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[[File:coen_brothers.jpg|frame|Serious men.]]
'''Joel and Ethan Coen''' have been making films and thumbing their noses at traditional genre boundaries since 1984. Bouncing from [[Film Noir]] to screwball comedy, from quirky indies to big-budget studio pieces, they function as a two-man writer-director-producer-editor [[Sibling Team]].
The brothers are known for their meticulous planning, not least the incredibly detailed storyboards they create for every shot of every film. This saves time during production (as they can show their cinematographer exactly what they want done) and makes the films look unbelievably cool.
Joel has been married to actress [[Frances McDormand]] - whom he met on the set of their first film ''[[Blood Simple]]'' - since 1984. She's since appeared in many of their films, including ''[[Fargo]]'' for which she won the [[Academy Award]] for Best Actress. She said of the event "After all these years sleeping with the director, it's finally paid off."
All of their films are scored by [[Carter Burwell]].
(Do not confuse Joel Coen with scriptwriter Joel Cohen. [[Bill Murray]] did... [[Garfield: The Movie|once]].)
=== Films written and directed by the Coens: ===▼
* ''[[Blood Simple]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Raising Arizona]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Miller's
* ''[[Barton Fink]]'' (1991)
* ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]'' (1994)
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* ''[[A Serious Man]]'' (2009)
* ''[[True Grit]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Inside Llewyn Davis]]'' (
* ''[[Hail, Caesar!]]'' (2016)
* ''[[The Ballad of Buster Scruggs]]'' (2018)
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: ''[[No Country for Old Men]]''
* [[The Anti-Nihilist]]: The most readily apparent philosophy underlying all of their works, though they do on occasion toy with spirituality, fate, and the possible existence of God.
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* [[Invisible Advertising]]: Their early film ''Crimewave'', written by them but directed by [[Sam Raimi]] of [[Evil Dead]] and ''Spider-Man'' fame.
* [[Lying Creator|Lying Creators]]: They have been known to make absurd and at times blatantly untrue statements about their own films; for instance, when asked whether ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' was influenced by ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', they claimed to have never read it. Also see "Roderick Jaynes" under [[Running Gag]] below.
** Actually, they said they've never read it, but were familiar with most of it via [[Pop
*** The fact that the movie features a cyclops, sirens, and many various other elements directly related to the plot of ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'' implies they had its story firmly in mind.
*** That, and [[Clue, Evidence, and a Smoking Gun|the dedication to Homer and the "inspired by the Odyssey" card in the opening credits.]]
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Carter Burwell's melancholy and emotional soundtracks often contrast sharply with the dry, absurd and/or grim tone of their films. Most obviously seen in ''[[Miller's Crossing]]'', a very dark and cynical film with a breathtakingly beautiful musical score.
** But is it really dissonance when the music is melancholy and the tone is grim or dark?
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Their movies often features Southern characters that are either very smart, or [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|talk like it]].
* [[Stupid Crooks]]: The brothers tend to include [[Criminals|criminal characters]] in a lot of their stories, including a few bumbling crooks who usually, but not always, appear in their comedies.
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Their upcoming film ''[[Inside Llewyn Davis]]'' is said to be based partially on the life of folk musician Dave van Ronk.
* [[The Walrus Was Paul]]: Several of their films (most obviously ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'' and ''[[A Serious Man]]'') contain imagery, dialogue, etc. that appears to be significant, but has no
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: [[The Narrator]] in ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'' seems to believe that he's in a [[Western]]
** Llewellyn Moss and Sheriff Ed Bell in ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'' are under the presumption that they don't live in a [[Crapsack World]] where {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins]]}}. Moss {{spoiler|gets himself and his wife killed because of it}}, and Bell ends up realizing the world went to hell a long time ago, but he was too idealistic to accept it.
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