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 with the film Sullivan’s Travels. In the film, the titular Sullivan is a Hollywood director known for his zany comedies that pack in audiences, however he desperately wishes to make a serious and high minded movie about the suffering of the poor and their exploitation by those in power*. The problem is that the highly privileged Sullivan has never truly known hardship, and so to make his movie he dresses in his shabbiest clothes, leaves his checkbook at home, and sets out to know what it means to be an itinerant poor working man. The title of Sullivan’s proposed film about the poor and indigent of the Great Depression was to be
42: Hudsucker DNA Part 2: Sturges
42: Hudsucker DNA Part 2: Sturges
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 with the film Sullivan’s Travels. In the film, the titular Sullivan is a Hollywood director known for his zany comedies that pack in audiences, however he desperately wishes to make a serious and high minded movie about the suffering of the poor and their exploitation by those in power*. The problem is that the highly privileged Sullivan has never truly known hardship, and so to make his movie he dresses in his shabbiest clothes, leaves his checkbook at home, and sets out to know what it means to be an itinerant poor working man. The title of Sullivan’s proposed film about the poor and indigent of the Great Depression was to be