Review of Barton Fink (1991) by Dfw F — 04 Nov 2009

I saw this on the big screen in 1991. I love movies which have plots in the movie and entertainment business. This one is so very unique and almost hysterically funny in place. At the start of the movie, Barton Fink is enjoying the success of his first play, Bare Ruined Choirs.

He ends up going to Hollywood and there gets writers block but gets involved in a murder mystery. this movie is hard to define comedy murder mystery film noir. He is kind of the common writer guy placed unexpectedly in the trappings of Hollywood.

Barton Fink is a troubled New York playwright obsessed with bringing his new idea of "Theater of the Common Man" to the producers he loves to hate. After his first budding success his agent convinces him to travel to Los Angeles to write for Capital Pictures.

When he arrives he checks into the dark Hotel Earle and meets with Capital Pictures President Jack Lipnick, who tells him of the movie he's writing: a B-Movie wrestling picture for Wallace Beery. Fink travels back to his hotel room to begin, but when he arrives he types one sentence and then falls into the horror of writer's block.

He tries getting help from his neighbor, "Common Man" Charlie Meadows; famed writer Mayhew; Mayhew's girlfriend Audrey and producer Ben Geisler. But as Fink drifts further away from his script strange things start happening, and eventually two detectives show up at his door.

.. I love this movie!! four stars.