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The Coen brothers started writing the script for The Hudsucker Proxy when Joel was working as an assistant editor on Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead .

The brothers took their inspiration from the films of Preston Sturgess and Frank Capra , but the intent was never to satirize or parody those films.