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Raising Arizona
1987 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Joel Coen
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
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Of the ~700 movies I've watched (not bragging, just context - actual movie buffs watch thousands by the time they're my age), those I happily rewatch are:
The Thing (1982)
Silence of the Lambs
Alien
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Young Frankenstein
Rocky Horror
Raising Arizona
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Men in Black
Primer
But even those I've only seen a handful of times each. It takes a lot for me to want to watch/read/play something multiple times, as I'm the kind of person who always thinks, "but I could be trying something new, or getting something done".
You sir are someone I could probably enjoy a favorite movie marathon with.
Raising Arizona is another from that era which really clicked for my young mind...
This guy the continuation of Nicholas Cage's character in Raising Arizona... After the movie ends he gets seriously into 3d printing and crazy inventions.
Not a single Coen brothers movie? No Raising Arizona, Big Labowski, or Fargo? I don’t see how you can include the Wachowskis and not the Coens.
You could say that it's the little things that help to really tie the film together (even though they don't really have a significant impact on the main plot). In most cases they aid in defining the characters.
Jesus being a pederast doesn't have much of an effect on the storyline, but it provides context into the background of the character, so he's not just merely a competing bowler.
Another example of an even more seemingly irrelevant detail is when Jackie Treehorn starts sketching something on a pad upon receiving a phone call. When it's revealed to the audience what it is, not only is it surprisingly funny, but it hints at who Jackie Treehorn is. Maybe he's in his line of business because it means more to him than just a lucrative enterprise.
These kinds of "irrelevant details" are fairly common in films by the Coen brothers. When I think of their film Raising Arizona, I'm pleasantly reminded of how it's revealed that the evil nemesis just happens to have that same tattoo as HI.
>"Based on a true story" is not what makes a film plausible to us
It wasn't the only thing that made Fargo seem plausible.
But it permitted people to suspend disbelief, because it was enough like a weird news story.
Saying the same thing about Raising Arizona wouldn't make it realistic, granted.
And it isn't license to tell any story that is true, no matter how unbelievable.
>You've misunderstood what Nicola Morgan is talking about, in that quote.
That quote was from the TV tropes link. I don't think I misunderstood it. I acknowledge the "job" you state. My point, or a point, was, that Lynch appeared to be complaining about doing that fundamental job.
If you want to be pedantic, better to tell me something about Lynch, because I have only read about him.
Check out Youtube's Free with Ads movies. Seriously. They've got a good selection of great movies (especially comedies) from the 80s and 90s on there.
Naked Gun series, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, Idiocracy, The Terminal, Major League, Top Secret!, Hot Shots!, Beavis and Butthead Do America, The Terminator, Delirious, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Captain Ron (crap, it's not free anymore), original Robocop, Secret of Nimh, Ghost, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Silence of the Lambs, Teen Wolf, to name a few.
It's a smaller selection and they don't seem to stay Free for more than a few months, so you have to keep checking it, but there's some good stuff on there.
Yes, it's confounding that movies like "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Raising Arizona" coexist with a ton of hot garbage he's been involved with.
No judgement for him, a guy has to make a living. I imagine he finds the situation amusing. His 2013 movie "Joe" is really good if you need something new to watch: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2382396/
Two of my favorite movies are True Stories and Raising Arizona. Both are joyful, humane and wry looks at American culture, or at least how we idealize American culture.
Maron is a fine interviewer, but will digress into personal anecdotes too often for my liking -- something like "we met one time in the basement of this Milwaukee comedy club" and then go off on a tangent. It's not the worst thing but I really don't care for old war stories like that.
In any case, thanks for pointing this out.
I really want to say "that's a nice point", but I'm having a hard time because PSN did this like 4 years ago (but why you would try to "own" a cloud-based piece of media is beyond me). That said, I've only ever bought incredible movies (of course, I'm talking about Fletch, Raising Arizona and Ace Ventura), so I don't understand the desire to "own" movies. Especially since they get re-mastered and HDed and 3Ded and what. It's like owning an LP (which is basically silly (if you consider logic and reason to be friends)).
That said, I'll say: that's a nice point.