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    1. Isaac Butler‏ @parabasis 16 Jan 2020

      From Clifford Odets’ journals:pic.twitter.com/DUdIaxjfk3

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    3. Isaac Butler‏ @parabasis 16 Jan 2020

      One of many reasons why that film aggravated me!

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jan 2020
      Replying to @parabasis

      Similar to how they used Dave Van Ronk's life in Llewyn Davis or Eddy Mannix in Hail, Caesar: they took the barebones of a life & milieu but gave the character a very different personality. I don't have a problem with that. These aren't documentaries.

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    5. Isaac Butler‏ @parabasis 16 Jan 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I don’t have a problem with it exactly but they owe such a debt to Odets that their reflexive pose of contempt, particularly towards anyone who believes in anything, seemed particularly ill fitting.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jan 2020
      Replying to @parabasis

      Is Fink scorned for believing in something or for his queasy betrayal of what he believed in? (I think his last name is an allusion to Odet's later semi-cooperation with HUAC). In any case, I think like Nabokov they mix contempt with sympathy.

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        2. Jack Feerick‏ @JackFeerick 16 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @parabasis

          What I took away is that Fink is type, rather than an Odets stand-in—a playwright whose work becomes a sensation because of its subject matter-slash-politics, not because it was actually any good. He's a hack who lucked into a hot-button success.

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        3. Jack Feerick‏ @JackFeerick 16 Jan 2020
          Replying to @JackFeerick @HeerJeet @parabasis

          The Coens are populists in the best sense; they loathe (and are amused by) pretentious artistes. The Ralph Fiennes character in HAIL, CAESAR!, e.g., oozing self-importance while directing a ho-hum mid-century "prestige" drama.

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        2. Isaac Butler‏ @parabasis 16 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Having values is show in most coen bros films to either be a source of hypocrisy or of ridiculousness. These are two routes to the same nihilistic contempt. Which, to be clear, I often find delightful!

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        3. Sam Adams‏Verified account @SamuelAAdams 17 Jan 2020
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          It took a long time but I have come see Barton Fink as a negative self-portrait, a horror movie about self-absorption. The Coens are morbidly terrified of taking themselves too seriously, and especially of getting caught at it.

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