If you want to see the other videos in the Directors Before Series check out this playlist: kzread.info/head/PLXJ3434wIyxOaEfEr09aHMqn4YaMhBvrT I've done Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Terrence Malick, and now the Coen Brothers. Who should I do next?

@rossfreeman8505

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Thomas, I appreciate your videos and the clarity of thought you display in them. For suggested videos in the Directors Before Series: Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Alejandro González Iñárritu Stanley Kubrick Edgar Wright Quentin Tarantino Akira Kurosawa George A. Romero Paul Thomas Anderson I'm sure that any of those directors would yield rich, interesting, and informative studies of style through their feature-length directorial debuts. Best, Ross

@alexbement9821

5 жыл бұрын

Great channel. I'd ask for Gaspar Noe, Denis Villeneuve, Lynne Ramsay, or Yorgos Lanthimos.

@madmartigan21

5 жыл бұрын

Spielberg using Duel or perhaps even his episode of Columbo. Soderbergh with Sex Lies and video Tape.

@indiemovie4life427

4 жыл бұрын

Do Kevin Smith and Clerks

@viniciusalves8274

4 жыл бұрын

I think that Pee-wee's Big Adventure would be a great way to analyse both Tim Burton's strenght and weakness as a director.

Blood Simple is one of the best film debuts of all time

@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, and their Roommates: Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead.

@abrahamkassa2222

2 жыл бұрын

After tarantino,PTA and wes andersson's debut

@habadasheryjones

Жыл бұрын

I think its one of their best. They weave this plot based almost purely off of people making wrong assumptions about one another so effortlessly. The fully formed editing and camera techniques are ridiculous for a first time effort. I got back and forth between this one and Millers Crossing as my favorite Coen film. Blood Simple has a similar opening to No Country For Old Men given its shots of the Texan landscape combined with narration from a native with a pessimistic outlook on modern 80s Texas. The tense highway sequence from Blood Simple was basically expanded on in Fargo's highway sequence. Its interesting seeing those little aspects that can repeat or expand across a whole filmography.

I watched Blood Simple with low expectations. It was only the Coens debut, after all. But I was completely blown away by it and thought it was simply brilliant. Though not as polished as for example The Big Lebowski or No Country For Old Men, it is its grittyness that is part of its charme. Chock full of influences from other genres like Noir and Horror, at times funny as hell, and with one of the best and most intense murder scenes in film history.

@howard5992

4 жыл бұрын

I picked up on it when it was first released theatrically (from a few reviews) but was never able to see it until video. It made me an early Coen brothers fan.

@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto

2 жыл бұрын

I was expecting pretty good given their Roommate's debut, Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead. And I was very pleased.

@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394

2 жыл бұрын

Repo man's always intense!

Blood simple is similar to fargo in the respect of how bad a misunderstanding can get. One thing about their films is you get very tense about the characters and that they are very unpredictable.

The Coens are masters at making the characters paramount to the story.

It’s such a wonderfully structured noir. I loved how the various characters and motives just Crash together at the end. But what makes it so great is that it kind of jokes about how complicated the plot is at the end, and it ends up being literally the funniest thing in the movie in the movie’s final lines. After all the carnage, I laugh so hard at the end of that movie, to this day.

@lilmane1070

6 ай бұрын

I watched it for the first time on a plane a few days ago; I must have woken a few people up with how loud I laughed once Visser (Walsh) put it all together and cracked up at the end lol

Blood simple was the first movie i watch from the Coens, we went one night to a bar, and there was practicaly nobody there, except for a band that was playing psychedelic rock, and behind them, a big screen projecting the movie, but with out the sound only the image, i sit dow with a beer and pretty high and saw the final scene, all the sequence in the apartment, and it was one of the coolest movie experience i ever had (Of course, later I saw the full movie, with sound, and I loved it).

I just noticed how much they used Frances McDormand then I learned Joel was married to her. Edit: I looked it up and noticed it before you mentioned it at the end durr on me lol

Steve Buscemi character from Fargo ! Loved it so much 😂👍

Slow start until it gets badass and you realize all the slow shit was setting up an insane story

They also touch on Schrodinger's cat/quantum mechanic scenarios here and throughout their work. In Blood Simple, characters appear dead then they're alive again (also in Buster Scruggs pt. 4). In Raising Arizona it's in the dialogue "if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm a-gonna be in motion." In No Country, the emphasis on fate in a coin-flip. Tilda Swinton twins in Hail, Caesar. Nearly everything in A Serious Man!

Here is a recommendation for this series - "Hard Eight" by Paul Thomas Anderson It's pretty amazing the strong cast that he was able to sign. There are lots of stylistic and thematic elements besides the ensemble cast that have carried over into his later movies.

Your videos about Director's debut films are such a good idea (and very well executed) ! You can learn a lot about a director and their influences by looking at their early work. Looking forward to more of these videos in the future.

I always thought the lighting, tone, and music in Blood Simple is real eerie, like who’s out there? Someone’s watching me?

Thank you for this video, Thomas. The Coen Brothers are my favorite filmmakers! :D

I have watched so many of your videos since I came across you. I am so glad that i found this channel, and get to watch this great content. Thank you, Thomas.

Do Paul Thomas Anderson!

Just watched this movie! Holy shit had me on the edge of my couch no lie

Thanks for this, Thomas

Thanks for the video! I'm a huge fan of the Coen brothers and Blood Simple is a great film!

Expected it to be roughly made, but it's very impressive seeing how fully formed their style was. The PI had the same type of characterization as other Coen Villians like the John Goodman character in Barton Fink, the hulking Swede in Fargo, the Sheriff in O Brother Where art Thou, etc.

Great vid! You gonna do Kubrick? Would be interesting, as his first film is a bit of a dumpster fire!

Excellent. Thank you.

I just watched Blood Simple, and while there was a lot more about it that I appreciated than I enjoyed, I gotta say (Spoilers) Visser had some of the most kick-ass final words I’ve ever heard from a character.

@lilmane1070

6 ай бұрын

I just did too, and that’s a perfect articulation of how I felt as well, “a lot more about it that I appreciated than I enjoyed”

I love this video!

This is such a GENIUS video essay idea, to trace the Cohens' style from their very first movie. As a Screenwriter who is inspired by their work I have found this extremely insightful. Thank you and blessings from Jerusalem.

Roger Deakens loves to (mild) wide lenses as you get better feel for intimacy with them. Look at his use of 35mm and 28mm in much of his work.

The first coen brothers film was probably blood simple. But my favourite coen brothers films are 1. Fargo 2. Raising Arizona 3. The big lebowski 4. Barton finks 5. No country for old man

@sonnymaine7241

5 жыл бұрын

What do you mean the first film was ''probably' Blood Simple. That's just a fact.

@me-sy4um

5 жыл бұрын

barton finks no country for old man

@alejandroberrios4756

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting list, if I had to make one I'd probably rank them as such 5. Raisin Arizona 4. A Serial Man 3. Blood Pimple 2. Miller's Croissant 1. No Courting for Old Men

Yor are best work of before series

Nice video, although due to trying to capture their whole filmography, it stays a bit vague. The point at 8:07 is not correct, since Roger Deakins pointed out in several interviews, that his collaboration with the coens is often based on wide angle lenses (ironicallyespecially in no country for old men). Nice work though, keep it up!

Great writers.

"Redneck noir" shot in the style of a horror film. And every main character is a villain.

I think you should do spike lee's "she's gotta have it", Scorsese's "who's that knocking at my door", Tarkovsky's "Ivan's childhood", Damien chazelle's "guy and Madeline on a park bench", roman Polanski's "knife in the water", David Lynch's "eraser head" and Tarantino's "reservoir dogs" for this series

Blood Simple: in my top 10 films (i tried to walk out when I first saw it because of the violence but my husband pulled me back down and said "Sit! This is brilliant!" He was right.

@chiefscheider

4 жыл бұрын

It's 4th on my top 10 list. Saw it with a buddy in 1985 without hearing anything about it. We saw the ad in the newspaper and thought it looked interesting. I've followed their career ever since. Loved most of their films, hated a few, but was never bored by one.

@toasterroast7678

2 жыл бұрын

@@chiefscheider damn, i would say i've seen a couple that didn't interest me as much as others, but hate? you really feel that strongly about some? I'd be intrigued to know which ones.

@chiefscheider

2 жыл бұрын

Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, and Hail Caesar were the ones I really disliked. I just found those ones didn't have that Coen brothers feeling, to paraphrase a line from one of my absolute favorites 😉

@toasterroast7678

2 жыл бұрын

@@chiefscheider lol, i haven’t actually watched any of those three. but i agree, for me, the coens are either an absolute hit, or absolute miss. though maybe that’s harsh, i like to try and find something positive in every film i watch.

Please do Cronenberg! I find him the most underrated director out there

@ThomasFlight

5 жыл бұрын

I just watched Stereo a few months ago! He's a fascinating director.

It is impossible for me to watch Blood Simple without thinking of Evil Dead.

Its still their best movie.

It's too bad Barry Sonnenfeld never quite took off in his film career like he likely expected to. Had he stayed a DP, he may have been just as formative to the Coens' signature as Roger Deakins

You should do Kubrick in the directors befores series

You should do Danny Boyle next!

8:02 which is sad early Coens were definitely more weird and I loved it

I've always thought Blood Simple was the Coens' best movie, and one of the best movies ever made IMO.

oh - and David Lynch of course - The Master

never heard about them. gotta look into it.

@anti0918

5 жыл бұрын

DO IT! DO IT NOW!

@DevonHasTheGoodz

5 жыл бұрын

You have never heard of the Coen Bros.? They're easily one of the best writer and director duos of all time! My favorites are No Country and O' Brother. If you like film, and I'm sure you do since you are watching in-depth film studies on youtube, you will be blown away.

Do one on Lynches Debut: Eraserhead.

What is the film title from 9:40?

David Lynch took a lot of Inspiration from this film

The Evil Dead sucked, I am so sure. But Blood Simple was a heads up! Meaning 'crazed by violence' it depicted it well.

Scorsese next please

I am the only one who did'nt understand that movie?

10 mins and you didn't say Noir once.............. interesting.

The only thing I don't love about there movies is seeing the same actors /actresses over and over again

@HarveyGrass

3 жыл бұрын

well in that case you're going to hate Scorsese and Spielberg.

BRO Leo is a cheater! He has infinite bullets and bullets dont work on him

"The nedings of their films often leaves the audience unsettled. They rarely just hand you what you where expecting or hoping for". CORRECT! In No Country i was expecting an ending that payed off the story they had set up and that actually went somwhere and was good. Instead i got shit. Worst movie ever.

They have zero interest in making interseting characters or to pay off the stories they set up. We learn this early on and it only get's worse.

@Bewareofthewolves

5 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of their characters are interesting.

@drewsmovies1416

5 жыл бұрын

NostalgiNorden maybe it’s because you are not interested in there films. They make something of the best and interesting characters of the last 4 decades.

@DanJackson1977

5 жыл бұрын

"Zero interest in making interesting characters"... that's fascinating, because the FIRST thing most people think of regarding Coen Bros are their characters.