SAC 236 Study Guide - Final Guide: Blood Simple, Auteur Theory, Tom Regan
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The auteur theory suggests that a director can use the commercial apparatus of film- making in the same way that a writer uses a pen or a painter uses paint and a paintbrush. Whether it is through the themes, the various features of mise-en-scene, or the stylistic camera movements, a coen brother film is a coen brother film, and everyone knows it! The talented duo creates movies that include many of the same, specific aspects of mise- en-scene. In terms of the acting and action, the movies are filled with extreme violence. Blood simple, marty is badly wounded, thrown into a hole in the ground, and buried alive. In another instance, abby slams visser"s hand in a window then goes on to stab a knife through it, thereby pinning it to the windowsill. Raising arizona, another coen brothers" film, continues the common thread of intense violence when leonard small is blown to bits by way of an exploding hand grenade.
