During their conversation, Fink proclaims his affection for "the common man", and Meadows describes his life as an insurance salesman. His neighbor, Charlie Meadows, the source of the noise, visits Fink to apologize. He is distracted by sounds coming from the room next door, and he phones the front desk to alert them of the disturbing sounds. Fink is assigned to a wrestling film by his new boss Jack Lipnick, but he finds difficulty in writing for the unfamiliar subject. His room's only decoration is a small painting of a woman on the beach, arm raised to block the sun. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Fink settles into the cheap Hotel Earle. In 1941, up-and-coming Broadway playwright Barton Fink accepts a contract from Capitol Pictures in Hollywood to write film scripts for a thousand dollars per week. Several features of the film's narrative, particularly an image of a woman at the beach which recurs throughout, have sparked much commentary, with the Coens acknowledging some intentional symbolic elements while denying an attempt to communicate any single message in the film. Mayhew, respectively, are often seen as fictional representations. It contains various literary allusions and religious overtones, as well as references to many real-life people and events – most notably the writers Clifford Odets and William Faulkner, of whom the characters of Barton Fink and W. The diverse elements of the film have led it to defy efforts at genre classification, with the work being variously referred to as a film noir, a horror film, a Künstlerroman, and a buddy film. Prominent themes of Barton Fink include the writing process slavery and conditions of labor in creative industries superficial distinctions between high culture and low culture and the relationship of intellectuals with "the common man". Although the film was a box office bomb, only grossing $6 million against its $9 million budget, it received positive reviews and was nominated for three Academy Awards.
In a rare sweep, it won the Palme d'Or as well as awards for Best Director and Best Actor (Turturro). The film is influenced by works of several earlier directors, particularly Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and The Tenant (1976).īarton Fink had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1991.
They began filming soon after Miller's Crossing was finished. The Coens wrote the screenplay for Barton Fink in three weeks while experiencing writer's block during the writing of Miller's Crossing. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a film studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie Meadows, the insurance salesman who lives next door at the run-down Hotel Earle. Barton Fink is a 1991 American period black comedy psychological thriller film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers.
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