The writing style is lyrical and the dialogue flows so effortlessly with its satirical interweaving of humour, brotherhood, loneliness, intrigue and murder. Its shiny yellow color made it popular throughout history for representing wealth. Morris is to find Warm and keep him tied up until the Sisters Brothers arrive. This popularity has also led to using substitutes in place of gold. In the Old West, Charlie and Eli Sisters are hitmen brothers working for The Commodore. They ride their horses, Nimble and Tub, and along the way meet “the weeping man” and a dentist, Reginald Watts. The special chemical, once poured into a river, reacts … Another man is also in on the scheme, John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal of “Everest”). Two assassin brothers named Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix) track a man in California during the Gold … While its a traditional Western with cowboys and gold-mining, it feels like a retelling with a modern atmosphere. Gold is a rare metal commonly used in jewelry, currency and electronics. It is Audiard's first English-language film. The Sisters Brothers (2011) is a historical novel by Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt. The Brothers are supposed to torture Warm, get the formula, then kill him. 1850s Oregon: the quarrelling and disreputable Sisters brothers, Eli and Charlie, are hired to hunt down a chemical scientist who’s discovered a new method to find gold. It is a chemical which makes gold glow in the dark (in fact, gold is not reactive with chemicals). He tasks them with finding a prospector named Hermann Kermit Warm, who has come up with a formula for a solution to find gold. Spelled this way, the plot is comically simple: Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed) has invented a magic formula to easily detect and find gold, and a mysterious rich man named the Commodore has hired the Sisters brothers to kill him and take the formula. John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix’s new western comedy, The Sisters Brothers, tells the story of sibling assassins, Eli and Charlie, who set out … It is 1851 in the Oregon Territory, and Charlie and Eli Sisters have been ordered by the Commodore to go to California and kill a man called Hermann Kermit Warm. Joining Warm is Detective John Morris, who is also trying to bring Warm in, but the two develop a bond and work together. ‘The Sisters Brothers’: Hunting the chemist who can find gold – the West is rotten with it By Tom Meek on Thursday, October 4, 2018 2 Comments By Tom Meek Thursday, October 4, 2018 Last revised on: Friday, October 5, 2018 A deductive test for gold involves attempting to dissolve a … Morris and Warm supposedly have a special gold-hunting chemical formula that identifies the location of gold in rivers. The Sisters Brothers (15) (Jacques Audiard, France/Spain/USA 2018, 122mins) John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix star as squabbling siblings in this subtle, darkly funny Western. In 1851, Eli and Charlie Sisters, a pair of assassins of minor repute, are hired by a wealthy businessman known only as "the Commodore" to travel from Oregon City to California in order to murder a gold rush prospector named Hermann Kermit Warm, who is described to them as a "thief". The Sisters Brothers is an exceptional novel that is absorbing and delightfully original. The Sisters Brothers is a 2018 dark comedy western directed by Jacques Audiard based on the novel of the same name by Patrick deWitt. In the novel The Sisters Brothers, Eli and Charlie are trying to hunt down Morris and Warm.