Where Art Thou?

The movie O Brother Where Art Thou by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen was created in 2000. The protagonist of the movie is Everett who goes on a journey from escaping jail with his two friends. On his adventure he meets many people and has many conflicts. This movie ties in with the mythological characters from the odyssey. However the viewers will still enjoy the movie without reading the odyssey. This is a comedy and adventure movie. This is a very good movie with many funny scenes and a great tie with the odyssey to make it even funnier. This movie also follows the epic hero journey and follows many of the steps. This movie has a call to adventure, departure, crisis, and a return. Ulysses Everett McGill is the one that started this adventure.…

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Critique O Brother, Where Art Thou? Directed by Joel Coen in 2000 is a comical journey of three escaped convicts, Ulysses Everett McGill, Pete Hogwallop, and Delmar O'Donnell on their journey to reclaim $1.2 million Everett “robbed from and armored car”. They make friends and must overcome many obstacles all while avoiding the ruthless sheriff who is hunting them. Everett later reveals that there is in fact no treasure, and it was just a story so Pete and Delmar…

O, Brother Where Art Thou vs The Odyssey by Homer The Odyssey by Homer is a Greek Epic based on its main character Odysseus and it took place in the classical Greece. The book was composed in the eight century B.C.E, centuries after the events it describes, and narrates several adventures with the objective of its main character to return home. Moreover, the movie O, Brother Where Art Thou was published in 2000 and also narrates the adventures of its main character Ulysses, a prisoner that…

The O Brother, Where Art Thou and the Odyssey are very similar, but on the other hand the poem and the film are relatively different in their settings and time periods. The odyssey is set in ancient Greece. Odysseus has Soldiers for a crew. The whole crew dies in the Odyssey. The odyssey constant of god's and goddesses in it and his enemies are gods, goddesses, and suitors. O Brother where Art Thou is set in the 1930's. No one dies in O Brother Where Art Thou. Odyssey the King of Ithaka,…

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is a movie made by the Cohen Brothers that is based on Homer's “Odyssey.” These two stories contains multiple similarities and plenty of differences. Both stories also follows framework of Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey.” One of the main protagonist of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is named Ulysses Everett McGill, Ulysses is Roman for Odysseus. He is trying to get to his wife before she is remarried to a suitor, just like Odysseus. Everett’s wife is named Penny which…

It cannot be denied that almost all entertainment is a form of escape. Watching movies involving many senses can easily take the viewer on the real adventure. However, reading books demand healthy imagination because a reader is forced to think, create, and produce the world by using the author’s words. Therefore movies tend to attract us more rather than books. When great books are converted into movies, their themes of the stories and plots are altered to give the audience a new version of…

land of Hyrule similar to how many Greek heroes had to save the world. People use mythology theory every day and don 't even realize it. From naming their dog Zeus after the Greek god of lightning to watching the anime Hetalia to understand history and cultures better. One movie that uses this theory is the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. This movie is based off Homer 's epic "The Odyssey." There are many similarities between the two, such as…

depiction, O' Brother, Where Art Thou?, makes a trying effort to incorporate many of Homer's plot points while attempting to stay true to era of the 1930's in which the movie is set. The typification of Pete and Delmar as Odysseus' crew is particularly well done, as is that…

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), an Academy Award nominee, adventure comedy tale of loyalty, crime, lies, and love. The film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, is a modern loosely based tale on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey. Set in 1930’s Mississippi, during the great depression, this film tells the story of three convicted escapees Ulysses Everett McGill, Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O’Donnel who just so happens to be chained together. Confronted with the possibility of…

O Brother, Where Art Thou? was made in 2000 and is about three escaped prisoners on the hunt for some buried treasure. These men experience a great deal of adversity during their hunt including being returned to prison, a Ku Klux Klan mob, and a flood. Unlike many of the other films I have watched during the course of this class, this movie possessed a large amount of diegetic music. The type of music seemed to fit the movie well because of the comedic tone throughout. The first song heard in…