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Hillbilly hi-jinks. Bluegrass music. Express mirth out loud funny!
The Coen Brothers accept done it again. Three low era convicts(George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson)escape a Mississippi concatenation gang and head off in search of buried treasure that volition fund their new lives. Forth the manner, they sing on the radio and go much sought after stars as well as escapees. Dandy laughs and a soundtrack that is a lesson/introduction to bluegrass music.
Clooney is outstanding as the fast talking, quick witted Ulysses Everett McGill. Holly Hunter plays his estranged wife. Turturro and Nelson are flawless stumblebums. Also in the cast are John Goodman and Charles Durning.
Dan Tyminksi provides the singing voice for George Clooney on "I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow", the Soggy Bottom Boys song that serves as a template for the bluegrass laden soundtrack that likewise features Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, The Whites, John Hartford, The Cox Family and Gillian Welch. Toe tapping, articulatio genus slapping fun for the whole family. Y'all'll be surprised with how relaxed and funny this movie is.
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Information technology will abound on you
I accept walked out of a Coen moving-picture show earlier and not quite known how to feel. The two best examples of that are The Big Lebowski and Fargo. Lebowski was so ridiculously original and then filled with foreign humour that I had to like it. On the other hand, there were some unnecessary reveries with flying people and killer bowling assurance that but didn't seem to fit the mold of the film. Still, I liked the picture show and now own a copy of it. Fargo made me howl with hysterics, sometimes I wasn't sure why I was laughing and so hard that it fabricated me cry, but even so I was. At that place were many seemingly strange characters in Fargo, but upon farther investigation, they were really only real people talking about real situations. That is why the human being with the shovel ( or was it a broom ) was and so side-splittingly funny when he was telling the police officeholder about some funny looking man down at the bar the other night. And that is also why the theater erupted in laughter when he and so says that there are some funny looking clouds coming in. (I own a copy of this film too) The Coen'south accept a style of masking their film and their characters as being somewhat eccentric and perhaps a little off the wall. But if yous wait closer at some of those same characters that seem zany, you will e'er find that in some strange style, they all ring true. That is what is quite exceptional about O Brother Where Art Thou? This is a film that is out there. I mean information technology is not even in the aforementioned ballpark as a traditional picture show. I reviewed the moving-picture show Shaft this past summer and in it I said that Shaft was an okay film that I accept seen a m times earlier. Simply you can non say that about a Coen Brother's motion picture and you most certainly tin not say that about this one.
This film has everything in it from a jail break, crooked southern politicians, muses, references to what I can only assume are historical figures, riverside baptisms, bank robberies, violence towards animals, singing flocks of religious fanatics, KKK, lynch mobs and so on. There are obviously many references to Homer's Odyssey in here every bit well, simply I wouldn't know that because I take never read Homer's Odyssey or even knew one thing nigh it. Every other newspaper reviewer seems to know all about information technology and they think that this cynicism and well-nigh spoof-like quality towards it makes the movie that much better. Well coming from a guy who doesn't know annihilation about it, I can tell you that it is still an entertaining motion picture. In that location were times when over again, as is usual for a Coen film, I wasn't sure why I was entertained or laughing, merely I was.
This is a road picture where three men travel forth the way to observe a hidden treasure that Clooney says he has hidden to his two other cell mates. He has to take them along because they were likewise chained to him when they had their take chances to escape.
I like all the principal actors in the film and many of them are Coen cronies. It was nice to see Goodman again. Information technology was prissy to encounter Hunter and especially Turturro who seems to have a place in every Coen motion-picture show. Information technology's too bad they didn't notice a place for Steve Buscemi just that is a dissimilar story all together. Merely back to Clooney. The man but has charisma. He is a one hell of an actor too and here he is not quite every bit zany as the others but even he has his own idiosyncrasies. His piece of work here is quite awesome and I really hope this shows that he is capable of playing any range of character.
Now later on heaping all this praise on the movie, allow me but say this also. I didn't really savour the motion picture at first. I found information technology to be quite tedious and a little tedious. In that location were too many ideas in hither and not enough intendance went into harnessing them for all what they were worth. But then the pic began to grow on me. It took a while but it did grow on me. I don't remember this is their best picture, but information technology is notwithstanding a good i and I am giving it a 8.5. Only the reason that I do recommend this film is for 1 reason just.
Every day yous can become look into the newspaper and wait at the films that are playing and say to yourself, seen it, seen information technology, oh, seen it last twelvemonth, that is the same as this film and that is the same equally that moving-picture show. Most films have been recycled in some course or another. Not the Coen's films. They take non been recycled and if they have I don't know about it. That is reason plenty to come across something that they put out. Originality counts for a lot in my books. The Coens are original and they are good. And that is non common in todays cinema. Enjoy them while they are allowed to make films. Because you don't become vision like this in many films, so when you lot practise, enjoy it!
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An Odyssey Through Mississippi
George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Turturro star as iii Mississippi escaped convicts in 30s Mississippi where they run into all kinds of hazard on the style back to Clooney'southward home and hearth and aa 'treasure' purportedly buried in that location. There's a gubernatorial race going on in Mississippi at the time and that's woven into the plot.
Equally this film is based on Homer's Odyssey and that work is a few thousand years old I call up the Coen Brothers took the point of view that this is already a few g years in the future and the mythology of the times is beingness explored So who will know or care that Pappy O'Daniel did this thing in Texas and Baby Confront Nelson never did his criminal deeds in Mississippi.
Speaking of which Charles Durning as Pappy O'Daniel and Michael Badalucco as Baby Confront Nelson are having a ball overacting in their outsized performances. In fact this whole flick has everybody overacting similar crazy. Nil subtle here.
The tone still is set by George Clooney as the leader of the three escaped convicts. His droll mode is nothing short of marvelous. Nelson and Turturro are a pair of encephalon dead followers who probably did something along the lines of what Paul Newman did to earn his place on the chain gang in Cool Manus Luke. As for Clooney when we find out what he did his gift of gab is explained.
As we know Ulysses was merely trying to go dwelling to his Penelope hither is Holly Hunter with her seven daughters. She hasn't exactly permit grass abound under her anxiety, but married to Clooney who could blame her?
What Clooney did might be considered white collar offense. Simply Mississippi had no minimum security prisons then. Not sure the land has ane now. As he sees it a man similar himself is wasted on a route gang and his choice of companions is dictated past who he was chained with.
You will have one rollicking skilful fourth dimension watching O Brother Where Art Thou? It's a film that could use several viewings to get all the sense of humor out of information technology.
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Pretty darn practiced
Having seen well-nigh of the Coen Brothers previous films I expected something different and slighty off centre. OBWAT is certainly those things, simply it also has a eye every bit big as..well..as big as Mississippi. It is one of the most patently enjoyable movies to have come out in recent times, intelligent, well-crafted, clever and superbly acted.
Characters are delivered in their myriad shades by a group of marvellous actors. George Clooney winning me over completely with his Clark Gable-ish looks and character. Having only ever seen him in Three Kings and his Thin Ruby Line cameo, I am now a fan. More comedy delight George.
John Tuturro and Tim Blake Nelson ably assist, peculiarly Nelson. If ever "The Simpsons" is made into a movie then he must be a natural to play Cletus the slack-jawed yokel. I don't call up there is a performance that falls brusque of splendid from the unabridged cast. My special favorite is Stephen Root as the blind Radio Station Man.
Great old-timey music, a jiggy type dance by Clooney that I am trying to learn, and a feel of depression era southern U.s. enhanced past sepia-like photography brand this the best picture show I've see so far this century. The just drawback to the moving-picture show is that it has almost sent me broke buying the soundtrack, the DVD and a DVD player to play it on....it's THAT good!
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surprising, refreshing and hilarious
Give thanks goodness for the Coen Brothers. Their success has brought them bigger budgets,but hasn't rid them of their creativity. I had planned on seeing another movie, but it was sold out so I went to this i instead. By the time information technology began, I had forgotten what motion picture I was in that location to see. I was surprised in more than ways than one. This movie is hilarious, but they don't make any inexpensive jokes just to get the laughs. The writing is vivid, and delivered with keen skill past George Clooney (afterward this, nobody can say he'south just a pretty face) and the rest of the cast. It can exist appreciated on many levels, whether yous remember the Odyssey or non. I can't think the concluding time I saw a motion-picture show that was this clever. I've seen others I would draw as beautiful, intriguing, funny and charming, all of which also depict "Oh Brother," but this movie reminded me of older seinfeld episodes where all the subplots came together in the terminate. You can feel that their journey is building upwards to something, but you can't tell what. And the Coen brothers do non fail us, the end is certainly not disappointing. It'south surprising, and ties upwards all the loose ends neatly, without wearing the story out.
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This film brought back memories.
We lived through the depression and related to some of the conditions portrayed. Nosotros have watched information technology perhaps a dozen times. Each time nosotros see information technology we choice up on something we had missed because nosotros were still laughing at, or discussing, an earlier scene or line. The entire movie was a collection of photographically corking faces. We are all the same asking ourselves whether the unabridged cast were professionals or whether some were individuals institute on location. The moving-picture show was rich with subtle tie-ins similar the children tied together with twine, as the prisoners were connected past chains. We still recall the cow may have been hit unintentionally. Fords of that era had mechanical brakes. The driver of the auto may not have been accepted the longer stopping distances required. The many allusions to Ulysses Odyssey inspired usa to exercise an inter-net search. We found a modern text version and discovered more sly references. We capeesh bluish grass and land music every bit originally American and found it thoroughly enjoyable, along with the accurate "Go To Sleep Piffling Baby" and "Down from the Mount." Nosotros were emotionally touched by this movie because of our age, and observe information technology totally entertaining every fourth dimension nosotros view it. Nosotros are still amazed that someone not of our generation could have captured the essence of that period of United States history.
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Great
I realize this movie came out 18 years agone, but I wasn't on IMDb then. Did IMDb fifty-fifty exist? I don't know. Only as I'm sitting in the barbershop right now, this flick is beingness played on the goggle box correct at present, and I'm reminded how much I love this film. In my opinion, one of the best comedies ever made. I know it'due south not for anybody (I accept friends who detest it), just it'southward a archetype to myself and some others I know. First-class writing and interim.
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20th Anniversary!
"O Muse! Sing in me, and through me tell the story of that human skilled in all the ways of contending, a wanderer, harried for years on finish."
Sirens, cyclops, oracles, villains, and heroes from ancient Greece assume new forms in 1930s Mississippi in this whimsical, brilliant, funny, and deeply American Odyssey.
Three prisoners on a piece of work coiffure escape into the countryside. While the atomic number 26 chain that binds them is shortly cleaved, it is replaced past a stronger bond, friendship. This new link is tested repeatedly and relentlessly past a diabolical sheriff, Klansmen, con men, scheming relatives, alluring women, charred gopher, bad hair and other monstrosities, but luck, desperation, a talent for music and the inveterate resourcefulness of the trio gets them out of much of the trouble that their impulsiveness leads them into. Deeper problems are their ain demons. The unlikely companions travel across Mississippi in search of a treasure that proves illusory, merely a much more valuable fortune awaits.
O Brother, Where Art M is a thick slice of Americana. Much of this comes from the bluegrass soundtrack. I brutal in love with the sound forth with singer Gillian Welch. Cinematographer Roger Deakins is at the meridian of his artistic powers as he brews something modern and antiquarian at the aforementioned time. His images are a piffling grainy and blurry, which gives them the historical experience, but the composition and quality do non suffer for it. Ane of the best things about the writing and directing of the Coen brothers is residual. Each character has strengths and weaknesses, expert and bad, flaws and noble aspects, and this is in accord with homo nature. The stories told past the Coens are drenched in truth and actuality. Actors George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman and Holly Hunter are perfectly cast and amazing in their roles. I laughed so hard I lost my jiff when Delmar (Nelson) was convinced the sirens turned his friend into a toad, and when Large Dan (Goodman) squishes it. There is satisfactory depth to the film with its references to the Odyssey, the themes of racial harmony, dear and politics, the beautiful images and more. It is one of my favorite films.
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A Serious Comedy with wonderful characters
The Coen Brothers have truly outdone themselves in this wonderful saga of iii escaped convicts. Though it is based on "The Odyssey," the ancient work of Homer, you do not have to have read "The Odyssey" to be able to follow the story. The brothers Coen have woven a tapestry of celluloid and aural delights! The soundtrack is intrinsic to the moving picture, indeed it is as though the soundtrack is the production and the film is wrapping paper. Each character is wonderfully exploited and harkens back to the days of old when films were rich with character actors whose very appearance in the movie adds richness, texture and authenticity. George Clooney is magnificent equally the grease haired Everett Ulysses McGill, a honest con on the run whose pompous linguistics and vocabulary are comical and endearing. O Brother, Where Art Thou is easily the best Coen film to date equally well as Clooney's best effort. Clooney is practiced enough to warrant a all-time player nomination as is Tim Blake Nelson's portrayal of the dimwitted friend Delmar, while the movie itself is deserving of a Best film nod.
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Forget Owen Gleiberman's review, this moving picture'southward great!
First, for those of you who don't know who Owen Gleiberman is, he'south one of Entertainment Weekly'south movie critics. From what I remember reading in his review when "O Brother Where Art Grand?" came out, he said information technology was but stupid stereotypes and gave it an F. Now that I've actually seen this movie (I got it for my birthday a few months ago), I realize how stupid I was to trust the opinions of a man who also had the nerve to give "X- Men" a C.
"O Blood brother, Where Art Thou?" is an splendid movie in all senses. I'one thousand normally not a George Clooney fan (Until then, the only picture show with him I liked was "From Dusk Till Dawn"), simply his performance in this film was perfect, and he truly deserved that Gilt Globe he won for it. I besides actually liked the actor who played Delmar. His realistically amusing facial expressions and hilarious lines ("We thought...you lot was...a toad!")kept me happy all throughout the flick. The frightening Sheriff made an effective villain, and the as intense scene with the KKK rally was actually heady to behold.
The references to the Odyssey were charming and well- done, although I still don't become who George Nelson was supposed to resemble in the aboriginal Greek story. Nonetheless, the Siren scene and its aftermath were quite funny, and John Goodman is creditable as the one- eyed Big Dan Teague. Hands one of the best scenes in the motion picture is when the Soggy Lesser Boys sing "Man of Constant Sorrow". That song quickly brought a smile to my confront, and should have won that MTV Moving-picture show Laurels for Best Musical Performance.
So, you lot tin forget well-nigh what the "professional person" critics at Entertainment Weekly said about it, and just enjoy this hysterical, low-cal- hearted and worthwhile film.
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My Favorite Coen Brothers Pic
As I write I find myself wondering why this 1 gets me laughing and then hard and I think information technology'south for a lot of reasons. The beginning is that there is something hilarious to me near adapting a story like "The Iliad," a Classic (in the Greek foundational principles sense of the word) High Myth Hero's Journeying, and setting it in the deep southward during the cracking low. There couldn't be anything less grand than that.
The other thing I find so funny are the characters. Between the three of them, Everett (George Clooney, "Burn After Reading") Pete (John Turturro, "Barton Fink") and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs") are each one of them hilarious on their ain but the interplay between them is priceless.
Everett is the fast talking knowledgeable human of the world, always scheming and fishing for what will give him an edge. He may be knowledgeable only he's not always right or even trying to be right. He'due south just trying to get his own way and facts, exaggerations, stories, and rapidly spoken half truths are his way of doing it.
Pete is easily out matched by Everett because while he may have a ameliorate sense of what is simply and looks out for what is off-white and right, he is too dumb. As such, Everett about always gets away with whatever he wants and Pete is left continually frustrated in his attempts to brand certain he isn't getting the short straw.
Delmar is impaired also merely sweet. He wants anybody to but go along and is always looking to exist helpful. Of course, as Everett, Pete and pretty much whatsoever other person they run into is always looking to pull one over on each other, this puts him in the awkward position of never really knowing whose side to exist on, since he'southward on anybody'southward side.
This trio of silliness leads to some of the funniest back and forth conversations, shouting matches, and name calling I've ever seen on screen.
The terminal thing that makes this moving picture really funny to me, and I know this is controversial, is the southern drawl of every graphic symbol in this movie. My Grandmother was originally from Arkansas and while her accent has much diminished over the 35 years I've known her, it was very stiff to me when I was younger. I always idea information technology was funny that she referred to Meijer (a local grocery concatenation) equally 'Maars." For me, a southern accent is both funny and fond when I hear it so I know some people may non get the aforementioned feeling from this film as I do but for me information technology is a perfect combination to go with the themes of the movie.
The themes in this film are certainly Coen Brother classics. The values of brotherhood, family, sacrifice, and hard work, with edges of fate, the supernatural, or karmic justice are e'er present in their films but the way they alloy information technology with that southern gospel and dry dust working man mentality cuts through strong in this moving-picture show. It isn't lost on me that the three leads in this film form a close bond, the film is called "O BROTHER, Where Art One thousand," and information technology was directed by the Coen BROTHERS. Every bit a brother myself I tin adjure to the spirit of esprit that can form between siblings and this film oozes with information technology. There is nix similar the bond that can form betwixt people when they journey together and seem to meld into 1 person in three bodies virtually.
The last matter I volition extol in this film is the music. I leave information technology for final because it is the best. Old time twang and southern gospel in its many forms. Upbeat and praise filled, downwards low and mournful, and wistful longing for a dwelling house that is not yet ours. It is used for good and evil akin and the solace of those broken past life and their fellow human beings equally well as the joy in the hearts of children still ignorant of life's troubles. There are many songs in this film that feels equally if y'all might have been able to hear them on any summertime evening as you drove by the porches of families all gathered outside to enjoy the cool breeze accompanying the setting sunday.
Perhaps that is what I, really, honey the nigh about this motion-picture show. The sense of coming dwelling house after hard times abroad. The belief that, while family is worth everything, close friends are frequently the crucible through which we are refined and make us ameliorate people for our families when we do get home and join them. The journey is not the destination, but it does change us and make u.s.a. into the people who volition make it there.
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Travelling to Sullivans country
This was the best film I saw in the year 2000. The Cohen brothers have never permit me downwardly before, and they certainly didn't this fourth dimension either.
It'due south one of those rare movies these days - it's witty, intelligent and vastly entertaining. I left the cinema with a warmth in my center. Of course, at that place'south lot of Cohen stuff in at that place - odd characters and peculiar gadgets, well-adult plot and magic camerawork. But no Cohen film is resembling whatever other Cohen motion-picture show, if you overlook the general quality of them, of course.
The big surprise for me was that Clooney is and so practiced. Merely the true master operation in this movie comes from Tim Blake-Nelson. But the rest of the cast is superb too.
A film that is lightweight comedy with a musical bear on that evolve it'south story circular rednecks and one-time fourth dimension country music - dripping with wit and intelligence. Thats a very unlikely combination. Only it's exactly what this motion picture is.
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Master Storytellers
Those Coen brothers' movies really do grown on you. I had only seen Fargo when I rented this. It is one of the virtually creative, off the wall films I have ever seen. As these characters bumble their ways afterward a prison break, they are embraced by a series of the most unconventional personages ever to hit filmdom. And one gets turned into a frog--sort of. their flirtations with fame, the Klan, a cyclops, and all the other episodes, make this a hilarious romp. George Clooney's Ulysses is an obsessive, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, coupled with the mannerly one-half-wittedness of his fellow travelers, works at every level. Like Greek verse, he is butting heads with the gods, merely despite setbacks, keeps moving. It is story telling with charm and a load of balderdash. Everyone is some kind of philosopher, simply the words come out of gap toothed, shaved headed hillbillies. And, of course, Clooney has hell to pay. I could lookout this over and over over again. And then there's the really cool music. I didn't even mention that!
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You go it or you don't
One of the finest pieces of story telling ever to hitting celluloid. The performances are so perfect and expressionless-on, and the nuances so subtle, that this pic defies description. It is no wonder that the reviews you lot read run the gamut from "slice of junk", to "superb" to but plain confused. This is a must-run across flick, and from there you're on your own, you lot have to make up one's mind for yourself. Note, nevertheless, that this pic follows its own class -- *loosely* based on Ulysses, and with its own symbolism, characters, and themes. To spot them all yous will need to sentry carefully, think constantly, and, in all likelihood, encounter the film many times more than than once. Not to worry, it improves with each viewing.
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"O Blood brother" is righteous
The Coen Brothers may just be movie theater's greatest crackpot auteurs-they deliver sly, ironic stories that by and large consist of several weird and wild subplots that all collide in an ending that always leaves a few loose ends for the audience to ponder. Bless them. In the midst of the blockbusters franchises and hipster route movies, seeing a Coen Brothers movie is like inhaling a breath of fresh air. This ane is no exception. 'O Brother Where Art Thou' is an adaptation of Homer's sprawling Greek tragedy 'The Odyssey', retold in a new setting-Dustbowl-era Mississippi. George Clooney stars as Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick, suave greaseball of a homo who was arrested for practicing law without a license. When he hears that his wife(Holly Hunter)is getting re-married to another man (the hysterical Ray McKinnon), Ulysses busts loose from a chain gang to gear up things right. Still, he must drag along the two men who are chained to him; trigger-happy, confused Peter (John Turturro) and ditsy, dim Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson is witty without being one-dimensional). Forth the way, the Coen Brothers discover time to pack in a run-in with real-life criminal Babyface Nelson, a grouping of bewitching she-devils, a huge flood, and a KKK rally attended by a hopeful pol and a malicious one-eyed Bible salesman (John Goodman plays him with what could only be described as beastly allure). Through information technology all, the picture (photographed ravishingly by Roger Deakins) is ready to a glorious soundtrack of roots music. John Hart, Chris Thomas King and Allison Krauss all deliver excellent tracks, but the real highlight is when Clooney and his co-horts burst into a toe-tapping version of "Man of Constant Sorrow", not for the sake of the plot, but for pure enchantment. And that'southward what 'Blood brother' is all about-not story (although it has a smashing one), but serving up a great slice of unadulterated folksy bliss.
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This film is BONAFIDE
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The Coen'due south are excellent at regional movies and letting their characters observe their own vocalisation. This ane speaks and sings volumes.
From starting time to end, this is my favorite Coen brother moving picture with Fargo so very close behind. George Clooney is perfect equally huckster with a hear Ulysses Everett McGill who leads his merry ring of chain gang members through Low-era Mississippi breaking downward racial lines and galloping through the countryside meeting celebrities such equally George "Infant Confront" Nelson.
After convincing his concatenation gang mates that he has a treasure hidden away they become targets for sirens, bible salesmen, and KKK members.
Charles Durning, John Goodman, Holly Hunter (who I really like here) as McGill's long-suffering ex-wife, and more bring together in.
The soundtrack is merely equally wonderful on its own as it is in the movie.
Remember: Go on on the sunny side of life.
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a brilliant film for every mood
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some other Coen classic, once again with information technology being a Coen film u have the regulars such as John Turturro and John Goodman. the lead is brilliantly acted by George Clooney. John Turturro is equally bully and John Goodman is really fantastic in this fifty-fifty though he but has a pocket-sized part.
what i especially loved near this is the journey of it and what these three fugitives on the run crash-land into on in that location travels. its a fairly tedious laid dorsum film but that doesn't really make the film bad.
not the all-time Coen film merely it beats some of there other titles like millers crossing and the homo who wasn't there........ eight/10.........j.d Seaton
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Masterful...
Not existence a fan of the Coen Brothers or George Clooney, anyone tin see the skepticism I took into the theater. Once again, someone in Hollywood dares to create something different. This time it was those zanie (for a temporary lack of a better word) Coens doing "their thing" to one of the great works in literary history. Who would've ever thought Homer had this in mind? I don't know where this film is going to fit in the history books of Hollywood, simply it will be in both mine and many others DVD or VHS library. Information technology is one of those films that y'all can lookout man over and over. The story is brilliantly written. Make clean and entertaining, with a couple of Gumpesque brushes with fame, dandy performances by Clooney, Turturro, Nelson, and a cursory but hilarious Holly Hunter. Beingness born in Mississippi and raised in other parts of the s, I wish more people would poke a little fun at us like this. They fifty-fifty invoke a soundtrack fitting for the rural south. Y'all are NOT doing anything better this weekend, become run into this movie!
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Looking for logic where there is none.
There is a line in O Blood brother, Where Art Thou? that sums upwards not just the consensus view of this picture show, merely besides that of nearly every Coen Brothers production. George Clooney says to his chained counterpart John Turturro, "It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the man eye." Indeed, in that location may never take been a ameliorate and more than meaningful statement uttered. For that sums up the total outlook Joel and Ethan have given to the states ever since their stunning debut in 1984 with Blood Simple.
Although this is not a new concept for them, I think these themes work really well with the setting of this movie, one of the about original in remembrance. Here, we become the story of Homer'south The Odyssey set up in the 1930s of the American South as three bumbling ex-cons search for a treasure while encountering many obstacles along the mode. Nevertheless, like many a Coen Brothers movie, the plot is just a spot to hang upward the arc of the story in order to give way for the actually interesting aspects; here existence the idiosyncrasies of the characters, the gorgeous wide-screen photography, and the overall crass view of human existence.
Through all this, there is a great amount of fun and joy in this story. Clooney is the fast-talking, slick leader of this weirdly likable trio and despite many assertive he is also expert looking and polished for the role, I believe that simply adds to his repertoire, for this Everett needs to be a fast-talker in club to be taken serious because of his looks. Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson add comic support but also depth with their portrayals of Pete and Delmar, chained to Everett and loyal followers the whole fashion. Even with the clever writing and shifty characters, in that location is something of a heart behind this story also as the typical cynicism of the Coens.
This is certainly the type of picture show that grows on you and multiple viewings are needed not necessarily to understand the plot merely to capture the tone and message of the movie; if there is one. Nonetheless, if zilch else, one can certainly appreciate the intelligent/stupid mixture of humor the Coens are capable of mixing together and then well. Clooney, Turturro and Nelson are wonderful in their respectable roles and of form, Roger Deakins perfectly captures the feeling of the quondam S with his colorful and rich cinematography. Here is a dandy looking, fast talking, clever movie with not much of a message. With the Coens in accuse, what is the problem?
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A great sound, a great look, and a bang-up story.
I was into the movie correct away. I've seen the other Coen movies, with the exception of Raising Arizona, and I've noticed that each of their movies has a color. Fargo is gray/white, Lebowski is bright orange, and this movie is a pleasant xanthous.
The brilliant pleasant qualities of this motion-picture show start correct away. Soon the look is accompanied past the great, great music. It's the onetime folk sound, the kind of music that was written during a time when music was enjoyed as a part of mean solar day to day life. Enjoyed by everyone, chain-gangs, church choirs, and even prison escapees.
Now, about the prison escapees. I don't know what crime their characters could have perchance committed, every bit they are a very very friendly group of guys. Clooney is fantastic, completely nailing his role.
Go see this as before long equally possible. I believe that it can be enjoyed by anyone at some level. For some reason, the theater I was in was full of onetime ladies and former men, and they loved it.
You'll love it also, I hope. I was compelled to get my hands on the soundtrack right away.
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Wonderfully odd comedy!
Coen movies are easy to spot. They have that feel, the feel of originality and oddity, the crazy story lines and characters. Oh Brother has all that. The toned downward dustiness of the film feels less like a gimmick and more than like it's supposed to exist there, calculation to the already thick Southern filter the movie's viewed through.
The storyline is imaginative and totally impossible to predict. Giving credit to Homer is a chip lightheaded, since the references to the Oddessy are fabricated for fun and could easily accept been discarded without changing the story.
Characters are the usual bunch of misfits and crazies you expect. George Clooney does the role of his life-time. Remember the usual, smug, to a varying degree annoying Clooney y'all run into in every flick he's in? Forget him. This is another person. His two companions are good back up and forage for his clever remarks and one-half-broiled plans.
Since this is set in the 30'due south S, at that place are tons of things to employ equally comedic elements. KKK, crooked politicians, faith, rednecks... amplify that with Coen's script-writing talent and y'all will express joy. A lot. In that location is fifty-fifty one of the trademark hallucination scenes, kind of.
What more can y'all say than: "Cheers Coens!" I wont tell you to relish this movie. It's very elementary. Merely lookout it!
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Another gem from the Coens
Based on homer's Odyssey, we follow Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete as they escape from a concatenation gang then that McGill can get dwelling to his family. Along the way they must deal with sirens, a bible selling Cyclops, Babyface Nelson, a campaigning Governor, a Klan lynching party and a blind prophet.
This is another of the Cohen brothers `different' projects - basically meaning that nothing volition make a smashing deal of sense and won't always follow logical paths but volition be full of imagination and energy. The story won't always be gripping unless you know Ulysses' original hazard. If yous do and so the story will be a joy, as you recognise the parallels betwixt the two tales. Even if you don't in that location is plenty to savor here, the story is so total of funny, imaginative and original characters that you can't assist but be drawn in. From Badalucco's Babyface Nelson (`Oh George, not the livestock'), to Durning's Pappy, everything is handled with such an edge of surrealism that information technology's captivating.
Clooney has never been amend and is truly excellent here with his eccentric hick character with a taste for pilus cream. Turturro is likewise fantabulous, merely Nelson'due south childlike Delmar is the best character and a great operation. Hunter is as good as she commonly is in Coen stuff and the support cast of Durning, Goodman, Badalucco etc are all bang-up. The music is fantastic, even if you lot not a fan of this type of music information technology still fits and so totally with the mood of the film that information technology all works well together.
This is a wonderful picture show - yet another from the Coens. It has it'south boring moments and the episodic nature of the story can sometimes give information technology an aimless feel, but overall this is significantly improve than the sum of it's many nifty parts.
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Weaving Dualities
tedg 19 January 2001
Alert: Spoilers
How blest nosotros are with the electric current blizzard of fine films!
Spoilers herein.
Here the Coens embark on their about ambitious effort even so, playing with multiple dualities:
--the real world and a magical reality of myth
--the world of performance and the earth of politics
--the stories of song and those of prototype
--the lovely bright yellow country of the south and the unlovely people who partly covered information technology
In the centre of each duality, they placed the pretense of our trio moving through what Goethe said of Ulysses was an apprentice voyage. Clooney will really be p***ed when he realizes how these guys goofed on him. Turturro is a long time Coenite who understands their low-cal regard for the patina of entertainment the ordinary viewer expects. In fact, he has but come off of two rather ambitious projects concerned with merely these four dualities and the complex role of the histrion in weaving them into apparent entertainment: his remarkable `Illuminata,' which he funded, wrote and directed, and Tim Robbins' similar (but more than political) projection, `Cradle Will Rock.' Turturro is condign a phenomenon, real intelligence.
Tim Blake Nelson participated in the highly audacious `Village' of concluding year, tilted toward just such an issue -- with Hamlet as a film student musing about these dualities. He then took Julia Stiles, the Ophelia, and directed the forthcoming `O,' a version of Othello that is held upwardly I understand because it is `too intelligent.' He has written and directed other films which I haven't seen, just `Eye of God,' written and directed by him is supposed to too be most this same stuff. Natch, all the bright filmmakers are buzzing almost these issues. Together, Turturro and Nelson play the game of switching realities, while both Clooney's character and Clooney are oblivious. The title is from a Sturges motion picture-within-a-film. Same issues -- everything revolves effectually the chicken trip the light fantastic toe.
A small complaint: the symbol of incomprehension was also heavihanded, much equally with Woody Allen in `Crimes.' And `soggy bottom?" Joyce.
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Usually very entertaining, It certainly looks bully.
From the opening of the film, almost to the end, this movie has a great feel. The cinematography is beautiful, and following around these three escaped convicts is interesting to watch. But, unfortunately, these characters are merely so interesting, and the situations are what the moving-picture show has to rely on. The situations get tiring, so the characters have to run the prove. Information technology would've been skilful if both were great at all times, but they merely weren't.
Everett (George Clooney), Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and Pete (John Turturro) have just escaped from prison. They go along several long adventures, sing a few songs, and more than anything, try to avoid the police. All 3 of the leading actors are very good, and have an odd (but slap-up) chemistry with each other. Tim Blake Nelson, specially, stands out acting wise equally the confused convict who wants to be erased of all his sins. The moving picture has no existent plot or center, which is fine, but some of the sub-plots are tedious, and bring this moving picture downwards a level from where it could be. Overall though, this is a beautiful looking, interesting character piece on 3 good hearted convicts.
My rating: *** out of ****. 100 mins. PG-thirteen for violence and language.
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This moving picture is Great!!!!
I really like this film because it's funny and has some serious parts and it's an interesting fourth dimension in history. Another affair I like about this motion-picture show is you lot can watch this with anyone considering there is nothing terribly inappropriate!!!!!!!
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