True Grit

[sixpackshaker]

I never really thought of Coen Brothers as being art for arts sake or pretentious. Sure, it doesn't hammer the point home (I mean you have to actually figure out the reason the Bounty Hunter has a Woody Woodpecker tattoo, but it's not rocket science).

Barton Fink?[/QUOTE]

No, it was Hudsucker.

 

[Adam]

I never really thought of Coen Brothers as being art for arts sake or pretentious. Sure, it doesn't hammer the point home (I mean you have to actually figure out the reason the Bounty Hunter has a Woody Woodpecker tattoo, but it's not rocket science).

Barton Fink?[/QUOTE]

No, it was Hudsucker.[/QUOTE]

No no, Barton Fink is pretty ostentatious.

 

[Null]

I thought it was clear Eastwood's character died at the beginning. After all, no one seemed to recognize him.

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Even the wiki page calls it supernatural, and calls the Stranger an "embodiment of the spirit or reincarnation" of Marshall Duncan.

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Eastwood's character in High Plains Drifter wasn't the dead marshal. He was the dead marshal's brother, according to Eastwood (in an interview with James Lipton).

 

[sixpackshaker]

I never really thought of Coen Brothers as being art for arts sake or pretentious. Sure, it doesn't hammer the point home (I mean you have to actually figure out the reason the Bounty Hunter has a Woody Woodpecker tattoo, but it's not rocket science).

Barton Fink?[/QUOTE]

No, it was Hudsucker.[/QUOTE]

No no, Barton Fink is pretty ostentatious.[/QUOTE]

I thought you were guessing at the tattoo...