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I do like movies with a short gestation period. They always seem sharper and more satisfying than the lumbering, crisis ridden train wrecks that some movie projects become. Witness John Carter, a movie in planning for so long, yet the end result just did not work.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? was conceived as a re-telling of Homer's Odyssey - the Greek epic poem telling the story of Odysseus as he struggles to return home after the Trojan War. Here, we exchange Ancient Greece for the plains of Mississippi and Odysseus for Ulysses Everett McGill, but many of the adventures he and his traveling companions experience can be related back to the 2000 year old original. But why the name O Brother, Where Art Thou? This comes from a 1940's film - Sullivan's Travels, where the plot revolves around a director attempting to make a fictional film about the Great Depression.
Ulysses Everett McGill is played by George Clooney. He accepted the role on...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? was conceived as a re-telling of Homer's Odyssey - the Greek epic poem telling the story of Odysseus as he struggles to return home after the Trojan War. Here, we exchange Ancient Greece for the plains of Mississippi and Odysseus for Ulysses Everett McGill, but many of the adventures he and his traveling companions experience can be related back to the 2000 year old original. But why the name O Brother, Where Art Thou? This comes from a 1940's film - Sullivan's Travels, where the plot revolves around a director attempting to make a fictional film about the Great Depression.
Ulysses Everett McGill is played by George Clooney. He accepted the role on...
Read the full review...
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