Coen Brothers Films

An interesting thing about both movies we just watched is the amount of unnecessary gruesome violence in each of them. The way they had the characters killed in each movie or disposed of was very unpredictable and original. In No country for Old Men Shager was going around killing people with an air canister. This was a very violent and inauthentic way to kill someone. Also in Fargo a guy was put into a wood chipper and was being torn into pieces. Both of these ways of killing are extremely gruesome and you don't see them in many movies. In the majority of movies either guns or explosive weapons kill the people. I think a lot of people do not like the idea of gruesome killing and violence and so most movies try and stay away from these weird killing techniques. The Coen brothers, however, completely embrace it and they must think it actually adds a cool detail to the storyline or else they wouldn't do it. I also think that the amount of killing in their movies says something about themselves and that they value violence and killing in their movies. They also always seem to have a strange psychopath in their movies. Whether it be Shager or Gaear Grimsrud both movies have this strange mindless killer who doesn't speak much. I think these two concepts make both of the movies very similar to each other and they are even somewhat of the same plot. The Coen brothers have quite an imagination and it takes them far in their film making.