These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations that combine the real and the surreal with the hilarious. Of the scripts included here, Barton Fink--an intense look at the psychological ruin of a New York playwright trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood--is a masterful culmination of these themes.
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Ethan and Joel Coen have made nine critically acclaimed films together. They received an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1997 for Fargo.
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By GERALD L AHMANN II (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink (Paperback)
The best movie EVER! The straight script, I had hoped to stumble onto some dialogue that wound up on the cutting room floor but to no avail. Being interested in screenplay writing I was curious how the Coen's conveyed all of the sight humor into their screen play. If your looking for screen play examples (the how to write a screenplay books are worthless) this has been very helpful to me. Too bad their aren't any story boards to go with it.
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What is there to say? Joel and Ethan Coen are some of the best screenwriters working in the business. This book is a collection of their first 4 scripts filmed on the big screen. Please note that the scripts dont appear to be the final shooting version of the scripts, because last night I was watching Miller's Crossing and Blood Simple back to back and I noticed how some dialogue was changed and some scenes were excluded completely. There is nothing wrong with this and is probably even better so you can see the raw ideas the Coen Brother's had of their stories before filming them. Each one of these scripts are great on their own, and its amazing that they were written by two guys consecutively. Most writers couldn't write a script as good as Barton Fink or Raising Arizona, but these two brothers wrote them one after another. Barton Fink stands alone as the best script in this collection in my opinion. It is the ONLY film to have swept all the major categories at the Cannes Film festival. In conclusion, If you are taking a film writing course in college, or aspire to be a screenwriter and need some inspiration, then this collection is truly tremendous. All four of these scripts are great. I believe there is a Volume 2 of this book, but I would only get it for Fargo and The Big Lebowski, whereas in Volume 1 all the scripts are good!
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A terrific collection of stories providing an insight into interesting story techniques, and combining dark humor with suspense. Even if you just read one or two of the screenplays, it's worth it.
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Eddie Dane, Barton Fink, Bernie Bernbaum, Nathan Arizona, Wallace Beery, Johnny Caspar, New York, Fat Tony, Lou Breeze, Ben Geisler, Capitol Pictures, Charlie Meadows, Dead Terry, Florence Arizona, Los Angeles, Tom Reagan, Bill Mayhew, Drop Johnson, Officer Steensma, Rug Daniels, Ted Okum, Doc Schwartz, Fulton Street, Jesus Christ, Mistuh Fink New!
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The world is full of complainers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
whipcrack effect, low wide shot, extreme close shot, wrestling picture, lamplit street, back aisle, middle background, high shot, silent beat, long beat, enters frame Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eddie Dane, Barton Fink, Bernie Bernbaum, Nathan Arizona, Wallace Beery, Johnny Caspar, New York, Fat Tony, Lou Breeze, Ben Geisler, Capitol Pictures, Charlie Meadows, Dead Terry, Florence Arizona, Los Angeles, Tom Reagan, Bill Mayhew, Drop Johnson, Officer Steensma, Rug Daniels, Ted Okum, Doc Schwartz, Fulton Street, Jesus Christ, Mistuh Fink New!
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