the creation of a new living theater of and about and for the common man.” Although that worthy could care less.Ĭutaway to a shot of the blue Pacific and a wave crashing on a rock, the idea of Hollywood or California transformed into an image. “I'd be cutting myself off from the wellspring of that success, from the common man.” Barton wants instead, “A real success. Note the pun, capitol-capital, as the agent wants him to capitalize his success for “a little cash. and sign a contract to write for Capitol Pictures. At the table, air-headed backers and a fulsome producer compliment Barton, but he goes out to talk to his agent. We go from his triumph in the theatre to the after-show dinner in a swanky supper club. As with King Lear, “He hath ever but slenderly known himself.” And, like Lear, he could go quite mad. But his play, a delight to its tuxedoed audience, doesn’t matter a whit to the two working stiffs backstage. “Fink”, of course, means a snitch, an informer, and Barton plans, in a way, to rat out the common man, to tell the world about him. What the offstage scene tells us is that Barton Fink, for all his pious jabber about “the common man,” doesn’t know beans about that overworked personage. Kaufman, but he writes like Clifford Odets-think Waiting for Lefty or Awake and Sing!-leftish plays that celebrate the values of FDR’s New Deal: unions, labor rights, welfare, aid to workers and farmers, public works, all those things today’s politics have lost sight of. As James Mottram points out (in an excellent study of the sources and themes of the Coens’ films), Fink looks very like playwright George S. One stagehand, bored, reading a newspaper, yells on cue an offstage line, “Fish! Fresh fish!” The play ends, curtain comes down, big applause, curtain calls, cries of “Author! Author!” and wretchedly shy and nervous Barton Fink brings himself to come a few steps onstage.īarton Fink (wonderfully played by John Turturro) is a decidedly Jewish-looking young man with horn-rimmed glasses and a table-top of frizzy black hair that adds a couple of inches to his height, giving him a not-inappropriate swelled head. A couple of stagehands are working the ropes that lower the curtain, while the playwright, Barton Fink, watches the finale from the wings. We are backstage watching a Broadway play. I run the images through a batch encoder with Irfanview to get rid of black borders on the image, rename the files, and conform them to jpg.Ħ.In Barton Fink, as in any good movie, the opening scene sets the theme and tells us what it is about. and bring down the number of stills to my 60-65 golden number.ĥ. I go through the folder again (immediately)looking at the frames on large preview and try and remove frames that replicate a certain lighting style or framing. I’m then left with usually around 80-100 really interesting frames. I view all the frames as a slideshow and I remove any frame that there are doubles of (someone might be blinking in first frame and normal in second) or remove any that seem less interesting this time around.Ĥ. So the next step is to edit, usually there might be a week or 2 between the first grab and this edit stage. This usually leaves me with around 200-250 frames per film.
Depending on mood I could spend a few hours just doing the grabbingģ. I watch through the movies on VLC, usually between 3x and 4x speed while listening to podcasts, grabbing any frame that interests me. i try to keep a mix of styles.genres/directors and DP’s so I dont get bored while working.Ģ.
Make a to do pile, its a combination of recommendations, stuff Ive been enjoying myself, stuff I want to rewatch…. Hi Arturo, Ive considered having a donate button, but I feel bad for asking for money, maybe I’ll post an amazon wishlist so people can contribute in that way sending me movies I want to feature on the site.ġ.
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