![]() It also includes one of my favorite lines in the film, when Everett (George Clooney) gleefully notes that he is the only neutral religious man in the car, with Pete (John Turturro) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) having just been baptized. The introduction of Tommy (the guitar player who sold his soul to the devil, played by Chris Thomas King) pays a little tribute to North by Northwest, one of my personal favorite classics. Just the way the main plot is revealed throughout the first sixteen minutes is better than anything else they’ve written. The reason this movies stands out for me above all other Coen movies is probably because the story and its structure were written for the Coens two millennia ago and they simply had to modernize it. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are not familiar with Homer’s The Odyssey, this is a great way to get a glimpse of it. ![]()
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