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Wind back two months and the Coens are on the phone, conference calling from LA, where they have made a reluctant business trip from their base in New York. The set-up for Burn After Reading, they explain, revolves around a couple of hapless fitness-centre employees (Pitt and Frances McDormand) who find a potentially valuable computer disc, mislaid by an ex-CIA bigwig (John Malkovich). Their attempt to wring some money out of the situation, as ever, finds them way out of their depth: “A Tony Scott/Jason Bourne kind of movie, without the explosions,” as their own publicity material has it.
Ethan: We would always say, “What would Tony Scott do?” when trying to figure out a scene.
Joel: How much to shake the camera.
Ethan: It’s a Tony Scott movie done by incompetents.
Joel: It’s a bunch of idiots trying to ape his style. We don’t have any explosions or people running away from snipers. I mean, we took all the fun stuff out of it.
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Fresh off their triumphant victories with various awards for No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers Joel and Ethan return to open this year's edition of the Venice Film Festival with a colourful satire in Burn After Reading. Writing this screenplay in between that of No Country's, these two movies couldn't be any more different from each other, one sombre in mood, and this one very much lighter, but no doubt having a chock full of undercurrents flowing throughout its relatively breezy pace.
Continues at http://anutshellreview.blogspot.com/2008/10/burn-after-reading.html
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