Daily Dialogue — May 24, 2016

“LOOK UPON ME! I’LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!”

— Barton Fink (1991), written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: The Coen Brothers. I will be teaching my popular 1 week online class “The Coen Brothers and the Craft of Storytelling” starting Monday. If you are interested, go here for more information.

Trivia: Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen after a trip to see Baby Boom (1987) while suffering writer’s block writing Miller’s Crossing (1990).

Dialogue On Dialogue: This line, delivered while Charlie a k a Karl Mundt barrels down the hallway with a shotgun, killing two policeman, speaks to a central theme in the movie, how Barton is stuck in his mind. Indeed, the entire story may be a twisted fictional tale in the writer’s brain.