Inside the Coen Brothers’ Cinematic Universe: How Authority Figures Shape Their Darkest Stories
This dynamic is underscored by a line Cooley offers when he’s got the three men set to hang: “Well, the law is a human institution,” suggesting his law [not human] is otherwise.
Fortunately for Everett and pals, just as they are about to die, fate intervenes with the flood caused by damming the river, which conveniently resolves the external conflict between Everett and Cooley.
Barton Fink
Here is an IMDb summary of the plot:
Barton Fink is a troubled New York playwright obsessed with bringing his new idea of “Theater of the Common Man” to the producers he loves to hate. After his first budding success his agent convinces him to travel to Los Angeles to write for Capital Pictures. When he arrives he checks into the dark Hotel Earle and meets with Capital Pictures President Jack Lipnik, who tells him of the movie he’s writing: a B-Movie wrestling picture for Wallace Beery. Fink travels back to his hotel room to begin, but when he arrives he types one sentence and then falls into the horror of writer’s block. He tries getting help from his neighbor, “Common Man” Charlie Meadows; famed writer Mayhew; Mayhew’s girlfriend Audrey and producer Ben Geisler. But as Fink drifts further away from his script strange things start happening, and eventually two detectives show up at his door…
Protagonist: Barton. And the authority figure in question is Jack Lipnik , so much so, he eventually takes to wearing a military uniform when he’s in his Hollywood office.
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