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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31. Link movie makes with Catholicism & Hollywood is more than superficial: film is the Catholic art form par excellance
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32. Catholic church has always been attuned to visual arts as liturgical expressions, hence more engaged with film than Protestants.
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33. It's no accident that Catholic Church took lead in trying to regulate Hollywood: they knew a rival when they saw one.
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34. To return to Marxism: thematically the film is a sequel to "Barton Fink." Both are Shachtmanite critiques of the popular front.
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35. For Shachtmanites & Trotskyist in general, Popular Front was false-radicalism in the service of sentimentality & Stalinism.
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36. Barton Fink embodies Popular Front sentimentality about common man & socialist realism & HC screenwriters are Stalinists.
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37. Worth remembering Coen's have abiding interest in failures & defeats of American left: https://storify.com/miniver/the-coen-brothers-and-the-defeat-of-the-american-l …
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