Word: archers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chair, Archer Daniels Midland...
...Archer F. Moze...
...moves to elect a complete imbecile president so Wall Street will panic, and the stock will plunge. Barnes proves himself more than worthy, but when his idiocy becomes golden, Mussberger and the board are forced to plot his fall from power by manipulating the brilliant but friendless journalist spy Archer...
...Pulitzer Prize winner, Archer goes from holding Barnes in utter contempt for his inane renditions of Muncie Business College fight songs, to wanting him for his off-the-cuff stereotypes of 1950's career girls. That stupid remarks just happen to encapsulate her real character is funny for a moment, but no one wants her to be undone by it. Tragically, for the audience as well as for Leigh, Archer never reacquires her edge or her interest. She ends up a poster pin-up waiting for her man to show some courage while cheers him on from backstage. The transformation...
With the life sucked out of the best characters, the Coens set to work on sabotaging the storyline. Connections become more tenuous, and punchy dialogue withers into tired speeches. The rapid pace that helped disguise substantive flaws earlier on falls apart as Barnes' success plummets, and he and Archer face unemployment again. The Coens dwell on the demise as if to make a tragic and appear inevitable, but since this is supposed to be a comedy, no one has the patience for a moving denouement. The Coens drag us through it anyway. They have foreshadowed the final scenes...