{"id":6538,"date":"2024-02-24T03:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2024\/02\/24\/drive-story-through-comedy-with-drive-away-dolls\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T03:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:05:25","slug":"drive-story-through-comedy-with-drive-away-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2024\/02\/24\/drive-story-through-comedy-with-drive-away-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive Story Through Comedy With &#8216;Drive-Away Dolls&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/media-library\/drive-story-through-comedy-with-drive-away-dolls.jpg?id=51551657&amp;width=1245&amp;height=700&amp;coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C1\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Just in time for the end of <em><a data-linked-post=\"2666349250\" href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/fargo-tv-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fargo<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s phenomenal fifth season (some weeks later, sure, but we miss it so much) we&#8217;re graced with a new Coen Brother slapstick crime caper with <em>Dirve-Away Dolls. <\/em>Notably Coen Brother singular, this new entry in the beloved fraternal auteurs is simply Ethan, this time around with his wife Tricia Cooke. <\/p>\n<p>Here at No Film School we love a quick tuition-free film lesson, particularly if the Coen namesake is attached.  Below, check out Focus Feature&#8217;s 60-second film school where Coen and Cooke drop a quicky on having fun with comedy films and how to keep your story moving with fun moments. <\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Drive-Away Dolls&#8217; Ethan Coen &amp; Tricia Cooke On Driving A Story Through Comedy | 60 Second Film School<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"6763c148dd2e6ee0fe77c2fd4f628987\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WV5N_ekBEbg?rel=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Short but dense, this 60 seconds of comedy knowledge provides a lot of fun and interesting tidbits inside the mind of Coen and Cooke and their approach to <em>Drive-Away Dolls<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>My biggest takeaways were the joy of having fun for fun&#8217;s sake and not being afraid of a little goofy whimsey. One, a good comedy should always be fun (in my humble opinion), and two, their note on keeping the pace and story going in interesting ways I feel like can be applied to any genre. <\/p>\n<p>Also, we love an intentionally goofy edit transition. If you&#8217;re reading this George Lucas (Amy Pascal?), star wipe in the next <em>Star Wars, <\/em>please. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Catch <\/em>Drive-Away Dolls <em>in theaters now. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Author: Grant Vance<br \/>\nThis article comes from <i>No Film School<\/i> and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/drive-away-dolls-lesson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>read on the original site.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the end of Fargo&#8216;s phenomenal fifth season (some weeks later, sure, but we miss it so much) we&#8217;re graced with a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[38,37,43,42,39,40,44,41,36],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-news","tag-editing","tag-film","tag-guide","tag-info","tag-news","tag-tips","tag-topics","tag-tricks","tag-video"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Brokenmount","author_link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/author\/sysop\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/category\/video-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Video and Film News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Just in time for the end of Fargo&#8216;s phenomenal fifth season (some weeks later, sure, but we miss it so much) we&#8217;re graced with a&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}