Despite its classical Greek overtones, Joel Coen says, “This interpretation is a very American story, as all our stories are.” He’s not lying.
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The Coens’ new movie is a loose adaptation of the Odyssey, bringing Homer’s epic hero, already revived once in Ireland, back to life in America. Ulysses Everett McGill, portrayed by George Clooney, wanders the equally mythic terrain of the Deep South. Leopold Bloom makes his way through the streets of Dublin, Ireland. Odysseus traverses the wild, mythic terrain of ancient Greece.
His final destination, his wife, remains the same as well. The hero’s trials and wanderings remain the same. I’ve seen the Coen brothers’ new film O’ Brother Where Art Thou? twice. I’ve read Homer’s Odyssey and Joyce’s Ulysses.
Odysseus, or Leopold Bloom or Ulysses Everett McGill? I can’t seem to get it right anymore. Although he may not be the most honest person, Everett’s only goal is to get back to those he loves, even if it’s in a roundabout, dangerous way.“O Muse,/ Sing in me, and through me tell the story/ Of that man skilled in all the ways of contending/ A wanderer, harried for years on end…” Everett is also obsessed with his appearance, and is constantly slicking back his hair with Dapper Dan, his favorite brand of pomade. Delmar and Pete are starting to doubt the whole operation, but luckily for Everett they’re just dumb enough to stick with him. Everett is the unofficial leader of the group, but he’s getting them into a whole lot more trouble than they bargained for. Personality… arrogant, witty, and an unrepentant B.S. They’ve gotten this close to being strung up, consumed in a fire, whipped to no end, and sunstroked – all in the name of the “treasure” Everett promised. As if winning his wife back isn’t stressful enough, Everett also has to keep a low profile so he, Delmar and Pete don’t get caught by Cooley, who desperately wants to see these lowlifes punished. She’s already engaged to Waldrip, so Everett has to hurry up and prove himself to her if he wants to get his family back.Ĭhallenge… eluding the cruel Sherriff Cooley and the rest of the police looking for him. Rather than telling the truth about Everett going to jail, Penny told the children that their daddy had been hit by a train. Everett had to get out of there to get back to his wife Penny, who already has a “bona fide” suitor named Vernon T. Relationship Status… married it’s the whole reason he’s trying to get out of jail. Little does the public know that the members of its new favorite band, the Soggy Bottom Boys, are wanted fugitives. While on the run, Everett, Delmar, Pete and their new acquaintance Tommy come across a radio station run by a blind man who offered them $10 to “sing into a can.” Enticed by the money, the four of them made a record called Man of Constant Sorrow that managed to become a huge radio hit all across the south. Interests… singing with the Soggy Bottom Boys. So now they’re all on the run from the law, hoping to get to the alleged treasure before the valley it’s buried in is flooded as part of a new hydroelectric project. He said if they helped him escape, he’d split the treasure with them. Everett told them a tale about some treasure he hid in the valley before he got locked up. In order to escape, he lied to the guys chained to him, Delmar and Pete, saying he was arrested for armed robbery. They had him locked up in a Parchman Farm chain gang for practicing law without a license, but it’s not Everett’s fault – he’s a natural-born smooth-talker. He’s seen all kinds of characters while on the run, including a giant, one-eyed Bible salesman, a famous bank robber, and a few seductive sirens. Living… on the flat Mississippi Delta countryside since he escaped from Parchman Farm, a penitentiary in Mississippi.
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