The standout scene of the brothers» semi-affectionate riff on 1950s Hollywood throws the brunt of their combined
talent for writing and deadpan timing into a two - man vaudeville routine of words and manners, in which a sophisticated director (Ralph Fiennes) and a
bumpkin - ish actor (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle to get through a single line of dialogue: «Would that it were so simple.»