Inside the Coen Brothers’ Cinematic Universe: How Authority Figures Shape Their Darkest Stories
CIA agents: Burn After Reading
FBI agents: Raising Arizona,
U.S. Marshall: Burn After Reading, True Grit
Private detective: Blood Simple.
In addition, there are other characters in a variety of positions of authority: Parole Board (Raising Arizona), Mayor (Miller’s Crossing), CEO (The Hudsucker Proxy), Governor (O Brother, Where Art Thou), Embassy officials (Burn After Reading), Rabbis (A Serious Man).
On the one hand, this makes sense because many of the Coens’ movies involve characters who break the law, so there would be policemen and the like emerging organically due to the machinations of the plot.
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