"A Jew with a guitar"
When the old lady says " in the 60s we even had a Jew with a guitar", is this a reference to the not yet made "inside Llewen Davis"?
shareThat was my first thought as well. Pretty cool if it was.
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I thought she was referring to Bob Dylan. Llewyn Davis was not only fictional but inspired by David Van Ronk who was not Jewish.
He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
She was probably talking about Dylan. It could have been Paul Simon, Lou Reed or Leonard Cohen or others.
shareHer last words before leaving the sheriff's office in the end: "As long as everybody knows." "Everybody Knows": a Leonard Cohen song whose lyrics contain themes and motifs some of which one may also spot in this Coen Brothers movie.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows that the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows (*)
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied (G.H.Dorr's fantastic tales)
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died ("Otto is *beep* dead!")
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates (like Mr.Gudge... "Well, we're all human")
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows
(*) For the first stanza see the political subtext of the movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335245/board/thread/202196798?d=246004633#246004633
Everybody Knows is a great song as are most Leonard Cohen songs. Even if he spells his different from the Coen brothers.
shareMaybe the orange cat is the same one from that movie.
shareBob (Robert allen Zimmerman) Dylan
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