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The key to all the Coen Brothers' work for me is a line from The Man Who Wasn't There: "Life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I just haven't played 'em right."
@@bibiking18 The Big Lebowksi is all about taking life easy, like going with fckin flow, or letting it go. You know, have you heard about this Eastern philosophy called Taoism or sth. Sounds cool right? 🍻
The Big Lebowski is hands-down my favorite movie ever, but I was only 2 when it came out. Having the opportunity to see it on the big screen for its 20th anniversary just a few weeks ago was a literal dream come true.
@@j2times2006 Coming from someone who hasn't had a single dream of theirs fulfilled and thinks that by badgering strangers you will never meet for leaving simple/ironic comments that don't outline their life, it gives you levity above them to feel better about your failures?.... Oh J2....
Genius !!!! Coen brothers are simply genius. Watch any of their movies, you’ll know right away they are genius. Fargo, no country....., burn after reading , and ohh brothers!........ Always crave their genius work. Every one wants more corn brothers.
O brother where art thou, was a formative moment for me as a teen. The only other person in High school that had the soundtrack like me was an english teacher. :-)
Right on. I see Screen Prism and Coen Brothers and I don't hesitate. That was fantastic as usual. This channel dominates when it comes to putting out consistent, quality videos that are super thought out and insightful - just as the Coen Bros. dominate consistent quality films - films that I walk out of with my head blown apart. You know it's a Coen Bros. film when you're still thinking about it three days later.
-Narrator -Robert deNiro or Leo DiCaprio -Doo Wop or Classic Rock soundtrack -Lots of F-bombs -Characters who abuse drugs -Tracking Shots -Based on a True Story about a man who started from the bottom who rises to the top only to start back down.
Damn, as soon as I saw this, I started singing 'I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow' at the top of my lungs. I just finished season one of Fargo, and I was craving more stuff about the Coens, so this is absurdly well timed. I already know it's gonna be good, it is ScreenPrism after all!
+metrotman Wasn't it, though? I would have liked the Coens to have directed it themselves, but it was still fantastic. Is season two any good? I plan on starting it tomorrow.
The Fiddles I think they were producers of some kind for the show. S1 and S2 are brilliant. I go back and forth on which I like better. S3 was a bit of a letdown, but awesome cast once again make it worth the watch.
Director auteurs are my favorite directors. Especially when they both write and direct their own visions. Quentin Tarantino, Terrence Malick, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Christopher Nolan, Pedro Almadovar, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Daron Aronofsky, Coen bros, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Guillermo del Toro, Lars von Trier, Richard Linklater, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, David Fincher, Akira Kurusawa, Michael Haneke, Takashi Miike, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Alejandro Jodorowsky, even Jean Renoir, Roman Polanski, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Terry Gilliam, and several others are among my favorite auteurs. I can't think of any more off the top of my head, or from skimming my list of movies I've seen and rated, but I love these guys especially. Some other director auteurs were very good, too, but there were a number of others that I didn't care for.
These guys are truly one of a kind.. I can't think of any other Jewish brother director duos that come within earshot of their magic and genius.. I've always felt such a strong connection with not only their movies, but them as individuals.. at the risk of sounding crazy, I actually think I might've been one of them in a previous life..
You know it's a Screenprism video if... 1. It talks about one of your favorite movies or directors, 2. It has a great narration by a beautiful woman, 3. Leaves you satisfied every time you watch one... Thanks, girls, these series is my favorite... Love U!!!
First heard about the Coens back in 82. From my art history prof. Who was their mom. Can't blame her for breaking the rules, don't think I could have resisted the temptation to brag about kids like hers. Explained about how when Joel got back from his first day in first grade she asked him how it went. "Not bad but it took a lot out of my day". So cut to 20 odd years later and I was looking at a photo of Joel and got it, why she liked me so much. It was a bit like looking at my own reflection. Haven't gotten that much use out of studying the master of Flemal but I sure did find out why Rena Cohen was the most popular prof in the department. She was utterly unforgettable.
I think what this video is saying is that Coen Brothers movies reflect life as it is, NOT as we would have it: often harsh, utterly unpredictable, and apparently meaningless, where the innocent sometimes suffer cruelly and the guilty sometimes get away with it. I think recognition of those universal truths are probably why Apocalyptic Jews, in the days of the Maccabean Revolt, invented Hell. It was their way of explaining how it all works out in the fullness of time.
Fargo and Lebowski are both up there on my all time favourite film list. Most underrated I'd put as A Serious Man, I've only seen it once, really need to see it again. Michael Stuhlbarg is an amazing actor, as anyone who watched Boardwalk Empire will know (playing the total opposite to his Serious Man character).
I hadn't prioritized A Serious Man but now I know Michael Stulhbarg is a key figure in it and *boom top of the queue*. That guy was amazing as Arnold Rothstein.
Lewyln Moss in No Country for Old Men doesn't make the mistake of taking the money, anyone in their right mind would. His mistake was to go back to the crime scene to provide aid and water to a wounded cartel member that he knew was bleeding out and would die, for this act of kindness he does it sets him on a dangerous path where hes running from the cartel and the phantom sicario Anton but he couldve easily left the country or state with his wife by this point but he doesnt because hes not an evil man, just a complicated one.
Excellent. Yeah, Maud, I’d say that was the word, excellent. It just kinda says what I want to say about them and this work on them. If you get my drift…
Pardon, I didn't realize how terse that could read. I just wrote the first thing in my mind also - a blazee critique to what was probably a blazee joke. Next time I'll do this: ;P
Now, that's an idea, but as so many people won't watch foreign language/subtitled fims, I don't see it happening.... anyway...imo, best - All About My Mother, worst - I'm So Excited.
@@bingsinatra5283 fair but he is an oscar winner and bigger directors like tarantino list him as an influence. and in the globalist age who can say they don't watch subtitled films or shows or foreign language music without missing out on a huge chunk of zeitgeist i.e. look to the popularity of Deutschland83, anime, kpop, ect. and didn't they do an episode on Kurosawa's movies?
is there some sort of copyright issue with true grit? This is the forth coen brothers info vid I have watched today that barely flashes it or refers to it! It is right up there in the top ten. Can anyone shed some light for me?
No. I'm sure the brothers Cohen did not in any way intend to remake the show. But. The movie is about a directionless man who needs badly to come to terms with himself, a man pursued relentlessly by a mysterious, apocalyptic figure symbolizing his poor life choices catching up to him. The climax of the movie involves him coming to an epiphany about himself as he confronts this figure, revealing the function of the character to be transformative rather than fatal. All the while, incidentally, in a very non-standard courtship with Holly Hunter. :) The rest of the movies have nothing to do with each other. But those themes of the main character felt very similar. Not, I hasten to add, in a bad way. Both were beautiful stories and the Bros. C. can tell that story over and over in different ways and Ill watch it. :)
It would be awesome to see your take on less mainstream directors, like Yasujiro Ozu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bergman, Agnes Varda, Akerman, Kaurismäki, Tarkovsky or Wong Kar Wai
1) Nuri Ceylan - why in the fuck would they waste a whole entire video on a mediocrity (a decent mediocrity, but still, for now, a mediocrity) that nobody's ever heard of just because YOU obnoxiously pester them? 2) How in the hell do you lump him in with those names that actually contributed something to the overall history of movies?
Nothing about Jewish themes? They aren't exactly subtle with them a lot of the time. I think the fact the have this rather unusual upbringing of being Jewish Minnesotans really shows in a lot of their films.
Motoko Kusanagi - Ghost in the Shell (Anime) The Bride - Kill Bill Ripley - Alien Sarah Conner - Terminator Clarrise Starling - Silence of the Lambs That said, I like Fargo as a movie better than the rest of those movies.
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The key to all the Coen Brothers' work for me is a line from The Man Who Wasn't There: "Life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I just haven't played 'em right."
life is a series of disappointments...
@@nidhincherian2766 interesting, why do you think so?
@@nidhincherian2766 ok im curious to hearing your opinion, because ive already seen all of their movies a coupe of times
@@bibiking18 The Big Lebowksi is all about taking life easy, like going with fckin flow, or letting it go. You know, have you heard about this Eastern philosophy called Taoism or sth. Sounds cool right? 🍻
The Big Lebowski is hands-down my favorite movie ever, but I was only 2 when it came out. Having the opportunity to see it on the big screen for its 20th anniversary just a few weeks ago was a literal dream come true.
My favorite as well Jeff Bridges is awesome if they make a Big Lebowski 2 Im definitely want to be apart of it.
20 years old, in Amsterdam with a friend, got waaaaay too stoned and thought we'd catch a movie
I also got to see it again on the bigscreen for a 4/20 screening, along with Dazed and Confused :)
I think you should have bigger dreams than going to see a movie
@@j2times2006 Coming from someone who hasn't had a single dream of theirs fulfilled and thinks that by badgering strangers you will never meet for leaving simple/ironic comments that don't outline their life, it gives you levity above them to feel better about your failures?.... Oh J2....
Genius !!!! Coen brothers are simply genius.
Watch any of their movies, you’ll know right away they are genius.
Fargo, no country....., burn after reading , and ohh brothers!........
Always crave their genius work.
Every one wants more corn brothers.
O brother where art thou, was a formative moment for me as a teen. The only other person in High school that had the soundtrack like me was an english teacher. :-)
Right on. I see Screen Prism and Coen Brothers and I don't hesitate. That was fantastic as usual. This channel dominates when it comes to putting out consistent, quality videos that are super thought out and insightful - just as the Coen Bros. dominate consistent quality films - films that I walk out of with my head blown apart. You know it's a Coen Bros. film when you're still thinking about it three days later.
“You know it’s a Martin Scorsese film if...” please.
Probably when The Irishman comes out.
George Daugherty when is going to come out ???
Robert De Nero starring in it.
-Narrator
-Robert deNiro or Leo DiCaprio
-Doo Wop or Classic Rock soundtrack
-Lots of F-bombs
-Characters who abuse drugs
-Tracking Shots
-Based on a True Story about a man who started from the bottom who rises to the top only to start back down.
Has a lot of flashing lightbulbs!!!
You Know You're Watching A David Fincher film IF...
YES
The game > fight club
Someone’s head is in a box
Tony H
Soooo true. The Game is criminally underrated.
If it's a perfect film
Damn, as soon as I saw this, I started singing 'I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow' at the top of my lungs. I just finished season one of Fargo, and I was craving more stuff about the Coens, so this is absurdly well timed. I already know it's gonna be good, it is ScreenPrism after all!
Exactly the same, halfway through season two and this popped up! Season one was amazing...
+metrotman Wasn't it, though? I would have liked the Coens to have directed it themselves, but it was still fantastic. Is season two any good? I plan on starting it tomorrow.
The Fiddles I think they were producers of some kind for the show. S1 and S2 are brilliant. I go back and forth on which I like better.
S3 was a bit of a letdown, but awesome cast once again make it worth the watch.
+Jennifer Slattery Yeah, I think they were executive producers, that's what the credits said.
HANDS DOWN the best analysis channel around.
You know it's a Coen Movie if it's awesome 😂
The Man Who Wasn't There, is the most underrated Coen flick there is. It's a real shame it gets overlooked, even by their fans.
Yup, great film... The Hudsucker Proxy's equally underrated.
Millers Crossing too
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The Man Who Wasn't There is my fave Coen film.
Director auteurs are my favorite directors. Especially when they both write and direct their own visions. Quentin Tarantino, Terrence Malick, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Christopher Nolan, Pedro Almadovar, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Daron Aronofsky, Coen bros, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Guillermo del Toro, Lars von Trier, Richard Linklater, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, David Fincher, Akira Kurusawa, Michael Haneke, Takashi Miike, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Alejandro Jodorowsky, even Jean Renoir, Roman Polanski, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Terry Gilliam, and several others are among my favorite auteurs.
I can't think of any more off the top of my head, or from skimming my list of movies I've seen and rated, but I love these guys especially. Some other director auteurs were very good, too, but there were a number of others that I didn't care for.
PTA? Also a lot of those guys don’t Write.
Jesus, you made me watch their whole filmography again.
These guys are truly one of a kind.. I can't think of any other Jewish brother director duos that come within earshot of their magic and genius..
I've always felt such a strong connection with not only their movies, but them as individuals.. at the risk of sounding crazy, I actually think I might've been one of them in a previous life..
I don't think there any "Jewish brother director duos" other than the Coen brothers, period!
honestly, this is the "You Know It's _____ IF..." Video I've wanted since day 1.
I love "No Country for Old Men" and "True Grit"!
You know it's a Screenprism video if... 1. It talks about one of your favorite movies or directors, 2. It has a great narration by a beautiful woman, 3. Leaves you satisfied every time you watch one... Thanks, girls, these series is my favorite... Love U!!!
I would love it if y’all did one of these on Jim Jarmusch!
Yes please
@@CreepyChris_66 Second that!
Paterson was poetic!
Dead man is really cool
With the Coen bros I just resign myself to accept the mystery.
First heard about the Coens back in 82. From my art history prof. Who was their mom.
Can't blame her for breaking the rules, don't think I could have resisted the temptation to brag about kids like hers. Explained about how when Joel got back from his first day in first grade she asked him how it went. "Not bad but it took a lot out of my day". So cut to 20 odd years later and I was looking at a photo of Joel and got it, why she liked me so much. It was a bit like looking at my own reflection. Haven't gotten that much use out of studying the master of Flemal but I sure did find out why Rena Cohen was the most popular prof in the department. She was utterly unforgettable.
Certainly the best contemporary film makers.
Great pts on the DP and Composer. Totally vital to the feel.
You know it’s a Satoshi Kon movie if...?
YAS
Koen Hagen yes please!!!
Yes, please. Kon was one of the few real artists in anime.
YES THAT'S ALL I WANT
Even though I dont know what your talking about, you seem like a decent person for making so many strangers happy by a youtube comment, so I'm liking.
Great job! I thoroughly enjoyed that.
Very interesting analysis. I love Coens' movies, especially dialogues and characters. So quirky and entertaining. "Care for gopher?"
" You know its a Tommy Wiseau movie if"
There is a room
When it’s a total masterpiece
Lady Killers is still by far my favorite film. Just so perfect!
Try Intolerable Cruelty, it's vastly superior.
Just watched A Serious Man recently, I have no idea what to think of it but I might have loved it.
My favorites I always enjoying their works
Edgar Wright, Tarantino and Sergio Leone please??
Jesus A. I think Tarantino was done already
Zappy Doggo do it *AGAIN*
Tarantino hands down
My favorite directors.
Marge is one of the best characters ever created
You know it's a Coen Brothers film if...it's a great film, no matter the genre.
My favourite CB film are "on country for old men, the big lebowski and Fargo"
Cinematographer Roger Deakins....Say no more, masterpiece confirmed
What a great celebration of the Coen's style
#18: Crazy Casting Choices that WORK!
...the rug really ties the room together.
I think what this video is saying is that Coen Brothers movies reflect life as it is, NOT as we would have it: often harsh, utterly unpredictable, and apparently meaningless, where the innocent sometimes suffer cruelly and the guilty sometimes get away with it. I think recognition of those universal truths are probably why Apocalyptic Jews, in the days of the Maccabean Revolt, invented Hell. It was their way of explaining how it all works out in the fullness of time.
It's always a toss-up between Fargo, Big Lebowski and No Country for their best film
Ben Wasserman barton fink and inside llewyn davis are up there too
Fargo and Lebowski are both up there on my all time favourite film list. Most underrated I'd put as A Serious Man, I've only seen it once, really need to see it again. Michael Stuhlbarg is an amazing actor, as anyone who watched Boardwalk Empire will know (playing the total opposite to his Serious Man character).
WELL I WOULDNT DO THAT.. JUGGLE WITH DVDS AND YOU'LL SCRATCH THEM...
Add millers crossing to that list
devon sawatzky and A Serious Man
Coen Bros... best filmmakers in cinema today.
Amazing analysis/&dissection🙏🏿👏🏿
I hadn't prioritized A Serious Man but now I know Michael Stulhbarg is a key figure in it and *boom top of the queue*. That guy was amazing as Arnold Rothstein.
The dude *gets* a new carpet, though.
good work on The Coens ^_^ and please do a vid on Tarantino please
You know it's Andrei Tarkovsky if.......
-if they are speaking Russian
-if the film has great cinematography but it's toooo slow.
it’s P O E T I C C I N E M A
Amazing cinematography, long AF shots
"you've been puttin' it up your whole life, you just didn't know it"
Lewyln Moss in No Country for Old Men doesn't make the mistake of taking the money, anyone in their right mind would. His mistake was to go back to the crime scene to provide aid and water to a wounded cartel member that he knew was bleeding out and would die, for this act of kindness he does it sets him on a dangerous path where hes running from the cartel and the phantom sicario Anton but he couldve easily left the country or state with his wife by this point but he doesnt because hes not an evil man, just a complicated one.
Agree. There is a cost for goodness. And yet the alternative is worse.
Agreed but something tells me Anton Chigurh would have found him anyway.
Please continue this director series.
They always seem to include a comical scene with a store clerk.
Excellent. Yeah, Maud, I’d say that was the word, excellent. It just kinda says what I want to say about them and this work on them. If you get my drift…
You Know It's A Coen Brothers Film If It Has Frances McDormand in the cast and Roger Deakins as DOP.
@8:39 currently in quarantine, year 2020, laughing at how highly accurate this is
Incredible as usual.
Do Martin Scorcesse!
God, your voice is beautiful.
Oh how I love thee Frances McDormand.
Roger Deakins is one of the best cinematographer in this planet.
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You know it's a Coen film when the credits say "a Coen Brothers film". It's that simple!
Not very fun or analytical though.
whoa, you must be fun at birthdays! I just wrote the first thing that came into my mind...
Peace!
Goryllo
Pardon, I didn't realize how terse that could read. I just wrote the first thing in my mind also - a blazee critique to what was probably a blazee joke.
Next time I'll do this: ;P
no worries, considering the things you read on YT these days... well good day to you Sir
What happened here
You Know You're Watching a David Cronenberg Film If...
Love this series so much, is there any way you could make one on Almodovar?
Now, that's an idea, but as so many people won't watch foreign language/subtitled fims, I don't see it happening.... anyway...imo, best - All About My Mother, worst - I'm So Excited.
@@bingsinatra5283 fair but he is an oscar winner and bigger directors like tarantino list him as an influence. and in the globalist age who can say they don't watch subtitled films or shows or foreign language music without missing out on a huge chunk of zeitgeist i.e. look to the popularity of Deutschland83, anime, kpop, ect. and didn't they do an episode on Kurosawa's movies?
@@bingsinatra5283 absolutely agree with best/worst designations lol
I could just be sitting here with pee stains on my rug.
I am sitting here with pee stains on my rug. It is the right decision.
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Is there a new Coens film coming out?! I thought you always did these in anticipation of upcoming movies.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
“A get? Oh... a gett...”
Great video!
We’ll be waiting for the Quentin Tarantino video
is there some sort of copyright issue with true grit? This is the forth coen brothers info vid I have watched today that barely flashes it or refers to it! It is right up there in the top ten. Can anyone shed some light for me?
Marge and Norm, relationship goals
Legends
If everybody is acting weird then you know your watching a coen bros movie
How's that?
In respect to his untimely demise...how’s about one for John Singleton
I have been sick in the past at how much O Brother Where Art Thou is almost a remake of Raising Arizona.
In no way is it a remake of raising arizona.
No. I'm sure the brothers Cohen did not in any way intend to remake the show.
But.
The movie is about a directionless man who needs badly to come to terms with himself, a man pursued relentlessly by a mysterious, apocalyptic figure symbolizing his poor life choices catching up to him. The climax of the movie involves him coming to an epiphany about himself as he confronts this figure, revealing the function of the character to be transformative rather than fatal.
All the while, incidentally, in a very non-standard courtship with Holly Hunter. :)
The rest of the movies have nothing to do with each other. But those themes of the main character felt very similar.
Not, I hasten to add, in a bad way. Both were beautiful stories and the Bros. C. can tell that story over and over in different ways and Ill watch it. :)
Radibonzically flipindistical.
The very structure of Coen brothers: No one knows shit.
Can you please make a video on the leftovers?
You know it's a Winding Refn movie ...
Just watched Fargo and came here to know about the guys behind it
13:30 lol... Loosely?
Thank you. Didn't they do *Jupiter Ascending?*
Please do a similar video on M.Night Shymalam as a tribute to upcoming Glass film.
Another thing I take away is: People often come with trouble, and chaos is lurking around every turn...so wake-up and watch your ass, people.
Uggghhhhh I payed for UA-cam Red so I wouldn’t have to watch ads during videos.
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You could have said "out of their element" and you didnt and I dont forgive you
Please do Alexander Payne or Martin Scorsese
Please do “You know it’s a movie if...”
You Know It's A Terrence Malick Film IF.....
It would be awesome to see your take on less mainstream directors, like Yasujiro Ozu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bergman, Agnes Varda, Akerman, Kaurismäki, Tarkovsky or Wong Kar Wai
1) Nuri Ceylan - why in the fuck would they waste a whole entire video on a mediocrity (a decent mediocrity, but still, for now, a mediocrity) that nobody's ever heard of just because YOU obnoxiously pester them? 2) How in the hell do you lump him in with those names that actually contributed something to the overall history of movies?
Could you do Giermo Del Toro PLESE!!??
You know if it is a lynch team if....
It's not that Llewelyn Moss shouldn't have taken the money. It's that he shouldn't have returned to the damn crime scene hours later.
Pay attention to the damn movie. Or read the novel. There was a tracking device in the case. They would've tracked him either way.
Outer. SPACE.
Uh oh!
Please do PTA - he's such a hard director (for me) to pinpoint
i need a fincher oneeee
Do a vedio analysis on Terrance mellick.
Boring, but beautyful
Nothing about Jewish themes? They aren't exactly subtle with them a lot of the time. I think the fact the have this rather unusual upbringing of being Jewish Minnesotans really shows in a lot of their films.
I think Marge is the best female protagonist in film. Can anyone name a better one?
Motoko Kusanagi - Ghost in the Shell (Anime) The Bride - Kill Bill Ripley - Alien Sarah Conner - Terminator Clarrise Starling - Silence of the Lambs That said, I like Fargo as a movie better than the rest of those movies.
It sounds like the Torah (old testament) is an antagonist in Cohen films, and they're Jewish. Weird.
Please do a Hitchcock movies vid 👍🏽
You know you’re watching a Sam raimi film