454. The Coen Brothers Brothers: The Tragedy of Macbeth

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Coen Brother (?) Brothers is back, baby! We take a break from our normal deep dive Ander’s Sons to jump back to the podcast series that made it all happen. This time to cover the recent release by Joel Coen, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. Get ready for some old (high) school literature class because it’s about to get SHAKESPEABEAN up in here! Listen to the sound and fury now. Features: Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:00.0	How now you secret black and midnight hags, welcome to a tale told by an idiot's full
0:28.8	of sound and fury signifying the return of Cohen brothers brothers I'm one of the brothers
0:34.9	Michael swan and I'm a that person the other brother the other brother cuz from another
0:42.4	my beloved cousin oh yeah they call each other cousin that's yeah that's true that's true
0:48.8	we're talking Shakespeare we're talking Shakespeare specifically the tragedy of Macbeth as done by
0:57.1	Joel Cohen which I guess means only one of us should talk yes Ethan yeah whoever was the
1:04.2	Ethan guys now we have to decide who's Ethan and who who's Joel that's true question for the
1:08.8	audience in your head right now when you think of Ethan Cohen which one is it do you think of
1:14.5	abers or do you think of the swammerang but that's right we are bringing back Cohen brothers brothers
1:20.1	temporarily we thought it did behooves us to covereth vine all right I'm losing it but uh yeah
1:28.9	we're talking the tragedy of Macbeth yeah adapted to the screen and directed by Joel Cohen go
1:35.2	ahead welcome back into the seat Cohen brothers brothers right that's pretty cool new intro
1:40.1	I mean it's not new but feels new it's I just wanted to take a moment say like cool that we do
1:46.0	it is we're very cool we thought we were done when we did what was the final
1:52.9	hugs no no before that a hail Caesar I thought we were done when we did a hail Caesar
1:58.0	then buster scrugs landed in our laps and we we did that and now we've decided to go ahead even
2:04.2	though only one of the brothers is involved because this really does feel coony yeah and we'll get
2:10.4	to that we'll get to why but there's some stuff we have foregone like suburban crime wave and
2:16.3	stuff because they were not directed producers and it it may have had a Cohen vibe but it wasn't
2:21.8	really part of their canon even though Ethan was not directly involved this has your Francis
2:26.4	McDormand in it it has the kind of care around it that a Cohen thing usually has the kind of
2:32.0	minimalist feel so we thought this was worthwhile uh and we we do too and as always we're covering
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