like this before I said the same thing.
I mean, that’s just insane, even if it were true. Very much like a needle in 1000 haystacks. Japan has a real sui c1de problem. Like that forest where everyone goes to. You know. Do that. There was a Netflix episode about that forest. A show narrated by William Shatner. That first episode was creepy. As for that girl it’s a sad story. I bet she was just a Fargo fan. And it does seem sort of interesting how much international success they’ve had. Didn’t even know that.
@@FractalRaver United States actually has a higher suicide rate than Japan.
@@FractalRaver, well, when you come from a culture that, for hundreds of years, suicide was expected of you if you shamed your family, it can be hard to shake.
I was 8 when I saw Raising Arizona, it was the earliest I can remember hearing my typically stoic Father laughing out loud. Thanks to this Video I'll probably watch the Blu-ray of Big Lebowski and then Burn After Reading, another movie that made my Dad Laugh Out Loud.
All their movies are just great, even their weaker ones! The Coen Brothers are the definition of cinema! Hopefully they will return as a duo one day
Two of the Greatest to ever put their touch on cinema!
What makes me sad sometimes is realizing that you only get to see a movie for the first time ONCE. The Coen Brothers' movies are especially spectacular upon first view. Repeated views are great, of course, but that first view of each of their movies is such a treat. Seeing Blood Simple for the first time for me was simply magical.
No Country for Old Men has a place in my heart. I remember I had a classmate in my cinema class in college that told me watch this or Lawrence of Arabia, chose the first.
And at the time I did think the ending sucked. Maybe growing up in where I did, violence was not new.
But as a film buff I did get disappointed Bardem was able to walk away.
It's not til I've grown that I now understand why it was a best picture. It really isn't about the story I saw, it's about the sheriff.
Man crazy how you learn more about a movie over time. How you try to see from other people's perspective.
LoA is worth watching for the gorgeous cinematography alone!
My friend shared the same disappointment, and my brother gave it to him lol - "Aw, it didn't wrap up nicely with the good winning and everyone riding happily into the sunset? Hello! Life isn't like that, you want happy endings, go see a Disney movie," etc lol
You do understand that Bardem may or may not have even existed, right?
Cormac McCarthy. Died Recently.
@@chuckschillingvideosThe moment when you realize how shameful this comment is will also be the moment when you become a man.
In film school I learned they use a pseudonym for the editor because of union regulations around the guilds. It may not be this way now but it used to be you couldn't be a member of multiple guilds but needed to be union for certain projects. I did a paper on Barton Fink (my choice) and it came up at that point :)
In the Fargo TV Series, Billy Bob was one of the best Hitmen ever!!
Brad Pitt as Chad Feldheimer in Burn After Reading still makes me laugh
I like the coen brother's alot and I think there one of if not the best directing duo's. Fargo is one of my favorite movie's of all time. I also liked raising arizona, the big lebowski, o brother where art thou?, miller's crossing, burn after reading, a serious man, the man who wasn't there, blood simple, true grit, no country for old men and barton fink alot. I would say my top 5 coen movie's are probably fargo, no country for old men, barton fink, raising arizona and the big lebowski.
My favorite Coen Bros film is all of them except The Ladykillers & Intolerable Cruelty (both of which I choose to pretend never existed).
Love just about every one of the Coen Brothers films, but Raising Arizona just may be my personal favorite.
Intolerable Cruelty was hilarious.
I love it too. Puts a smile on my face, along with Hail Caesar.
Seeing David Ransche (☆Sledge Hammer ☆) in Burn After Reading was the highest quality casting ever.
Raising Arizona was brilliant....
😎
I'm surprised they don't like the Fargo series. It practically pays homage to all of their films at one point or another.
I feel like Steve Buscemi would be a great subject for a WTF episode
Miller's Crossing is brilliant and my favorite of their movies. I love all of their work and it is my number one.
Words cannot begin to convey how much I love Fargo, Miller's Crossing and O' Bro
Intorelable Cruelty is perfect! 10/10
It sure puts me in a great mood. A desert island comedy.
Two of my top five all time favorite movies are Coen Bros films… Raising Arizona and Big Lebowski. They’re two movies I can watch over and over and always find such joy in. Raising Arizona is one of the most intelligently comedic films I’ve ever seen.
I think I've got Lebowski memorized in it's entirety. Great movie.
Inside Lewin Davis was one of the most interesting scenes I've ever seen. I liked how it opens the way it ends, sort of. Also, it's one of the first films I've ever seen where I was just depressed by the end because of the lack of a happy ending and really how sad Lewis' life is.
"That's gold, Ethan and Joel, GOLD!"
No country for old man was amazing!
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is great too..
"Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."
TURN TO THE RAUGHT!
Love these. Thank you.
Fargo, Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and No Country for Old Men are classics.
Though, I do find The Ladykillers to be their most underrated. It's not nuanced or complex as the films I mentioned, but I thought it was just funny.
A special circle of hell awaits all who employ Tom Hanks to attempt a Southern accent.
They're... they're right there. Still making movies...
No country for old men hit me incredibly hard. Their tightest movie besides Fargo. Imo.
I listen to the O Brother and Inside Llewen Davis soundtracks regularly
The O Brother soundtrack is pure perfection, I also listen to it quite often.
Intolerable Cruelty is one of my favorites of theirs
It puts me in great mood. Desert island movie..
A little late to the party, but I never watched any Coen Brothers movies until I was in my twenties. The first of theirs I ever saw was Big Lebowski when I was 20 and took a film class in college, and then later saw their other movies like Raising Arizona, Hudsucker Proxy, No Country For Old Men, and Fargo on my own time
That's amazing! Great job!
I can't think of anyone else with a longer list of good movies.
Hey thanx! I enjoyed this so müch!! Your passion & enthusiasm 4 the Coen bros. which I definitely share!! Esp. Barton Fink & ... Fargooo!!
The Coen Brothers have directed some great films Over the years
Nahhh come on
Raising Arizona will always be my favourite film from the Brothers.
We get it you dont like Intolerable Cruelty, just let people like it, its ok. It's a blast and I've watched it more times than most Coen Bros movies. Some people still hate Hudsucker Proxy and that movie just slays me, that little bit of Raimi edge. Blood Simple is still just such a solis flick & the soundtrack doesnt get enough love.
Intolerable is wonderful film. It always puts me in a grear mood.
I love these boys so much. My favorite will always be Miller's Crossing
Enjoyed watching. I'm a Coen Brothers fan and this is a terrific review.
5:43 combinding is not a word!
Thank you for your reverence and respect for "A Serious Man." I think it's their best.
Well done . Nailed it!! JoBlow
WTF happened to the DCEU next please
Love Coen Bros so much! Had no idea they weren’t fans of the Fargo series..so many other Coen movies eastereggs throughout. Is Hawley trolling them? You covered a lot, but admittedly disappointed you left out Ethan’s goofy movie he wrote The Naked Man and his book of short stories and scripts Gates of Eden, which is fantastic!
🤘🏴☠️
Big Lebowski & True Grit are their best.
A Serious Man is very underrated.
I love, ❤️ love, love ❤️ their works....
amazing video essay
Excellent video
Looking forward to "Drive Away Dolls" this coming autumn.
"Fargo" & "Burn after reading" has still some of the best most WTF moments in cinema history. Like Brad pitt death and Steve Buscemi death
Spoiler Alert 🙄
I've over analyzed A Serious Man, and this is the conclusion that I came to. Throughout the film Larry keeps saying "I didn't do anything!" As if doing nothing means nothing should happen to him. The whole film is things happening to him, and him doing nothing. Then at the end, he finally makes a choice and does something bad, and God's judgement quickly follows. It's kind of like the story of Job if Job gave in at the end.
Also Miller's Crossing is my favorite film of all time. I'll be surprised if I ever see one I enjoy more.
A Serious Man my favourite. Maybe because I'm seriously convinced quantum mechanics is essentially bullpoo. And who'd have thought a song written by some acid headed hippie freaks would contain the most profound lyrics ever written??
Ya think?
I like the Coen brothers. I have seen most of their films. Raising Arizona and No Country For Old Men are two of my favorite films. I didn't like Fargo and found The Big Lebowski to be unwatchable so much so I didn't even finish viewing it.
WELL DONE!!!!! 👍👍
my money was part of the 60 million when i saw Fargo in the theaters. But i walked out of that movie thinking it was so stupid. But then saw it again on VHS when it came out and loved it!!!
Coen brothers are masters of filmmaking, they gave us rich quality fun movies in this absurd strange world, lots of respect and blessings for them. 🙌🙏
Intolerable Cruelty is highly underrated. If you want to see a truly bad Coens' film The Ladykillers is just awful
We are in agreement. I.C. Puts me in a great mood. I recommend Hail Caesar.
What a delightful trip down memory lane. I discovered the Coens when Raising Arizona came out on video. I'd seen the trailer in a theater, but dismissed it as looking about as dumb and shallow as any film I could imagine. But man, was I wrong. I fell in love immediately, and followed the Coens from then on. Miller's Crossing was the low-profile gangster film I thought far superior to Goodfellas, and eventually, lots of people came around to agreeing. But at the time, everyone was patting themselves on the back for having "discovered" Scorsese. I took my folks to Barton Fink, making them lifelong Coen fans too. The snooty French got it, but I clearly remember the New Yorker critic dismissing it, while heaping praise on Batman, which is such a surface-only film, it makes me laugh.
Speaking of, I sometimes wonder what a Coen Batman film would have been like, but as much of a fan as I am, I can't picture how the Coens could have pulled it off. Tim Burton is a shallow filmmaker by any standard, but he had at least a notion of how to bring a cartoon into the real world. I've never particularly liked his rubber Batman, but I can only imagine the Coen Batman being even worse. The Coens, for all their genius, are filmmakers' filmmakers. It's clear that their entire body of inspiration comes from film alone. And whatever one might say about Burton, he has a wider body of inspiration. And you need that to even begin the arduous task of translating the deceptively stylized world of superheroes into live action. There was no model in film that parallels what comic books do. It was utterly uncharted territory. There's no way around the fact that the minute you put a real person in a superhero leotard on film, the fantasy created by comics bursts. So I don't see the Coens cracking that problem, not with the ludicrous audacity that Burton cracked it, by turning his Batman into a six foot action figure, molded plastic muscles and all. I imagine that was one of many reasons they turned down the gig.
I didn’t know that the Coens had anything to do with Evil Dead. That’s one of my favorite movies!
How great was this sum-up of the CoenBros phenomenon ? Totally great. The Coens are, in film, what Dylan is to me, in Music. On a whole nother level.
Honestly all their movies are really good. None of em suck
I'd love to watch a streaming series based on the further stories of Buster Scruggs
Burn After Reading has always been my favorite Coen brothers movie. 🎉
Awesomeness Continues!! 😎👌👍They Make Awesome Movies! ✊👊🍁♈🍁
I'm at a loss for words, just, thank you, and thanks to the greatest film makers of my generation. Long live the Coen brothers.
What happened to the Cohen bros? They're continuing to make good films. Loved Buster Scruggs
I couldn't believe how good "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" was. I was glued to the scene the whole time and was thinking about it a lot for days after watching. Their movies always feel so original and different.
Man who wasn’t there is my favorite
Hell or high water is the only coen brothers esc movie that is absolutely amazing. It reminds me heavily of no country for old men
I'd add Sam Raimi's "A Simple Plan" to that list as well...
I've recommended that film. Texas could have a lot more films. I remember a scene where off in the distance is an enormous fire. No one mentions it in the scene. Texas.
Great video, brilliant film makers. Only thing I don't understand is why hardly any of their films are on 4K - or even Blu-ray. Surely someone could put out a complete collection for their fans. They deserve it and we deserve it.
The Tom Waits scene from BusterScrugs is their quintesential moment imo. please do dAviD LYnch
Raising Arizona is absolute fire! A top 5 movie for sure! I thought Cage's performance was solid and Holly Hunter was spot on.
Intolerable cruelty is my favorite movie by the Cohen brothers.
It sure puts me in a great mood. You probably like Hail Caesar too..
Here is my at least 3: THE BIG LEBOWSKI, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and BARTON FINK…Love their films.
"No country for old men" has still some of the most intense and terrifying scenes ever made and isnt even an horror movie. They are known for dark comedies but that movie was really something of different and great
I was a little let down that Llewelyn's body, let alone death wasn't shown. But I bought the DVD as soon as it hit the store
@@idkwhodidthis2990 it's done this way to imply "it doesn't matter how we got there, only the end result. A theme throughout the movie.
@@idkwhodidthis2990 you wwre suposed to. It's the point!
There are no clean geteways
Just one? Miller's Crossing
Number two? (Frick you!): Intolerable Cruelty (seriously, love the intense script and Catherine Zeta Jones. And Billy Bob Thornton)
Number three? A tie between Raising Arizona and O Brother Where Art Thou (although I'll concede at this point that I could easily trail off into a list of all their movies).
The Coens are the nearest thing we have today to what Shakespeare was doing in his time. Miller's Crossing is their Hamlet, Intolerable Cruelty is their Taming of the Shrew, etc.
What happened to the Coens? They need to get back to writing dense Shakespeare-esque scripts and then filming the everloving shit out of it.
(Oh, yeah...and I agree with you on The Ladykillers...poorly acknowledged but absolutely delicious)
I.C. is great fun.
I enjoyed "The Hudsucker Proxy" more than "The Big Lebowski".
And,, "O Brother Where Art Thou?" Is my number one favorite Coen Bros film, by a pretty good lead. It's actually one of my all time favorite films, period.
Wow, great analysis of all their films. I've gotta say I am in almost 100% agreement with all your comments and ratings. Thanks.
I was pretty surprised after watching that animated movie Bad Guys with the kids. Who's name do I see at the end as Executive Producer and the Screenplay credit..Etan Coen
I hope your conclusion is spot on! I feared they had some kind of falling out.
Hope that’s not the case.
They deserve any happy path they choose
They’ve brought so much to us!
They have so many good movies. I am a big fan of True Grit
Lebowski and Bad Santa make a perfect double feature
'Blood Simple', 'Miller's Crossing' and 'No Country for Old Men' are my favorites. I worked on the Coen Bros. film 'The Hudsucker Proxy' as a make-up artist and there was a scene where Paul Newman was talking with his yes men that was hilarious (I was holding myself back from laughing) and it got cut from the film unfortunately. The film could have used it, in my opinion.
This was like Really well made.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Is my favourite film out of all them they did.
Mine as well. The performances from the 3 leads are damn good
@@jasoncanby2525 I know. It’s my favourite Coen Brothers film out of all of them.
Ladykillers I helped them with the story, some of the shots. No Country for Old Men was my story. A lot of these directors haven't the bandwidth to do stories, too. Incidentally, there is a human pheromone from the grease on men's faces that cures criminal behavior! That's why I didn't open a story store in Hollywood (Star Wars, E.T., The Matrix, The Great Labowski, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, The Martian, American Beauty, Gattaca, Shawshank Redemption, Gravity, Inception, Interstellar, on and on.)
Nice for George (Whore Gay) Santos to drop by...
@@sclogse1 You YR creeps really hate that guy, don't you? I'm not he.
I remember being saved seeing the Hudsucker proxy it was a very dark place I was in rudderless and black, deathly-black.
by coincidence, there was a movie on Belgian television, which showed once a mouth a quality picture, did not know the picture or the brothers but it saved my life love the brothers Coen for this and the cast of course.
saw the rest of the Coen brothers' movies the year after.
I think Coen comes from a dutch Jewish family. in dutch history, we already got the brothers Coen. 16e century. not sure of course some info is just that, also brothers.
who would dare say that about the ending to No Country For Old Men that was a gotdam masterpiece
I loved the movie Fargo and Blood Simple.
Big lebo is all time classic as is Fargo , but no country is a gem of such a rare quality , it’s crazy. I’d say it’s one of the best movies of all time
I believe the Coen Brothers to be the finest American filmmakers of all time. Their catalog speaks for itself.
DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE always brings a grin among all classes of Guys.
Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou and True Grit are all in my top ten favorite films of all time
You have good taste in movies.
That rug really tied up the room together
Miller’s Crossing is a personal favorite. Not their best work but so satisfying. Either you ‘get’ their work or not. A simple way to find like-minded friends is to ask someone about Barton Fink.