The Coen Brothers have a distinctly peculiar sense of humor, to put it mildly. Their ability to inject comedy into otherwise dramatic or downright unpleasant scenarios lends their movies a unique quality, often making it hard to tell how seriously or not seriously audiences should take whatever's happening onscreen. They also frequently juggle multiple tones within the span of a single scene, going from being comical and silly to disturbing and violent (as they did in this infamous moment from "Burn After Reading").
Joel and Ethan Coen's off-kilter comical sensibilities manifest themselves in other ways, as shown by this making-of featurette from the "No Country for Old...
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Joel and Ethan Coen's off-kilter comical sensibilities manifest themselves in other ways, as shown by this making-of featurette from the "No Country for Old...
The post Why the Coen Brothers Sometimes Use a Secret Identity appeared first on /Film.
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