1. Blood Simple (1984) The Coen Brothers

2. Blood Simple (1984) Cast The Coen Brothers

4. Blood Simple (1984) The Coen Brothers

5. Coen Motifs:  Howling Fat Men: Loren Visser, knifed to the windowsill in Abby’s apartment  Blustery Titans: Marty bossing people around (though not quite a titan)  Vomiting: Marty (kicked in groin) and in a dream sequence  Violence: Visser kills Marty; Ray shovels Marty; Visser shoots Ray; Abby puts a knife in Visser’s hand, shoots him  Dreams: Ray’s dream of Marty  Peculiar Haircuts: none  Lost Hats: Visser loses his hat in Abby’s apartment The Coen Brothers From Tricia Cooke and William Preston Robertson. The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998: 16-23.