Spiegel and Raimi wrote most of the film in their house in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, where they were living with the aforementioned Coen brothers, as well as actors Frances McDormand, Kathy Bates, and Holly Hunter ( Hunter was the primary inspiration for the Bobby Jo character ).

" Conversely, Pat Graham of Chicago Reader disliked the mix of horror and comedy, writing in his review that " The pop-up humor and smirkiness suggest Raimi's aspiring to the fashionable company of the brothers Coen, though on the basis of this strained effort I'd say he's overshot the mark.

A disclaimer before the 1996 film Fargo makes the claim that it is based on a true story, but this was repudiated by its creators, the Coen brothers, saying that people would more readily believe something outlandish if told that it actually happened, per the " truth is stranger than fiction " idiom.

The Coen brothers gave Raimi advice on shooting in snow for A Simple Plan, based on their experiences with Fargo.

Bridges had heard or was told by the Coen brothers that they had written a screenplay for him.

A friend of the Coen brothers, Vietnam War veteran Pete Exline, also inspired aspects of the character.

" This line is a reference to Fargo, the Coen brothers ' previous film, in which Buscemi's character was constantly talking.

However, the Coen brothers let him come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backwards, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali.

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a man the Coen brothers met while they were trying to find distribution for the feature film, Blood Simple.

" The Dude was also partly based on a friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline ( now a member of the faculty at USC's School of Cinematic Arts ), a Vietnam War veteran who reportedly lived in a dump of an apartment and was proud of a little rug that " tied the room together.

" Exline knew Barry Sonnenfeld from New York University and Sonnenfeld introduced Exline to the Coen brothers while they were trying to raise money for Blood Simple.

When the Coen brothers wanted to make it, John Goodman was taping episodes for the Roseanne television program and Jeff Bridges was making the Walter Hill film, Wild Bill.

Originally, Goodman wanted a different kind of beard for Walter but the Coen brothers insisted on the " Gladiator " or what they called the " Chin Strap " and he thought it would go well with his flattop haircut.

The Coen brothers told Heinrichs that they wanted Treehorn's beach party to be Inca-themed with a " very Hollywood-looking party in which young, oiled-down, fairly aggressive men walk around with appetizers and drinks.

The Coen brothers offered him three to four choices of classical music for him to pick from and he chose Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

The Coen brothers shot a lot of the film with wide-angle lens because, according to Joel, it made it easier to hold focus for a greater depth and it made camera movements more dynamic.

To achieve the point-of-view of a rolling bowling ball the Coen brothers mounted a camera, " on something like a barbecue spit ", according to Ethan, and then dollied it along the lane.

" In a five star review for Empire Magazine, Ian Nathan wrote, " For those who delight in the Coens ' divinely abstract take on reality, this is pure nirvana " and " In a perfect world all movies would be made by the Coen brothers.

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Rickman is to star with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz in a remake of 1966's Gambit by the Coen brothers.

Filmmakers the Coen brothers share credits for editing under the alias Roderick Jaynes.

He usually avoids actors ' rehearsing and prefers most scenes to be completed on the first take ; Eastwood's rapid filmmaking has been compared to Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and the Coen brothers.

In 2004, he appeared in three films: The Coen brothers ' The Ladykillers, another Spielberg film, The Terminal, and The Polar Express, a family film from Robert Zemeckis.

Mendes spent two days filming Spacey against bluescreen, but removed the sequence as he believed it to be too whimsical —" like a Coen brothers movie "— and therefore inappropriate for the tone he was trying to set.

Their first attempt to fly to the Iron Range area from Coen was not successful.

It was the directorial debut of the Coen brothers, and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld.

Although he had to audition twice for this role, it marked the first of six of the Coen Brothers ' films in which Buscemi appeared.

He first worked with the Coen Brothers in " Raising Arizona " ( 1987 ), he would go on to appear in " Barton Fink " ( 1991 ), " The Big Lebowski " ( 1998 ) and " O Brother, Where Art Thou?

In 2011 it was announced he'd return to working with them on " Inside Llewelyn Davis "-his fifth film with them and his first for a decade Only Steve Buscemi ( 6 ) has appeared in more Coen work, though Frances McDormand and Jon Polito have also appeared in five of their films.

It was the directorial debut of Joel Coen and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director.

The score to Blood Simple is written by Carter Burwell, the first of his collaborations with the Coen Brothers ; he went on to write scores for all of their films.

The first witness called was Coen himself, who Hastings later described as " the best witness without exception that I have ever seen in the witness-box ".

He met the Coen Brothers while they were promoting their first film, Blood Simple.

Coen came into being first as a small fort built by gold miners and prospectors in May 1877 but this first gold rush quickly came to an end, and the settlement did not recover until 1883.

He played Julian Marty in the first Coen brothers ' feature, Blood Simple.

: Examples include Hud starring Paul Newman ( 1963 ); Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway ( 1972 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ); Simon Wincer's Quigley Down Under ; Robert Rodríguez's El Mariachi ( 1992 ); John Sayles ' Lone Star ( 1996 ); Tommy Lee Jones ' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ( 2005 ); Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ); Wim Wenders ' Don't Come Knocking ( 2005 ); and the Coen brothers Academy Award – winning No Country For Old Men ( 2007 ).

In 1985, McDormand, the Coen brothers, Holly Hunter, and director Sam Raimi shared a house in The Bronx.

He frequently invited director Frank Oz to play small parts in his movies, and others such as Roger Vadim, Paul Mazursky, Jim Henson, Jonathan Demme, and David Cronenberg in Into the Night ; Terry Gilliam, Joel Coen, Michael Apted in Spies Like Us ; Sam Raimi in Spies Like Us and Innocent Blood ; George Lucas in Beverly Hills Cop III ; Steven Spielberg in Blues Brothers ; Dario Argento in Innocent Blood ; and Costa-Gavras in The Stupids.

After the release of The Evil Dead, Raimi moved on to Crimewave, a cross between a crime film and a comedy produced by Raimi and Joel and Ethan Coen.

Raimi frequently collaborates with Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning when Joel was one of the editors of Evil Dead.

Raimi made cameo appearances in Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, and with Joel Coen in Spies Like Us.

Together, they began writing the script for The Hudsucker Proxy in 1981, and continued during the filming of Crimewave ( 1985 ), and post-production on Blood Simple ( 1985 ), in which Joel and Ethan Coen shared a house with Raimi.