Coen Characters

Coen fans can be glad: Finally, with A SERIOUS ONE a new masterpiece of the cult directors Joel and ethane begins Coen on the 21st of January in the German cinemas. There have become famous the Coen brothers above all also with her creations probably skurilsten and most completed, besides, however, nevertheless, to very true to life and guaranteed most unforgettable characters of the film history. Here we present a choice of the coolest Coen characters:

Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) – A Serious One
In the newest masterpiece of the COEN BROTHERS A SERIOUS MAN everything turns on Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), actually, an honourable man, professor and respected member of his Jewish municipality. However, all at once his honest life changes nearly blameless into an absolute chaos. “Why I? I have done nothing!” is his complaint with which he looks with a rabbi for the other after answers to the mess. Michael Stuhlbarg shows the insane Reaktionslosigkeit and Larry's search after Why perfectly. No miracle that the actor was nominated for this Coen character recently for the Golden Globe!
Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed) – A Serious One
Sy who shows a serious man in A SERIOUS ONE in the most true sense of the word is, actually, a dirty swine. A hideous, conceited Manipulator which one cannot resist anyhow, however, nevertheless. Since the actor Fred Melamed gets in perfect way to show the, always überfreundlich understandable vein hardly to be endured of Sy. Too stupidly only that he leaves this constantly with the woman of another man to Rau's slopes …

Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) – O Brother, Where ares Thou? A Mississippi Odyssey
One associates with George Clooney not exactly the adjectives "stupidly" and "stupidly" – and in this case, nevertheless, they are extremely suitable. Who can resist already the playful portrait of affectionately inane Ulysses Everett McGill? The strange story, Clooney as one with flaws afflicted, but heart-rending character and a sloping introduction let the hearts of the Coen fans beat faster.
The Dude (Jeff Bridges) – The Big Lebowski
Maybe the Coen character par excellence. The Dude which smokes a joint after the other with pleasure sometimes in the bath whale songs sounds and drinks particularly White Russians, makes the film a true cult hit of real Coen fans.

Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) - Burn anus Reading
Brad Pitt as verprollter, hyperactive fitness trainer with more hair than mind guarantees a laugher after the other. Possibly not exactly Brads sexieste role – but with his silliness is he again a typical Coen case of antihero who gropes about so much in every blunder that it is a joy again.

Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) – No Country for Old Men
With his calming, almost hypnotic voice, the unspeakable pot haircut and the cowboy's outfit one forgets fast, what a bad character Javier Bardem, actually, explains: a coldblooded Soziopathen which allows to play his victims before his death once again „head or number“. Actually, no miracle that Bardem could pocket an Oscar for this role …
Margin Gunderson (Frances McDormand) – Fargo – bloody snow
With her unforgettable representation of a highly pregnant policewoman from Minnesota Frances McDormand embodies pure Girl power in kind of the Coen brothers. The bath Bell-boys tricks them with that her own, quite special kind and just as a brutal type. For her representation Frances McDormand who is married, by the way, since 1984 with Joel Coen received in 1997 the Oscar as a best principal character. This woman is the purest Coen gold!

Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) - Hudsucker - The big jump (The Hudsucker Proxy)
Who could forget one day as he saw Norville Barnes for the first time? Happy rays in the face, besides, the Hoola Hoop tyre swinging, as if his life depended on it. Though Norville comes along first as a harmless type, nevertheless, becomes with growing success in the course of the film action a haughty power hungry person. Typically Coen brothers …

Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton)-The One Who Wasn't There (The unobtrusive Mr. Crane)
One of the strangest and creations strongest at the same time of the Coen brothers is absolutely Ed Crane: A taciturn barber who ekes out a monotonous existence without climax in a Californian provincial town in the end of the 40s. This does not stop him, nevertheless from blethering the spectator in the Voice-Over half dizzy. Besides, it also lies to Billy Bob Thorntons of unique representation that the character wins unexpected depth and the film becomes a true masterpiece.

H.I.McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) - Arizona junior (Raising Arizona)
An other mad invention of the Coen brothers is the small crook H.I. McDunnough: His moral compass is so unusual that he gets always entangled – all good intentions in spite of – however, again in criminal activities. Finally, do H.I. and his Mrs. Edwina kidnap a baby … one must say more? I dot of the film is Nicolas Cages acting achievement which makes the crook simply irresistible.