Throughout their career, the Coen Brothers have excelled at writing verbose characters and snappy dialogue.
You have the screwball back-and-forth in “The Hudsucker Proxy,” John Goodman’s folksy salesman in “Barton Fink,” and Frances McDormand’s overbearing gossip in “Raising Arizona,” to name just a few examples.
There are exceptions, of course.
Billy Bob Thornton’s smalltown barber in “The Man Who Wasn’t There” did more smoking than talking, but generally their quieter characters are there to provide a counterpoint to the chatterboxes around them.From their debut “Blood Simple” onwards, the Brothers have almost exclusively written their own screenplays, building their distinctive style from…The post How No Country For Old Men Landed In The Coen Brothers’ Lap appeared first on /Film.
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