Empire magazine’s website has listed what they consider to be the the 20 best micro-part characters from the Coen brothers oeuvre. Here’s are those 20…
1. Loren Visser (M Emmet Walsh), Blood Simple
2. Dot (Frances McDormand), Raising Arizona
3. Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), Raising Arizona
4. Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), Miller’s Crossing
5. Tic Tac (Al Mancini), Miller’s Crossing
6. Jack Lipnick (Michael Lerner), Barton Fink
7. W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), Barton Fink
8. Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), The Hudsucker Proxy
9. Buzz (Jim True-Frost), The Hudsucker Proxy
10. Mike Yanagita (Steve Park), Fargo
11. Officer Lou (Bruce Lohene), Fargo
12. Marty (Jack Keller), The Big Lebowski
13. Penny Wharvey McGill (Holly Hunter), O Brother, Where Art Thou?
14. Freddy Reidenschneider (Tony Shalhoub), The Man Who Wasn’t There
15. Gus Petch (Cedric the Entertainer), Intolerable Cruelty
16. Wheezy Joe (Irwin Keyes), Intolerable Cruelty
17. Deputy Wendell (Garret Dillahunt), No Country For Old Men
18. Gas Station Proprietor (Gene Jones), No Country For Old Men
19. CIA Superior (J.K. Simmons), Burn After Reading
20. Sy Abelman (Fred Melamed), A Serious Man
Nice to see a couple of entries from Intolerable Cruelty which I still think is massively underrated suffering, as it does, from the weight of Coen quality prior to it.
What do you think? Has anyone been missed? Only ONE from The Big Lebowski? I would have Knox Harrington (David Thewlis) in there right away! And no Jesus Quintana (John Turturro), surely Jesus’ part is small enough to make this list? None from The Ladykillers? Let’s talk…
