BARTON FINK CINEMATOGRAPHY MOVIE
Goodman, as the ordinary man in the next room, is revealed to have inhuman secrets, and the movie leads up to an apocalyptic vision of blood, flames and ruin, with Barton Fink unable to influence events with either his art or his strength. And there is a horror lurking underneath the affluent surface.
The Hollywood of the late 1930s and early 1940s is seen here as a world of Art Deco and deep shadows, long hotel corridors and bottomless swimming pools. Like all of the Coen productions, “Barton Fink” has a deliberate visual style. The three go on a picnic one day, and the scene builds into a wry comic vignette - some satire, some slapstick. Fink arrives breathlessly at the great man’s feet, only to discover that he is a raving drunk and that his “secretary” ( Judy Davis) has written most of his recent work. Mayhew is obviously modeled on William Faulkner, and Mahoney, with a moustache, is his uncanny double. Mayhew ( John Mahoney), another great American writer on the studio payroll. Lou Breeze ( Jon Polito), the studio czar’s right-hand man, tells Fink he should look up W.P. But Fink, who claims to be the poet of the working man, is not interested in a real proletarian, and spends most of his time staring at his typewriter in despair. There is apparently only one other tenant, the affable Charlie Meadows ( John Goodman), a traveling salesman who lives next door and says he could tell Fink a lot of interesting stories. Barton Fink is a left-wing New York playwright, modeled on the Clifford Odets of “Waiting for Lefty,” who writes one proletarian hand-wringer in the late 1930s and then is summoned to Hollywood, where Jack Lipnick (Lerner), the vulgarian in charge of Capitol Pictures, pays him piles of money and assigns him to write a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery.įink, played with a likable, dim earnestness by John Turturro, checks into an eerie hotel that looks designed by Edward Hopper. “Barton Fink,” the latest Coen film (directed by Joel, produced by Ethan, written by both), tells the story of a man who would like to sell out to Hollywood, if only he had the talent. But they want what they have - a lot of money.
They know these men are evil, compromised and corrupt. To their desks come characters who want to make a deal with the devil.
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