Coen Noir

Coen Noir

An important question in film is, what makes a classic movie? There are many things that make a classic movie and only a small percent of films become “classics”. The Man Who Wasn’t There directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, photography by Roger Deakins, music by Cartrer Burwell and starring Billy Bob Thorton, Frances McDormoan, James Gandolfini and John Pollito, is a classic movie in progress. It hasn’t been around long enough to actually be a classic, but with it’s relevancy and truth; the immense and personal emotional response and cinematic form such as its revisibility and unity, beauty and treatment it will be considered so in the future.
This film has relevance that fits not only the present and the future but the past as well. The film focuses a lot on greed and money. It is greed and money that the drives the businessman in town. It is greed and money that drives Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thorton) to blackmailing Big Dave because of the af...