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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016

      1. The critical consensus on "Hail, Caesar" is something like this: "entertaining, but fluffy. Minor Coen." Very wrong!

      13 replies 16 retweets 87 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Hail, Caesar is entertaining but far from being light: it's about the competing choices offered by religion, capitalism, socialism & art

      5 replies 11 retweets 64 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
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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?

      3 replies 4 retweets 29 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
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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

      4 replies 2 retweets 26 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
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      5. Every major character in film is caught between competing identities (hence dualism of Lawrence Laurentz name & twin gossip columnists)

      6 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
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      6. Main character Eddie Mannix is torn between capitalism (becoming Lockhead executive) and art (staying in studio)

      3 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
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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)

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
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      8. Question film asks is can commercial artform like Hollywood filmmaking hold its own against religion, capitalism or utopian politics.

      7 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
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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.

      3 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016

      10. It would be easy to dismiss Mannix as just a glorified business goon (as the real Mannix was!) if not for real joy of the pastiches.

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        1. Pete Patterson, Spatial Cadet, 𝑥R Dev‏ @OttawaPete 16 Jun 2016
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          I purchased Hail Caesar instead of just renting it knowing it was going to need more than one viewing to appreciate

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        1. Jared Brewer‏ @DrJaredBrewer 16 Jun 2016
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          in the film, Mary marries Joe and has the equivalent of a 'Virgin birth'. Lots to discuss.

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        2. Jonathan Glick‏ @jonathanglick 16 Jun 2016
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          I agree with your interpretation, but would go further: it's about how we can find deep meaning in artifice of all kinds.

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        2. Jared Brewer‏ @DrJaredBrewer 16 Jun 2016
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          film set up Hollywood as a parallel church?

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        3. Jared Brewer‏ @DrJaredBrewer 16 Jun 2016
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          @mattzollerseitz wrote of the Lockheed man, "You can tell this character is the devil ... he always offers Eddie a cigarette."

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jun 2016
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          11. Lots more to say but for now: watch Hail, Caesar if you haven't. And you have, it's worth re-watching as it gets deeper each time.

          7 replies 5 retweets 37 likes
        3. David J. Loehr‏ @dloehr 16 Jun 2016
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          Saw it a third time the other day. My mother was a theologian and would have loved it.

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        1. Michael Cuddihy‏ @Wbaz54 16 Jun 2016
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          Marcuse appearance was interesting

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        1. Mark Sholdice‏ @marksholdice 16 Jun 2016
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          the boardroom scene is like a Catholic catechism, whereas Clooney character engages in a Communist catechism at beach house

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