1. The critical consensus on "Hail, Caesar" is something like this: "entertaining, but fluffy. Minor Coen." Very wrong!
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2. Hail, Caesar is entertaining but far from being light: it's about the competing choices offered by religion, capitalism, socialism & art
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3. Key to the movie is at very end of credits: “This motion picture contains no visual depiction of the godhead." What does that mean?
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4. There are in fact several non-depicted godheads in movie: Jesus (face never shown), studio head (voice on phone), Communist utopia
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5. Every major character in film is caught between competing identities (hence dualism of Lawrence Laurentz name & twin gossip columnists)
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6. Main character Eddie Mannix is torn between capitalism (becoming Lockhead executive) and art (staying in studio)
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7. Other characters are torn between art & socialism. And real religion is given its say as rival to art (movie religion)
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8. Question film asks is can commercial artform like Hollywood filmmaking hold its own against religion, capitalism or utopian politics.
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9. If Hollywood film-making is vindicated in film, it's done not just in narrative but also in digressive pastiches of old films.
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10. Lots of critics treated the pastiches of old movies as digressions from main action: but they actually justify claims of Hollywood.
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