SO #4: Barton Fink with Broti Gupta
🕑 Added 2023-07-24 03:59:03 +0000 UTCSean talks to Broti Gupta (The Simpsons/Friends from College) about the movie Barton Fink. They also discuss their early days as writers, their best and worst meetings, and the Coen Brothers.
Next week’s episode: My Favorite Year (1982)
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Derek A Arnold
Love the show, and to any critics, what is more Hollywood handbook than earnestly offering a valid reason why the Oscar -winning Coens might be out of touch?
Eric Larson
Does Hayes get residuals from projects that use his name? Great episode once again!
Björn Unnar
Love this show and now I look forward to the next episode so you gotta keep making it, and I've got a feeling that you will, and it won't be a postcard.
Daniel DeMulder
Loving this series! I don’t know what’s on your list, but a movie that’s sort of about writing that I would absolutely love to hear you cover is ‘the master’. Could inspire some good conversations about sophomore efforts and how it feels to follow your own act after you struck gold the first time. Just a thought! Love you and in love with you!
Christopher Davis
Subtitles on (SO) and RogeTapes (RT) combine for "Something of the SORT; movies which contain action scenes or elements while depicting the writing/acting/production process."
Christopher Davis
When you are a new writer coming on to a show like The Simpsons, is the expectation that you must be relatively familiar to all previous seasons and jokes so that you are not pitching something that has already occurred on the series?
Jacob Stock
What a good show idea. I've really got to start watching these movie ahead of time to help get the full experience.
Brian Klik
This show is great, the stores are great, the guests are great, and you should feel great.
Eric H
This show is good as hell
Adam Lauver
I think a notable precursor to Charlie's "Heil Hitler" line is when the cops are first interviewing Barton and one of them says with thinly veiled disgust, "Fink. That's a Jewish name, isn't it?" And the name of the detective that Charlie says "Heil Hitler" to and then kills is literally "Deutsch." So I always interpreted Charlie's line as taunting the anti-Semitic cops. Love these conversations so much, thank you!!
Hogbone
Sean this show fucking rocks you’re the man
Allan Hutchison-Maxwell
Sean out of character is always a treasure
Elias Cahoon Bayer
As a religious Hollywood Handbook listener, I wasn't sure if I'd like this show and Sean "dropping the act"...this show is now my new religion. Great job Clemdog, keep em coming!
ben
the conversation about interpreting the end of the movie could have also been the “smart thoughts about the movie.” in order to maintain an “i majored in film studies” air-of-pretension; i always list BF in my top 5 Coens movies whenever they release a new one. i pulled out my copy of the DVD while listening to this podcast because it reminded me why it’s one of my all-time favorites. tldr: great work, Sean!
Emma
We love you and are in love with you Clemdawg
The Flagrant Ones
Bundle tier.
Gregory Theilmann
I think this show is funny and interesting. It’s so nice to hear Sean and guest talk about their work.
Sneakaboard
I was trying to articulate that its funny to hear you paying respect to a writer for accurately representing the kind of absurd and insane things movie ppl say and do because you are THE ALL TIME GREATEST at doing that.
Sneakaboard
Hoping you get the Rodgman on soon too.
Sneakaboard
Sean! I wasn't being critical when I said that, I said it was FUNNY which is good to be! No one I'd rather listen to having these conversations. I'm thrilled you are doing this and am stoked you are doing Fink so early too.
I Heard This Smells Eloquent
https://twitter.com/HMBohemond/status/1683016579343175680 got these vibes during Broti's constant "aDuLt" prattle. A very LA takedown.
Chalazan
Sean is the greatest. This show is great. The biggest difference between this show and the insider stuff that HH makes fun of is that this actually interesting and good.
grant brown
wow right out of the gate a hottake on brothers
grant brown
love these
Tim
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - this show fucking rocks
Jeff Muramatsu
Where do I find episodes 2 and 3?