The staging throughout the movie is so cool. The Coens play with the audiences sense of who is where, whether someone is moments away from a confrontation with one character or an entirely different one you didn’t think of. If I’m not mistaken, it happens every time they’re at the hotel going forward.
Hey, it’s Swingline stapler dude!
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His line later is the ultimate burn. If the rule brought you to this end, of what use was the rule?
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If this film was made in 2030, Woody woulda used Coronavirus instead of Bubonic Plague reference.
LOL
And he gets a daily per diem of $1,200 in 80s money!!!
I love to use the “An attempt at humor, I suppose?” line
Much better middle of night thought than the last one.
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Why not break it?
If only he’d dug a little deeper into the money sooner
I think he knows at this point it’s pointless. Breaking it would alert whoever is hot on his tail that he knows.
It took 2 different groups of people finding him at a random motel and then him lying in bed to process that info for the lightbulb to go off
I wish there was a better explanation in the book, but I don’t recall one
That’s true, I guess. But also let’s them know exactly which room.
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The steady red light next to him sets the pacing and helps create tension. A subconscious effect, but a deliberate one.
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Front desk guy lost the coinflip
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This scene is almost too intense
Yeah, it makes sense from a cinematic point of view.
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True
Nobody expects the pop lock move.
As he said earlier, when would you stop looking for your million dollars. Best to just get him now if he can.
Spoiler: not the only time in the movie money is offered for clothes.
There’s an intense amount of doubling throughout the movie.
Earlier, it showed up with Chighur sitting to drink milk in Llewlyn’s trailer, then Sheriff Bell sitting in the same spot, drinking the same milk. The shot is framed the exact same.
This moment with Llewlyn offering money for clothes after serious injury is meant to be echoed later, when Chighur finds himself in a similar predicament.
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