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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.
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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.
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.
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The city in which the film takes place is unidentified, but was shot in New Orleans as the Coen Brothers were attracted to its look.
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" Julie Salamon of the Wall Street Journal wrote that the Coen Brothers " have a lot of imagination and sense of fun — and, most of all, a terrific sense of how to manipulate imagery " but " By the end, the fun feels a little forced ".
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Campbell also had a key supporting role in the Coen Brothers film The Hudsucker Proxy.
Joel Coen served as an assistant editor on the film.
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.
* The Coen Brothers ' 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Coen Brothers often include screwball elements in a film which may not as a whole be considered screwball or even a comedy.
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
Joel Coen cites Robert Altman's contemporary take on Chandler with The Long Goodbye as a primary influence on their film in the sense that The Big Lebowski " is just kind of informed by Chandler around the edges ".
" Howell revised his opinion in a later review, and more recently stated that " it may just be my favourite Coen Bros. film ".
The film is also available in the Blu-ray Coen Brothers box set released in the UK, however this version is region free and will work in any Blu-ray player.
** Ethan Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor
Miller's Crossing is a 1990 American gangster film by the Coen brothers and starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Polito and John Turturro.
While writing the screenplay, the Coen brothers tentatively titled the film The Bighead — their nickname for Tom Reagan.
In 1998, he starred as what is arguably his most famous role, " The Dude ", in the Coen Brothers ' cult-classic film The Big Lebowski.
The Coen Brothers ' film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
" A Clear Spot song, " Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles ", appeared on the soundtrack of the Coen brothers ' cult comedy film The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ).
* The Coen brothers ' film The Big Lebowski is inspired by the character Philip Marlowe and the style and plot elements of Chandler's novels such as The Big Sleep.
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