In the early 1930s, in a prison in the wilderness of Mississippi, a group of "re-education prisoners" were doing boring and heavy quarrying and crushing of stones. Everettis nagging and glib, is also one of them, but he doesn't want to waste time on a pile of broken rocks, making all kinds of horrible escape ideas all day. After successfully persuading the simple-minded Delmaplayedand the rather bold Peteof difficult friends , Everett's escape plan was finally realized. Three dressed prisoners Criminals in uniforms, handcuffs, and fetters clanged on the road to freedom and treasure. Along the way, Everett and the others not only had to deal with all sorts of tricky emergencies, but they also had to fight the Marshall Curry, who was hunting them down, because this cunning and mysterious guy was persevering in trying to put three people together. The "fish off the net" was sent back to prison.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? movie plot
2021-10-20 17:21
Extended Reading
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Hester 2022-03-23 09:01:19
This is a good-looking film. I don’t know if I’m too awkward to understand a few of Cohn’s films.
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Rozella 2022-03-23 09:01:19
The original sound of the movie is praised! The film concatenates many historical and political metaphors. In the seemingly absurd story along the way, the process of watching inadvertently reviewed the historical changes of democratic politics in the United States in the 1930s.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? quotes
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Ulysses Everett McGill: Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train?
Penny Wharvey McGill: Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal farm and I divorced you from shame?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, I take your point. But it does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny.
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Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?