About this episode

The episode discusses the Coen Brothers' film The Hudsucker Proxy, exploring its themes, production history, and character arcs.

Our journey through some of the wackier Coen Brothers capers continues this week as we take on The Hudsucker Proxy, a star-studded, over-the-top affair that is equal parts His Girl Friday and Roadrunner cartoon, and is every bit as ungainly as that description makes it sound. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 175: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) (00:00:20) - Intro. (00:01:28) - Our movie this week: The Hudsucker Proxy! (00:10:49) - How this movie got made, and discussion of its ill box office fortunes. (00:25:03) - Break! (00:25:26) - We're back, and it's time to tell the tale of Norville Barnes. (00:35:04) - Everything's going great at Hudsucker Industries, until it isn't. (00:40:04) - Let's hatch a stock scam. (00:44:22) - Mailroom mayhem, and the introduction of the Blue Letter. (00:57:17) - A perfect patsy is born, but one ace reporter smells a bunko scam. (01:05:20) - A fabricated meet-cute at the diner, and Amy becomes a Muncie gal. (01:10:20) - Taking a letter, and the fancy dress ball. (01:21:02) - The dawn of the extruded plastic dingus. (01:28:29) - The stock scam is in shambles, and Norville is tripping on his own dingus. (01:32:20) - Norville's…

People in this episode

Host: The Nextlander Watchcast

Topics covered

• Coen Brothers
• film analysis
• comedy
• box office
• character development

Keywords

• Hudsucker Proxy
• Coen Brothers
• film discussion
• comedy film
• Norville Barnes

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Hudsucker Proxy, His Girl Friday, Roadrunner, Raising Arizona

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