![]() But as every smart filmmaker is wont to do, the Coens offer no overt explanations of what’s really going on - just a well-told tale with visual imagery aplenty, and an ode to the sometimes infernal nature of the creative process. The mercury rises further when Barton’s gregarious neighbor (John Goodman) is around almost hellishly so, you might say. A fledgling New York playwright who sells out (at the cost of… his soul!) and moves to the City of Angels, Barton Fink (played marvelously by Coen regular John Turturro) holes up in the seamy Hotel Earle, where exquisitely dismal wallpaper peels off the walls as a heat wave sweats the city. ![]() Legend has it the Coens had such a bad case of writers’ block while writing Miller’s Crossing that they took three weeks off to script Barton Fink, a 1930s-set black comedy about - what else? - a Hollywood scribe with writer’s block.
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