• @Hobbes_Dent
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    496 months ago

    Oh no haven’t they seen the Oceans series?

    • The Assman
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      6 months ago

      O Brother, Where Art Thou? is my favorite movie

      • @[email protected]
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        326 months ago

        That soundtrack alone is pure gold, let alone the story of Odysseus told in the deep south.

        • @ummthatguy
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          116 months ago

          As well as The Wizard of Oz!

          • @HootinNHollerin
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            66 months ago

            I knew about the odyssey but what’s this about wizard of oz?

            • @ummthatguy
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              126 months ago

              Taken from Whatculture:

              While O Brother, Where Art Thou? was eventually credited as an adaptation of The Odyssey (the first Coens script to adapt an existing source), it was a different quest to return home that served as Joel and Ethan’s original inspiration, one that provides another slice of sepia-toned 1930s Americana. “We were thinking of it more as The Wizard Of Oz,” Joel revealed on the movie’s 15th anniversary on 2015, “We wanted the tag on the movie to be: ‘There’s no place like home.’” Even after the story moved more toward picking up on the episodic beats of Homer’s classical epic poem, there still remains a few residual elements of Oz in the film as released. The scene in which our three bumbling heroes disguise themselves as Klansmen to rescue Tommy from a lynching, for example, is an homage to the similar rescue of Dorothy from the Witch’s castle by her trio of bumbling sidekicks in the children’s fantasy classic. The Klan even march in formation with low rhythmic chanting just like the Wicked Witch’s guards.

      • @disguy_ovahea
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        6 months ago

        Fantastic film. Have you read The Odyssey by Homer?

        • The Assman
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          36 months ago

          Yeah, forced myself through it back when the film first came out. I’m glad to have read it but I’ll take the American south version any day lol

          • @disguy_ovahea
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            36 months ago

            I thought it was fun to notice the little nods, like the “cyclops” wearing an eyepatch.

    • @givesomefucks
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      66 months ago

      The Russian dub of Fantastic Mr Fox didn’t get Clooney and putin’s been pissed ever since…

    • @RattlerSix
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      46 months ago

      Or The Peacemaker. He killed a lot of Russians in that movie

    • FartsWithAnAccent
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      6 months ago

      Meh, he’s been in much better. Those are just OK heist movies.

      • @gdog05
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        36 months ago

        Out of Sight being the best one.