I hate to be Coen Bros. explainer guy but Barton Fink is not an attack on politically engaged art. Fink is based on Clifford Odets, who named names under McCarthyism (i.e. "a fink"). It's a movie about selling out. Wallace Beery wrestling pictures are not political art.https://twitter.com/ericlinuskaplan/status/1319127424064319488 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
The Coens aren't so much against leftism so much as they are the idea that it can be delivered through the typewriters of self-important artists (see also: the loquacious but ultimately hapless Hollywood commies in Hail Caesar!)
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I think the closest thing to a political ethos they have is May 68-style hippie anarchism - Marxists of the Groucho persuasion.
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The Dude is definitely close to their political outlook.
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