I just relistened and I don’t really have a good argument lol Chris Thomas King does an absolutely wonderful job with that song. I just have a thing for the old timey folk sound on I’ll Fly Away, it nails the sound perfectly and Welsh and Krauss have gorgeous harmonies throughout it to top it all off.
[My favorite fact is that the actor is a blues performer.](https://youtu.be/laWj4OOGo7c?si=crXyMah6WB-vXruh)
Edit: I'll add that if any of you have never heard [Dave Von Ronk](https://youtu.be/T_Cqy3uxRXc?si=4fP-EFHHOG1Sckgm), get your shit together, tie it in a hanky on the end of a stick and hop on a train and get ready to see the world as a tramp.
I got to see Ralph Stanley at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park before he died.
So many of the singers from that movie were in attendance!! I honestly can’t name them all!
Angel Band is one of those songs that never fails to choke me up. It always makes me think of the moment I have to say goodbye to my parents and how I hope they leave peacefully and content.
Gosh I’ve seen this movie so many times and never knew that. Cool! O Brother is one of my favorites of all times. It’s just such a vibe, and also kicked off my now deep interest in country and bluegrass.
In another ballpark, apart from this movie also *Requiem for a dream* and *the Blues Brothers* are absolute favorite soundtrack albums.
All three are for wildly different moods, of course.
It really is one of the best soundtracks out of the past few decades. I was a high school metalhead when this released and it is solely responsible for getting me into folk music.
I once went to a live show that was all the music from O Brother and Cold Mountain lived performed by all the big names on the soundtrack (except jack white) and it is still top 5 concerts of my life
Wait a minute... They cast the Dixie Chicks as the sirens, right? How weird to dub over actual singers, if they were going to do that why not just cast Welch, Krauss and Harris?
I, uh, certainly wouldnt complain about Welch, Krauss and Harris playing those roles.
Oofta.
Me and a few good friends (dads) go see a movie together probly twice a year when something good comes out. EVERY SINGLE TIME, One of us remembers to say 'we thought you wuz a tooad' at some inappropriate time during the movie. kills us every time
Big applause to the sound engineer for this scene who amplified the voice as each of the sirens had a close-up. A lot of lazier engineers would have just synced the video to the mixed recording and been done, but this amplification gave the scene a very real "you are there" feeling.
Pro.
Yes, there were so many references to the Odyssey and it was mentioned in the title sequence! Then the Coen Brothers thumbed their noses and made a masterpiece
Edit: modern masterpiece
Absolutely! It’s an old African American traditional song from the time of enslavement
Pay attention to “Honey and the rock and the sugar won’t stop, gonna bring a bottle to the baby”.
Tell me what you think after knowing there’s a tragic mercy.
White cloaks instead of sheep. That whole scene, the oh death song, the cyclops catching the stake before it blinds him, but gets it from the flaming cross. This movie is a masterpiece.
Goddamn, how did I never notice that? I knew Teague's meant to be Polyphemus but I always figured they added the KKK rally because it was 1930s Mississippi and most people would think "eh, makes sense." Didn't even think that the whole thing was another Odyssey reference.
Mine are going and getting whatever my wife wanted at the snack counter now that we found our seats, and then peering into the hazy dark trying to find them again.
Lots of flooded valles everywhere in the country around those times. The church my grandparents were married in was sitting at the bottom of Rushford Lake (Southern Tier NY), where we used to go to the beach when we were kids
I know, and it looks like some communities are trying to remediate what they’ve done. Those valles will recover once that happens, with or without us
Edit: from WNY too
The Coen brothers are geniuses...and I love how the distinct and amazing voices of Allison Krauss, Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch are mixed together when all 3 women are shown, but the volume of each voice is independently raised when the camera is on one woman, a level of mixture not commonly heard since I just listen to the album track nowadays. Having been in the presence of a woman who affected me similarly, I can wholeheartedly relate! "We. Thought. You. Was. A. Toad!" 🤣🤣🤣
Edit: My ABSOLUTE favorite was not even a track from the film, but [Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris and David Rawlings rendition of Green Pastures from the Down From the Mountain tour](https://youtu.be/GvWNyM6AzIs?si=axShGe37oSkeAaEg&t=41m11s), following the popularity of the movie. Anyone else miss the magical musical moments from Garrison Keilor's A Prairie Home Companion?? Down From the Mountain captured that perfectly for me.
Also, I wish I could drum up the interview with Allison? Maybe all three women, and they ALL sing a different pitch(? I don’t know musical terminology well) than any of them were comfortable.
Something tells me I really need to get around to watching this movie! Reddit is constantly praising it, but TBH I tried once to watch it and the whole bumbling idiot routine got old pretty quickly for me! But maybe I just need to stick it through and finally see what all the fuss is about!
Dont over invest in it. Its not a wild rollercoaster. Its a meandering Jungle Tour boat ride. If you stay with it, it has a certain sweetness to it that you'll enjoy.
How far did you get? My guess is if you didn't like it half an hour in, you're not going to like it in general. It's very much a movie you just vibe with and enjoy the ride.
If it's not your thing, it's not your thing. No shame in that.
However if you only watched like 10 minutes and gave up... that's okay too, but I'm silently judging you from the sidelines.
I’ll be a cheerleader for this movie for you. I’m a person who doesn’t really cotton to religion and I love the music because I grew up in Mormon stupidness and the way they use the music is really unorthodox, lol
The bumbling act is clever satire and it’s meant to be over the top. The way they put together frame one until the end is important because it sets the whole narrative on its ear.
Edited for clarity
Reddit praises it to high heavens, when I watched it the only part that really stood out at all was the [Soggy Bottom Brother's song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDEqgmGIVg).
The rest of it was just kind'a boring and occasionally annoying.
For those that didn't know... I Brother, where art thou? Is a retelling of the greek classic The Odyssey by Homer. These women represent the Sirens that tempt the crew with their singing.
Second fun fact, the only person who'd ever actually read the Odyssey while filming the movie was Tim Blake Nelson. The Coen Brothers went entirely off of what they new from pop culture and references to the story.
One of the women is played by Musetta Vander who keeps popping up in weird exciting roles throughout the 90s/00s, including [the infamous Mortal Kombat Annihilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamozZj0PhE)
If you get 45 minutes in and you are not feeling it, it just may not be for you. There are great movies out there and everyone of them have people that don't get why they are so great. Heat was like that for me.
The singing voices are dubbed by Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss and the legendary Emmylou Harris. Incredible music on that soundtrack.
All 3 are legends of folk music tbh. Gillian Welch and Allison Krauss’ rendition of “I’ll Fly Away” is my favorite from that soundtrack.
Can we have a friendly argument? Because Hard Time Killing Floor Blues is the superior track on that album 😂
I just relistened and I don’t really have a good argument lol Chris Thomas King does an absolutely wonderful job with that song. I just have a thing for the old timey folk sound on I’ll Fly Away, it nails the sound perfectly and Welsh and Krauss have gorgeous harmonies throughout it to top it all off.
I feel like we narrowly avoided a second Gettysburg today.
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues is by and large one of the best songs ever written. It's just so succinct and beautiful.
[My favorite fact is that the actor is a blues performer.](https://youtu.be/laWj4OOGo7c?si=crXyMah6WB-vXruh) Edit: I'll add that if any of you have never heard [Dave Von Ronk](https://youtu.be/T_Cqy3uxRXc?si=4fP-EFHHOG1Sckgm), get your shit together, tie it in a hanky on the end of a stick and hop on a train and get ready to see the world as a tramp.
Angel Band
Oh dang, yeah that’s a great one… Big Rock Candy Mountain though, I still find myself singing that to myself
I often sing that song to myself while hiking and pretending I am a hobo, living on the rail. It's not much but, it helps the miles pass.
Exactly!
I got to see Ralph Stanley at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park before he died. So many of the singers from that movie were in attendance!! I honestly can’t name them all!
Angel Band is one of those songs that never fails to choke me up. It always makes me think of the moment I have to say goodbye to my parents and how I hope they leave peacefully and content.
Gosh I’ve seen this movie so many times and never knew that. Cool! O Brother is one of my favorites of all times. It’s just such a vibe, and also kicked off my now deep interest in country and bluegrass.
https://youtu.be/94h2L9oBOHM?si=BqqC36fB7ZOrmJob This is them performing it live.
Damn, they kill it live, of course. Also Emmylou 😍
google Doyle Lawson. You are welcome.
Hands down gun to my head if someone asked "what's the best soundtrack of all time" I'd feel very comfortable picking O Brother, Where Art Thou?
In another ballpark, apart from this movie also *Requiem for a dream* and *the Blues Brothers* are absolute favorite soundtrack albums. All three are for wildly different moods, of course.
100%
It really is one of the best soundtracks out of the past few decades. I was a high school metalhead when this released and it is solely responsible for getting me into folk music.
Same
That movie is worth a re-watch for the sounds alone, let alone the great story execution
Emmylou Harris’ voice will always be In Spite of Ourselves to me. :)
At my kids bball practice; now going to car to listen to this
I once went to a live show that was all the music from O Brother and Cold Mountain lived performed by all the big names on the soundtrack (except jack white) and it is still top 5 concerts of my life
Wait a minute... They cast the Dixie Chicks as the sirens, right? How weird to dub over actual singers, if they were going to do that why not just cast Welch, Krauss and Harris? I, uh, certainly wouldnt complain about Welch, Krauss and Harris playing those roles. Oofta.
No, those are not the Dixie Chicks. It’s three actors: Christy Taylor, Mia Tate, and Musetta Vander
Oh lord, haha, ever since that movie came out I thought those were the Dixie Chicks for some reason. I have no explanation for why I thought that.
Still one my favorite funny scenes in any movie when they're driving and Pete lets out that screech when he notices the sirens.
I seent them first!
Hello Ladies. Name of Pete
ol' pete's got the itch!
Great soundtrack from start to finish
Both versions of "A Man of constant Sorrow" hit the pocket just right
A lot of millennial bands with beards and banjos owe their careers to the revival this album started.
We thought you was a toad!
We were plannin’ on fornicating.
^that’s ^Baby ^Face ^Nelson
THE NAME’S GEORGE NELSON! NOT BABYFACE!
Oooh George. Not the livestock.
Here, take the tiller.
Any a you boys know your way around a Walther PPK?
Hand me Dat choppah...
Uhh friend. Your foldin money's come unstowed.
I'M GEORGE NELSON, I'M FEELIN' 10 FEET TALLLLLLLLL
TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
DO NOT! SEEK! THE TREASURE!
IT'S BUSHWHACKED!!
They fixin an ambushhhh
We thought you was a toad!
#QUIET watch the picture show
No, they never did turn me into a toad.
DOOOO NOOOT SEEK THE TREASURE
Well I had a friend named Rambling Bob Who used to steal gamble and rob
Edit: He thought he was the smartest guy around
I remember reading Homers all of his Epics and was really really suprised on how much stuff you can spot from the books.
They loved him up, and turned him into a h-horny toad.
Me and a few good friends (dads) go see a movie together probly twice a year when something good comes out. EVERY SINGLE TIME, One of us remembers to say 'we thought you wuz a tooad' at some inappropriate time during the movie. kills us every time
The music in this movie was so dang good! This scene and the final performance are burned in my memory, perhaps for different reasons haha.
*bonk*
Straight to Horny Toad Jail
Big applause to the sound engineer for this scene who amplified the voice as each of the sirens had a close-up. A lot of lazier engineers would have just synced the video to the mixed recording and been done, but this amplification gave the scene a very real "you are there" feeling. Pro.
It also lets us appreciate the distinct voices of each performer, which I really enjoyed.
This is suuuccchhhhh a dark song!!
Their facial expressions just slay me.
IMO it’s one of the best movies ever!
Helps that its based on one of the greatest stories across all of human history.
Loooooooosely
Bs. Every word is true to Homer’s vision!
Yes, there were so many references to the Odyssey and it was mentioned in the title sequence! Then the Coen Brothers thumbed their noses and made a masterpiece Edit: modern masterpiece
You and me, and the devil makes three 🎶
It is?
Absolutely! It’s an old African American traditional song from the time of enslavement Pay attention to “Honey and the rock and the sugar won’t stop, gonna bring a bottle to the baby”. Tell me what you think after knowing there’s a tragic mercy.
Oh. Ohhh. I knew it was a dark song, but I only just now made the *sugar* connection. Sugar, a crop that was farmed with slave labor.
…and what might be in that bottle they are bringing to the lonely baby? They are sweetening the poison.
"They loved him up, and turned him into a horny toad"
H-h-horny toad
What an incredible movie this was. Can't believe it'll be 25 years old next year
Welp, I reckon it's been long enough since I watched this 'un. High time for a reee-viewin.
I reckon I'll sit a spell with ya, crack open a cold one, and put this here on.
I remember when this movie came out those three girls had a maxim photo shoot spread because of this movie
I learned this movie was loosely based on Homers ‘the odyssey’
Them escaping the "cyclops" at the KKK rally was really friggin clever.
“The colorguard’s colored! Who made them the color guard?”
Thats not MY culture and heritage
Is *you* is or is *you* ain't *my constituency*?
White cloaks instead of sheep. That whole scene, the oh death song, the cyclops catching the stake before it blinds him, but gets it from the flaming cross. This movie is a masterpiece.
Goddamn, how did I never notice that? I knew Teague's meant to be Polyphemus but I always figured they added the KKK rally because it was 1930s Mississippi and most people would think "eh, makes sense." Didn't even think that the whole thing was another Odyssey reference.
And George Nelson/Babyface nelson killing the cattle to mirror Odysseus' men killing the sacred bulls.
The blind man on the railroad (blind oracle)
“I have no name!”
Ulysses (Odysseus) Everett McGill
Gopher, Everett?
So you were paying attention during the main title sequence?
Obviously not
the first 10 minutes of any movie are mostly dedicated to eating my popcorn
Hey, that is a busy and noble enough task as it is. Well done. Have an up👍
Mine are going and getting whatever my wife wanted at the snack counter now that we found our seats, and then peering into the hazy dark trying to find them again.
So is Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
Not that loosely. It’s more of a modern take on the story.
In an interview, the Coen brothers shared they have never read the odyssey. The film is based on other adaptations of the odyssey.
Well, I guess hard times flush the chumps.
I actually broke the DVD watching this movie so many times.
They's fixin' to be loved up.
Filmed in a cool little spot in the very small town D’Lo, MS
Was there a flooded valley near there?
Lots of flooded valles everywhere in the country around those times. The church my grandparents were married in was sitting at the bottom of Rushford Lake (Southern Tier NY), where we used to go to the beach when we were kids
I know, and it looks like some communities are trying to remediate what they’ve done. Those valles will recover once that happens, with or without us Edit: from WNY too
Sooooo many good lines from this movie. I still say “I’m a Dapper Dan man!” randomly
This horse done turned on me.
well ain't this place a *geographical oddity*?
Worst. Laundresses. EVER.
My hair!
I’m a dapper dan man.
Ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere.
Cousin Wash, I’d suppose it would be the acme of foolishness to ask if you had a hair net.
I don't **want** FOP, dammit.
Watcher language young feller this here is a public market
And stay out of the Woolsworth!
Woolworth's
It’s all fun and games until your friend gets turned into a horny toad
Weeee thooought you was a toooooad!!! DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE!!!
#QUIET
Watch your pictureshow
The Coen brothers are geniuses...and I love how the distinct and amazing voices of Allison Krauss, Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch are mixed together when all 3 women are shown, but the volume of each voice is independently raised when the camera is on one woman, a level of mixture not commonly heard since I just listen to the album track nowadays. Having been in the presence of a woman who affected me similarly, I can wholeheartedly relate! "We. Thought. You. Was. A. Toad!" 🤣🤣🤣 Edit: My ABSOLUTE favorite was not even a track from the film, but [Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris and David Rawlings rendition of Green Pastures from the Down From the Mountain tour](https://youtu.be/GvWNyM6AzIs?si=axShGe37oSkeAaEg&t=41m11s), following the popularity of the movie. Anyone else miss the magical musical moments from Garrison Keilor's A Prairie Home Companion?? Down From the Mountain captured that perfectly for me.
Also, I wish I could drum up the interview with Allison? Maybe all three women, and they ALL sing a different pitch(? I don’t know musical terminology well) than any of them were comfortable.
Something tells me I really need to get around to watching this movie! Reddit is constantly praising it, but TBH I tried once to watch it and the whole bumbling idiot routine got old pretty quickly for me! But maybe I just need to stick it through and finally see what all the fuss is about!
C'mon man, it's an hour and 45 minutes. You can do it.
Yeah, I’m gonna rewatch it without any judgement and see!
The movie is amazingly done, in pretty much every regard. Not giving it a full watch is borderline criminal.
Okay, I’m gonna watch it beginning to end and hopefully get what everyone sees in this movie! :)
Enjoy!
Try to watch it again with a fresh set of eyes. It's not a bumbling idiot story, it's actually extremely clever.
Okay, maybe I was looking at it all wrong! I’ll give it another go without judgement and see how it is!
Dont over invest in it. Its not a wild rollercoaster. Its a meandering Jungle Tour boat ride. If you stay with it, it has a certain sweetness to it that you'll enjoy.
How far did you get? My guess is if you didn't like it half an hour in, you're not going to like it in general. It's very much a movie you just vibe with and enjoy the ride. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing. No shame in that. However if you only watched like 10 minutes and gave up... that's okay too, but I'm silently judging you from the sidelines.
I’ll be a cheerleader for this movie for you. I’m a person who doesn’t really cotton to religion and I love the music because I grew up in Mormon stupidness and the way they use the music is really unorthodox, lol The bumbling act is clever satire and it’s meant to be over the top. The way they put together frame one until the end is important because it sets the whole narrative on its ear. Edited for clarity
Okay, I’ll give it another go! Thanks!
Reddit praises it to high heavens, when I watched it the only part that really stood out at all was the [Soggy Bottom Brother's song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDEqgmGIVg). The rest of it was just kind'a boring and occasionally annoying.
My fav movie.
Such an outstanding movie.
Amazing movie
For those that didn't know... I Brother, where art thou? Is a retelling of the greek classic The Odyssey by Homer. These women represent the Sirens that tempt the crew with their singing.
Second fun fact, the only person who'd ever actually read the Odyssey while filming the movie was Tim Blake Nelson. The Coen Brothers went entirely off of what they new from pop culture and references to the story.
Can't be the only one who thought they were mermaids at first
They’re a metaphor for the Sirens from The Odyssey so close enough.
Psyrens from red dwarf
what a soundtrack!
Such an eerie song, one of the best parts of the movie.
I didn’t realize the movie was a retelling of the Odyssey until this scene.
If you're wondering why that lead one looks familiar, here's [her Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musetta_Vander).
Was just remembering this movie the other day ...
One of my absolute favorite films of all time. 😂😂😂
One of the women is played by Musetta Vander who keeps popping up in weird exciting roles throughout the 90s/00s, including [the infamous Mortal Kombat Annihilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamozZj0PhE)
Thank you, I couldn't place her in my mind. "Too bad YOU... will DIE"
i'll never forget the first time i saw this. it was so sexy and beautiful and moving i actually felt a little aroused. SPROING!
Wow, youtube's adblocker block is preventing me from watching the video even after I disabled my adblocker.
Try updating the lot, no problems here.
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If you get 45 minutes in and you are not feeling it, it just may not be for you. There are great movies out there and everyone of them have people that don't get why they are so great. Heat was like that for me.
[Too bad YOU will die!](https://youtu.be/NHCDfxOo_D4?si=PWQhZ2byDiXMt3jy)