With Linda looking to get a series of expensive plastic surgeries, she and Chad hatch a plan to contact Cox and inform him they’ll hand over the disk for a hefty “reward.” When the disk ends up on the floor of a gym locker room, gym employees Chad (Brad Pitt) and Linda (Frances McDormand) open it up and assume there is a lot of classified info (“secret CIA shit,” as Chad calls it) that someone would want to keep secret.
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(Sidebar: Before the movie came out, press reps cheekily sent me the trailer on an unmarked CD-R, similar to the one in the movie.) This infuriates his wife (Tilda Swinton), who is not only cheating on him with a married ex-treasury agent (George Clooney), but is preparing to divorce him by going through his financial records and other personal files (including his memoir passages) and copying it onto a CD-R. Fresh from winning multiple Oscars (including Best Picture) for their nail-biting 2007 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s neo-noir novel No Country for Old Men, the Coens followed up with a jet-black comedy-a paranoid farce filled with, you know, morons.Īfter losing a promotion for having “a drinking problem,” the fed-up, foul-mouthed Cox quits his job so he can stay home and write a memoir (he pronounces it “mem- moi ”).
Before he shoots a guy and literally splits said guy’s head open with a small axe, ex-CIA analyst Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) lets the guy know exactly how he feels about him and society in general: “You represent the idiocy of today… You’re one of the morons I’ve been fighting my whole life-my whole fucking life!” This figurative and literal bit of blunt brutality happens at the end of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, which came out 15 years ago this month.
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