Since it is Tuesday it is
time to pay homage to the musical genre with my personal number 4. A film that
may as well be called pseudo – something. Firstly it is a kind of musical
(since we’re getting to off-Broadway stuff), a kind of reference to Homer’s
epic saga of Ulysses, a kind of action/comedy/western musical!! Simply because
Coen Brothers used as an inspiration (or just an excuse) every kind of
incoherent information and managed to synthesize the coolest western / musical
(that is based on a masterpiece of ancient literature) to date, with the most
fitting but nevertheless awesomely used in the movie classic US folk tunes as
soundtrack/tracklisting because after all this movie is kind of a musical…
As noted in wiki:
« O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 adventure comedy film written, produced,
edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George
Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim
Blake Nelson, with John Goodman, Holly
Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles. Set
in 1937 rural Mississippi[5] during the Great
Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey. The title of the film is
a reference to the 1941 film Sullivan's
Travels, in which the protagonist (a director) wants to film a fictional book
about the Great Depression called O
Brother, Where Art Thou?[6]
Much of the music used in the film is period folk music,[7] including that of Virginia bluegrass singer Ralph
Stanley.[8] The movie was one of the
first to extensively use digital color correction, to give the film an
autumnal, sepia-tinted look.[9] The film received
positive reviews, and the American
folk music soundtrack won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2001.[10] The original band soon
became popular after the film release and the country and folk musicians who
were dubbed into the film, such as John
Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou
Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris
Sharp, and others, joined together to perform the music from the film in a Down
from the Mountain concert tour which was filmed for TV and DVD.[7] »
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