Big Lebowski - Donnie's Ashes Scene

Ok, as you can tell, I'm a big Coen Brothers fan. The Big Lebowski may actually be their funniest (sorry Raising Arizona). The story surrounds "The Dude", played by Jeff Bridges. The Dude is an old burned out hippie who is not particularly goal-oriented(to put it kindly).

Like so many of the Coen Brothers films, you'll enjoy it the first time you see it. But you won't truly appreciate it until the second or third time around. The first time you see a Coen film is like a palette cleanser. The second time is when you can really taste what they're going for.

A little rant here: How on God's green earth did Jeff Bridges not even get an oscar nomination for his role as The Dude? This has got to be one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. He plays the good hearted but lazy character to perfection. I've met people like that and even if you haven't, you feel like you want to. He doesn't play it as a characiture.

The scene above shows the grandiose comedic style of The Big Lebowski. In the scene, The Dude and Walter (played brilliantly by John Goodman) are going to throw their friends ashes by the ocean. Normally when you see this in a film, its really beautiful and the ashes scatter everywhere in the distance. Well, you can see what happens in The Big Lebowski.

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Fargo - "End of Story" scene

Fargo is another in the long line of classics from The Coen Brothers. I have never been to the upper midwest of the United States, but I felt as if I had after seeing Fargo.

Everyone speaks in a charming, pronounced accent. You can tell nothing gets them really riled up. There haven't been too many films where the story revolves around the Minnessotians-Dakotans people. But it goes to show a good story is a good story, irregardless of location. Especially when that script was written by Joel and Ethan Coen.

I think the truly genius aspect of the film is the dichotomy of the 2 criminals (played by Peter Stormare and Steve Buscemi) in this very value-oriented town. Here are these dirty gregarious people in the middle of a "Leave it to Beaver" town. Its hilarious. Fargo is the kind of place that nobody even curses. Instead throwing some F-bombs, people would say "oh, for pete's sake".

There may be, arguably, better scenes in the film than the one shown above, but I believe there is nothing that captures the setting quite like it. I just love how insanely polite they are to one another. Voices stay in the same monotone volume. Nobody raises the voice.

The line that always gets me is when he says "end of story". Its like, he's the guy from Dragnet (Just the facts). There is no embellishment. He's there to let you know what happened and that's that! "End of story", priceless!

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Raising Arizona Chase Scene

Words can't describe the ingenious lunacy of Raising Arizona. This has the Coen Brothers personality all over the film. Nothing is off limits and everything can be laughed at.

The story of Raising Arizona is about an ex con, H.I. (Nicolas Cage) who falls in love with a prison guard, Ed (Holly Hunter). They create a nice little life for themselves in Arizona. H.I. tries to became a decent upstanding citizen of society.

Problem is, they want to start having a family, but unfortunately Ed is barren. So what they decide to do is steal a local businessman's baby. He and his wife just gave birth to seven kids, so they figured they had more than enough babies to go around.

Arizona is the perfect backdrop for the film. The desert, apocalyptic setting just fits perfectly with the dark, yet irreverent humor of the film.

The scene above is just insane!! I have no idea how long that took to shoot, but its amazing. First off all, its hilarious. Its so blatantly over the top that it looks like a road runner cartoon. But just look at how it was shot. From a pure camera-editing perspective I don't think I've seen anything quite like that before or since.

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