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O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a comedy film made by the Coen Brothers. Released in 2000, the film is set in Mississippi during the Great Depression (specifically, 1937).
The film is loosely based on the story of Homer’s Odyssey and the 1989 novella A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop, which sets the labors of Hercules in July 1937 in Mississippi.
By its very title, the film displays a sly reference to another type of mythmaking: filmmaking, specifically the 1941 satire Sullivan's Travels by Preston Sturges, in which the title character sets out to make a socially conscious documentary to be called O Brother, Where Art Thou? The character Sullivan, a film director, declares that he wants to make "a commentary on modern conditions, stark realism, the problems that confront the average man"—an initially overblown goal, but his movie does get made. Similarly, the Cohen brothers' movie also has the tone and imagery of Depression-era realism, and it too is undermined through a satirical point of view.
The film stars George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. The American roots soundtrack won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2001.
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