Pitt, Clooney dumb down for Coens’ `Burn’
By Behind The Scenes TV on Sep 11, 2008 in Actors, Directors, New Releases
They’ve written every sort of bonehead, nitwit and lamebrain imaginable in both comic and tragic form in such films as “Raising Arizona,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Yet they may have topped themselves for siring simpletons with the dark comedy “Burn After Reading,” which stars usual Coen suspects George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins and new pals Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton.
They’re like the Hole in the Head Gang, this bunch that blunders its way through the motions of a spy game touched off by a missing computer disc with some modestly sensitive CIA secrets.
It’s a farcical about-face from the Coens’ last film, the bleak “No Country for Old Men,” which dominated the 2007 Academy Awards, the Coens winning for best-picture, director and adapted screenplay.
(The Associated Press)
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