The Coen Brothers

The Coen Brothers, Joel an Ethan have worked as a team, writing, producing, directing and editing films since the early 80's. They are always concerned with the way their films look, making each one have a distinct cinematic texture. 

In the film Fargo 1996, the colour and atmosphere of the film is shown from the snowy lands of Minnesota. With a high concern of the way the films looked, this was took into the design of the posters that went along side them, they too had to reflect the mood and atmosphere, the Coen Brothers had worked hard to perfect. The best known poster is Fargo. As the film is based around violence but with a sense of warmth, the poster portrays death in the medium of cross-stitching, which I believe is an extremely clever way of showing the viewer the essence of the story. Using cross-stitch, a very homely, something your mother or grand-mother teaches you at a young age, sat in front of a fire place, this technique gives you this feeling, yet the content of the cross-stitch is of a murder, something in contrast, is very unsettling and a horrid subject.