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Posted on 08/11/2011 10:50:44 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
When I was 9 or 10, I watched Raising Arizona on VHS and thought it was one of the weirdest and funniest things I had ever seen. A frequently jailed stickup artist with surprisingly florid diction (Nicolas Cage) and his barren police officer wife (Holly Hunter) kidnap a loudmouth furniture magnate's quintuplet and run into trouble with two escaped convicts and the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse. I didn't get it, really, but I didn't care: It was hilarious and strange, with amusingly quotable dialogue ("I'll be taking these Huggies and, uh, whatever cash ya got") and hummable music (the "Ode to Joy" on a banjo, yodeling) throughout. During my high-school years, I caught up with the rest of the Coens' output and considered myself a fan; their best movie to that point, Fargo, came out just before I graduated and was the first I saw in a theater. I still remember a somewhat pretentious friend explaining before our behavioral science class that Fargo's opening, with a car driving into "nothing" (an utterly blank expanse of North Dakota snow), was a "standard absurdist trope" or something along those lines.
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Me; I loved Raising Arizona. And O Brother Where Art Thou.
But after a dozen or so flicks with the hillbilly dialogue schtick, it gets tiresome. Especially the remake of True Grit.
Fargo and Burn After Reading were amazing.
Raising Arizona is one of the greatest movies, ever.
“turn to the raht!”
I missed Fargo, but if it's on par with Burn After Reading, it's at the top of my "to watch" list.
Gale: All right, ya hayseeds, it’s a stick-up. Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground.
Feisty Hayseed: Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say, if’n I freeze, I can’t rightly drop. And if’n I drop, I’m a-gonna be in motion. You see...
Gale: Shut up!
Feisty Hayseed: Okay then.
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Raising Arizona may just be one of the finest movies ever made. It makes my top three movies of all time along with “Witness for the Prosecution” and “ Once Upon a Time In America”
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Fargo was a lot funnier when I thought it was a true story. Somehow it really did seem authentic.
Then I learned they simply lied when they said it was true. Actually would have not been nearly as good if I had known.
I really enjoyed the new True Grit. Sits beside the Duke’s version on my DVD shelf.
Surprised no one's mentioned "The Big Lebowski". That one never gets old for me.
The Coens seldom disappoint. The Dudes abide....
I must admit Holly Hunter actually has gotten hotter as she’s gotten older.
Fargo was of particular interest to me. At the time, I was a Floor Plan Manager at a local bank. My job was to watch the inventory at local delearships. If a unit was sold, the dealar had a certain number of days to pay off the note at the bank.
And believe me - it is very common for cars to “disappear” for a couple of weeks. And I had to pressure the dealership to make good on the note.
Thankfully, I never had a “Fargo” happen.
Bad Guys are really, really bad.
Good Guys are childlike and sluggish.
I learned that if you want to find an outlaw, you call an outlaw...and if you want to find a Dunkin Donuts, you call a cop.
No one’s mentioned their greatest flick. No Country for Old Men. Completely out of character from the screwball comedy stuff they like to do. Any movie they’ve done I’m willing to watch. They are all so good. My other favorites are “O Brother Where Art Thou”, “Raising Arizona”, “Intolerable Cruelty” and “Fargo”. You may notice that Frances McDermond is in a lot of their movies. She’s married to one of the brothers.
"Dammit, are you boys gonna chase down your leads or are you gonna sit drinkin' coffee in the one house in the state where I know my boy ain't at?"
"Hell, they're all disgruntled. I ain't running no damn daisy farm. My motto is 'Do it my way or watch your butt!'"
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