20 Things You Didn't Know About Miller's Crossing

20. The Script Was Originally Conceived With The Image Of The Black Hat

One of the strangest and most arresting images from Miller's Crossing is the image that opens the film, in which a black hat in the woods drifts through the wind.

The image was in fact the first image that the Coen brothers came up with when developing the script. It was this one strange, mesmeric image that influenced them to write the whole script, and without it, Miller’s Crossing might not exist today.