Ethan Coen's Off-Broadway Play
Sheryl
Ethan Coen's first Off-Broadway play, Almost An Evening, is now
playing! Get $5 off tickets by going to www.broadwayoffers.com and
using discount code AEMANIA7
In ALMOST AN EVENING, three short plays unsuccessfully tackle
important questions. In Waiting, someone waits somewhere for quite
some time. In Four Benches, a voyage to self-discovery takes a British
intelligence agent to steam baths in New York and Texas, and to park
benches in the U.S. and U.K. In Debate, cosmic questions are taken up.
Not much is learned.
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Charlie Kroeger
> Hi All,
Great Scott..Sheryl a real poster to the coen-bros. newsgroup..I can't
understand why this group isn't buzzing, all the great stuff they've done
and now the big award and like nothing, what do you think?
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CK
the dude abides
el...@webtv.net
Gotta agree with you...I thought maybe this place would come back to
life with "No Country..." Guess people have just moved on to someplace
else...pity...
Gavin
"So, I'm sitting there hearing HAL say, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I
can't do that...", and I'm thinkin, Damn!, I knew we should have gone
with a Mac..." David Bowman, 2001
Charlie Kroeger
Bangs would say, give me 35 words or less on the 'No Country for old men'
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CK
Charlie Kroeger
> else...pity...
>
> Gavin
So Gavin, what did you think of "No country for old men" did you read the
book perhaps? Why did you think it won best picture at the AC? That's not
always the best recommendation of course but prestigious and profitable
nonetheless.
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CK
el...@webtv.net
great...I was kind of surprised that it got all the accolades that it
did...I don't know, maybe I missed something...maybe I need to see it
again. Although that being said, I can't see myself watching it over
and over like so many of the other Coen bros films...Barton Fink, Fargo,
Big Lebowski...I never tire of these.
Maybe the oscar was in recognition for their body of work.
Charlie Kroeger
>
> Gavin
Possibly, the book will not make you feel better. It would be hard to
screen-write Cormac McCarthy's style of rich and often mentally jarring
style of writing to the screen. I saw the film but not the first ten
minutes, so I don't know if the Sheriff's opening dialog was in the film or
just how it began but this is the first two pages of the book, and jarring
it is:
<sic> I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My
arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three
times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I didn't
have to go but I did. I sure didn't want to. He'd killed a fourteen year old
girl and I can tell you right now I never did have no great desire to visit
with him let alone go to his execution but I done it. The papers said it was
a crime of passion and he told me there wasn't no passion to it. He'd been
datin this girl, young as she was. He was nineteen. And he told me that he
had been plannin to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember.
Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was goin
to hell. Told it to me out of his own mouth. I dont know what to make of
that. I surely don't. I thought I'd never seen a person like that and it got
me to wondering if maybe he was some new kind. I watched them strap him into
the seat and shut the door. He might of looked a bit nervous about it but
that was about all. I really believe that he knew he was going to be in hell
in fifteen minutes. I believe that. And I've thought about that a lot. He
was not hard to talk to. Called me Sheriff. But I didn't know what to say to
him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why
would you say anything? I've thought about it a good deal. But he wasn't
nothing compared to what was comin down the pike.
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. I don't know what them eyes
was the windows to and I guess I'd as soon not know. But there is another
view of the world out there and other eyes to see it and that's where this
is goin. It has done brought me to a place in my life I would not of thought
I'd of come to. Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of
destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real. I have seen
his work. I walked in front of those eyes once. I wont do it again. I wont
push my chips forward and stand up and go out to meet him. It aint just bein
older. I wish that it was. I cant say that it's even what you are willin to
do. Because I always knew that you had to be willin to die to even do this
job. That was always true. Not to sound glorious about it or nothin but you
do. If you aint they'll know it. They'll see it in a heartbeat. I think it
is more like what you are willin to become. And I think a man would have to
put his soul at hazard. And I wont do that. I think now that maybe I never
would.
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CK