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Coen Brothers Tracking the Economy?

Last year's Academy Award Winner No Country for Old Men was released November 21, 2007. This was about two months after the top of the SPX but well after the municipal bond market had turned south.  IT was the story of a brutal killer attempting to recover money from a drug deal gone bad. Subsequently the S & P dropped 20%, EMerging countries like BRIC dropped 30%, oil peaked and then plummeted $45 sugggesting a much weaker economy ahead.  The social mood had aligned with the bad news.

burn After Reading   will be released Sept 12, 2008. THis one is a comedy but as always with the Coens, nothign is as it seems. Seasonally financial markets tend to bottom in October. Will this turn to a lighter side although with darker tones, fortell a market recovery?  Are people ready to laugh after so much bad news, housing, high gas prices, etc?

Meanwile I will be watching True Blood tonite to see just how mainstream HBO;s vampoiers really are. Socionomics certainly has its twists and turns  regarding social mood this fall.   

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2 responses to “Coen Brothers Tracking the Economy?”

  1. Yovela Rico Avatar
    Yovela Rico

    I found No country for old men very dark. I did not get to see it as soon as it came out but, watched it a few months after. I am however, looking forward to watching Burn After Reading. I’m struggling with gas prices, tuition and mortgage just like the rest of us and I am ready to laugh but, don’t feel that this recession hasreached any type of bottom. You mentioned that Valero stocks fell. This is a sign of more increases to come. I’m watching True Blood right now and am not exactly enjoying it. The acting seems poor and the plot is a bit dull. I like the fact that the main character can read peoples minds, it’s reassuring. OK, I just saw her get beat. This reminds me of the election. I was a Delgate for the Democratic Convention and I saw friends turn against eachother because of their presidential choices. Is there any symbolism with the small town nature of the show?

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  2. Dennis Elam Avatar
    Dennis Elam

    I also waited to rent No Country, and like The UnForgiven, it was an incfredibly dark show. Million Dollar Baby was the same way especially comapared to the movie that should have won, The Aviator that year. But this is all reflective of the fact that social mood dictates what is happening, not the other way around.
    good quesiton, why did they set True Blood in rural LA and not, as they usually do, in the middle of a big city which reflects the actual life of the people that write such shows. We will be reflecting on that, this is HBO which tends to go a different route. MOst alien sightings seem to happen on rural roads in Georgia after midnight, perhaps that is part of it.
    Actually I found the writers to be working over time, the transgender black cook, the attitude of the female who quits her job, the psychic, the couple that take literal advantage of the vampire, the curiosity of grandma, the brother who is already caught up in a murder, the bar owner trying to protect the psychic, from that standpoint it is like any serial that constructs multi0ple plot lines to lure the viewer back every week. The theme seems to be comparing vampires with any minority group, that seems a stretch. Did you watch the one hour prequel on the background of how this legend began and treatment in previous movies?
    Now how popular will the series become, we shall see. When GE owned NBC and wanted to promote the new color television, then the new technology, it produced Bonanza which aired on the big viewing night Sunday. Indeed it was a social thing to be invited to someone’shose that owned a $400 color tv to watch bonanza. THe show was about a west that never was, Father Knows Best set in the west, now we are watching vampires on sunday night, now is that social progress or what…..

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