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• Title: On Ladies, Killing, And the Ethics of the Remake: The Coen Brothers Do the Ladykillers (Ethan and Joel Coen) (Critical Essay)
• Author : Post Script
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 291 KB

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In his Commonweal review of Joel and Ethan Coen's Miller's Crossing, Richard Alleva characterized the 1990 gangland noir as a disappointing, even cynical version of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Glass Key (720). Never mind Alleva's failure to cite Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest, which also contributes its share to the plot; what matters here is that he is far from the only critic to take a dim view of the Coens' adaptations of others' source material. Reviewing The Ladykillers, the Coen brothers' lone remake--a different kind of adaptation, but an adaptation nonetheless--Anthony Lane wrote in The New Yorker that the filmmakers have proven for years now that A cursory viewing of the film might confirm Lane's charges: The Ladykillers at first seems a straight remake, a pale, mechanical reproduction of Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 Ealing Studios original, and when the Coens depart from the William Rose screenplay it seems to reduce their film's effectiveness--insofar, at least, as their attempt was to reproduce the oddball energies of the original. The Coen remake, though, does raise questions Lane seems not to notice, questions the original chooses not to address so directly, chief among them the function of gender in the original's inverted economies of power, an issue only further complicated by the remake's particular consideration of race. While drawing laughs from the same basic premise--the paradox of a seemingly harmless old woman's confounding a gang of desperate (male) thieves--the Coens engage and ultimately subvert venerable tropes and stereotypes of gender and race as a way both to present an absurd world and to simultaneously interrogate our conception of that world as absurd.

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