Potsy Ponciroli
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When the film sits firmly in the comedy camp, it excels — the humour is dry, but laugh-out-loud funny, with the nuances of local island life and the characters who inhabit it setting up for a quirky take on the police procedural in the vein of Fargo (1996).
All the markers of a classic Coen Brothers’ crime comedy are there in Potsy Ponciroli’s Greedy People — the third film released this year that promises but never quite manages to recreate the gut-busting horrors and pleasures of Ethan and Joel Coen’s 1996 film Fargo.
At the end of Fargo, Frances McDormand’s Marge Gunderson remarks, “There’s more to life than a little money, you know? Don’t you know that? And here you are, and it’s a beautiful day.” It is a brilliant little speech, a sign that Marge was unfazed by the ridiculous scheme she uncovered. In Greedy People, a film where everyone—including the filmmakers—needs someone like Marge on their shoulder, her speech can feel like a constant refrain.
He also starred in other films like “Get Shorty,” “In The Loop'' and “All The King's Men.”
When Nelson appeared as the singing cowboy dressing in gleaming white as the title character in the Coen Brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” there was a “Bronco Billy” vibe that came with the role, referencing the 1980 Clint Eastwood Wild West comedy.
Old Henry opens with Henry's narration, and it's hard not to recall Nelson in as Buster Scruggs in the opening segment of Joel and Ethan Coen's anthology Western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs , narrating with a cheerful bounce and twinkle and singing songs.
He has done variations on this role in films from “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” to “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” and the thing about it is that each time Nelson goes Full Hick, you don’t feel like he’s acting; you feel like he just is .
Tim Blake Nelson sheds the “aww shucks” camp that helped him steal every scene in the Coen Brothers’ Oh Brother, Where Art Thou and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs to star as the titular Henry here.
The last time most of us saw Tim Blake Nelson in the saddle, he was the warblin’ deadeye from the title of the Coen brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” a jovial caricature of the philosophizing cowboy (and the filmmakers’ own reputation for cruelly funny storytelling).
A couple of years ago, Nelson was unforgettable singing “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” in one of the vignettes of the Coen brothers’ anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which had its world premiere in Venice before going on to get an Oscar nomination for that very song.