O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? - Where is the cow on top of a house?! First Time Watching (2/2)
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- We embark in a very strange journey through the south of the USA with these prison runaways! This is our reaction to the second half of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Thanks to Radiodanoo for requesting this reaction! 👌
Part 1: • What a Trip!!! O BROTH...
FIRST TIME WATCHING | REACTION
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00:53 Reaction
16:33 Review / Final Thoughts
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That's not a guitar it's a Banjo 🪕
The movie is based on Homer's "Odyssey" where Ulysses is trying to retutn home and faces obstacles such as the Sirens and the Cyclops (one eyed monster).
we missed that info at the beginning of the movie, but Ulysses name is a big clue though! 😂
It's Called a Banjo
Ah yes! 🤦♂ I think I knew that, at least it really sounds familiar
This movie illustrates my comment in your “Why some people don’t like fantasy” discussion. Knowing the story of the Odyssey, or at least the mythological elements in it, adds a lot to one’s appreciation of this movie. However, I am going to mention a few things that no one else has talked about.
The Tommy Johnson character is based on Robert Johnson, a pioneering Blues musician who, legend says, sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in exchange for his talent. Another real character is the criminal “Baby Face” Nelson. The marching chant during the KKK rally is very similar, if not identical, to the chant used by the soldiers of the Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), a subtle way to ridicule the KKK, I think. Finally, this movie is in part an homage to a famous comedy-drama, “Sullavan’s Travels” (1941), by the great writer-director Preston Sturges. In that film, a comedy director yearns to make a serious drama, but as a result of his experiences, he discovers that comedy can be just as important as drama. The scene when the chain gang comes into the theater echoes the crucial scene in ST. The serious drama that Sullavan wanted to make was titled “O’ Brother, Where Art Thou.”
You need to show Lucy “Fargo” (1996), a crime story made by the Coen brothers.
Exactly, knowing the background story and myths does improve how much you will enjoy it, but we still enjoyed this one quite a lot!!
A lot of very interesting information :p I knew of Baby Face Nelson, but the rest I didn't
Lucy would LOVE Fargo I'm sure!
The way Homer Stokes was removed is called being ridden out on a rail. It is a fence rail. It is an old expression that i had never actually seen till this movie. Apparently it is a good way to transport someone through a crowd.
Same. In fact, I wonder if it is the actual process. The Coens love to mess with their audience.
Often Tar and Feathering was also involved.
@@tommiller4895 oooh that would have been great for Stokes!
I believe the persons legs were tied together, and they had to sit on the pointy edge of the rail, not the flat part.
@@Hayseo 😬😬😬
Yes, the characters were the joke, LOL! Such a fun movie. The Coen Brothers use a lot of the same actors in their different movies, so you'll recognize lots of the faces. In this one they blended many elements of Homer's Odyssey with cultural elements from depression.era deep south America, and just had fun telling a good story. Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
You're welcome and thank you for your words ☺ we had a lot of fun recording this one
9:00 old country music has a lot of yodeling. The music in this movie is great and very accurate to the times. I remember listening to these songs with my grandmother (who was around 20 when this movie takes place).
11:05 it’s a rail. They’re “riding him out of town on a rail” which was a sign that he’s no longer welcome and everyone can see it.
14:45 it’s a banjo. It has a much more twangy sound than a guitar so it’s popular in country music.
15:22 it’s not exactly an accurate picture of how a dammed river floods a valley but it’s still a cool scene and good deux ex machina for the end of the movie.
15:59 there were a couple of big federal programs regarding electricity in the 30s: the Tennessee Valley Authority which dammed up parts of the Tennessee River and tributaries for power and the Rural Electrification Act which was to get electricity out to rural parts of the country - though some of that started earlier. I grew up waterskiing on Lay Lake in Alabama which was impounded in 1912. The tour of that dam is pretty cool.
18:23 the south does have big cities (Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, etc) but the culture is still very rural. Even living in Atlanta, we always had a vegetable garden growing up and we spent a lot of our summers with my grandparents in rural Alabama. The food definitely has agrarian roots -barbecue, hashes and the like are ways to make parts of animals that can’t be sold edible. Grits, with the corn treated with lye, can keep a person going at farming all day (I know from experience).
Thanks a lot for all the info 😉
Would looove to try some southern american food for sure 👌
Well done. 🤣
The guy that played Delmar is also in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
Woolworth's was what was called a 5 & Dime store, a variety store. The southerner here pronounced it Woolsworth.
My father was born in 1919, so he grew up during the Great Depression. He had to quit school before finishing so he could help support his family. Yes, as you mentioned, $10 at the time was a lot of money. He got s job paying $1 per day. On that, he paid room and board, an was even able to save a small amount. It was a different time, indeed.
"Baby Face Nelson," was a real bank robber, during the Depression. There's another excellent film about a couple of real life American gangsters, "Bonnie and Clyde."
It's always a shock in a way when you hear how prices where because you automatically apply that number to nowadays 😅
Bonnie and Clyde is one that I know the story and how it ends, but have never seen the film
Regarding the flooding of the valley -- During the Depression, the government created many jobs programs across the country. Each with names that were given initials. In the South, they initiated the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which was a program to dam the many rivers in the south to make electricity. You see that here in this movie, with Everett's house now at the bottom of a lake, and you also see that in the 1972 movie Deliverance. Same idea.
Make sense, some government programs to combat unemployment at that time.
That scene was great though, fantastic visual!
There are many great Coen brothers movies: Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, and in my opinion their best - No Country for Old Men. Their very first movie, Blood Simple foreshadows their great potential as filmmakers.
That is also my personal favourite 😜 and yes, still need to show her all those works of art
Woolworth's were the prequel to Walmart 😊
ah ok, it was the Walmart of that era xD But was it substituted or does it still exist?
Woolworths is now defunct for about thirty years. Last one near me closed around 1980. They were a chain of department stores with a lunch counter. Pretty new concept back in the early 20th century. @@ptthatswhatshesaid
@@MaceGill Interesting! nowadays its quite common to have a lunch or breakfast counter (at least were we are from)
@@MaceGill Woolworths is a very large supermarket chain in Australia. It has 2,248 stores and is almost certainly the biggest such supermarket chain in Australia. I don't know if the Australian company is related to the American brand.
@@patrickcorliss8878 that's really interesting and hadn't known that! Did a quick look up on it, and I think the companies are unrelated
'There are no atheists in foxholes' is an argument against foxholes, not atheists :)
My favourite Coen brothers movie is A Serious Man. It's all about faith and God and being Jewish, and lack of control, and how impossible it is to know anything or communicate anything. But it's also incredibly strange and funny. Some people I show it to hate it, which I take as a good sign
In my experience, all their movies are pretty good! 👌🏻
The hoods the KKK are wearing are traditional priest hoods in some places (Spain, for instance).
So, originally it was like a religious cult? The hoods make more sense that way yeah
@@ptthatswhatshesaidI would say they are more political than religious as far as that goes they are bad news
@@ptthatswhatshesaid The KKK stole the idea from the Spanish penitents (seen during Holy week in spring in Sothern Spain). I am pretty well convinced that white supremacists can only steal symbols from others (like the extremely Buddhist swastika and the "okay" symbol), not create something new.
@@ptthatswhatshesaidthey believed they were doing God's work.
The title of this movie is significant. It comes from a 1940s movie, Sullivan's Travels about a film maker looking for a new project. A producer wants him to make a comedy based on a novel novel called, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" but Sullivan wants to make a serious movie about poor people. He decides to get his inspiration for his next film by living among the poor and destitute and learning what is like to be poor.
The old time music was a big part of this movie!
I had no idea it was based on Sullivan's Travels
All that wasted Dapper Dan!
I think some of the jokes may have been lost in translation, due to a lack of familiarity with Southern American culture and speech patterns - Pete's cousin spelling "R-U-N-N-O-F-T" for example. In certain areas of the South, people would add a "T" sound to the end of some words, such as "off." That was his best guess how to spell "run off" (a Southern expression for run away). I grew up in the South, and found that hilarious, but if you hadn't ever heard it pronounced that way you would never get the joke.
Oh, you're right, that was way to specific for us! 😂 Thanks a lot 😉
There's an old expression, ran out of town on a rail 😊
Great reaction. Love you guys. You would enjoy the soundtrack. What we in the south call Bluegrass music.
Thanks! 😁
Someone also made reference to bluegrass music, and I really enjoy it. Been listening to it as background music while I am at work! 😅
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I’ve said my piece and counted to three.
She is a difficult woman! 😅😅😅
hi just starting but the cow is on top of the house floating in the flooded new lake as i recall
Yeah, we were wondering right till the end of the movie where the damn cow was!
A bonafide reaction.
Look up some blue grass music. Explains the music and instruments. Nice reaction!
Thank you!
(listening to a bluegrass music compilation, I think I kinda like it 😅)
@@ptthatswhatshesaid a great collection to listen to for all sorts of music from this time period is the "American Epic Soundtrack" about 100 early recordings, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s.
@@MaceGill Thank you very much! 😉
Bravo.
good one
thanks 😉
14:50 Brazilian detected
almost xD we're portuguese
Why do people put black and white mini traillers on a youtube video?
The white people of Mississippi would actually been very supportive of what Homer Stokes was saying in this time frame..
please show me one woman reaction video personality who doesn't put money first and before any other concern.