The only people we can canonically be certain are in Heaven in the cosmology of the Coen brothers cinematic universe are Buster Scruggs and Waring Hudsucker
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Hi's closing words in Raising Arizona are, I think, an invocation of Heaven: "a land, not too far away, where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved... I dunno, maybe it was Utah."
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another one where it seems clearly portrayed on screen that Hell exists but Heaven is mainly hoped for
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There are many demons in the movies, true, and few angels.
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I assume you're familiar with the definitive film crit post of the 2000s Century (the bounty hunter entering the mobile home sequence is almost shot for shot)https://thecleverest.com/no-country-for-raising-arizona/ …
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Alex I might lose my mind at this Mattie Ross erasure
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My most deeply held but also hard to articulate and hard to defend beliefs: 1. True Grit is not only undeniably the Coens’ masterpiece, it’s an underrated backdoor contender for the greatest film of all time 2. True Grit is a Christmas moviehttps://twitter.com/tmckenna1/status/1342293204696231936 …
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I think both of those are defensible but that's a separate question from whether Maddie gets to Heaven. In many ways, it's a story of her loss of innocence.
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