{4.5\/5} “I was a ghost. I didn’t see anyone. No one saw me. I was the barber.”<\/p>\n
Ed is a quiet, serious man who works as a barber in his brother-in-law Frank’s shop. He’s married to Doris, who works for Big Dave at a department store. Ed thinks Doris and Big Dave might be having an affair. He blackmails Big Dave into giving him $10 000 which he gives to a man he just met to invest in a dry cleaning business. But things don’t go according to plan — Big Dave finds out that it’s Ed who blackmailed him.<\/p>\n
The Man Who Wasn’t There<\/strong> was released in 2001.<\/p>\n It’s mostly serious — the humour is even more low key than in Bottle Rocket<\/strong><\/a>. The scene where the cops inform Ed that his wife has been arrested is priceless.<\/p>\n Ed is a terrific character, played to perfection by Billy Bob Thornton.<\/p>\n I liked it quite a bit.<\/p>\n The music is melancholic. Carter Burwell (The Hudsucker Proxy<\/strong><\/a>) wrote the original music, plus there’s some Beethoven.<\/p>\n Billy Bob Thornton (The Astronaut Farmer<\/strong>) plays Ed and Frances McDormand (Moonrise Kingdom<\/strong><\/a>) plays Doris.<\/p>\n Michael Badalucco (O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/strong>) plays Frank and James Gandolfini (Enough Said<\/strong><\/a>) plays Big Dave. Richard Jenkins (Jack Reacher<\/strong><\/a>) plays Ed’s friend Walter and Scarlett Johansson (Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/strong><\/a>) plays Walter’s daughter Birdy. Tony Shalhoub (the TV show Monk<\/strong>) plays Freddy the lawyer.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, aka the Coen brothers (The Hudsucker Proxy<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “I was a ghost. I didn’t see anyone. No one saw me. I was the barber.” Ed is a quiet, serious man who works as a barber in his brother-in-law Frank’s shop. He’s married to Doris, who works for Big Dave at a department store. Ed thinks Doris and Big Dave might be having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}