The Coen Brothers Are Serious!

I’ve got five copies of ‘A Serious Man’ to give away but first I want to ignite some more creativity from our brilliant MovieSet audience. Now, the Coen brothers have made a bunch of movies from ‘Miller’s Crossing’, ‘The Big Lebowski’ to ‘Burn After Reading’ and ‘A Serious Man’…and many more of course…but I want to know what idea their next movie should be about, and I want you to tell me! (Unless the Coen brothers read this post they won’t actually see your ideas…sorry)

Here’s how to win:

1.Dream up the most interesting, unique, idea you wish the Coen brothers would shoot.

2. Submit a ’short’ explanation of your idea into the comments below. (This is just for fun, we’re not trying to steal your ideas…no really)

3. On Feb 22 the five ideas that make me scratch my head and say “Damn…I’d go see that” WIN!

Check out ‘A Serious Man’ and good luck with the brainstorming:

The story follows an ordinary mans search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person; a mensch, a serious man?

Trailer:

Coen Brothers talk about ‘A Serious Man’