Film Stills

O Brother Where Art Thou?

Similarly to Blood Simple there are a lot of memorable moments. Here are a few that really interest me. 

Film Stills

Blood Simple 

Four of my favourite scenes from Blood Simple, more so due to the visual aesthetics than the content. Two i would consider location settings and the other two set creation.

Coen Brothers Book

Here are a few page scans of information that i feel is very valuable. I felt that it would be very naive of me to not look into the background of how some scenes were created. 

These two scans show two of the many pages i have scanned in and related to film stills within my sketchbook. 

 These two pages outline the difficulties that the Coen's faced went through finding a location for O Brother. One very specific problem was the colour of the foliage. They were going for a desaturated dry and dusty Texas but unfortunately had to shoot in the lush green surroundings of Mississippi 

Contemplation

Initial Research

After pushing myself to pick a specific Coen Brothers film i found myself swaying between 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' and 'Blood Simple'. So instead of making an irrational decision i decided to undertake more research into both films, fully aware that this would cause more work for myself. I bought a book simply titled 'Coen Brothers' by Eddie Robson, which i found very useful. It evaluates every possible aspect of each film from where the initial concept came from too who created the soundtrack. 

After reading this book it's become apparent that the close family relationship doesn't stop with the brothers. A lot of the actors are featured in more than one film. Furthermore Carter Burwell first worked with the Coen's as a soundtrack producer and as a result has worked on every film they have created since then. The Coens' seem to be very faithful to their employes.