The Coen Brothers are world-renowned for their approach to make serious and hard-hitting topics into screwball or simplistic formats. Their films all have some stylistic component within them that lends a hand to the comedic part that lays inside of the brother duo. In The Hudsucker Proxy, the filmmakers take a story about a young business-school graduate and his involvement in a huge stock scam, and turn it into a foreground for their comedic roots to take hold.
Although this film stands to be one of their less artistically sound or impacting pieces, the movie creates some artistic boundaries for itself. The movement between scenes and development of certain emotions within a frame of view is beautifully illustrated. There were concessions made on the film’s behalf though and it lessened the appeal the film had on the audience, as one of the pair’s less successful works. In comparison to Fargo, with its appeal and more serious undertones, and the strange and radical nature of Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy presents various motifs of film genre and does differ from most of the films the Coen Brothers have made.
In regards to the actual direction of the film, the art direction and the dialogue aid in making the film seem more clever than it really is. With a story of corporate deceit and social climbing, the Coen’s use worn out storyline and try to renew its purpose. Borrowing parts from Capra or other comedic directors of that time, the movie serves more like a collage of spare parts than a cohesive and artistically in tune piece of cinematic genius. The Coen Brothers so rarely make mistakes in their films but there is always room for error at the top. For the one bad film they make, the brothers redeem themselves ten times over with their succeeding works.
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