Barton Fink (1991)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.7/10   

Director:

Joel Coen

Escritores:

Joel Coen (written by) &
Ethan Coen (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 agosto 1991 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Crimen | Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Between Heaven and Hell There's Always Hollywood!

Plot:

In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture...

Plot Keywords:

Writer | Wrestling | Writer's Block | Playwright | Hotel

Premios:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Classic dark comedy spoofs Hollywood hacks, literati alike

Reparto

John Turturro	...	Barton Fink
John Goodman	...	Charlie Meadows
Judy Davis	...	Audrey Taylor
Michael Lerner	...	Jack Lipnick
John Mahoney	...	W.P. Mayhew
Tony Shalhoub	...	Ben Geisler
Jon Polito	...	Lou Breeze
Steve Buscemi	...	Chet
David Warrilow	...	Garland Stanford
Richard Portnow	...	Detective Mastrionotti
Christopher Murney	...	Detective Deutsch
I.M. Hobson	...	Derek
Meagen Fay	...	Poppy Carnahan (as Megan Faye)
Lance Davis	...	Richard St. Claire
Harry Bugin	...	Pete

También conocida como:

Barton Fink (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some scenes of violence.

Duración:

116 min

País:

USA | UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

France:U | Brazil:16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-14 | Germany:16 (bw) | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #31095) | Iceland:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Circle Films

Trivialidades:

The ending with the bird diving into the sea wasn't intentional. According to Ethan Coen and Joel Coen the bird got in the shot and they liked it so much, they decided to put it in. Birds also helped the Coens in Miller's Crossing (1990).

Errores:

Continuidad: Charlie's leaking ear changes sides.

Citas:

Poppy Carnahan: I don't pretend to be a critic, but lord knows I have a gut, and my gut tells me it's simply marvelous.
Richard St. Claire: And a charming gut it is.
Poppy Carnahan: Oh, you dog.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Masumiyet (1997)

Banda de Sonido:

DOWN SOUTH CAMP MEETING

Classic dark comedy spoofs Hollywood hacks, literati alike

This is a satire which really eviscerates its main character, nebbish Barton Fink, a semi-successful, very Jewish New York playwright who comes to Hollywood to make his dreams come true, which in his case is definately not writing the next Wallace Beery wrestling picture. There are just too many funny things in this movie to mention them all, so I won't mention any. But this is a movie that is going to stand up to the test of time; it may be the Coen brothers' best movie, because it is both dead funny and dead serious.

Turturro gives the performance of a lifetime as Barton, and Goodman proved with this movie that he was a first class acting talent (what made the Coens think of him in this role, anyway? surely a mark of genius). Davis also shows herself off extremely well, in one of this underrated actresses finest roles.

There is, simply put, no better satire of Hollywood, and none that I can think of that so successfully manages to also spoof the pretentions of those who despise it.