The Man Who Wasn't There

Wow.

Yeah, I've never seen those, so I, I definitely wanna work backwards, and even see some of like their not so loved ones, like The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty.

I've never seen The Ladykillers.

Never seen those.

They also won Best Director for Barton Fink because that's how Mr. Polanski rolled that year.

They were back with the Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, which they also won Best Director for, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Man Who Wasn't There, which they also won Best Director for, The Lady Killers, and No Country for Old Men.

Although it should be pointed out, it's only Joel who wins Best Director in all three of those cases.

That's right.

Jacob is played by Billy Bob Thornton.

For the podcast, we've seen him in The Man Who Wasn't There, Love Actually, and Indecent Proposal.

And on my own, I've seen him in Dead Man, Tombstone, and Bad Santa.

And I've seen him in Armageddon and Monster's Ball.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Shrek, Monsters, Inc., Mulholland Drive, Memento, Amelie, Spirited Away, A Beautiful Mind, Donnie Darko, Ocean's Eleven, Training Day, The Royal Tenenbaums, Black Hawk Down, Moulin Rouge, Legally Blonde, The Fast and the Furious, Zoolander, The Others, Ghost World, AI, Pearl Harbor, Vanilla Sky, Rush Hour 2, Black Hawk Down.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider, The Mummy Returns, Hannibal, Jurassic Park 3, Planet of the Apes, American Pie 2, Bridget Jones Diary, Spy Kids, A Knight's Tale, Not Another Teen Movie, Wet Hot American Summer, Sexy Beast, Gosford Park, Monsters Ball, The Man Who Wasn't There, Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, had to mention that one, Atlantis, The Lost Empire, The Score Blow, Ali, The Pledge, Spy Games, Swordfish, Behind Enemy Lines, Evolution, Rat Race, Along Came a Spider, From Hell, Scary Movie 2, Serendipity, The Princess Diaries, Down to Earth, Joe Dirt, The Animal, Shallow Hal, Joyride, Final Fantasy, The Spirits, The Mexican Heartbreakers, Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back, Osmosis Jones, Cats and Dogs, Doctor Dolittle 2, Recess, School's Out, Ginger Snaps, 13 Ghosts, Bones, Valentine, Session 9, The Tailor of Panama, Don't Say a Word, Bandits, and a little movie called The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring.

Never heard of it.

It's funny, actually.

I mean, there's so many ghost stories, and our dude doesn't like original things, so we could have him pick any of those ghost stories.

Black and white movies from 2001, the Coen brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There, an incredible neo-noir.

That's right.

And visually gorgeous, if I remember.

They have made film after film in which blackmail and ransom are major plot devices.

Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Hail Caesar, The Man Who Wasn't There, Burn After Reading.

And secondary to that are things and people being stolen, like in No Country for Old Men or Raising Arizona or True Grit.

But no one is saying, ah, man, Burn After Reading is just Fargo, but instead of the Midwest, it's set in a gym and the Beltway.

On TV, he was in Twin Peaks, Crossing Jordan, and NCIS: Los Angeles.

He also appeared in a 3D movie called The Man Who Wasn't There.

His chicken movie was Hot Shots! Part Deux.

Charlie Sheen using a live chicken as a projectile.

She's one of the actors in the opening of that when they're doing his play.

Shortcuts, Almost Famous, and The Man Who Wasn't There.

The man who plays her husband, Walter, Richard Thomas, was John Boy on the Waltons back in the 70s.

Thomas is a TV guy, mostly, in fact, and has only been in 15 movies total, none of which came up around here before now.