![]() A Serious Man, for example, transfers The Book of Job to the Minnesota suburbs. How, then, can one adapt these tales into a modern setting in which nihilism runs rampant?Īmong the best equipped to answer this question are the Coen brothers, who have spent the better of the last two decades adapting classical source material, and continue to do so as The Tragedy of Macbeth recently saw its festival premiere. And in the case of the two aforementioned, that lesson, simply put, is that everything happens for a reason. ![]() Indeed, traditional texts were created, largely, to teach us something. ![]() When we look at popular, universal texts like the Bible and the Odyssey, we often do so in search of guidance. ![]()
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