I'm finally watching O Brother Where Art Thou !

[jeff30997]

I love Cohen Brothers movies!

This one was suggested to me by a DUer last month.

I'm about at the first third of the movie and it's great!

Despite the fact that I'm a French Canadian I have

no trouble understanding the southern accent...

My favorite Cohen movie is still Fargo but

this one is really great!

[EvolveOrConvolve]

1. Haven't seen O Brother Where Art Thou

But Fargo is one of my all time favs.

[jeff30997]

3. Yeah Fargo is a masterpiece!

Fargo rules man!!!

[salin]

20. rent it - its *great*

as quirky as Fargo - but more comical - and fantastic music.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

29. I think my wife it it in my NetFlix list

If I don't get it soon, I'll probably end up buying it.

[sasquatch]

2. It's pretty good, one of the Cohen brothers best films

[itsmesgd]

4. Best line of the movie

Clooney: "...well these two just got baptised, so I guess I'm the only one who's unoffiliated."

he says this when he meets the guitar player (Robert Johnson) who had just sold his sold his soul to satan to be able to play guitar.

[jeff30997]

5. Hehehe!

Yeah,great line!

[jeff30997]

6. How about The Big Lebesgue ?

That one is so funny! I watched it twice and I plan to see it again.Lol!

[EvolveOrConvolve]

7. Are you talking about The Big Lebowski?

If so, it's a great flick! I own it and watch it often.

[jeff30997]

21. Yes! Damn! How could I made such an error?

I type too fast and...Wathever...

The Big Lebowski is a great movie!

And the scene with Tara Reid (You know what I'm talking about)

is so sexy!!!

I have to see that movie again.

It will be the third time.

:)

[Bridget Burke]

31. Is that how they spell it in Quebec?

I'm JOKING! (I love "O Brother Where Art Thou")

[redwitch]

8. one of my favorite movies of all time.

and the soundtrack is fabulous! :hi:


edited to add Fargo is also great.

[hellbound-liberal]

9. I became a BIG George Clooney fan after seeing this movie.

I also began to appreciate Bluegrass music a lot more too since I worked at Borders and we had the music playing for a long time.

[Shine]

10. Do yourself a favor and get the soundtrack, too. It's absolutely awesome!

Allison Krauss is amazing! :hi:

[China_cat]

12. That's also on DVD

so you can see as well as listen.

[Redstone]

11. Good flick. Good music. I was kinda disappointed by Fargo, though.

Redstone

[sasquatch]

14. What was the classical piece they kept playing during "Fargo"?

[Redstone]

16. I can't remember.

Redstone

[catzies]

18. Do you think you'd recognize it from here?

http://www.amazon.com/Fargo-1996-Film-Barton-Fink/dp/B000000GTE

I like Carter Burwell's music & bought the soundtrack to Raising Arizona, actually.

[sasquatch]

19. It's called "Fargo, North Dakota"

:eyes:
God that should've been obvious.
:rofl:

[catzies]

42. Well, there you go then.

Or, as they said in Raising Arizona, o-KAY then.

[poiuytsister]

13. Ladykillers

I was pleasantly surprised as it is a remake. Not the best movie I've everseen but pretty good. But yeah, O Brother and Fargo are the best!

[jobycom]

15. One of my favorites. What are you talking about, though?

Southern accent? I didn't hear ANY accent, which is unusual, because most every film I watch has an accent.

Have you seen Hudsucker Proxie and Blood Simple?

[jeff30997]

22. "Southern accent? I didn't hear ANY accent"

Hi jobycom.I'm not sure if you're kidding me but

yes in the movie the characters have an heavy

southern accent and ,as I said,I'm a French-Canadian

and I have no trouble with "TV Standard English",

but in the movie they speak "deep south thirties

english" so I have a little trouble understanding

what the characters are saying but it's easier than

British English.

I've seen Hudsucker Proxie at least 4 times!

Wow! Great movie!

But I never heard of Blood Simple !

What is it about ? Please tell me

more about that movie,I love the Cohen bros

movies !

-Jeff

[jobycom]

26. I stand by my claim. No accent.

:) Most other movies have accents. They sound like people living in the north somewhere...

"Blood Simple" was the Coen brothers' first film. Dan Hedeya, Frances McDormand, M Emmit Walsh, John Getz. Dark, complicated indie film, won grand jury prize at Sundance. I have no idea why people don't talk about it more. I thought it was better than Fargo or Miller's Crossing, though I haven't seen it in years, so I could be mistaken. Got me hooked on the Coens.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/

[Bridget Burke]

33. John Henry Faulk used to tell about an old Texas lady...

Who liked LBJ because we finally had a President "without a' accent."

My sister saw O Brother with co-workers out in California. They were confused--the movie seemed to be a comedy, but it turned very dark on several occasions. Part of Texas is The South, so we understand this stuff. (Parts of Texas are also The West, The Plains & Mexico; and the parts tend to overlap.)

The real Pappy O'Daniel was actually a Texas Governor. And "You Are My Sunshine" was written by Jimmy Davis, Governor of Louisiana.

[bigwillq]

17. I love that movie!

:bounce:

[Poiuyt]

23. You are aware that O Brother Where Art Thou is a retelling of Homer's Odyssey

Watch it again with that in mind

[jeff30997]

25. Hi Poiuyt.

Yes I read that the movie was a retelling of Homer's Odyssey

a couple of years ago,well before I seen it.

But hey! Shakespeare was inspired (Could I dare to say, stole the ideas of)

by the classical Greeks and Romans Authors.

Nihil ex nihilo(Nothing comes from nothing).

Every movies,books and so on are inspired by

a combination of classical and recent ideas.

You seem to be a very intelligent and

educated person(sorry,I couldn't find a more appropriate term).

Thanks for your comments.

- Jeff

[Poiuyt]

41. Nothing wrong with taking inspiration from the classics

And I are a scholar, so I should seem educated

:hi:

[Vidar]

24. Great movie.

[uppityperson]

27. Clooney and the music make it really good.

[blogslut]

28. The scene towards the end

..at the auditorium, is sooooo fulfilling.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

30. "Damn! We're in a tight spot!"

So many great lines in that film...

My favorite though exchange though is when they're in the theater and they bring in the prisoners.

"Do not seek the treasure."

"We thought you was turned into a toad."

"DO *NOT* SEEK THE TREASURE."

[Bridget Burke]

34. The prisoners in the theatre scene is a "tribute" to the Preston Sturgess film....

"Sullivan's Travels."

In which a director wants to make a socially-important movie based on the novel "O Brother Where Art Thou."

[Tyrone Slothrop]

39. I know

Sullivan's Travels is another of my faves.

(Actually, I like most of Sturges' work.)

[grasswire]

37. I loved that scene, too

There's another prisoner-movie scene in an old B&W film where a director who had been mistakenly arrested for a murder is taken with other prisoners to a black church for a movie night. He had been wanting, when still a Hollywood director, to do a movie called "O Brother Where Art Thou?" -- a story of the bitter side of life. But now, in prison he sees all these bitter, hardened long-time prisoners react to the cartoon with such utter delight that this director realizes the power of laughter to lighten the human spirit. When he finally is released from prison, he no longer wants to make "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

It's really an interesting corollary to this.

Mr. Sullivan's Travels, from 1941. Written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Eric Blore, and more.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/

[peekaloo]

32. Mah Hair!

I still think 'Miller's Crossing' is their true gem, though.

[NashVegas]

35. I Don't Think There's Any Such Thing as a Bad Coen Brothers' Movie

Ladykillers and The Man Who Wasn't There are the only of their films I haven't seen.

[peekaloo]

38. I think the same. Even their "below par" stuff is much better than the majority

of drivel that gets released.

I loved 'TMWWT'!

'Ladykillers' had its moments, with a tidy payoff, but I like their original stuff better.

:hi:

[Bridget Burke]

36. I saw O Brother in the theaters--twice!

Which I don't do for any non-Tolkien film.

I've got the DVD & the soundtrack CD. Both fine investments.

[ileus]

40. Great movie indeed.