![]() ![]() But apparently, the Coens aren't biting on bringing back the nimbly flamboyant trash-talking bowler any time soon. In fact, Turturro has been pleading with them to bring back another one of his characters, Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski for a spinoff. He’s getting there." So how old do they want their muse to be exactly? Here we are in 2023 and Turturro, the 66-year-old man who has collaborated with the directors no less than four times, isn't getting any younger, and while entertaining, Barton Fink is not one of their most memorable characters in the way that McDunnough, Lebowski, Marge Gunderson, and Anton Chigurh are. In a 2016 interview with Variety, the brothers made the surprising admission about bringing back Turturro's character for another run with Ethan saying, "We’re going to do a 'Barton Fink' sequel at some point." And brother, Joel added, "That’s the one movie that we thought deserved a sequel, called 'Old Fink.' But we don’t want to do it until Turturro is quite old. So what is different about Barton Fink, and who is flaming their cigarette lighter for more of him? McDunnough is up to these days or exactly what kind of misadventures Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski has stumbled into, we shudder to think of a reprisal somehow tarnishing their cinematic legacies. ![]() And they're chock-full of characters who were never meant to make encores. They are allegories doused with irony, parables unique unto themselves each earmarked for a particular time and space. They tell a story from beginning to middle to end. The biggest reason the Coens never make sequels is that they rarely allow for loose ends. It's a beautiful film marked by a masterful screenplay and the deft performances of Turturro, Goodman, Tony Shaloub, and Judy Davis. Fink is a quiet, meticulous man by nature, who takes great pride in the art of expression through writing (He feels very much like a noirish send-up by the Coens of the misdirected idolization of writers.) So when he is struck with a crippling case of writer's block as he unpacks his bags in sunny Hollywood and runs into a series of mysterious, Coen-esque oddballs and eccentrics that stay in the Earle Hotel, he enters into disillusionment and a full-blown existential crisis.
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