2. Childhood
 Their parents are Rena and Edward Coen
 Joel and Ethan Coen are Jewish brothers from St.
Louis Park, Minnesota. As kids, they saved up
money to buy a camera and they remade their
favorite films.
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3. Education
 They both graduated from St Louis High School
 Joel Coen went on to study at New York University
in the undergraduate film program.
 Ethan Coen studied at Princeton University and got
an undergraduate degree in philosophy.

4. Major Films
 True Grit (2010)
 No Country For Old Men (20207)
 Fargo (1996)
 The Big Lebowski (1998)
 Paris, je t’aime (2006)
 Burn After Reading (2008)
 Inside LlewynDavis (2013)

5. Signature Styles
 Film Noir
 Same cast used in films
 Lots of mishandled crime or twisted criminals in films

6. Film Noir
 Film noir is used in most of the Coen brothers films. This scene is a great
example because it includes crimes, femme fatale, sleazy setting, evil
criminals, and a depressing ending. This is a scene from True Grit (2010), the
main characters are interrogating two criminals that they ran into.
 This style is also used in the film, No Country For Old Men because it involves
a murderer who kills without mercy and it deals with a man who finds money
and must escape his pursuers, who are greedy and lustful men and those are
the structural elements of a film noir.

7. Same cast used in films
 The Coen brothers use the same cast throughout some of their movies because
they are comfortable with those certain actors and believe that they will portray the
characters perfectly.
 Jeff Bridges was casted in The Big Lebowski (1998) and True Grit (2010)
 John Turturro was casted in Miller’s Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The Big
Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000).
 John Goodman was casted in Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The
Hudsucker Proxy (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother Were Art Thou
(2000), and Inside Llweyn Davis (2013).
 Steve Buscemi was casted in Miller’s Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The
Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), and Tuileries
(2006).

8. Mishandled Crime and
Twisted Criminals
 In The Big Lebowski, two criminals go into The
Dude’s house and assume that he is the man they
are looking for and they ruin his rug, but he wasn’t
the right Lebowski.
 In Fargo, Jerry Lundegaard hires two criminals to
kidnap his wife to keep the ransom money from his
father in law but he doesn’t plan it out correctly and
later gets arrested.

9. Sources
 http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-
directors/coens/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers
 http://www2.bgsu.edu/departments/theatrefilm/curre
nt/projector/vol2issue1folder/vol2issue1art2.htm
 http://www.coenbrothers.net/coens.html
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDAxmWh66I0

10. Pictures
 http://artthreat.net/2011/03/coen-brothers-israel-boycott/
 http://www.geekscholars.com/the-friday-five-fargo-dontcha-know/
 http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/6-filmmaking-tips-from-the-coen-brothers.php
 http://gutenfilm.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/hall-of-greats-the-big-lebowski/
 http://hardonmovies.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
 http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Paris-je-taime-Blu-ray/1036/
 http://www.soundonsight.org/this-is-a-mean-old-world-westerns-in-contemporary-settings/
 http://www.pinterest.com/dinadv/the-wonder-of-steve-buscemi/
 http://www.soundonsight.org/the-coen-brothers-might-make-a-horror-film/