What Your Favorite Coen Bros. Character Says About You

Are you more of a Barton Fink or a Marge Gunderson?

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Today marks the official release of the Coen brothers' 16th film. They're American masters, two of the greatest artists working in any art form today. Even if their latest, Inside Llewyn Davis, were a brick (and isn't; it's excellent), their status would still be unimpeachable. Let's talk titles: Miller's Crossing. Barton FinkFargo. The Big Lebowski. No Country for Old Men. Those are all universally regarded as classics, to say nothing of smaller efforts that deserve props, like A Serious Man.

There isn't one thing the Coens do poorly (unless you place a high value on having a sunny outlook on life). They operate at such a high level of excellence, you could begin talking about what makes their movies work with just about anything. Cinematography. Editing. Narrative control. Subtext. But let's talk about characters. The Coens have given us so many. What does your favorite Coen brothers character say about you? 

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Marge Gunderson in Fargo (1996)

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Llewyn Davis in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

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Tom Reagan in Miller's Crossing (1990)

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Maude Lebowski in The Big Lebowski (1998)

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Norville Barnes in The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

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Loren Visser in Blood Simple (1984)

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Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski (1998)

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H.I. McDunnough in Raising Arizona (1987)

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Barton Fink in Barton Fink (1991)

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Big Dave Brewster in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

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Chad Feldheimer in Burn After Reading (2008)

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Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men (2007)

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Ulysses Everett McGill in O' Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)

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Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr, Ph. D in The Ladykillers (2004)

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Charlie Meadows in Barton Fink (1991)

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Larry Gopnik in A Serious Man (2009)

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The Dude in The Big Lebowski (1998)

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