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2010’s Top 10: Repeat Offenders in the Coen Bros. and Jeff Bridges

Rooster Cogburn won’t “overtake” Jeffrey Lebowski as Jeff Bridges’ best Coen Bros’ character, and perhaps Bridges didn’t outdo the original John Wayne perf, but unless you include McDormand’s Marge Gunderson character from Fargo, you couldn’t find a more classic good guy role archetype in the Coen Bros archives. Bridges lays on the charm really thick with this half drunk, half white knight hard living U.S marshal, and if Bridges hadn’t won for Best Actor at the Oscars last year he’d certainly be in the running this year.
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3. Coen Bros. and Jeff Bridges

Rooster Cogburn won’t “overtake” Jeffrey Lebowski as Jeff Bridges’ best Coen Bros’ character, and perhaps Bridges didn’t outdo the original John Wayne perf, but unless you include McDormand’s Marge Gunderson character from Fargo, you couldn’t find a more classic good guy role archetype in the Coen Bros archives. Bridges lays on the charm really thick with this half drunk, half white knight hard living U.S marshal, and if Bridges hadn’t won for Best Actor at the Oscars last year he’d certainly be in the running this year.

 

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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