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In conclusion:
The Hudsucker Proxy is a magnificent failure. It failed in that its legacy is not that of being the movie that propelled Joel & Ethan Coen into the…
Dec 31, 2020
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52: Hudsucker’s Legacy Pt 2: The Final Rough Draft
Among filmmakers who come up in the indie world there is sometimes a moment in which they’re given an opportunity to prove that they’re capable of…
Dec 24, 2020
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51: Hudsucker's Legacy Pt 1: Spider-Man
In 2001 Sam Raimi was a perfectly respectable film director. He made movies that people paid money to see and made their budgets back at the box office…
Dec 17, 2020
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51: Hudsucker's Legacy Pt 1: Spider-Man
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50: The Man Who Could Have Been Norville
Depending on what time zone you were in, on either the late hours of February 25 or the very early morning of February 26 of 1995, a comedic masterpiece…
Dec 10, 2020
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50: The Man Who Could Have Been Norville
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49: The Imperfect Cast: Tim Robbins
While talking on the NPR culture interview program “Bullseye” about his role as the title character in the Coens’ 2019 anthology western The Ballad of…
Dec 3, 2020
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49: The Imperfect Cast: Tim Robbins
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November 2020
48: Art Deco and a Lived-In World
Do you want to know how you don’t make a period piece? This is how you don’t make a period piece: This is a still from Ryan Murphy’s 2020 Netflix…
Nov 26, 2020
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48: Art Deco and a Lived-In World
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47: The 45th Floor
As Old Moses delivers his final monologue on the legacy of Norville Barnes and Hudsucker Industries at the end of The Hudsucker Proxy, he delivers one…
Nov 19, 2020
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47: The 45th Floor
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46: The Real Norville Barnes
The Hudsucker Proxy is a kind of collage of pastiches in its composition. Between its plot points of a big business whose leadership is in turmoil…
Nov 12, 2020
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46: The Real Norville Barnes
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45: The Hoop Montage
The montage in The Hudsucker Proxy in which the Hula Hoop is developed is the greatest montage of the Coen brothers’ filmography. The great irony of…
Nov 5, 2020
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45: The Hoop Montage
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October 2020
44: La Habanera
It is a reasonable assumption to think that someone silly enough to devote a year to writing essays about a single film knows everything there is to…
Oct 29, 2020
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44: La Habanera
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43: Hudsucker DNA Part 3: Odds And Ends
An excellent summation of the films that influenced The Hudsucker Proxy’s creation is that it has a Frank Capra plot but with characters and dialogue by…
Oct 22, 2020
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43: Hudsucker DNA Part 3: Odds And Ends
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42: Hudsucker DNA Part 2: Sturges
One can understand that Joel & Ethan Coen are great fans of Preston Sturges without watching a frame of their movies. One merely needs to be familiar…
Oct 15, 2020
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42: Hudsucker DNA Part 2: Sturges
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