{"id":267,"date":"2010-02-14T19:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.wordpress.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2010-02-14T19:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:29:56","slug":"on-a-real-coen-brothers-and-a-wannabe-a-serious-man-public-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/14\/on-a-real-coen-brothers-and-a-wannabe-a-serious-man-public-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Real Coen Brothers, and a Wannabe: &quot;A Serious Man&quot; &amp; &quot;Public Enemies&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching <em>Public Enemies<\/em> it was hard to shake the feeling that I was watching a poor man&#8217;s Coen Brothers film. Perhaps first I should admit I&#8217;m an unabashed Johnny Depp fan. He&#8217;s the one pretty-boy actor (well, maybe Leo DiCaprio included) who consistently makes good films, even such Disney charms as that <em>Pirates<\/em> series. But he couldn&#8217;t save the clumsiness of <em>Public Enemies<\/em>. Somehow it just didn&#8217;t make Dillinger interesting or dramatic. Even though his life was legend.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, <em>\u00a0A Serious Man<\/em>\u00a0is vintage Coen Brothers. (And just released on DVD.) I won&#8217;t give it away, but the Second Rabbi scene has its hilarious, absurd moments. I like when Larry asks the Rabbi, &#8220;What about the Goy?&#8221; And the Rabbi says, &#8220;Who cares?&#8221; It&#8217;s not a tremendously flattering picture of Jewish life, or Goyim, for that matter. But that&#8217;s what makes it so good. The pot smoking scene with the sultry neighbor woman is also worth the watch. I&#8217;ve heard they are currently doing a remake of <em>True Grit<\/em> starring Jeff Bridges, which should be fun. The original is semi-awful, a good reason to remake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Public Enemies it was hard to shake the feeling that I was watching a poor man&#8217;s Coen Brothers film. Perhaps first I should admit I&#8217;m an unabashed Johnny Depp fan. He&#8217;s the one pretty-boy actor (well, maybe Leo DiCaprio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/14\/on-a-real-coen-brothers-and-a-wannabe-a-serious-man-public-enemies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}