What a Trip!!! O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? - First Time Watching (1/2)

its based on " the odyssey" by homer , with the sirens and the cyclops

Yes, losing your friend and your frog at the same time tends to be mighty depressing.

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this movie is based off the greek tale the "odyssey"-as read by homer.

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Many first-time viewers miss the point where Tommy separates from the group. The second time the Police caught up to them, Pete says Tommy "already lit out, scared out of his wits." And yes, Law Enforcement was kind of a blunt instrument, in those days.

You folks should definitely feel free to use the subtitles...especially if you are having trouble understanding the accents. The movie is set in 1937, and the story is loosely based on parts of Homer's poem The Odyssey. With a few exceptions, nobody did their own singing or playing in this movie except for Chris Thomas King...who played Tommy. Tim Blake Nelson did his own singing for the one song In the Jailhouse Now, but none of the three main Soggy Bottom Boys did their own singing.

Such a fun movie! Thanks for sharing it. On to part 2...

the literal translation of baptism is to bury. it symbolizes the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus

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I am American and I also have trouble understanding the accents. They are exaggerated, but not that much. I have definitely met (older) people who talk like that.

A lot of the music in this movie is from the period. The depression displaced a large protion of the American citizens. Many displaced men became Hobo's "Big Rock Candy Mountain" was about the "Hobo" culture of the time. Hobo's rode railroad box cars and lived in encampments near rail yards and towns. They were pursued by the railraid police, and usually existed on handouts. The lyrics of the song envision a Hobo dream.

The word “thou” (rhymes with cow) is the middle/early modern English second person singular (you was 2nd person plural-think of the difference between tu and vous in French). It’s used these days to make speech sound formal or old fashioned. 4:30 it’s a hand car typically used by railroad workers to get around short distances. 5:28 I can sympathize. I’m from the Deep South (Alabama originally) and I have trouble understanding other accents. I used to work with people at Rolls Royce in Bristol, England and I had the hardest time understanding them-except for a couple of guys who were originally from Scotland interestingly). 9:20 in the 1930s Deep South, everyone was either Baptist or Methodist. Baptists have two basic rules when it comes to baptism: 1) no babies are baptized, the person needs to be old enough to understand what he’s doing in order to be baptized and 2) baptism is by full immersion, symbolizing the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

Surely you know by now, but this film's story mirrors THE ODYSSEY.

I think it's definitely a much more enjoyable movie knowing its based on The Odyssey by Homer. Seeing all the parallels is great. And even as an American, i can say that those of us not from the south also have a hard time understanding them sometimes. Both in dialect and also thequestionable pride in some of the bad parts of their history

Tim Blake Nelson is the only one who sang for real

For the pronoun 'thou', English used to have a separate pronoun for singular 'you' (thou, thee, thine), kind of like Spanish with tu verses vos. 'Thou' was used in several famous lines by Shakespeare such as the one the title comes from: "Romeo, Romeo, where for art [are] thou [you], Romeo?"

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