O Brother, Where Art Thou? Explained

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Director:Joel Coen
Producer:Ethan Coen
Cinematography:Roger Deakins
Music:T Bone Burnett
Runtime:107 minutes
Language:English
Budget:$26 million[1]
Gross:$71.9 million[2]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 satirical comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.

The film is set in rural Mississippi in 1937, and it follows three escaped convicts searching for hidden treasure while a sheriff relentlessly pursues them. Its story is a modern satire which, while incorporating social features of the American South, is loosely based on Homer's epic Greek poem The Odyssey.[3] Some examples of this include Sirens, a Cyclops, and the main character's name, "Ulysses", which is the Roman name for "Odysseus".[4] The title of the film is a reference to the 1941 Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression.

Much of the music used in the film is period folk music.[5] The movie was one of the first to extensively use digital color correction to give the film an autumnal sepia-tinted look. It was released by Buena Vista Pictures in North America, while Universal Pictures, through United International Pictures, released it in other countries. The film was met with a positive critical reception, and the soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002.[6] The country and folk musicians who were dubbed into the film include John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Chris Sharp, and Patty Loveless. They joined to perform the music from the film on the Down from the Mountain concert tour. One of the performances was filmed and released as a documentary.[7]

Plot

Three convicts, Pete, Delmar and leader Ulysses Everett McGill, escape from a chain gang to retrieve a buried treasure before the area is flooded to make a lake. The three get a lift from a blind man driving a handcar on a railway. He tells them they will find a fortune, but not the one they seek. The trio makes their way to Pete's cousin Wash's house. They sleep in the barn, but Wash reports them to Sheriff Cooley, who, along with his men, torches the barn. Wash's son helps them escape.

After ditching the young boy, the group, now stranded in the woods comes across a group of churchgoers receiving baptism. Delmar enthusiastically gets baptized along with Pete, but skeptical Everett declines the invitation. As the three continue their travels, they pick up Tommy Johnson, a young black man who claims he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the ability to play guitar. In need of money, the four stop at a radio station where they record a song as the Soggy Bottom Boys. That night, the trio part ways with Tommy after the police discover their car, and they briefly fall in with outlaw Baby Face Nelson. Unbeknownst to them, the recording as the Soggy Bottom Boys becomes a major hit.

Near a river, the group hears singing. They see three women washing clothes and singing. The women give them corn whiskey and they lose consciousness. Upon waking, Delmar finds Pete's clothes across from him, empty except for a toad. Delmar is convinced the women were Sirens and transformed Pete into the toad. Later, one-eyed Bible salesman Big Dan invites them for a picnic lunch then mugs them and kills the toad.

On their way to Everett's hometown, Everett and Delmar see Pete working on a chain gang. Upon arriving Everett confronts his wife Penny, who changed her last name and told his daughters he was dead. He gets into a fight with Vernon, her new "suitor". Later that night, they sneak into Pete's holding cell and free him. As it turns out, the women had dragged Pete away and turned him in to the authorities. Under torture, Pete gave away the treasure's location to the police. Everett then confesses that there is no treasure. He made it up to persuade the men he was chained with to escape with him to stop his wife from getting remarried. Pete is enraged at Everett, because he had two weeks left on his original sentence, and will likely face fifty more years for the escape.

The trio stumble upon a Ku Klux Klan rally, where Tommy is to be lynched. The trio disguise themselves as Klansmen and move to rescue Tommy. However, Big Dan, a Klan member, reveals their identities. Chaos ensues, and the Grand Wizard reveals himself as Homer Stokes, a candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial election. The trio rush Tommy away and cut the supports of a large burning cross, immolating Big Dan.

Everett persuades Pete, Delmar and Tommy to help him win back his wife. They sneak into a Stokes campaign gala dinner she is attending, disguised as musicians. The group begins a performance of their radio hit. The crowd knows the now popular song and goes wild. Homer recognizes them as the group who humiliated his mob. When he demands the group be arrested and reveals his white supremacist views, the crowd runs him out of town on a rail. Pappy O'Daniel, the incumbent candidate, seizes the opportunity, endorses the Soggy Bottom Boys and grants them full pardons. Penny agrees to remarry Everett on the condition that he find her original ring.

The next morning, the group sets out to retrieve the ring, which is at a cabin in the valley that Everett had earlier claimed was the location of his treasure. The police, having learned of the place from Pete, arrest the group. Dismissing their claims of having received pardons, Sheriff Cooley orders them hanged. As Everett prays to God, the valley is flooded and they are saved. Tommy finds the ring in a desk that floats by, and they return to town. However, when Everett presents the ring to Penny, it turns out it was her aunt's ring. She declares that she will not marry him with that ring, but only her wedding ring, which is still lost.

Cast

Gillian Welch and Dan Tyminski also appear as a record store customer and a mandolinist respectively. Del Pentacost, JR Horne, and Brian Reddy appear as members of Pappy O’Daniel's staff. Ed Gale appears as Homer Stokes' ceremonial "little man". Three members of the Fairfield Four (Isaac Freeman, Wilson Waters Jr, and Robert Hamlett) cameo as gravediggers. The Cox Family and The Whites appear as fictionalized versions of themselves.

Production

The idea of O Brother, Where Art Thou? arose spontaneously. Work on the script began in December 1997, long before the start of production, and it was at least half-written by May 1998. Despite the fact that Ethan Coen described the Odyssey as "one of my favorite storyline schemes", neither of the brothers had read the epic, and they were only familiar with its content through adaptations and numerous references to the Odyssey in popular culture.[11] According to the brothers, Tim Blake Nelson (who has a degree in classics from Brown University)[12] [13] was the only person on the set who had read the Odyssey.[14]

The title of the film is a reference to the 1941 Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist (a director) wants to direct a film about the Great Depression called O Brother, Where Art Thou? that will be a "commentary on modern conditions, stark realism, and the problems that confront the average man". Lacking any experience in this area, the director sets out on a journey to experience the human suffering of the average man but is sabotaged by his anxious studio. The film has some similarity in tone to Sturges's film, including scenes with prison gangs and a black church choir. The prisoners at the picture show scene is also a direct homage to a nearly identical scene in Sturges's film.[15]

Joel Coen revealed in a 2000 interview that he traveled to Phoenix to offer the lead role to Clooney. Clooney agreed to do the role immediately, without reading the script. He stated that he liked even the Coens' least successful films.[16] Clooney did not immediately understand his character and sent the script to his uncle Jack, who lived in Kentucky, asking him to read the entire script into a tape recorder.[17] Unknown to Clooney, in his recording, Jack, a devout Baptist, omitted all instances of the words "damn" and "hell" from the Coens' script, which only became known to Clooney after the directors pointed this out to him during shooting.[17]

This was the fourth film of the brothers in which John Turturro has starred. Other actors in O Brother, Where Art Thou? who had worked previously with the Coens include John Goodman (three films), Holly Hunter (two), Charles Durning (two) and Michael Badalucco (one).

The Coens used digital color correction to give the film a sepia-tinted look.[18] Joel stated this was because the actual set was "greener than Ireland".[17] Cinematographer Roger Deakins said, "Ethan and Joel favored a dry, dusty Delta look with golden sunsets. They wanted it to look like an old hand-tinted picture, with the intensity of colors dictated by the scene and natural skin tones that were all shades of the rainbow." Initially the crew tried to perform the color correction using a physical process, but after several tries with various chemical processes proved unsatisfactory the process was performed digitally.[17]

This was the fifth film collaboration between the Coen Brothers and Deakins, and it was slated to be shot in Mississippi at a time of year when the foliage, grass, trees, and bushes would be a lush green.[19] It was filmed near locations in Canton, Mississippi,[20] and Florence, South Carolina, in the summer of 1999.[21] After shooting tests, including film bipack and bleach bypass techniques, Deakins suggested digital mastering be used. Deakins spent 11 weeks fine-tuning the look, mainly targeting the greens, making them a burnt yellow and desaturating the overall image in the digital files. This made it the first feature film to be entirely color corrected by digital means, narrowly beating Nick Park's Chicken Run. O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the first time a digital intermediate was used on the entirety of a first-run Hollywood film that otherwise had very few visual effects. The work was done in Los Angeles by Cinesite using a Spirit DataCine for scanning at 2K resolution, a Pandora MegaDef to adjust the color, and a Kodak Lightning II recorder to put out to film.[22]

A major theme of the film is the connection between old-time music and political campaigning in the American South. It makes reference to the traditions, institutions, and campaign practices of bossism and political reform that defined Southern politics in the first half of the 20th century.

The Ku Klux Klan, at the time a political force of white populism, is depicted burning crosses and engaging in ceremonial dance. The character Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel, the governor of Mississippi and host of the radio show The Flour Hour, is similar in name and demeanor to W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel,[23] one-time Governor of Texas and later U.S. Senator from that state.[24] O'Daniel was in the flour business and used a backing band called the Light Crust Doughboys on his radio show.[25] In one campaign, O'Daniel carried a broom, an oft-used campaign device in the reform era, promising to sweep away patronage and corruption.[26] His theme song had the hook, "Please pass the biscuits, Pappy", emphasizing his connection with flour.[25]

While the film borrows from historical politics, there are clear differences between the characters in the film and historical political figures. The O'Daniel of the movie used "You Are My Sunshine" as his theme song (which was originally recorded by singer and Governor of Louisiana James Houston "Jimmie" Davis[27]), and Homer Stokes, as the challenger to the incumbent O'Daniel, portrays himself as the "reform candidate", using a broom as a prop.

Music

See also: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack) and Down from the Mountain. The music was originally conceived as a major component of the film, not merely as a background or a support. Producer and musician T Bone Burnett worked with the Coens while the script was still in its working phases and the soundtrack was recorded before filming commenced.[28]

Much of the music used in the film is period-specific folk music. The selection also includes religious music such Primitive Baptist and traditional African American gospel, most notably the Fairfield Four, an a cappella quartet with a career extending back to 1921. The quartet appears in the soundtrack and as gravediggers towards the film's end. Selected songs in the film reflect the possible spectrum of musical styles typical of the old culture of the American South: gospel, delta blues, country, swing, and bluegrass.[14] [29]

The use of dirges and other macabre songs is a theme that often recurs in Appalachian music[30] ("O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", "I Am Weary") in contrast to bright and cheerful songs ("Keep On the Sunny Side", "In the Highways") in other parts of the film.

The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "Man of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright.[31] The three won a CMA Award for Single of the Year and a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, both for the song "Man of Constant Sorrow". Tim Blake Nelson sang the lead vocal on "In the Jailhouse Now".[32] During a cast reunion at the 2020 Nashville Film Festival, George Clooney recalled being called into the recording studio and singing despite his lack of talent. It was assumed that he could sing because he was the nephew of Rosemary Clooney. Despite the relation, he could not.[33]

"Man of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the soundtrack album. Two of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other three variations feature additional music between each verse.[34] Though the song received little significant radio airplay, it reached #35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 2002.[28] [35] The version of "I'll Fly Away" heard in the film is performed not by Krauss and Welch (as it is on the CD and concert tour), but by the Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling accompanying on long-neck five-string banjo, recorded in 1956 for the album Bowling Green on Tradition Records.[36]

Release

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2000, the United Kingdom on September 15, 2000 and the United States on December 22, 2000.[37] It grossed $71,868,327 worldwide on a $26 million budget.[2] [1]

Critical reception

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 78% of reviews critics are positive based on 158 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Though not as good as Coen brothers' classics such as Blood Simple, the delightfully loopy O Brother, Where Art Thou? is still a lot of fun."[38] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average, gave it a score of 69 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[39] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.[40]

Roger Ebert gave two and a half out of four stars to the film, saying all the scenes in the film were "wonderful in their different ways, and yet I left the movie uncertain and unsatisfied".[41]

Accolades

The film was selected to be part of the main competition of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[42]

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)Result
Academy AwardsMarch 25, 2001Best Adapted ScreenplayEthan Coen
Joel Coen		[43]
Best CinematographyRoger Deakins
BAFTA AwardsFebruary 25, 2001Best Screenplay – OriginalEthan Coen
Joel Coen		[44]
Best CinematographyRoger Deakins
Best Production DesignDennis Gassner
American Cinema Editors2001Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or MusicalEthan Coen
Tricia Cooke
American Comedy Awards2001Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)George Clooney
American Society of Cinematographers2001Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical ReleasesRoger Deakins
Awards Circuit Community Awards2000Best Adapted ScreenplayEthan Coen
Joel Coen
Best Cast EnsembleGeorge Clooney
John Turturro
Tim Blake Nelson
Charles Durning
Michael Badalucco
John Goodman
Holly Hunter
Best Art DirectionDennis Gassner
Best CinematographyRoger Deakins
Best Costume DesignMary Zophres
BMI Film & TV Awards2002Special CitationT Bone Burnett
British Society of Cinematographers2001Best CinematographyRoger Deakins
Cannes Film Festival2000Palme d'OrJoel Coen
Chicago Film Critics Association AwardsFebruary 26, 2001Best CinematographyRoger Deakins
Best Original ScoreCarter Burwell
T Bone Burnett
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association AwardsJanuary 6, 2001Best PictureO Brother Where Art Thou?
Best DirectorJoel Coen
Empire AwardsFebruary 19, 2001Best ActorGeorge Clooney
European Film AwardsDecember 2, 2000Screen International Award (USA)Joel Coen
Florida Film Critics Circle AwardsJanuary 4, 2001Best Soundtrack and ScoreCarter Burwell
T Bone Burnett		[45]
Golden GlobesJanuary 21, 2001Best Motion Picture – Comedy or MusicalO Brother Where Art Thou?[46]
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or MusicalGeorge Clooney
Grammy AwardsFebruary 27, 2002Album of the YearAlison Krauss, Union Station, Tim Blake Nelson,
Chris Thomas King, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch,
Harley Allen, John Hartford, Norman Blake,
Pat Enright, Hannah Peasall, Leah Peasall,
Sarah Peasall, Ralph Stanley, Sam Bush,
Stuart Duncan, The Cox Family, The Fairfield Four,
The Whites, T Bone Burnett, Peter K. Kurland,
Mike Piersante, Gavin Lurssen, Jerry Douglas,
Barry Bales, Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Cheryl White, and Sharon White		[47]
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Visual MediaT Bone Burnett
Mike Piersante
Peter F. Kurland
Las Vegas Film Critics Society AwardsDecember 21, 2000Best CinematographyRoger Deakins[48]
Best Screenplay, OriginalEthan Coen
Joel Coen
Best Costume DesignMary Zophres
London Film Critics' Circle AwardsFebruary 15, 2001Film of the YearO Brother Where Art Thou?
Screenwriter of the YearEthan Coen
Joel Coen
MTV Movie + TV AwardsJune 2, 2001Best On-Screen Team (The Soggy Bottom Boys)George Clooney
Tim Blake Nelson
John Turturro		[49]
Best Music Moment"Man Of Constant Sorrow"
Online Film Critics Society AwardsJanuary 2, 2001Best Original ScoreT Bone Burnett
Carter Burwell
Best CinematographyRoger Deakins
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards2001Best Original ScoreT Bone Burnett
Carter Burwell
Satellite AwardsJanuary 14, 2001Best Motion Picture, Comedy or MusicalO Brother Where Art Thou?[50]
Best Screenplay, AdaptedEthan Coen
Joel Coen
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or MusicalGeorge Clooney
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or MusicalTim Blake Nelson
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or MusicalHolly Hunter
Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America2002Best ScriptEthan Coen
Joel Coen
Turkish Film Critics Association Awards2001Best Foreign FilmO Brother Where Art Thou?

Soggy Bottom Boys

The Soggy Bottom Boys are the fictional musical group that the main characters form as part of the plot; their songs also serve as accompaniment for the film. It has been suggested that the name is in homage to the Foggy Mountain Boys, a bluegrass band led by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.[51] In the film, the actors lip-synched the songs credited to the band, except for Tim Blake Nelson's own voice on "In the Jailhouse Now".

The band's hit single is Dick Burnett's "Man of Constant Sorrow", a song that had enjoyed much success prior to the movie's release.[52] After the film's release, the fictitious band became so popular that the country and folk musicians whose performances are heard on the film got together for a concert tour called Down from the Mountain, which was filmed for TV and DVD. They included Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris Sharp, Stun Seymour, Dan Tyminski and others.

External links

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