O Brother Where Art Thou? And the Odyssey
In the film "O Brother Where Art Thou?" The filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen loosely paralleled the epic found in the Odyssey. Though there are some obvious parallels between the story and the movie, there are numerous similarities which are much subtler. These can be found in scenes, settings, characters, and plot. A close examination of the movie reveals the multiple layers of the film's similarity to the epic work.
Of course, the most obvious comparisons are Odysseus and Ulysses, Penelope and Penny, and the Sirens and the "Sireens." But, there are also additional character similarities. The foot stomping politician Menelaus 'Pappy O'Daniel has the same first name as the King of Sparta, who fought beside Odysseus at Troy. Furthermore, it is no mistake that Homer, the author of the Odyssey, shares the same name as Homer Stokes, the man who was challenging 'Pappy' in the election. Additionally, Homer was supposedly blind, so it may be that the blind man in the radio station also represents him. After all the blind man in the radio station was the first to record the Soggy Bottom Boys, while Homer was the first to record the saga of Odysseus.
Yet another similarity comes in the form of the character Dan Teague, the salesman with an eye patch. This one-eyed character corresponds to the Cyclops, Polyphemus. The similarities continue when one examines the action related to Teague; in the scene where he is pinned under the burning cross which Everett cut loose, it seems that the falling cross drives the pole of the Confederate flag into his good eye. This completes the comparison to Odysseus putting out the...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- The Film Famed filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed O Brother, Where Art Thou? The film was released shortly before Christmas of the year 2000. The film is a sort of remix and remake. The premise of the film was a take on the epic poem "The Odyssey" by Homer and set the narrative in the deep American south during the 1930s.
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