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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Film

In 1937 Mississippi during the Great Depression, three convicts, Ulysses Everett McGill, Pete Hogwallop, and Delmar O'Donnell, escape from a chain gang and set out to retrieve a supposed treasure Everett buried, before its locale is flooded to make a lake and provide electricity for the state. The three get a lift from a blind man driving a handcar on a railway. He tells them, among other prophecies, that they will find a fortune but not the one they seek. The trio make their way to the house of Wash, Pete's cousin. They sleep in the barn, but Wash reports them to Sheriff Cooley, who, along with his men, torches the barn. After Pete angrily blows up Cooley's police van, Wash's son helps them escape.

Director
Ethan Coen · Joel Coen
Screenplay
Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast
George Clooney · John Turturro · Tim Blake Nelson · John Goodman · Holly Hunter
Genre
Action · Adventure · Comedy
Runtime
103 min
Country
France · United States
Music
T-Bone Burnett
Cinematography
Roger Deakins
Based on
Odyssey
Studio
Universal Pictures
Budget
26,000,000 $
Box office
72,000,000 $
Awards
Academy Awards · Academy Awards · Academy Awards · BAFTA Awards

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Homer's Odyssey

Objects before gods: the horn bow nobody else can string, Penelope's loom woven by day and unpicked by night, the olive stake glowing red as it goes into Polyphemus's eye, the ox-hide bag in which Aeolus shuts up the winds. And the mast: a man lashed with ropes while the crew row with wax in their ears, probably the most drawn scene in all antiquity. Around it, creatures that are wholly specific — women with the body and talons of a bird, pigs that used to be men, an old dog lying on a dung heap — and a geometry of ship, wave and oar that holds up when it is cut down to two colours.

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