Brilliance in Ebullience
Even though there is a chance at plausibility, Ethan and Joel Coen are not the brothers responsible for a certain piece of computer software designed to help one write a movie screenplay. On the contrary, if the Coens were the Write Brothers, a little bit of logic might predict the program would freeze up in the first scene. And the second. And the third. Errors might bluntly suggest to "try making your murder funny" or "go back and forth in your plot" or "." But wait a minute... A computer program to help people write screenplays? Sounds like simpletons getting in over their heads. How about a couple of gym employees extorting a CIA guy when they find his super secret computer disc? Ok, great, but what about the music that composer Carter Burwell turned in for the latest Coen screwball comedy? Ah, it's strange... oooh, but serious. Or is it? Listening to the Burn After Reading soundtrack CD (Lakeshore) on your iPod as you ride the commuter train home is great fodder for envisioning things that will never happen to people sitting across from you... but a funny - or perhaps dark - or both - thought if such things were to happen. But really, Coen Brothers films are unique and much of their signature can be attributed not only to their abilities as screenwriters and directors, but through a subliminal music channel that has been Carter Burwell since the beginning. Hardcore Coen fans know how to take the "sub" out of subliminal when it comes to music... they buy the CD. Oooh, and now I know why I was laughing when I knew I shouldn't have been!
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