Oh Brother, Where Art Thou: Classic Or Dud

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Perhaps the most disconcerting film i have seen . I cannot place how i feel about it except utter confusion.

anthony, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

why does everyone hate fargo?

ethan, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ten months pass...
a classic

mary j davis, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's an amazingly layered movie that needs watching several times to really appreciate it fully. Yes, it follows the Odysyee, but also really alludes to the Wizard of Oz. Watch it again, and you'll find the scarecrow(Everett), tin man(pete) and the lion, (delmar), the wizard (Pappy), the wicked witch with the broom (Homer with his broom at the KKK meeting....doesn't the marching of the KKK guys sound like the witch's guards at her castle??!!) It goes on and on. So, watch it again, and see what you think.

Joan, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...
I, too, see as much derived from "The Wizard of Oz" as from "The Odyssey"... But placing Tishomingo at a Delta crossroads was just too much for this ole Miss'ippi boy -- it ain't even close :-)

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

Joe, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

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?'"

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link


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