Additional allusions to films and film history abound in "Barton Fink". At one point a character discusses "Victor Soderberg"; the name is a reference to Victor Sjöström, a Swedish director who worked in Hollywood under the name Victor Seastrom. Charlie's line about how his troubles "don't amount to a hill of beans" is a probable homage to the film "Casablanca" (1942). Another similarity is that of "Barton Fink"'s beach scene to the final moment in "La Dolce Vita" (1960), wherein a young woman's final line of dialogue is obliterated by the noise of the ocean. The unsettling emptiness of the Hotel Earle has also been compared to the living spaces in "Key Largo" (1948) and "Sunset Boulevard" (1950).