Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are four-time Academy Award winning American filmmakers. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until recently Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing film credits for editor under the alias "Roderick Jaynes". They are known in the film business as "the two-headed director", as they share a similar vision of their films. Actors can approach either brother with a question and get the same answer.
The reason I chose to research the Coen Brothers is that they differ from all other film makers in that they are two people who work as one. They have produced films of different genres, such as "screwball comedies" (The Hudsucker Proxy), film noir (No Country For Old Men) and genre hybrids (The Big Lebowski).
No Country For Old Men received rave reviews in Cannes, and the film review site http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ said "not only does No Country deliver another excellent Coen Brothers film, it also delves thematically deeper than your average crime thriller with its sprawling saga of a drug deal gone wrong, a bag of cash, a hunter on the run (Josh Brolin), and the philosophizing psychopath on his trail (Javier Bardem)."
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