Breakfast of Champions

[Peter Kilander]

Yoshie:
>Judging by his past works such as _Welcome to L.A._ (1977), _Choose Me_
>(1984), _Trouble in Mind_ (1985), and  _The Moderns_ (1988), I don't think
>that Alan Rudolph was a good choice for a movie based on a Vonnegut novel.
>Have you seen them?  Rudolph is not a satirist.  His tone is (or at least
>was in the aforementioned films) ironic, evocative, and wistfully romantic,
>and his style deliberately flat.
>
>_Breakfast of Champions_, if it had to be made into a film, should have
>been directed by, say, Robert Altman 25 years ago.

I agree. My film knowledge is scanty, but I believe the Cohen brothers would
do a good job with Breakfast of Champions. The fact that the story centers
on a car salesman reminds of William Macy in _Fargo_. One of my favorite
protagonists is the ultra-sincere sheriff of that movie.