The Coen Bros. have given their permission. Hope it’s good!
“Eight-year-olds, Dude…”
I seem to recall Mr. Turturro saying that that was his favorite role of all time, so it doesn’t surprise me that he’d want to revisit it. Glad that the Coens are cool with it and that Mr. Turturro himself is writing and directing.
"… a trio of sexually-depraved misfits, "
Gives a whole new meaning to “We’ve got a man down, Dude!” Ewww.
It kills me that our church is too “God’s Frozen People” to have one of those signs outside, where we could give free advice, like…
Lutheran Zen Church of Normsville
“Don’t fuck with the Jesus…”
Services at 8:15 and 10:45
I may duplicate that sign for the church on my model railroad.
I should probably watch the Big lebowski, always looked stupid to me but people reference it a lot.
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
I’ve seen it and I don’t think much of it as a film. One of my last favorite Coen Brothers films, for sure (prolly just ahead of The Hudsucker Proxy, in fact, and I loathe that film). But it does have a few good lines and 1 awesome scene, and like every Coen Brothers film, it does have fantastic performances. Mr. Turturro’s, altho in a small supporting role, is memorably and hilariously over-the-top.
Honestly I think this is an awful idea. Having a child molester as an antagonist in a couple of scenes works, but a whole movie of them as the protagonist is going to turn a lot of stomachs. And the French film it’s based on sounds appalling. This could be a complete disaster.
+1^
Yeah!
Turtorro is a genius. I need to rewatch Romance & Cigarettes, which he not only directed, but found jobs for his entire family (his young son Diego played boy on tricycle).
Jesus Quintana without the Coen Bros? Skimming his wikipedia page, I don’t think I’ve seen anything John Turturro wrote or directed, but I’ve always loved his acting. I’ll watch it for sure.
So, it is both a remake of one cult movie, and a spin-off of another.
Count me as skeptical.
I cannot recommend Romance & Cigarettes highly enough.
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A down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York, tells a story of a husband’s journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife.
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As far as we know, those are just allegations by Walter Sobchak, who is not at all reliable. The charges are not necessarily true.
Well, the blurb does say “* it follows a trio of sexually-depraved misfits,”* but yes, I do hope they play down the child molester stuff.
FWIW, the first time I saw it, I absolutely hated the movie, and I loved the Coens (minus the aforementioned Hudsucker Proxy). The second time (and ever since), I’ve viewed it, it vaulted to the upper echelon of my Coen Brothers movies list, and I have no idea what I found so objectionable about it the first time I saw it. So, it may be one of these movies that takes a couple of views spaced out over time to fully appreciate.
Most of my friends are sexually depraved misfits, but none of them are pedophiles.
We do see in TBL (my longtime favorite Coen Bros. movie, BTW) a quick, silent scene of the Jesus going door-to-door, supposedly to notify his new neighbors that he’s a convicted pedophile, but as you say, that might just be more of Walter’s BS.
The “child molester” is perhaps going a little far. What I remember from the Big Lebowski was he was tossed in prison for “exposing” himself in front of a kid. For all we know, he was drunk and peed on an occupied jungle gym. Given the nature of the film they are remaking, it could be something to do with having sex with an adult in public with an unexpected juvenile audience.