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More than just a satire on espionage, the movie is scathing critique of modern America as a superficial, post-political society where cheating of all sorts comes all too easily....The most disturbing thing about Burn After Reading, though, is how it resembles every day in Trump's Washington, where the line between blundering idiocy and ...
- $37 million
- Carter Burwell
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Sep 12, 2023 · Focus News | Sep 12, 2023. On September 12, 2008, Joel and Ethan Coen set the film world on fire with their star-studded, slapstick spy comedy Burn After Reading. 15 years later, their hilarious vision of mad-cap espionage, political befuddlement, and ditzy DC unscrupulousness has remained both funny and a little bit prophetic.
Sep 11, 2008 · The Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" is a screwball comedy that occasionally becomes something more. The characters are zany, the plot coils upon itself with dizzy zeal, and the roles seem like a perfect fit for the actors -- yes, even Brad Pitt, as Chad, a gum-chewing, fuzzy-headed physical fitness instructor. I've always thought of him as a fine actor, but here he reveals a dimension that ...
I know this is a year old, but I just rewatched Burn After Reading. Like you, I didn't find anything great about this film in my teen years when it came out. Seeing it now 16 years later, I found it very amusing. I guess to understand satire, I had to understand the norm first and what exactly is being made fun of.
Apr 15, 2022 · Many critics celebrated Burn After Reading as a return to the Coens’ unique style of dark comedy. Newsweek proclaimed it “a blackly comic illustration of Murphy's Law, set in the Washington world of CIA espionage, and populated with a cast of delusional dunces who are a wonder to behold.”
Joel also said that Burn After Reading was not meant to be a comment or satire on Washington. [9] Parts of the Burn screenplay were written while the Coens were also writing their adaptation of No Country for Old Men . [9]
Oct 20, 2008 · "Burn After Reading is a brilliant joke about a staple Hollywood genre," he writes. "It is a surreal satire about spy thrillers. Indeed, the spies and thrills don't add up at all.
