MAYHEW WERE LOOSELY BASED ON CLIFFORD ODETS AND FAULKNER. It was only later that they realized Beery actually did appear in a wrestling movie in 1932-John Ford’s Flesh. The two thought it would be funny to have real actor Wallace Beery attached to a wrestling movie. THE COENS WERE NOT AS CREATIVE AS THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE. In passing, it was mentioned in the book that William Faulkner was assigned to write a wrestling picture. That book was Otto Freidrich's City of Nets, about German expatriates living in Hollywood in the 1940s. THEIR RESEARCH MAINLY CONSISTED OF READING ONE BOOK. When filming their first feature, Blood Simple, in Austin, Texas, an evil-looking hotel across the street featured stationery with the slogan “The Hotel for a Day or a Lifetime” written on top. From the beginning, they knew that they wanted John Turturro involved in Barton Fink, and they planned to feature the concept of a “huge abandoned hotel.” 2. THE HOTEL EARLE WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL, CREEPY HOTEL. Writer-director siblings Joel and Ethan found themselves struggling with the script for their next project, 1990's Miller's Crossing, so spent three weeks writing a movie about a screenwriter with writer’s block. THE COEN BROTHERS WROTE IT WHILE STUCK ON MILLER’S CROSSING. Here are 15 things you might not know about the Oscar-nominated flick. A playwright’s new Los Angeles gig during the second World War becomes more harrowing than he can possibly imagine in 1991’s Barton Fink, one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the Coen brothers' oeuvre.
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