Barton Fink

Barton Fink is a 1991 American drama movie. The movie is set in 1941 in Los Angeles. The title character is enjoying success of his first Broadway play. Barton Fink is played by John Turturro.

The movie got very positive reviews, but it did not make much money.

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The Coen brothers wrote the role of Charlie Meadows for actor John Goodman, in part because of the "warm and friendly image that he projects for the viewer".
The Coen brothers said of writing Barton Fink: "We didn't do any research, actually, at all."^[1]
Restaurant scenes set in New York at the start of Barton Fink were filmed inside the RMS Queen Mary ocean liner.^[2]
The Coens chose to set Barton Fink at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor to indicate that "the world outside the hotel was finding itself on the eve of the apocalypse."
The influence of film-maker Alfred Hitchcock appears several times in the movie. In one scene, Barton's eyeglasses reflect a wrestling scene; this echoes a shot from Hitchcock's film Strangers on a Train. (1946)
The Coen brothers were contacted by "the ASPCA or some animal thing" before filming began. "They'd gotten hold of a copy of the script and wanted to know how we were going to treat the mosquitoes. I'm not kidding."^[3]
The resemblance of Clifford Odets (pictured here) to actor John Turturro is "striking", according to critic R. Barton Palmer.^[4]
Actor John Mahoney was selected for the part of W.P. Mayhew "because of his resemblance to William Faulkner." (pictured)