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..
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Yeah Kari, right on. I kind of had some idea of what you are saying but couldnt quite put it to words. It seems like all the characters in their movies, with the get rich quick schemes forget about one detail: they are depending on other people to work things out, which is always a problem. I suppose it is most evident in Fargo, where every person involved in the kidnapping scheme ends up screwing the other people over. It kind of develops a subtheme that says, if you want something done right, do it yourself. So insightful
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