Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) on Netflix
In Greenwich Village in 1961, folk singer Llewyn Davis is broke, sleeps on acquaintances' couches and cannot sell his album. Jean Berkey tells him she may be carrying his child.
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February 1961. Llewyn Davis sings at the Gaslight Café in Greenwich Village, his solo record does not sell, and he has no money and no apartment, so he stays on other people's couches. He wakes at the home of Mitch and Lillian Gorfein, whose ginger cat slips out and gets shut outside, and he carries it to Jim and Jean Berkey. Jean, who lets him sleep there, tells him her pregnancy could be his doing, then asks him to cover the cost of an abortion. Llewyn asks his sister for money and gets a box of his own things instead, along with the thought that he could go back to the Merchant Marine. Jim invites him to cut a novelty song with Al Cody.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
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- Filming was complicated by cats: unlike dogs, they ignore direction, so the Coen brothers put out a casting call for an orange tabby (a common enough color that several cats could share the role) and picked individual cats for each scene based on what they naturally did.
- The cover of Llewyn Davis's solo album closely resembles that of Dave Van Ronk's Inside Dave Van Ronk: both feature the artist in a doorway, wearing a tweed jacket and smoking a cigarette. One difference is the cat in the doorway on Van Ronk's cover.
- The novelty song “Please Mr. Kennedy” is a fourth-generation derivative: the 1960 record “Mr. Custer”, about the Battle of the Little Bighorn, became a 1961 Tamla-Motown plea from a reluctant Vietnam draftee, then a 1962 Goldcoast Singers track, before the film's version credited Rush, Cromarty, Burnett, Timberlake and the Coens.
