{"id":12129,"date":"2026-04-27T02:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/it-is-true-that-most-of-it-is-shit-the-coen-brothers-constantly-conflicted-relationship-with-hollywood-far-out-magazine\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:35:47","slug":"it-is-true-that-most-of-it-is-shit-the-coen-brothers-constantly-conflicted-relationship-with-hollywood-far-out-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/it-is-true-that-most-of-it-is-shit-the-coen-brothers-constantly-conflicted-relationship-with-hollywood-far-out-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is true that most of it is shit\u201d: the Coen brothers\u2019 constantly conflicted relationship with Hollywood – Far Out Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just like any industry, the film business is complex. Despite being rooted in creativity, there are inevitably going to be issues of greed, corruption and all the evils that come with capitalism. The Coen Brothers<\/a> get that.
However, they also get that it\u2019s not as simple as tarnishing the entire works of Hollywood with one brush. In the same way that discussions of the music industry have to accept that good and bad can exist side by side, that things like social media can have a benefit as well as a negative, and that record labels can be just as helpful as they can be damaging, the same balance has to be applied to Hollywood.
Obviously, the issues are major. The Me Too movement shone as a glaring light on the issue of abuse and power within the world, or even looking towards the career of someone like David Lynch, who often struggled for funding because the mainstream industry still didn\u2019t quite believe in his vision. Across each level, from nepotism to the new threat of AI, there are problems.\u00a0
But without the big money, some of the most impactful movies ever made wouldn\u2019t exist.
\u201cWe have an odd relationship with Hollywood,\u201d Joel Coen admitted. Despite often being seen as left-fielders in the industry, the brothers held their hands up to The Guardian<\/em> in 2011, stating, \u201cWe are like Hollywood insiders now.<\/a> It\u2019s really weird.\u201d
Their films aren\u2019t the kind you\u2019d typically expect to come from the mainstream industry, but as the Coens had to confront, where else are you getting the money to make it happen?
\u201cWe\u2019ve always had pretty cordial relationships with studios\u2014y\u2019know, they\u2019ve distributed and financed our movies,\u201d Joel said, while Ethan added, \u201cthat\u2019s the nature of this business. Box-office success, awards\u2014it\u2019s all very capricious, and never quite what you\u2019d expect. But you tend to snatch your moment of favour.\u201d
They\u2019re pointing out the fact that while all artists strive for independence and idealise the image of being unburdened and free from the mechanics of an industry, it simply can\u2019t really work that way.
Realistically, the only reason why the Coen Brothers are known is because of studio support. They won Oscars for Fargo<\/a><\/em> because they linked up with Universal to foot the bill for the campaign. While actors might have teamed up with the Brothers solely based on vision, the fact that they now had accolades under their belt and big studios fighting to distribute their projects far and wide definitely doesn\u2019t hurt. By 2011, when they dubbed themselves insiders, they\u2019d worked with Focus, Paramount, Warner Brothers and weren\u2019t far off making a Netflix movie. It doesn\u2019t get more insider than that.
But, they get the dislike of that whole world, as Joel put it candidly, \u201cIt\u2019s the same with music, books\u2026 most of it is naturally going to be dull. Movies\u2014especially Hollywood movies\u2014are an easy American whipping boy, because it is true that most of it is shit. But it\u2019s not surprising.\u201d
You can, however, put your own boundaries in place. \u201cWe\u2019ve never really felt marginalised from them, except through our own choice\u2014we don\u2019t live in L.A., we don\u2019t develop stuff through the studios,\u201d Joel explained as the distance between them and Hollywood is one they put in place.
And that\u2019s how they managed the conflict, keeping the relationships good enough to get what they want, but refusing to sell their souls. <\/p>\n

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Just like any industry, the film business is complex. Despite being rooted in creativity, there are inevitably going to be issues of greed, corruption and all the evils that come with capitalism. The Coen Brothers get that.However, they also get that it\u2019s not as simple as tarnishing the entire works of Hollywood with one brush. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}