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The Coen brothers best film.
by Evan (movies profile)
Jun 25, 2005
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4 people found this review helpful
The screenplay for this movie is something else. It is beyond brilliant. It is an adaptation of Homer's The Odyssy. Instead of Odysseus and his men trying to get back to Ithicca, Ulysses,(Some translations read Ulysses instead of Odyseus) well played by George Clooney, and the two prisoners that he is chained to try to escape a chain gang and go home, for similar reasons as in the Odyssey. On the way, they pickup a hitchhiker and record some music, scam the recorder out of 20 bucks, escape a burning barn, get picked up by a bank robber, break up a KKK ceremony, get seduced by three women known as sirens, and accidentely become music sensation. The whole movie is presented in a washed out looking film, like a movie made when this is set. It can be liked by anybody, if you have read the Odyssey or not. The soundtrack is full excellent bluegrass music. Of all the Coen brothers movies I have seen, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, I enjoyed this one the most, and think that it is just the slightest bit better than Fargo.
It would have definately made my top-10 list of 2000. ***1/2(Out Of ****) |
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