I think it's because it's half Western and half satire of Western, and it's like people can't wrap their minds around a Coen film that isn't in ironic quotation marks from beginning to end.
I love Radford's MoV and am glad you do as well, as it seems like hardly anyone's seen it. I gave a paper on it at Pop Culture Association a few years back, not long after it came out, and no one showed up for our panel. (Granted, a porn panel and a Lord of the Rings panel were both going on at the same time.)
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Date: 2011-01-05 03:44 am (UTC)I think it's because it's half Western and half satire of Western, and it's like people can't wrap their minds around a Coen film that isn't in ironic quotation marks from beginning to end.
I love Radford's MoV and am glad you do as well, as it seems like hardly anyone's seen it. I gave a paper on it at Pop Culture Association a few years back, not long after it came out, and no one showed up for our panel. (Granted, a porn panel and a Lord of the Rings panel were both going on at the same time.)