THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI MUSIC MOVIE
Of the many imperfect-to-straight-up-evil lawmen Harrelson has embodied in recent years, Chief Willoughby is the most compelling.īut this is McDormand's movie all the way, and a fascinating bookend to Fargo. In Billboards, Rockwell plays a bigoted patrolman who has managed to hold onto his badge only through the mercy (and frankly, negligence) of Harrelson's relatively even-tempered police chief. McDonagh has a particular yen for casting Sam Rockwell - whom I saw in the Broadway production of A Behanding in Spokane, opposite Christopher Walken, Anthony Mackie, and Zoe Kazan - as loquacious idiots. The Billboards' cast, a murderer's row of great character actors who've played murderers, reunites several whom McDonagh has used before: Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Peter Dinklage.
The greatest trick a showman can pull in 2017 is to try to make you pity a violent, racist cop. That sympathy is what keeps McDonagh's film consistently surprising - and what may keep some viewers from embracing it. More than that, Three Billboards reflects a greater sympathy for its broken characters than does Fargo or a number of other well-loved Coen Brothers crime capers.
But with the new Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, his third and best feature, he's finally begun to grapple with the violence of American life in a way that doesn't feel like the work of a tourist. Only once McDonagh started telling stories set in America - the 2010 play A Behanding in Spokane, the 2012 film Seven Psychopaths - did his rocket-like ascent seem to level off. When McDonagh started dabbling in film a few years later, his debut short Six Shooter won an Oscar right out of the gate. At the age of 27, he became the first dramatist since Shakespeare to have four shows running simultaneously in London. Four of McDonagh caustic tragicomedies, all set in rural Ireland, premiered in 1996-7. At that same time, Martin McDonagh was fast establishing himself as the savant terrible of the Irish and English stage, a brash and brilliant playwright who was more Noel Gallagher than Noel Coward - and more like a long-lost Coen Brother than either. It was the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven when Frances McDormand collected her Academy Award for playing Marge Gunderson, the lovable pregnant cop heroine of Fargo. Swing and a Diss: Mildred (Frances McDormand) and Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) discuss Mildred's Burma-Shave-inspired quest for justice in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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