How the Coen Brothers Introduced 10 Classic Secondary Characters

The Coen Brothers‘ ability to create amazing, ultra-memorable secondary characters with only a few lines of writing is something that all screenwriters can learn from. Consider the giant sea of utterly forgettable characters you’ve seen on-screen in your lifetime. Characters that had pages and pages and pages devoted to them, yet left you feeling like you’d just chewed on a bucket of plastic. The contrast between these identikit characters, and the exceptional creations birthed by the Coens in THE BIG

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