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.

" 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 ".

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.

" Loring " is voiced by actor Jim Piddock, using a script written by the Coen brothers.

Prior to filming, producers Ethan and Joel Coen and director Zwigoff did rewrites on the script, although by WGA rules, they were uncredited.

It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.

The Coen Brothers are known for using this technique in all of their films, though not always to comedic effect.

Coen discovered the obvious solution for the problem: to start an intra-Asiatic trade system, whose profits could be used to finance the spice trade with Europe.

While writing the screenplay, the Coen brothers tentatively titled the film The Bighead — their nickname for Tom Reagan.

Bridges received his sixth Academy Award nomination for his role in True Grit, a collaboration with the Coen brothers in which he starred alongside Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and Hailee Steinfeld.

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are the third pair of siblings to win in this category for No Country for Old Men.

In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only four times: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ( who won for West Side Story in 1961 ); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry ( who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 ), and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( who won for No Country for Old Men in 2007 and were nominated again in 2010 for True Grit ).

* Barton Fink, fictional playwright from the Coen Brothers film, Barton Fink

He is also known for his appearances in many films by the Coen brothers: Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski and Paris, je t ' aime.

In 1991, he played the bellboy, Chet, in the Coen Brothers film, Barton Fink.

He is also known for his frequent film collaborations with the Coen Brothers, including in Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou ?.

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?

A versatile actor comfortable with both comedy and drama, Turturro also had an extended collaboration with the Coen Brothers, appearing in their films Miller's Crossing ( 1990 ), Barton Fink ( 1991 ), The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ), and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Joel and Ethan Coen ’ s film Barton Fink contains a number of indirect visual and historical references to Odets ’ s personal appearance, background and career.

* In the 1991 Coen brothers film Barton Fink, John Turturro's character Barton uses an Underwood typewriter in response to Jack Warner's comment that screenwriters are " Schmucks with Underwoods.

Jack Oakie is mentioned in the Coen Brothers film Barton Fink, which is set in Hollywood during the 1940s.

Creator Joss Whedon suggested an abandoned hotel, something similar to the hotel in Coen Brothers ' Barton Fink.