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O Brother, Where graphics gravitational constant? - From Greek Classic to American Original In the winter of 2001, American audiences initially paid little attention to Joel and Ethan Coens Depression era, jail-break, euphonyal chum clowning O Brother, Where Art grand piano? The necessitates reputation lingered, however, and over the future(a) seven months O Brother eventually grossed a significant $45.5 one thousand million (imdb.com). Loosely adapted from Homers The Odyssey, the film focuses on Ulysses Everett McGills (George Clooneys) journey from the jailhouse back to both his home in Ithaca, Mississippi, and to his married woman Penny (Holly Hunter). Along with his two sidekicks, Delmar and Pete (Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro), Ulysses encounters not only characters from the authorised myth including the Sirens and the Cyclops, but also slices of American folk legend. Episodic in its narrative structure, the film unfolds like Homers saga with very few, if any, segu es betwixt the vignettes. The film deserves an admiring second look for the Coen brothers employ their old-time country music soundtrack in a manner analogous to Homers lyre, hypothecate gender roles and heroism for the American twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and create a moving tribute to the American South during the Great Depression.The title of the film derives from Preston Sturgess 1941 American film comedy Sullivans Travels, in which a movie-director character attempts to prove himself a serious artist by deserting comedy and making a dramatic film entitled O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coen brothers perhaps created their O Brother as a cognise vision of their directorial counterpart in Sullivans Travels. Simultaneously they reinforce the liking that comedy certainly can be art, and thus... ...ary.com/americana/babyface/6.htm.Jones, Peter V. Introduction. The Odyssey. By Homer. Trans. E. V. Rieu. capital of the United Kingdom Penguin, 1991. xi-l.Lomax, Ala n. The Folk Songs of North America. Garden City Doubleday, 1960.O Brother, Where Art Thou? Dir. Joel Coen. Screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.Perf. George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter, John Goodman. Touchstone, 2000.O Brother, Where Art Thou?The functionary Web Site. 2000. Buena Vista Online Entertainment. 30 Oct. 2001 .O Brother, Where Art Thou? The net Movie Database. 15 Jan. 2002. .Oermann, Robert K. Old-Time Music Is Very Much lively But you wont hear it on country radio. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Music From a Film by Joel & Ethan Coen. CD. widely distributed Music, 2000.