{"id":1029603,"date":"2016-12-29T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/?p=1029603"},"modified":"2020-03-21T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T19:07:15","slug":"tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/12\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html","title":{"rendered":"<i>Tuileries<\/i>: The Coen Brothers\u2019 Short Film About Steve Buscemi\u2019s Very Bad Day in the Paris Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"oc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x15uyv\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All around the world, each pub\u00adlic tran\u00adsit sys\u00adtem has its own rules. These come in both the offi\u00adcial and unspo\u00adken vari\u00adeties, the for\u00admer basi\u00adcal\u00adly con\u00adsis\u00adtent&nbsp;from place to place, and the lat\u00adter usu\u00adal\u00adly reflect\u00ading&nbsp;the mores of the soci\u00adety each sys\u00adtem serves. The accept\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty of talk\u00ading to one\u2019s fel\u00adlow pas\u00adsen\u00adgers, for instance, tends to vary, and in some coun\u00adtries even mak\u00ading eye con\u00adtact counts as a no-no. You cer\u00adtain\u00adly won\u2019t try it in Paris after wit\u00adness\u00ading&nbsp;the con\u00adse\u00adquences when Steve Busce\u00admi breaks that&nbsp;rule in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pfg4Mx1h2J8\"><em>Tui\u00adleries<\/em><\/a>, this&nbsp;short direct\u00aded by the Coen broth\u00aders that first appeared in the anthol\u00ado\u00adgy film&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ijxlav\"><em>Paris, je t\u2019aime<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParis is known as the City of Lights,\u201d Buscemi\u2019s appar\u00adent tourist reads in his guide\u00adbook&nbsp;as he sits await\u00ading a train in the sta\u00adtion from which the film takes its name. \u201cA city of cul\u00adture\u2026 of fine din\u00ading and mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent archi\u00adtec\u00adture. Paris is a city for lovers: lovers of art, lovers of his\u00adto\u00adry, lovers of food, lovers of\u2026 love.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"oc-center-da\">\n<div data-fuse=\"22871471544\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Though he&nbsp;seems to be hav\u00ading a some\u00adwhat less than love\u00adly time&nbsp;there, includ\u00ading&nbsp;get\u00adting&nbsp;pelt\u00aded by a pass\u00ading child\u2019s spit\u00adballs, he&nbsp;endures. Not five sec\u00adonds after read\u00ading about the no-eye-con\u00adtact cus\u00adtom on Paris\u2019 \u201crea\u00adson\u00adably clean\u201d sub\u00adway (a laugh line for any Parisian) does he look fate\u00adful\u00adly up, catch\u00ading the eye of a&nbsp;girl across the tracks and send\u00ading her boyfriend into a jeal\u00adous rage.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00adeign\u00aders have long felt as intim\u00adi\u00addat\u00aded by&nbsp;Paris as they\u2019ve admired it, a mix\u00adture of emo\u00adtions&nbsp;the Coen Broth\u00aders play on with\u00adout leav\u00ading the&nbsp;Tui\u00adleries plat\u00adform, as does Alexan\u00adder Payne in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mJG0lqukJTQ\">alto\u00adgeth\u00ader dif\u00adfer\u00adent expe\u00adri\u00adence<\/a> of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan alone in the City of Lights he essays at the end of <em>Paris, je t\u2019aime.&nbsp;<\/em>In the decade since the movie came out, we\u2019ve seen a few oth\u00ader city-themed anthol\u00ado\u00adgy films, includ\u00ading&nbsp;<em>New York<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>I Love You<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ijwcPY\"><em>Rio, Eu Te Amo<\/em><\/a>, and the unre\u00adlat\u00aded&nbsp;<em>Tokyo!<\/em>, albeit none with a sec\u00adond con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtion by the Coen broth\u00aders or a sec\u00adond&nbsp;appear\u00adance by Busce\u00admi \u2014 whose char\u00adac\u00adter may have yet to recov\u00ader from&nbsp;from his trip to Paris any\u00adway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relat\u00aded Con\u00adtent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/09\/how-the-coen-brothers-storyboarded-blood-simple-down-to-a-tee-1984.html\">How the Coen Broth\u00aders Sto\u00adry\u00adboard\u00aded <em>Blood Sim\u00adple<\/em> Down to a Tee (1984)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/02\/how-the-coen-brothers-put-their-remarkable-stamp-on-the-shot-reverse-shot.html\">How the Coen Broth\u00aders Put Their Remark\u00adable Stamp on the \u201cShot Reverse Shot,\u201d the Fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal Cin\u00ade\u00admat\u00adic Tech\u00adnique<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/02\/watch-the-coen-brothers-tv-commercials.html\">Watch the Coen Broth\u00aders\u2019 TV Com\u00admer\u00adcials: Swiss Cig\u00ada\u00adrettes, Gap Jeans, Tax\u00ades &amp; Clean Coal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/06\/iworld_cinemai_joel_and_ethan_coens_playful_homage_to_cinema_history.html\"><em>World Cin\u00ade\u00adma<\/em>: Joel and Ethan Coen\u2019s Play\u00adful Homage to Cin\u00ade\u00adma His\u00adto\u00adry<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/freemoviesonline\">4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Clas\u00adsics, Indies, Noir, West\u00aderns, Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries &amp; More<\/a>\n<p><em>Based in Seoul,&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/\">Col\u00adin Mar\u00adshall<\/a><\/em><em>&nbsp;writes and broad\u00adcasts&nbsp;on cities a<\/em><em>nd cul\u00adture.&nbsp;He\u2019s at work on a book about Los Ange\u00adles,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3591\">A Los Ange\u00adles Primer<\/a><em>, the video series&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/thecityincinema\">The City in Cin\u00ade\u00adma<\/a>,<em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>the&nbsp;crowd\u00adfund\u00aded jour\u00adnal\u00adism project&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.byline.com\/project\/23\">Where Is the City of the Future?<\/a><em>, and the<\/em>&nbsp;Los Ange\u00adles Review of Books\u2019&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lareviewofbooks.org\/category\/the-korea-blog\/\">Korea Blog<\/a><\/em>.<em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Fol\u00adlow him on Twit\u00adter at&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/colinmarshall\">@colinmarshall<\/a><\/em><em>&nbsp;or on&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinmarshallessayist\">Face\u00adboo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinmarshallessayist\">k<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 10px 0\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pfg4Mx1h2J8\u201d&gt;<\/div>\n<p>All around the world, each pub\u00adlic tran\u00adsit sys\u00adtem has its own rules. These come in both the offi\u00adcial and unspo\u00adken vari\u00adeties, the for\u00admer basi\u00adcal\u00adly con\u00adsis\u00adtent&nbsp;from place to place, and the lat\u00adter usu\u00adal\u00adly reflect\u00ading&nbsp;the mores of the soci\u00adety each sys\u00adtem serves. The accept\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty of talk\u00ading to one\u2019s fel\u00adlow pas\u00adsen\u00adgers, for instance, tends to vary, and in [\u2026]<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tuileries: The Coen Brothers&#039; Short Film About Steve Buscemi&#039;s Very Bad Day in the Paris Metro<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/12\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Colin Marshall\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Colin Marshall\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6876a344072c1e9dd894f4044f353ccf\"},\"headline\":\"Tuileries: The Coen Brothers\u2019 Short Film About Steve Buscemi\u2019s Very Bad Day in the Paris Metro\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-29T09:00:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-21T19:07:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html\"},\"wordCount\":493,\"commentCount\":5,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Film\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html\",\"name\":\"Tuileries: The Coen Brothers' Short Film About Steve Buscemi's Very Bad Day in the Paris Metro\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-29T09:00:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-21T19:07:15+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.openculture.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tuileries: The Coen Brothers&#8217; 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