![]() ![]() Barton escapes the blaze as Charlie disappears back into his burning room. As Fink’s descent into hell is complete, the hotel where he is staying catches fire, and Charlie shoots the detectives who are investigating Audrey’s murder. In the end, Fink overcomes his writer’s block and is able to finish his wrestling picture, which turns out to echo his New York play. Events turn from bad to bizarre: Mayhew’s secretary and lover, Audrey Taylor (Judy Davis), is revealed to have authored the great writer’s books in attempting to help Fink, Audrey seduces him only to be later discovered dead in his hotel room Charlie helps Barton dispose of Audrey’s body amiable common man Charlie turns out to be a homicidal maniac who possibly murdered Audrey and Charlie entrusts Barton with a box that may well contain Audrey’s head. Fink, however, finds himself unable to make progress on the wrestling picture he’s supposed to be writing. Mayhew (John Mahoney), whom Fink considers to be the ‘finest novelist’ of their generation. On arriving in Los Angeles, he forms a friendship with his next-door neighbor and common man Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), and another writer, W. ![]() The Coen brothers’ Barton Fink (1991) is the story of a New York writer who aspires to create a new, living theater about the ‘common man’ and who sees it as his job ‘to make a difference.’ The year is 1941, and on the back of the success of his first play, Fink (John Turturro) is lured into a Faustian bargain to go to Hollywood and write for the movies. ![]()
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