3-5 pages, double spaced, typed, MLA formatting
DUE: Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 AT THE START OF CLASS.
A Very Important Thing that your paper MUST include:
AFTER YOUR CONCLUSION PARAGRAPH YOU MUST PUT YOUR THESIS STATEMENT AT THE VERY END OF YOUR ESSAY, LABELED AND PRINTED AS A SEPARATE PARAGRAPH.
It has been said that the Coen Brothers always make the same film. Which film (that we have seen in class) do you think is the Coen Brothers' best one in terms of how well they present the CBAP (Coen Brothers' Artistic Paradigm)? You must present a coherent criteria to judge the films and still develop an excellent and detailed thesis statement that goes far beyond something lame like: “Fargo is the Coen Brothers' best film because it presents the CBAP most effectively.”
Because of its constant white, snowy backgrounds and scenes, Fargo has been called a White film noir. This obviously contradictory statement accurately sums up a film that doesn't have the dark look or expressionistic camera angles normally associated with film noir (think Down by Law). Yet, in spite of this, the white-ness of the film is oppressive and sinister as anything else we have viewed. Keeping the contradictory nature of Fargo in mind, explain the ways (and whys!) that the Coen Brothers invoke a stereotype and then undercut it.
Your own topic that has been approved by me in advance of the due date. This approval occurs (or is denied) when you present a written thesis statement to me.
