History Film / BartonFink

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Fink#Jack_Lipnick]]Jack Lipnick based on Golden Age studio executives (Jack Warner, Louis B.Mayer, etc).

** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Fink#Jack_LipnickJack Lipnick based on Golden Age studio executives (Jack Warner, Louis B.Mayer, etc).

** Jack Lipnick based on Golden Age studio executives (Jack Warner, Samuel Goldwyn, etc).

** Not to mention that it's Barton' s first movie, around the same time as Orson Welles.

** Not to mention that it's Barton' s first movie (around the same time as [[Orson Welles]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech

* TraumaCongaLine: First, Barton gets a little writer's block. Then he discovers that his idol is a drunken, empty shell of a man. Then [[spoiler:he wakes up with their mutual muse lying dead beside him in bed]]. Then [[spoiler:he discovers that his only friend is a homicidal maniac]]. Then [[spoiler:the homicidal maniac returns and kills his fallen idol and ''the entire building catches fire'' and it is also implied [[SelfMadeOrphan his folks were murdered due to Barton telling Mundt to stay with them]]]], at which point his employer angrily dismisses his script and tells him the studio will never produce anything he writes until he grows up a little, forcing Barton to remain in a contract that will never gain him the recognition and artistic freedom he craves. One hell of a route from A to B, there.

* TraumaCongaLine: First, Barton gets a little writer's block. Then he discovers that his idol is a drunken, empty shell of a man. Then [[spoiler:he wakes up with their mutual muse lying dead beside him in bed]]. Then [[spoiler:he discovers that his only friend is a homicidal maniac]]. Then [[spoiler:the homicidal maniac returns and kills his fallen idol and ''the entire building catches fire'' and it is also implied [[SelfMadeOrphan his folks were murdered due to Barton telling Mundt to stay with them]]]], at which point he loses his job. One hell of a route from A to B, there.
** He doesn't lose his job he is still under contract. The studio owns everything he will ever make, but they will never produce them.

Getting a bad case of Writer's Block, he meets Charlie Meadows, an insurance salesman, "W. P. Mayhew" ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed William Faulkner]]), his mistress, an [[LargeHam excitable]] producer, and a cast of others.

A 1991 film by Creator/TheCoenBrothers, often considered one of their best. Barton Fink is a playwright who has gotten a contract to write movies. The [[LargeHam enthusiastic]] studio executive tells him to write a wrestling picture.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted -- the detectives make it plain that they don't like Barton for being Jewish.

Notable for earning three awards at Cannes, it completely [[GenreBusting defies any sort of genre,]] being somewhat of a comedy-FilmNoir-mystery-horror-drama.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The picture is acted out in real life.]]
* GenreBusting: As stated above.

* LouisCypher: [[spoiler:Charlie Meadows]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The film is set in 1941. For no particular reason, the anti-Semitic detectives are given a German and an Italian name (Deutsch and Mastrionotti) to evoke the Axis powers, and [[spoiler:Charlie/Mundt]] says "Heil Hitler" before [[spoiler:killing one of them]]. However, WordOfGod says this is really just [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic symbolism for symbolism's (scary) sake]], not necessarily with a real message attached.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Barton makes a big deal about how his work deals with the plights of the common man, yet when Charlie tries talking to him about his own experiences as a common man, Barton insists on talking over him about how own work.

* TraumaCongaLine: First, Barton gets a little writer's block. Then he discovers that his idol is a drunken, empty shell of a man. Then [[spoiler:he wakes up with their mutual muse lying dead beside him in bed]]. Then [[spoiler:he discovers that his only friend is a homicidal maniac]]. Then [[spoiler:the homicidal maniac returns and kills his fallen idol and ''the entire building catches fire'' and it is also implied his folks were murdred]], at which point he loses his job. One hell of a route from A to B, there.

*** Missed the best part. His entire family [[spoiler:is dead, [[SelfMadeOrphan because he told Mundt to stay with them]]]].

* AlasPoorYorick: [[spoiler: a possible case, depending on the contents of the box.]]
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: John Goodman]]

* {{Wide-Eyed Idealist}}: Barton and his belief in the common man.

* WritersBlock: The movie is about a writer suffering from writer's block, written while the Coens themselves were having difficulty with Miller's Crossing.

A 1991 film by TheCoenBrothers, often considered one of their best. Barton Fink is a playwright who has gotten a contract to write movies. The [[LargeHam enthusiastic]] studio executive tells him to write a wrestling picture.