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O chum, Where Art meter? - From Greek Classic to American pilot program In the winter of 2001, American audiences initially paid little management to Joel and Ethan Coens Depression era, jail-break, musical buddy clowning O Brother, Where Art Thou? The fritter aways reputation lingered, however, and over the next seven months O Brother finally grossed a significant $45.5 million (imdb.com). Loosely adapted from marks The Odyssey, the film focuses on Ulysses Everett McGills (George Clooneys) journey from the jailhouse back to two his home in Ithaca, Mississippi, and to his wife Penny (Holly Hunter). Along with his two sidekicks, Delmar and Pete (Tim Blake Nelson and buttocks Turturro), Ulysses encounters not only characters from the classic 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, segues between the vignettes. The film deserves an admirin g second look for the Coen brothers use up their old-time country music soundtrack in a manner uniform to Homers lyre, reconstruct gender roles and heroism for the American twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and create a moving tribute to the American randomness 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 unspoiled 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 realized vision of their directorial counterpart in Sullivans Travels. Simultaneously they reinforce the idea 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. London Penguin, 1991. xi-l.Lomax, Alan. The Folk Songs of North America. Garden city Doubleday, 1960.O Brot her, 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 Official Web Site. 2000. Buena Vista Online Entertainment. 30 Oct. 2001 .O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Internet Movie Database. 15 Jan. 2002. .Oermann, Robert K. Old-Time medicament Is Very Much Alive But you wont fancy it on country radio. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Music From a Film by Joel & Ethan Coen. CD. Universal Music, 2000.