{"id":15199,"date":"2013-04-12T23:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T22:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15199"},"modified":"2013-04-12T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T22:57:02","slug":"blood-simple-dvd-coen-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/04\/12\/blood-simple-dvd-coen-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Simple Director’s Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blood<\/a><\/p>\n

The debut film of the Coen Brothers<\/a> gets a welcome re-release on DVD.<\/p>\n

Whilst true fans might mourn the lack of a Blu-ray (though there is a Region 1<\/a>), this Director\u2019s Cut is a reminder of how striking their entrance into the film world was.<\/p>\n

Bearing similar hallmarks to some of their later works, notably Fargo<\/a> (1996) and No Country For Old Men<\/a> (2007), this neo-noir crime drama is a dark tale of murder, cash and betrayal.<\/p>\n

Over the next twenty years the Joel and Ethan Coen would ascend to the front rank of American filmmakers and one can see the seeds here: quirky characters, the music of Carter Burwell, confident editing and a distinct visual style would all blossom in later works.<\/p>\n

Also established here was their fraternal working methods, as Time magazine noted in 2007:<\/p>\n

Joel writes and directs (with Ethan\u2019s help), Ethan writes and produces (with Joel\u2019s help), and both edit under the joint pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It also demonstrated their tremendous eye for character actors, the standout here being M. Emmet Walsh, as a corrupt private investigator, who bears some resemblance to Javier Bardem\u2019s hitman in No Country.<\/p>\n