15. A few of the characters are closeted gays but their sublimated sexuality finds expression in Channing Tatum dance number.
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16. Here's the Tatum dance number: key example of what is repressed by society finding expression on screenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3JM6DQOiKI …
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@DouthatNYT saw film as offering appreciation of Catholicism & Studio System. This is subtly wrong.1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes -
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18. It's true that both Catholicism and Mannix as Studio System manager are treated with respect & empathy. But.
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19. But: look at the title: "Hail, Caesar!" Mannix and the Studio System are Caesar: i.e. the alternative to Christ.
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20. Marx: religion is the opium of the people. Coen Bros: religion has nothing on Hollywood, which is a much more potent drug.
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21. The character of Mannix is interesting because he's a rare example of a sympathetic version of recurring Coen type: Man Behind the Desk
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22. I think it was Roger Ebert who noticed that Coen Brothers often feature this type: imperious boss who sits behind a desk.
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23. The Man Behind the Desk is a capricious reality principle, the boss who denies dreams & gives foolish orders. The studio boss.
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24. With a few rare exceptions (Leo in Miller's Crossing), the Man Behind the Desk is not a sympathetic figure. Usually a jerk and an idiot
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25. Mannix is far & away the most sympathetic Man Behind the Desk in a Coen Bros. movie.
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26. But sympathetic Mannix of movie has same name as real life studio fixer Eddie Mannix, who was a vicious abusive brute. Why?
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27. As with Marcuse, use of name of real Mannix isn't accident. I think it's used to call attention to discrepancy between film & reality
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