Burn After Reading

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Cast: John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, George Clooney and Brad Pitt

Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Writer: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen


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burn-after-reading-posterThis black comedy tells a story of Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich), a CIA analyst, who was fired from his job because of a drinking problem. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie (Tilda Swington), wants to divorce Osbourne and expects her lover, Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a womanizing Treasury agent, to leave his wife.

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Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading


Katie copies Osbourne’s personal and financial files off his computer to a diskette, including the memoir. The diskette falls out of her gym bag at a fitness center and was found by two employees of the gym, Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), an amiable goof, and Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand).

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They assume that it’s highly classified information from seeing the content of the memoir. Linda wants money for plastic surgery and she and Chad try to sell the disc back to Osbourne when they visit the Russian embassy. There will be a lot of misunderstanding and all roads lead to Osbourne’s house.


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Scenes from the movie

Online dating

Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) helps Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) sort through her prospects.

 

Got his number

Chad (Brad Pitt) is looking for some water and explaining how he knows this guy and how he was able to get his phone number.

 

 

Goat Cheese

Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) explains his problems with goat cheese in this clip

 

 

 

 

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  • The first Coen Brothers film not photographed by Roger Deakins since Miller’s Crossing (1990). He was unavailable, having committed to shoot Revolutionary Road (2008).
  • The opening film of the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
  • The poster for the film within the film, “Coming Up Daisy”, states it is based on a book by Cormac McCarthy (who really wrote the book “No Country For Old Men”, which the Coens’ previous film was based on), and that it was directed by Sam Raimi (a friend and collaborator of the Coens’).
  • The Coen brothers said they wrote the screenplay for this film while writing the screenplay for No Country for Old Men (2007). They would usually alternate every other day for each script.
  • Director Trademark: [Joel Coen] [kubrick] The sound emitted by the homing scanner from Bowman’s space pod in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is heard in the opening titles. Harry Pfarrer’s house number is 114, a nod to Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
  • The Coen Brothers wrote the character Osborne Cox with John Malkovich in mind. Brad Pitt’s character was also written with the actor in mind, inspired by a commercial for which he suffered a similar haircut and dye job. Indeed, the Coen Brothers noted at a Q&A session at the Venice Film Festival that all the leading characters were written for all the leading actors, with the exception of Tilda Swinton.
  • The film “Coming Up Daisy” was titled “Tell Me That Again!” in the script.
  • The word “fuck” is uttered 60 times, including 6 times in the first 2 minutes.
  • When Brad Pitt’s character (Chad) first meets Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) he recommends himself as Mr. Black - the same name as Pitt’s character from Meet Joe Black (1998).
  • When Harry’s wife is on the Seattle show, the show’s host interrupts her, saying that “Dermot Mulrooney” is coming on after the commercial break. ‘Dermot Mulrooney’ is the actor that plays “Star of ‘Coming Up Daisy’” in the actual film.
  • Frances McDormand utters the phrase “For Pete’s sake!” while in her car surrounded by CIA agents. She utters the same phrase in Fargo (1996) while interviewing William H. Macy’s character.
  • George Clooney’s third film under the direction of the Coen brothers following O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Intolerable Cruelty (2003). These three films have been dubbed the “trilogy of idiots” by the brothers.
  • Richard Jenkins’s third film under the direction of the Coen brothers following The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) and Intolerable Cruelty (2003).
  • Frances McDormand’s seventh film under the direction of the Coen brothers following Blood Simple. (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller’s Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996) and The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001). McDormand is Joel Coen’s wife.
  • It was George Clooney’s idea that his character wear a gold chain, thinking it would him look ordinary and a bit old-fashioned.
  • According to costume designer Mary Zophres, even cheap suits look good on Brad Pitt, thus for the scene where his character Chad wears a one she had to tailor a suit with a purposefully bad and ill-fitting cut and a horrid-looking wool tie.
  • Frances McDormand’s wig was inspired by those that couldn’t be seen around Washington during the Monica Lewinsky affair.
  • The film was mostly shot in and around New York because the Coen brothers wanted to stay near their families and because George Clooney was working on another project in the area.
  • The building that was online prescription cialis turned into the Hardbodies gym in the film was found in Paramus, New Jersey. The crew did such a good job with it that locals came in to inquire about membership.
  • George Clooney has stated he learns a lot from the Coen brothers for his career as a director and tries to have things running the same way they do on his films, even hiring their storyboard artist, J. Todd Anderson, on two of them.
  • George Clooney’s second film opposite Tilda Swinton following Michael Clayton (2007) the day before. While in this film they play lovers, in the other they are rivals.
  • When Harry goes to stay at Katie Cox’s house after she broke up with Osbourne, he brings along a purple “ramp”, a sex tool from the Liberator line. After they collide he leaves the house only taking the “ramp” away.
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  • SPOILER: In the movie, Brad Pitt’s character Chad Feldheimer was shot in the head, just like his character, Jesse James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). Both the characters were killed by Brad’s fellow crew members in Ocean’s Eleven (2001) - George Clooney and Casey Affleck respectively.

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