Super Smashin' Bros

I was really amazed with the Coen brothers. I loved all three movies we watched of theirs, and plus I have seen several others I liked. I decided to write about the fact that I noticed a running theme involved in the three movies we watched: getting involved in other peoples' business.

 

In the 1987 film Raising Arizona, H.I. (Nicolas Cage) is so caught up in making his wife happy that he does something wrong for the "right" reasons. His wife, Ed (Holly Hunter), just wants a baby. However, she can't have one. So, H.I. decides to kidnap a baby from a wealthy family thinking they had "more than they could handle". Obviously, it's not like the family would say "oh well" and forget about losing a baby; so a huge investigation overtakes, and swoops H.I. into it. It became a big disaster, lets just say.

In Fargo (1996) and No Country For Old Men (2007) the theme is a little darker, and the characters are a little more "domed". William Macy's character, Jerry (Fargo), gets wrapped up into a secret plan of his in hopes of money as a reward, but it goes too far, he gets involved in too many mix-ups, and well lets just say he is not satisfied at the end of the film. Similar case with Josh Brolin's character Llewelyn in No Country For Old Men; he came across a messy drug deal-gone-wrong, money was involved, he got too involved, and ended up definitely not satisfied at the end. Tragic, because he had good intentions, but he maybe should've tried to stay out of it..

Nashville! Finally.

Personally, I didn't understand why people hated the movie Nashville (Altman). What was to hate? I thought it was pretty cool that the actors and actresses had so much flexibility. Especially the fact that many of them wrote their own songs, shows that this is no poor operation! That is not an easy skill to have, even if you are Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles) who has horrible songs. That's  not easy to be successful in writing one that just makes you laugh because of how ridiculous it is!

I loved the amount of characters in this 1975 Robert Altman film. Not only were there a lot of characters, they were all very different and unique. I admired Altman's work of creating each and every one of them, and then having them all tie into each other in some way or another. Any movie that shows that much creativity, you can't just say, "I hated that movie" without having valid reasons. Sure, it was a little slow in some parts, but I was thoroughly entertained just by watching the characters interact with each other. It was also enjoyable to watch the mockery of the south, specifically Nashville; the music capital of the south. I would definitely suggest this film to someone looking for a comedy, with some "oomph" at it's core (hint: the ending), that you may have to read into.