{"id":11364,"date":"2009-10-02T07:50:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11364"},"modified":"2009-10-02T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T16:20:10","slug":"a-serious-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11364","title":{"rendered":"A Serious Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

AP reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Joel and Ethan Coen took the title of their latest film, "A Serious Man," from the dialogue they created for the characters in their surreal, darkly affectionate look at a Midwest Jewish community.<\/p>\n

In one scene, a rabbi giving a eulogy refers to the deceased as a serious man. Later, the Coens’ desperate hero calls himself a serious man as he tries to gain an audience with his synagogue’s elusive senior rabbi.<\/p>\n

The phrase is the brothers’ take on the Yiddish word mensch, an upright man, someone of substance and decency.<\/p>\n

Read more: http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2009\/10\/01\/entertainment\/e050338D10.DTL#ixzz0SnAmmHLi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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