Homeric Heroes in Ethan and Joel Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998) and No Country for Old Men (2007).

This paper explores how the Homeric trope of the 'hero' appears in three films by the writer/directors Ethan and Joel Coen -The Hudsucker Proxy (1994),The Big Lebowski (1998) and No Country for Old Men (2007). It will identify the classical traits of hero and anti-hero, mapping them onto characters in these movies. The paper concludes by examining how the ways in which the Coen brothers' play with the notion of the 'hero' connects with recent thinking on culture and myth in the work of Graham Ward, William A. Dyrness and Robert N. Bellah. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]