Oh Brother, Where Art Though?

The events that take place in the film “O’ Brother, Where Art Though?” are based primarily on those of Homers “The Odyssey.” The movie is very successful when it comes to what it set out to do, which like most movies was, to entertain. The movie does a superb job at sucking you into the time period it is set in, keeping everything true to the theme from music to brand names (Dapper Dan). The movie is completed by its multiple hidden meanings and significance's.
The movie seemed to have an above average number of shots that had many things going on in the background. What I’m trying to say, yet failing to word it, is that there were allot of scenes that would focus on one thing that may be boring to the eye, for instance George Clooney talking to the men on the moving train, and in the background have his two companions attempting to jump on, and then falling off. It is the multiple scenes like these ones that add a unique comedy to the movie.
Another method of the movie that I noticed was that to make a serious scene funny, they would make sure to remove all music from the scene and just have silence, and background noises. Some good examples of this is when The Cyclops robs them and beats them up, or when they witness a bank robbery with George Orwell (I think that's his name). This added an awkwardness to the situations which is how a situation like that would most likely have been.
One obvious theme in the movie was the companionship or brotherhood between the three main characters. The movie has an old time theme that is present from beginning to end. This theme is masterfully kept up throughout the movie with fantastic music, brand names, events, dialogue, clothing, ect.
Of course the most prominent part of this movie, the backbone of the story, is its relativity to The Odyssey. In both “The Odyssey” and “O’ Brother Where Art Though?”, the main characters are driven by hubris. Everett has an obsession with his hair, forcing him to buy cans and cans of “Dapper Dan” hair grease which in turn, helps the police dogs track the trio. He had been imprisoned away from his wife, and it wasn't until he heard news of her getting married that he felt the need to break out and find her. Hubris often leeds to the main characters downfall because of there irrepressible pride, which is obvious in the many down points Everett and his fellow men reach in the movie (Beaten up by the cyclops, manipulated by the sirens, Pete being recaptured and almost hung, all of them being almost hung near the end of the movie, being thrown out of the general store and his friends almost abandoning him, ect.)
Also truthful of hubris in stories is that at the end, everything turns out allright partially due to luck. Most of the problems in this movie are escaped by sheer luck or coincidence. An obvious depiction of this is the fact that at the end of the movie, they are pardoned from there criminal record and famous, due to them singing as a distraction and an excuse to get into the town show.