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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28. Movie-Mannix by sharing name with real life thug reminds us that "Hail, Caesar!" itself is giving glamorized view of studio ssytem
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29. Movie-Mannix is the way real-Mannix might have justified himself or crafted an image of himself as "heart of gold" problem solver.
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30. So: "Hail, Caesar!" not just movie about movie-making but also calls attention to how it itself part of glamorizing of Hollywood.
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