Fink slowly realizes Meadows' hidden agenda, while finding himself out of favor with his boss at the film studio. Shortly after, two police detectives inform Fink that Meadows is actually wanted serial killer Karl Mundt, who typically decapitates his victims. After Taylor is murdered in Fink's bedroom, a traumatized Fink becomes increasingly emotionally dependent on Meadows. Fink finds a love interest in Audrey Taylor, Mayhew's personal secretary, long-term mistress, and the ghost writer behind most of Mayhews' recent works. Mayhew, but soon realizes that the man is an abusive alcoholic whose career has declined. Fink seeks writing advice from the experienced novelist and screenwriter W. He views Meadows as a typical working stiff, but he likes sharing drinks with him. Feeling lonely, Fink befriends his next door-neighbor, the insurance salesman Charlie Meadows. ![]() Fink becomes a long-term resident of the Hotel Earle, a decaying relic of the art deco era. His first assignment is to work on the script of a B-Movie about wrestling, though he does not even know the basics about this form of entertainment. ![]() Fink settles into the life of a hack writer, though he is not truly suited for the job. His agent instead convinces him to sign a lucrative screenwriting contract with Capitol Pictures, a Los Angeles-based film studio. He aspires to write more plays about the lives of the working class, as he finds them more interesting than the kings and the aristocracy. He wrote a play about the struggles and aspirations of common fishmongers. Barton Fink is a novice Jewish-American playwright, who has just had his first great success at the Broadway stage. The film opens in New York City during the year 1941. Does self-destructive Barton Fink have the stomach for confronting Hollywood's bitter reality? In the meantime, the suffocating stranglehold of artistic bankruptcy tightens. Now, holed up in the seedy, run-down Hotel Earle, before his silent Underwood typewriter, Barton comes to realise that his only hope to meet the deadline is to take inspiration from the burly insurance salesman living next door, Charlie Meadows, and the unassuming secretary, Audrey Taylor. But, instead of writing a story pivoting around the common man, Fink's first screenplay turns out to be a Wallace Beery wrestling movie, and, before he knows it, he develops a severe case of writer's block. ![]() In the wake of his early but undeniable theatrical success in Broadway, the idealistic author of the proletariat and self-pitying 1940s New York playwright, Barton Fink, finds himself lured to dazzling Hollywood to write scripts for eccentric Jack Lipnick's Capitol Pictures. A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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