Man, I just loved that movie. I thought clooney did a killer job. Actually, he reminded me of some of the people here on the straight dope message board with his intellect and logic. There were so many funny parts. Some of my favorite was when they were eating the stew from the hillbilly and he told them that it was from a horse that was starting to turn(the look on there faces and the fact the hillbilly didn’t care) just cracked me up.
There song, of course, was awesome and funny. They looked like ZZ Top up there.
Well am I the only one that thought this movie was awesome or did ya’ll like it too? And was some of ya’lls favorite parts?
Ma Hair! Ma HAIR!! – even popping up out of a dead sleep, Clooney is worried about the coif. That was my favorite.
Yes, very good movie. Bill, If you like that style of humor you should check out some of the Coen Brothers other movies – Fargo, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, etc.
That they did. The scene also reflects the disguised return of Odysseus (in Homer’s Odyssey). Much of the film is playful in the way it can be interpreted, just like your comment
I liked Clooney too. My favorite part was his appeal to the smithing skills of the gentlemen on the train.
…that anyone would be surprised that a politician in Louisiana in the 1940’s would be down with the Ku Klux Klan? Or that said politician would be scandalized by such an association?
I would nominate “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” as one of the perfect American movies. From the depression era life to the soundtrack, it’s just brilliant. I saw it for the second time last night (first time was last week) after having loved the soundtrack for months.
Mrs Chance and I kicked back with a bottle of Raspberry wine and watched it (trust me, Raspberry wine is good for what ails you). It was her first time…
“Damn! We’re in a tight spot!”
“Kerr fer a gofer?”
“The law is a human institution.”
Brilliant. One of the best movies of all time.
And yes, the bit with the three of them trying to get into the boxcar and McGill being pulled off the train is HILARIOUS!
They were scandalized that he condemned the Soggy Bottom boys. I saw the flick 3 times, and never thought the crowd cared that he was exposed as a KKK member.
Yeah, he slammed the popular media and down he went! Teach him!
“You traded your everlasting soul?”
“I wasn’t using it.”
All I know is, if I’m ever driving down a dusty country road in the south and I see a man standing alone at a crossroads with a guitar I’m picking him up. He may have lost his soul, but the way he plays could save mine.
Perhaps, but The Soggy Bottom Boys was integrated! Don’t you find it hard to believe that not one of the supposed rednecks in the audience was the slightest bit bothered by the Negro among them? My understanding of depression-era Southern culture is that it was passionately segregated.
Hilarious! Literally had me rolling with laughter at some points. Goes to show that smart and witty can be funny too. First saw and loved the movie prior to being made aware of the “Homer’s Odyssey” connection. Has been even more fun trying to decipher the imagery ever since.
My wife’s grandmother (age 91, born and raised in Alabama) says that there was plenty of race mixing, it was just that the blacks (and poor whites) mixing were of the servant class, and were constantly visible and mixed in their roles as cooks, cleaners, musicians, and others doing dirty deeds dirt cheap. Now they didn’t mix socially, and the blacks were lower down on the pecking order than the white workers, but they were omnipresent (per Nana Nana anyway).
Memorable lines: “Sing into the can”,
“‘I’m absolved of my sin of robbing the Piggly Wiggly!’ ‘I though you said you wuz innocent of that.’ ‘Yeah, well, I’m absolved of that sin too now!’”
Definitely in the top five of my all time faves! Brilliant casting, acting, directing, cinematography, and the score is simply perfect! I wouldn’t have believed Clooney was capable of such a performance, but I really have to give him credit, he was superb.
Favorite line: …sniff…sniff…“you been using my hair cream?” ( among many others! )
Really a fall-down-laughing kind of flick, at least for me.
LOVED IT
I saw it with my parents. My dad has incorporated’Soggy Bottom Boys’ into his everyday vernacular.
We are also huge fans of The Big Lebowski
side note: I used to have an old, carved, wool, oriental carpet runner in my apartment in Chicago. The backround was pale yellow and it was a few months before I realized that my little dog had been using it as her own personal toliet and despite every type of steam cleaning imaginable, I had to throw it out.
Coincidentally, The Big Lebowski had just opened in theaters and when I saw the seen about the ‘rug pulling the room together’ I laughed so hard I choked on my Snowcaps.
My parents saw it later, and Dad likes to call me (yes still and I don’t even live in the same place) comment on what a shame it is that my rug was peed on because it REALLY pulled the room together.
