Daily Dialogue — February 28, 2020

Jean: Do you ever think about the future at all?
Llewyn: The future? You mean like flying cars? Hotels on the moon? Tang?

— Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Coen Brothers.

Trivia: Joel Coen remarked that “the film doesn’t really have a plot. That concerned us at one point. That’s why we threw the cat in.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Inside Llewyn Davis is the best movie I’ve every scene which deals with the death of a dream. This scene demonstrates how unaware Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) is about the curtain about to come down on his music career, caught up in the chaotic life he’s created for himself.

Llewyn goes through the movie continually ignorant of the signs the universe is giving him that he is not going to make it as a musician. Even the ending drives home the point.

He gets beat up by the husband of a performer Llewyn had drunkenly heckled the night before. As he sarcastically bids the guy “Au revoir” as he speeds away in a taxi, Llewyn is completely unaware of the musician playing on stage: Bob Dylan, who is going to make it as a musician.

Such a great movie.