![]() That is really what a writer’s block is.Īnother common interpretation can be how Barton Fink is really an anti-hero. ![]() The unease, the anxiety and the uncertainty of what is going to happen next, all eventually making a person lose control. For me, it was all about the writer’s block. There are a lot of interpretations one can derive out the movie. It might not the slapstick kind of comedy, but the silliness of the characters and the situations they end up in definitely produces chuckles all along. Charlie fink movie#What I also love about the movie is that inspite of all the tension and mystery building, there is still a lot of comedy in the movie. Some films play down to their audience and spell everything out, and some films treat their audiences with intelligence, and expect you to pay attention, like any good literature or theatre. Even at a very dull point in the narration when the character is staring at the painting on the wall or his ceiling or when he’s trying to keep his wallpaper from peeling, they’re giving you information about the character. Nothing is done wastefully or without purpose. ![]() They’re always giving you clues, jokes, and narrative, even in the most slow paced seemingly mundane moments. There’s always a million things happening, even when there’s is not a lot of action or intrigue. It’s not possible for me to express how much detail and deeper meaning it showcases. I love how the film is a self-commentary.īarton Fink provides us a lot of contextual imagery that never really gives a definitive answer to why it is there. Basically, a prestigious writer sells himself out for a Hollywood pay check, and finds that torturing himself to produce high art in a world of crass commerce is a formula for madness. It’s that territory which is so fraught with danger that can lead a socially conscious mind like Barton’s to the crucible for a succession of such lurid and extravagant events. This is what the story essentially demonstrates to us. Barton also says that Charlie is lucky to have a simple working stiff but his own job relies on his mind.“There is no roadmap for it” he says. The same thing comes back to him in the end when Charlie reminds Barton that he never thought beyond his naive understanding of people. “I could tell you some stories” Charlie keeps saying from time-to-time, but never does Barton heed. He is the ‘common man’ - someone in whom Barton can confide. All he sees is a sweaty potbellied man, the suspenders and the desperation to please. The mysterious Charlie who never lets Barton into his room is too good to be true, but Barton never realises that. He is a big, gregarious insurance man who tells Barton,“You might say that I sell peace of mind”. More than anyone else, Barton’s most important acquaintance in the story is Charlie Meadows, his next-door neighbour at the hotel. Barton also finds a companion in Mayhew’s personal secretary Audrey(Judy Davis) who later on becomes an important turning point in the narrative. In as gentlemanly a way as possible, he is vomiting. ![]() His entrance scene is him kneeling thighs down on a handkerchief inside a toilet stall. He befriends Will Mayhew (played by John Mahoney) who is a drunken novelist, and calls Hollywood “the great salt lick”. He is a plodding, introspective, unsure intellectual whose lack of insight is matched only by his lack of talent. The whole theme of the movie is built into Barton Fink himself, evident from the title. Charlie fink series#Barton’s adventures in Hollywood follow a series of funny misfortunate events, as the panic keeps rising when he is unable to come out of the writer’s block. He tries to find help and motivation from the likes of his hotel room neighbour Charlie Meadows(John Goodman) and Will Mayhew(John Mahoney), another writer whom Fink idealizes. As confused and unknown he is to the cinema world, he finds himself in a writer’s block and starts to get distracted by bizarre things. His work gets picked up critics and he subsequently finds himself writing a B-grade wrestling movie for a big-shot Hollywood producer. Barton Fink( John Turturro) is a pious New York playwright who has dedicated his life to theatre writing plays about the “Common Man”. Set in pre-World War II 1940s, Barton Fink is a satire on our self-obsessed thought process, more aptly in the case of writers. Unlike their go-to genre of films, the Coen brothers decided to make a mysterious dark comedy, and they did it in flamboyant style with seemingly effortless technique. ![]() The writer’s block -Barton Fink(John Turturro)Įveryone knows Coen brothers for their heart-wrenching psychopathic thrillers like Fargo, True Grit and No Country for Old Men or commentaries like Hail, Caesar!, not to mention their biggest cult hit The Big Lebowski, but there is one particular movie which leaves me perplexed every single time I watch it - Barton Fink. ![]()
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