Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt. The film premiered on August 27, 2008, opening at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. It was released in the United States on September 12, 2008, and in the UK on October 17, 2008.
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Plot
Faced with job decline in the workplace due to drinking problems, Osbourne Cox angrily quit his job as a CIA analyst and decided to write a memoir. When Katie's pediatrician wife found out, she saw it as an opportunity to file for divorce and continue her affair with Harry Pfarrer, US Marshal's representative. She copied her husband's financial records and other files, including the memoir concept, and gave it to her lawyer.
The lawyer's assistant copied the files onto the CD, which he accidentally left on the floor of the Hardbodies locker room, a local gym. The disc fell into the hands of stupid personal trainer Chad Feldheimer and co-worker Linda Litzke, who mistakenly believes it contains sensitive government information. They plan to return the disc for the prize, with Linda hoping to use the money to pay for cosmetic surgery. After a phone call and subsequent meeting with Osbourne provoked an angry reaction, Chad and Linda attempted to sell the disc to the Russian embassy. Unbeknownst to them, the Russian ambassador is a spy for the CIA.
Osbourne's increasingly temperamental and erratic behavior prompted Katie to change the keys in their home and invite Harry to move. Harry is an eye basket and also sees Linda. Linda persuaded Chad to sneak into the Cox family's home to get more files from their computer. Harry finds Chad hiding in the closet and the shock of causing him to shoot off Chad.
Two days later at the CIA headquarters, Palmer Smith, Osbourne's former superior, and his director learned that information from Osbourne had been given to the Russian Embassy. They are confused: the material sent to Russia is not important, and the obvious motive of all parties involved is unknown. The director, unaware of Chad's identity, ordered Chad's death to be covered up.
Harry argues with Katie and leaves the house. On his way out, he sees a man who has been following him for the last few days. Harry takes care of the man and discovers that he is a private detective hired by his wife, Sandy, to collect evidence to divorce her. Separately, it was revealed that Sandy was cheating on her own. Harry crumbles and goes to see Linda nervous, who confesses to Harry that Chad is gone. Harry agrees to help find Chad.
Linda returns to the Russian embassy to look for Chad. Russia has rejected CD contents as "drivel" and escorts Linda from the embassy. He turns to Ted Treffon, the benevolent Hardbodies manager, who has an unrequited feeling for him. To his better judgment, Ted agreed to go to the Coxes' house to look for Osbourne's computer.
Harry and Linda meet in the garden; Harry was sure a man in the park was watching him. Linda denies knowing the man, which makes Harry suspicious. When Linda reveals the address where Chad disappears, Harry realizes that Chad is the one who shot him. Convinced that Linda is a spy and everyone in the park is watching her, she panics and runs away.
Osbourne became dazed when he found out that Katie had vacated his bank account and decided to go home to fetch alcohol and personal belongings. Finding Ted in the basement, Osbourne shoots Ted and then kills him with an ax. A CIA agent intervened by shooting Osbourne, leaving him in a coma.
At the CIA headquarters a few days later, Palmer and his director tried to understand what was happening. Harry has been arrested trying to escape to Venezuela, because the country has no extradition treaty with the United States. The director instructed Palmer to send Harry to Venezuela. The director and Palmer agree to leave Osbourne's coma and deal with him if he wakes up. Linda promised to be silent if they would pay for her plastic surgery, approved by the director. They concluded that there seemed to be no lesson for the agency to learn from the event. "I think we learned not to do it again," the director said, though not knowing exactly what they were doing, and closing the file.
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Cast
Production
Working Title Films produces movies for Feature Focus, which also has distribution rights worldwide.
Burn After Reading is the first Coen brothers film that did not use Roger Deakins as a cinematographer since Miller Crossing. Emmanuel Lubezki, award-winning award nominee cinematographer from Sleepy Hollow and Child of Men, takes over for Deakins. Mary Zophres served as a costume designer, marking her eighth film in a row with the Coen brothers. Carter Burwell, a composer who worked with Coens in eleven previous films, created the score. At the start of production, Burwell and Coens decided that the score should include many percussion instruments, which the filmmakers felt would match the self-interest of the characters. In creating the score, they discussed the political thriller Seven Days in May , which included the all-drum score; Burn score consists of many Japanese Taiko drums. Joel Coen said they wanted the score to be "something big and bombastic, something important but sounding but nothing."
Burn After Reading is the first original scenario written by Joel and Ethan Coen since their 2001 film, The Man Who Was not There . Ethan Coen compared Burn After Reading with Allen Drury's political novel Advise and Consent and called it our version of the Tony Scott/Jason Bourne movie type, without explosion. Joel Coen says they intends to make a spy movie because "we've never done it before," but he feels the end result is more than a movie driven by a character rather than a spy story. Joel also says Burn After Reading is not meant to be a comment or satire in Washington D.C.
Part of the Burn scenario was written when Coens also wrote their adaptation of No Country for Old Men . The Coens created figures with actors George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich and Richard Jenkins in mind for its parts, and scripts derived from the desire of the brothers to include them in a "fun story." Ethan Coen says that the character of Pitt was partially inspired by the work of hair dyeing that failed from an advertisement that the actor filmed. Tilda Swinton, who was kicked slower than the other actors, was the only main actor whose character was not written specifically for her. The Coens are struggling to develop a common filming schedule among A-list players.
Production Weekly , an online entertainment industry magazine, reported in October 2006 that Burn After Reading was a loose adaptation of Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence , a memoir by former US Central Intelligence Director Stansfield Turner. Although both stories involve the Central Intelligence Agency and derive their titles from classified secrets, the Coen Brothers script has nothing to do with Turner's book; However, the rumors were not clarified until the Los Angeles Times article more than a year later.
The main photography takes place around Brooklyn Heights, because Coens wants to stay in New York City with their families. Other scenes were filmed in Paramus, New Jersey, Westchester County, New York and Washington, D.C., especially in the Georgetown neighborhood. Filming began on August 27, 2007 and was completed on October 30, 2007. John Malkovich, appearing in his first Coen brothers, said of the shootings, "The Coens are very fun: intelligent, funny, very specific about what they want but not very controlling, because some people can. "The film opened the Venice Film Festival in August 2008.
The Coen brothers say that ignorance is the central central theme of Burn After Reading; Joel says he and his brother have a "long history of writing parts for idiot characters" and portray the characters of Clooney and Pitt as "dueling idiots." Burn After Reading is the third film Coen brothers for Clooney ( O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty ), who admits that he usually plays stupid role in their movie: "I've had three movies with them and they call it an idiot trilogy." Joel said after the last scene was shot, "George said: 'OK, I played my last idiot!' So I do not think he will work with us again. "Clooney again acted in another Coen Brothers movie, Hail, Caesar! .
Pitt, who played a very unintelligent character, said of his role, "After reading that part, what they say is handwriting for myself, I'm not sure whether I should be flattered or humiliated." Pitt also said when he was shown his script, he told Coens that he did not know how to play that role because his character is an idiot: "There's a pause, and then Joel goes... 'You'll be fine'."
During the autumn movie preview, Entertainment Weekly writes that Malkovich "easily raises the most laughter" among cast members as ex-CIA men with a dirty and grumpy mouth. The first scene Malkovich performed was a phone call where he shouted some dirty words in Pitt and McDormand. But Malkovich could not be on the stage for calls because he was practicing dramas, so he called from his apartment in Paris. Regarding the scene, Malkovich said, "The night was very late and I screamed at the top of my lungs, God knows what the neighbors were thinking." Swinton plays the wife of Malkovich who had an affair with Clooney, although the two characters did not get along. The Clooney and Swinton characters also had a bad relationship in the previous movie together, Michael Clayton , prompting Clooney to tell Swinton at the end of the photo shoot, "Well maybe one day we'll make a movie together when we say one thing that is pleasing to each other. "Swinton said of the dynamics," I am very happy to shout him on the screen.
Swinton describes Burn After Reading as a kind of monster caper movie, and said of the character, "We are all monsters - like, true monster. He also said, "I think there's something random in the heart of this one.On the one hand, it's really grim and scary.On the other hand, it's really funny... It's whatever it is. anytime every day in any city, this can happen. "Malkovich says of his characters," No one in this movie is very good, they are a little emotional or mentally handicapped, weird, overwhelming, and cunning. " Pitt says players do little ad-libbing because the script is very strictly written and weaves so many overlapping stories. Veteran actor Richard Jenkins said the Coen brothers asked him if he could lose weight for his role as a sports manager, which Jenkins replied jokingly, "I'm a 60-year-old man, not Brad Pitt. will change. "
Joel Coen said that the sex machine built by Clooney's character was inspired by a machine he once saw as a key grip, and by another machine he saw at the Museum of Sex in New York City.
Release
box office
On the opening weekend, the film grossed $ 19,128,001 in 2,651 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking number one at the box office. By July 2009, it had grossed $ 60,355,347 in the United States and Canada and $ 103,364,722 overseas added up to $ 163,720,069 gross worldwide.
Critical reception
Reviews for movies are mostly positive. It earned a 78% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 234 reviews, and an average rating of 6.9/10. The crucial consensus of the website states, "With Burn After Reading , Coen Brothers has made comedy/smart thrillers others with strange plots and memorable characters. " It also holds a weighted average rating of 63/100 on Metacritic, based on 37 criticisms, showing "favorable general reviews". The Times , which gave the movie four of five stars, comparing it to the Coen Raising Arizona and Fargo movies in "a fierce comic flavor for Creative Violence and "The study says the attention to detail is so perfect that" Coens can even laugh with something as simple as a well-placed photo of Vladimir Putin, "and praised Carter Burwell's musical score, described as" the most paranoid part. film music since the neurotic soundtrack of Quincy Jones for The Anderson Tapes. Andrew Pulver, movie reviewer for The Guardian calls the film "a tightly bound telescopic comedy film, which can not be more in contrast to The Coens' last blooded, thoughtful film Not Country for the Old Man. "Pulver, who also gave Burn After Reading four of the five stars, said it "may also go down because it can d Miss Coz's happiest involvement with Hollywood A-list demands. " Pulver says Brad Pitt has some of the funniest moments and that compared to other Coen Brothers' movies, Burn After Reading most closely resembles Not Tolerable Cruelty . Hollywood Reporter checker Kirk Honeycutt praised the actors for making fun of their screen persona, and said the Coen brothers "have taken some of the top and most expensive actors in the cinema and dumped them into the Looney Tunes role in the thriller. "Honeycutt also said" it takes time to adjust to the rhythm and subversive humor of Burn because this is really an anti-spy thriller where nothing is at stake, not some act with intelligence and it all ends badly. "
Todd McCarthy, from Variety Magazine, wrote a very negative review about Burn After Reading, which he said "tries to pretend sex jokes with a paranoid political satire thriller, with arches and results are ungainly. "McCarthy said the talented player was forced to act like a cartoon character, portraying Carter Burwell's score as" unconventionally arrogant "and saying the dialogue" was contacted to an almost exaggerated level, making a film that feels misjudged from the opening scene and thereafter only occasionally touching the correct record. " Time film critic Richard Corliss said he did not understand what the Coen brothers tried with the film, and after explaining the plot, wrote," I have a sinking feeling that I make Burn After Reading sounds funnier than that.The film's glacial instability, its removal from all the planners below, makes me cold and confused. "Corliss praised Richard Jenkins and JK Simmons for their short supporting role David Denby of The New Yorker says the film has some funny scenes, but they are" stuck by a humorous and not funny jokes plot that freezes your response after about forty-five minutes. "Denby also criticized the pattern of violence in the film, where innocent people die quickly and the guilty are not punished." These people do not mean much to the [Coen brothers]; it is hardly surprising that they do not mean much to us.... Even black comedy requires filmmakers to love someone, and mocking lies in Burn After Reading emerges as a misanthropy terminal case. "
Leah Rozen, of the People magazine, said the character of "tireless and bleak foolish behavior was at first funny and fun but ultimately growing." But Rozen says the show is a redeeming factor, especially from Pitt, whom he describes as a prominent person who "arranges simultaneously to delight broad and shades of intelligence."
Le Monde paid attention to the "very bitter image of the US" The Alliance of Political Disability (CIA), the cult of appearance (sports club) and vulgarity (everyone) is the target of completion of the score "where comedy" grows from a bitter well. "
Almost a decade later, New Republic's senior editor Jeet Heer argued that the film was "extraordinarily prophetic of the Trump [Donald] era", anticipating "collusion of Trump campaigns with Russian operations" and "broader culture. the lie that made Donald Trump's rise to be possible More than just a satire about espionage, this film is a fierce critique of modern America as a superficial post-political society, where cheating of all sorts comes very easily.... The most disturbing thing about Burn After Reading , however, is how it's like every day in Washington Trump, where the line between cheating and evil conspiracy gets blurry. "
Accolades
The National Review Board named Burning After Reading in the list of 10 Best Movies of 2008. Noel Murray from The A.V. Club named it second best movie of 2008, Empire magazine named it third best movie of 2008, and Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly named it the seventh best movie of 2008.
Home media
Burn After Reading was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 21, 2008, in Region 1. The Region 2 version was released on February 9, 2009.
See also
- List of movies featuring fiction movies
References
External links
- Burning After Reading in IMDb
- Burning After Reading in the TCM Movie Database
- Burn After Reading in AllMovie
- Burning After Reading in Mojo Box Office
- Burn After Reading in Rotten Tomatoes
- Burn After Reading in Metacritic
- Burn After Reading in Working Title Films
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