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#618 - That Barton Fink Feeling (Patreon)

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2025-04-26 19:26:52
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A socially-conscious East Coast playwright gets a taste of Hollywood in BARTON FINK (1991). We discuss Barton, Madman Mundt, and "the common man." PLUS: One last check-in on the Canadian election.

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Graeme Pente

"I won't write my poem until I'm in my right mind"

Orn Pauldorf

one theme that Joel & Ethan pursue continually is: to pursue consp-- heck, to even *allow* conspicuous wealth into your life, is to invite multiple tragedies, like right away. this wealth also brings with it a parade of evil, albeit highly idiosyncratic, shitbags. i disagree with absolutely none of that, incidentally. one more thing..! (yep, i'm doing a Columbo) as a defender of professional wrassling as a theatrical genre, let me co-sign the studio head character's assertion that "there's plenty of poetry between those ropes!" yes, wrestling is seen, accurately, as being a slapdash collection of very broad, very contrived storylines, which rarely contain any subtext because all the themes & metaphors are usually screamed into a handheld mic, directly to audiences both live and live-via-TV... BUT..!! all that stuff is prologue or epilogue. all those backstage promos are downbeats! it's inside the ring, live, in front of the baying crowds, where the major plot points unfold. and every match, given an appropriate budget of time, should and often does tell an entire story in/of itself. and, just like Barton Fink, many of the more high-minded wrestlers balk at being relegated to genre matches, or "gimmick matches" -- ladder matches, steel cage matches, etc.