“scenes in Hudsucker Proxy that they then borrowed from themselves and put into The Big Libowsky.”
I’ll have to watch both, back to back.
I could be mistaken. They have made a lot of movies, a lot of them contain dream sequences. I don’t mind if/when artists borrow from themselves. I kind of appreciate self-referential (and self-deprecating) humor.
So, Cormack McCarthy wrote the novel for No Country for Old Men. He also wrote the screenplay, with director Ridley Scott, for the film The Counselor. Ridley Scott makes some very powerful and cinematic films (Blade Runner, American Gangster, Gladiator to name a few) but I don’t remember a film as dark and depressing as The Counselor. If you’re OK with dark & depressing content I highly recommend it. I’ve seen it several times and I am sure I still don’t quite understand all the messages they were trying to tell. It was too heavy, I think, to ever be a “big summer film” like the others he has made. But Cormack McCarthy is a writing tour de force.