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Topic: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Harry Robinson
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From: Franklin Tennessee
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 01-16-2001 05:27 PM
As a Bluegrass musician I know I have to be somewhat predjudiced, but this was the most fun I've had in a theater in a long time. I won't go into the parallels with the Odyssey and the hip references to Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels. I think we can all do that on our own time.This is just a movie for people who love movies and Bluegrass. Interestingly though, my son pointed out that the color balance shifted between scenes. For example during the chain gang sequences all of the green was pulled out. I'm curious if he's right. As I don't work in a theater, I don't have the opportnity to view scenes over and over like I hope some of you guys do. So much for my rambling. I must r-u-n-n-o-f-t.
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Evans A Criswell
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 02-20-2001 10:13 AM
Attandance: 2000/02/19 21:10 Carmike Century Cinema 8. Decatur, AL
Auditorium 3 (32 foot auditorium, 27 foot screen (scope mode), movable side masking present). I'd heard many good things about this movie and finally got a chance to see it. My thoughts about the movie while watching it were, "This is a comedy?" It wasn't until I'd absorbed the entire movie that I could really look back and categorize this movie as a whole. I think "drama" would be a more accurate categorization. There were plenty of elements of comedy (plenty of things to laugh at), but as a whole, there were plenty of sad and sometimes terrifying scenes (like the KKK scene, for an example). If asked about the movie, all I could think of to say was "That was something else." It is different than anything I'd seen before. I recommend seeing it. Evans
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Evans A Criswell
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posted 02-20-2001 01:53 PM
I guess on the first viewing, I didn't "get" a lot of the comedy. When the DVD comes out, I'll definitely watch it again. It was a very strange movie. When I'd see some of the scenes, I'd be thinking, "Should this be funny or sad or what?" I guess for me, the image of the KKK leader dressed in red invoked images of the devil, and since there was a large group of them about to hang the black guy, it just didn't seem funny to me. I knew the guys were going to rescue him somehow. Some scenes I did find funny, and sad at the same time. The poor guy that believed the other guy had become a toad was very funny, but it was sad that the guy was dumb enough to believe that. It was refreshing to see this movie because it was so different from most movies that are out these days. Most comedies these days rely on a bunch of dumb gross gags to be funny. Some such movies succeed wonderfully using that method, while others fail miserably. For a while watching this movie, I was trying to figure out what track to put my mind on. It was like, "OK. What kind of movie is this?" I'd read no reviews and knew absolutely nothing about the movie before seeing it. I'm amazed at how different people react in such different ways when they see something. It's like how some of my friends love The Three Stooges and think they're hilarious, and get tears in their eyes from laughing so hard, while others sit there and don't even crack a smile. Evans
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Nic Margherio
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From: St. Louis MO, USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-22-2001 07:34 PM
Evans, You bring up some things that could be said about almost every (if not all) Coen brothers movie. Typically they are very complex and interwoven and therefore take two or three (or even more) viewings to sort of "take it all in." I've had a tendency in the past to dismiss their movies after the first viewing but now I've gotten to the point where I expect to not get it all at once and expect to watch it a couple of times. 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' was no exception. The Dude abides.
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