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Despite basing 'O Brother, Where art Thou?' on The Odyssey, neither of the Coen Brothers had ever read the Epic and were only familiar with the plot through adaptations and pop culture references.
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The man who sang George Clooney's parts in O Brother Where Art Thou also sings lead on Avicii's "Hey Brother"
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During the making of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' the Coen brothers had someone on set just to catch snakes using a golf club. When asked what to call somebody with this profession, he said 'an idiot.'
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The Tommy Johnson character in O Brother Where Art Thou was based on a real musician of the same name, who claimed to have sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in exchange for his mastery of the guitar.
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In the famous "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" quote from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, "wherefore" does not mean "where", but "why". Juliet is asking Romeo why he must be a Montague, a member of the rival gang.
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In Hollywood, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the first film to be wholly digitally graded. The negative was scanned with a Spirit DataCine at 2K resolution, then colors were digitally fine-tuned using a Pandora MegaDef color corrector on a Virtual DataCine.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was originally meant to be an homage to 'The Wizard of Oz.' The influence of 'The Odyssey' came later.
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Man of Constant Sorrow wasn't written for O Brother Where Art Thou, but was written in 1913 by Kentuckian songwriter Dick Burnett, "the blind minstrel of Monticello." When asked if he wrote the song, he replied "No, I think I got that ballet from somebody—I dunno. It may be my song….."
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In Hollywood, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the first film to be wholly digitally graded. The negative was scanned with a Spirit DataCine at 2K resolution, then colors were digitally fine-tuned using a Pandora MegaDef color corrector on a Virtual DataCine.
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The lead vocals of "Hey Brother" by Avicii were sung by the same guy (Dan Tyminski) who provided the lead vocals of The Soggy Bottom Boys (George Clooney's part) in "O Brother Where Art Thou". How could I have missed that??
Dan Tyminski, the guy who sang "man of constant sorrow" on O Brother, Where Art Thou, also provided the vocals for "hey brother" by Avicii - source
The character Pappy O'Daniel from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was a real person. - source
The quote "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" is not Juliet calling Romeo but her lamenting Romeo's name, alluding to the feud between the two families.
"wherefore" as in "wherefore art thou, Romeo," means 'why' not 'where.' - source
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A popular Christian Hymn "How Great Thou Art" and the national anthem of Nazi Germany both sound extremely similar, and share northern european origins.
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The Christian hymn, How Great Thou Art, was not popularized in English until the 1950s.
The Nazi National Anthem (Die Fahne hoch), was not an original composition, but a well-known soldiers song. The best-known example, in the U.S., is the hymn "How Great Thou Art"
In Hollywood, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the first film to be wholly digitally graded. The negative was scanned with a Spirit DataCine at 2K resolution, then colors were digitally fine-tuned using a Pandora MegaDef color corrector on a Virtual DataCine.
Sales for the soundtrack of "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" have surpassed the movie itself.
The composer for HBO's True Detective was also the Grammy Award Winning Composer of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
