175: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Our journey through some of the wackier Coen Brothers capers continues this week as we take on The Hudsucker Proxy, a star-studded, over-the-top affair that is equal parts His Girl Friday and Roadrunner cartoon, and is every bit as ungainly as that description makes it sound.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 175: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
(00:00:20) - Intro.
(00:01:28) - Our movie this week: The Hudsucker Proxy!
(00:10:49) - How this movie got made, and discussion of its ill box office fortunes.
(00:25:03) - Break!
(00:25:26) - We're back, and it's time to tell the tale of Norville Barnes.
(00:35:04) - Everything's going great at Hudsucker Industries, until it isn't.
(00:40:04) - Let's hatch a stock scam.
(00:44:22) - Mailroom mayhem, and the introduction of the Blue Letter.
(00:57:17) - A perfect patsy is born, but one ace reporter smells a bunko scam.
(01:05:20) - A fabricated meet-cute at the diner, and Amy becomes a Muncie gal.
(01:10:20) - Taking a letter, and the fancy dress ball.
(01:21:02) - The dawn of the extruded plastic dingus.
(01:28:29) - The stock scam is in shambles, and Norville is tripping on his own dingus.
(01:32:20) - Norville's dancing dreams, and the downfall.
(01:42:25) - Long way down (one more thing).
(01:54:14) - The epilogue, and our final thoughts.
(02:02:13) - Our film for next week is a killer one: Raising Arizona!
(02:03:48) - Outro.