Oh Brother, Where Art Thou: Classic Or Dud

Anyway, Oh my brother, we are in a mess, as Mark E Smith put it. This is a weird film - I went and saw it, shifted uncomfortably in my seat and decided it was disappointing. The Coen Brothers are my favourite filmakers (for want of my knowing anything about film) so this was a downer. But since then I've been more and more tempted to give it another shot. Hence, really, the question.

I think the Hudsucker Proxy is a lovely film. My least favourite Coens film is Fargo. This is quite Scooby of me, I know.

Reasons Tom should watch O Brother again:

5. The way the Soggy Bottom Boys dance

4. The fight scene in the store

3. The goriest cow deaths since Three Kings

2. George Clooney's 'stache

1. It's bona fide

And that warn't a TOAD, dangummit. It war a FRAWG!

Fun bit in this piece:

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/fifteen-years-later-bluegrass-is-still-reeling-from-o-brother-where-art-thou/Content?oid=5070656

But even though the soundtrack focuses on traditional tunes, the Coens and company were surprised to find that some songs they had thought were in the public domain—and thus, free to use in the film—were not, in fact, traditional. They'd been mining discs of music that had often been incorrectly deemed traditional. Wilbur knew that sloppy attributions wouldn't fly.

"I remember my first conversation with Ethan when he showed me the CD, and he said, 'Look, it says right here, 'Traditional,'" Wilbur says. "I said, 'So what?'"