Any other Coen Bros we should check out? FARGO: kzitem.info/news/bejne/p31325uinJN-eno BIG LEBOWSKI: kzitem.info/news/bejne/p22Y4Gt7oWdmYIY NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: kzitem.info/news/bejne/mm1qxZl4m4Nee6g
@mr.a8315
20 күн бұрын
'The Hudsucker Proxy' (1994), please. Comedy. Corporate ladder climbing in the 1940s. Has a Forrest Gump quality to it and is similar to the style of director Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life). Tim Robbins, Paul Newman.
@LordVolkov
20 күн бұрын
Hail Ceasar! a golden age of Hollywood comedy. Josh Brolin, George Clooney, and a bunch of other stars. Is funnier if you've seen Ben Hur. Also, Coen written and produced, with George Clooney directing and Matt Damon starring - Suburbicon, a very dark comedy
@SFOlson
20 күн бұрын
Raising Arizona.
@donaldb1
20 күн бұрын
I recommend their first movie, _Blood Simple,_ a steamy thriller with Frances McDormand, and _Barton Fink,_ a crazy comedy about Hollywood starring (who'd have thought it?) John Turturro and John Goodman.
@tomhoffman4330
20 күн бұрын
If You haven't seen "Raising Arizona" yet, that's definitely Their BEST Comedy!👌
@Dillpicks95
20 күн бұрын
“The devil has a dog, I bet he’s a good boy” 😂 never change Jen.
@petrusjnaude7279
20 күн бұрын
I actually realised (after having seen the movie twice previously) when Tommy describes the Devil, it matches the the guy with the bloodhound that's chasing them. Also, when they exit the recording studio, the one guy they meet introduces Pappy O'Daniel as Menalaos "Pappy" O'Daniel. Completely missed that the previous times I watched it.
@JuliesWorldCrochet
20 күн бұрын
I get why no one understands the "log" exit, it's an old, old reference to "Riding 'em out on a rail", when communities expelled someone from their town/drove them out/banished 'em, right in there with tar and feathering. Great reaction, love this movie!
@alanflor703
20 күн бұрын
If anyone doesn't know, the rail is a fence rail.
@NecramoniumVideo
20 күн бұрын
It shows that our culture is moving on. It was still a thing well known in the 90's. Especially in comics.
@davidfantle6721
20 күн бұрын
I used to hear that expression from my grandparents - 'Tar and feather them and ride 'em out of town on a rail'. It was the ultimate humiliation for getting rid of 'undesirables' in small communities, apparently.
@Steve_Blackwood
20 күн бұрын
Yeah, when reactors get to that part, I always perk up to see if they’ll recognize the reference… but none so far. 🤷🏻♂️ I’m getting old, I guess. 😂
@blindlemonpledge2556
20 күн бұрын
I believe that the practice of riding a person out on a rail began in the Revolutionary War
@davemcbroom695
20 күн бұрын
"Tommy sold his soul to the Devil, Pete and Delmar have been saved. Apparently I'm the only one who remains unaffiliated." It doesn't get much better than that.🤣🤣🤣Except maybe "Isn't this place a geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere."
@JasonKreider-eq8kp
20 күн бұрын
I think pappy had the best line "Thank God your mammy died giving birth if she'd seen you she'd have died of shame"
@davemcbroom695
20 күн бұрын
@@JasonKreider-eq8kp "well, we was fix'n to fornicate. 😆
@BDogg2023
20 күн бұрын
The legend of Robert Johnson is that he sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads in Mississippi to get 29 songs and become the best blues player around. There’s an 80s movie called Crossroads with Ralph Macchio where he plays a Juilliard trained classical guitarist who loves the blues and wants to find Robert Johnson’s legendary 30th “lost song.” He befriends an old blues legend in an old folk’s home, who claims to know where to find the song, and they go on a road trip together down to the crossroads to find it. Pretty decent movie, great music. Cameo performance by Steve Vai.
@inarar5334
20 күн бұрын
@@BDogg2023 there's also some evidence that Tommy Johnson told the story before Robert Johnson, and the movie runs with that one.
@Vickytoriahirt1234
20 күн бұрын
@inarar5334 Legend says they both told the story. No relation between the two though. Although Tommy Johnson played and recorded with Willie Brown a fair bit.
@Britcarjunkie
20 күн бұрын
Loosely related to the above story: there's a series of "mini-movies" that BMW did about 25 years ago, all featuring well-known personalities. One is called "Beat The Devil", in which the late James Brown is driven to the devil's condo in Vegas, to "re-negotiate their deal". The devil is played by none other than Gary Oldman. Well worth watching!
@babywah3290
20 күн бұрын
@@Vickytoriahirt1234I thought it was Ishmon Bracey, not Willie Brown that Tommy Johnson played and recorded with. Long after his death, it was Bracey who was interviewed about Johnson and his demons (alcohol). Willie did play with Son House and Charlie Patton, who pretty much taught everyone.
@babywah3290
20 күн бұрын
@@inarar5334Tommy did tell this story to his brother, Robert wrote about it in Crossroad Blues. Peetie Wheatstraw bragged about being the “High Sheriff from Hell” and “the Devil’s Son-In-Law.”
@ThomasStClair-zr2lb
20 күн бұрын
Having John Goodman with an eye patch be the cyclops from the Odyssey was such a great idea. I loved that choice.
@aMulliganStew
20 күн бұрын
Tiresias on the handcart.
@BM-hb2mr
20 күн бұрын
And it changes throughout his scenes. Right to left lefr to right l
@marcusfridh8489
20 күн бұрын
And the washing women are both the sirens and Circe the witch that turns sailors into animals
@0okamino
20 күн бұрын
They affiliated him with a fitting organization as well. The rank titles in the Klan are generally taken from mythology and such; with cyclops actually being among the titles. Another connection that might not even be intentional is in one of ways that Odysseus tricks Polyphemus. Big Dan didn’t know he was messing with the famed Soggy Bottom Boys. He just took them for some regular nobodies.
@LordVolkov
20 күн бұрын
"Where do I know him from?" The blind man with the singing can is chameleon actor Steven Root (Dodgeball, Office Space, Get Out, so much more). I mostly recognize him by his voice 😅
@jenmurrayxo
20 күн бұрын
Yessss Office Space and Dodgeball!
@jbwarner8626
20 күн бұрын
Also the voice of Bill on "King of the Hill" 😁
@kathyastrom1315
20 күн бұрын
He’s terrific as NASA’s Chris Kraft in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Monn.
@marcoburg8500
20 күн бұрын
Stephen Root so the Boss in the TV Series "News Radio".
@mblackwl
20 күн бұрын
@@marcoburg8500 Jimmy James.
@Jeff_Lichtman
20 күн бұрын
The title of this movie comes from the 1941 Preston Sturges movie Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist is a filmmaker who wants to make a movie titled "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" He never did get the movie made. The Coen Brothers finished the job for him 59 years later. There really was a blues guitarist named Tommy Johnson who supposedly sold him soul to the devil at the crossroads. Over time the legend was transferred over to Robert Johnson, probably because he was more famous than Tommy, and because he wrote and recorded a song called Cross Road Blues. There also really was a bank robber called Baby Face Nelson who was also known as George (though his real name was Lester Joseph Gillis). Nelson was a partner of John Dillinger. A lot of criminals in the depression era had wild nicknames, like Scarface, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bugs Moran. My favorite is Creepy Karpis. The significance of the log is that they literally ran Homer Stokes out of town on a rail. Jimmie Davis used You Are My Sunshine (which he co-wrote) as his campaign song when he ran for governor of Louisiana in 1944. It's now the state's official song. The sequence where the three guys rescue Tommy is based on the sequence in The Wizard of Oz where Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion rescue Dorothy from the witch's castle. While hiding, they peer out at a bunch of guys in uniforms marching in formation while chanting. Then they get in a fight with three of them and take their uniforms, which they use to sneak in to the castle/rally.
@rory_pond1701
20 күн бұрын
Just about any Sturges film is worth a Jen reaction, but _Sullivan's Travels_ would be an excellent one to start with. Gillian Welch provided the singing voice of one of the sirens and also appeared as the woman in the record store asking for the Soggy Bottom Boys' song.
@rcrawford42
20 күн бұрын
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is also a line in The Odyssey, and at one point Odysseus is called "a man of constant sorrow".
@blindlemonpledge2556
20 күн бұрын
@@Jeff_Lichtman Mad Dog Cole
@waterbeauty85
20 күн бұрын
"Sullivan's Travels" might be too obscure to draw views, but I enjoyed it and would like to see Jen react to it. I think she would find it and its message about the value of pure entertainment/escapism during times of hardship interesting.
@jaredhardman3378
9 күн бұрын
Let me also add that in the Odyssey they escape from the cyclops disguised as sheep and blinding him as they leave with a flaming torch. I love how in the movie they are disguised as klansmen (sheep) and drop a flaming cross on him.
@LordVolkov
20 күн бұрын
Clooney getting beaten up by his wife's fiance is a funny twist on the Odyssey, where Odysseus turns up and slaughters all the suitors hounding Penelope since his presumed death 😅 That he still ends up with her and she sends him back into the water for her ring is also very funny.
@flatebo1
18 күн бұрын
And in the Odyssey Penelope is a paragon of marital fidelity - unlike here.
@dishwaterhands
20 күн бұрын
He's being "run out of town on a rail," which traditionally involved tar and feathering.
@joshlittrell8946
20 күн бұрын
Yep, a fence rail. From a split-rail fence.
@user-ld9tf4td8s
20 күн бұрын
It actually didn't. They're two separate punishments. They could be used at the same time, but that's the exception, not the rule
@TylerD288
20 күн бұрын
Yeah, one or the other could be done alone, or they could be combined, which meant you were probably a pretty bad boy.
@inarar5334
20 күн бұрын
Usually the crossroads story is said to have been Robert Johnson, though the story seemed to originate with Tommy Johnson, which I guess the movie agrees with. George "Babyface" Nelson was indeed a real person, and it's been speculated to have been bipolar, which the movie explores some.
@Tonyblack261
20 күн бұрын
"Jesus saves and George Nelson withdraws" Classic.
@darrenmacdonald1499
20 күн бұрын
Being 15 in 1980 in northern Alberta, we used to say, "Jesus saves, and Gretzky scores on the rebound".
@ericlaw171
21 күн бұрын
"WELL WE WAS FIXIN' TO FORNICATE" 😂 gets me every time
@mikethemotormouth
20 күн бұрын
And right in front of the waitress 🤣
@artao5
20 күн бұрын
The rocks are used for road beds and railroad beds primarily. But gravel production in general. They didn't have huge industrial gravel crushers back then. So they used prisoners and back-breaking (free) labor. EDIT: OH!! Even more, it's tires the shit out of them so they have no energy to get into fights or cause other trouble when they get back to the prison. They just want to eat and rest.
@tdn4773
20 күн бұрын
I saw hundreds of prisoners making gravel this way in China in the 1990s.
@a3gill
20 күн бұрын
It took a while to realize why I liked the Coens, but it's that every side character is memorable for one reason or another.
@randallshuck2976
20 күн бұрын
The guy who sang "Man of Constant Sorrow" was Dan Tyminski. He sings in the group that often backs Alison Krass. The log was a part of a "Rail" fence, so they ran him out of town on a rail. Good reaction to a fun film. Thanks.
@Lepusxlupus
20 күн бұрын
Here to say this about Dan Tyminski. Another song that people don't really realize it was him was Avicii "Hey Brother" as the guest singer. (yeah like 10 years ago but still)
@chadowen4766
20 күн бұрын
On one of Alison Krauss & Union Station's live concert videos, he introduces this song by saying that he was explaining to his wife that it would be his voice but the people would see George Clooney singing, and she replied: "Dan, that's my fantasy."
@DaleWes
20 күн бұрын
Riding the rail (also called being "run out of town on a rail") was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The subject was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside. Being ridden on a rail was typically a form of extrajudicial punishment administered by a mob, sometimes in connection with tarring and feathering, intended to show community displeasure with the offender so the offender either conformed behavior to the mob's demands or left the community. A story attributed to Abraham Lincoln has him quoting a victim of being ridden out of town on a rail as having said, "If it weren't for the honor of the thing, I'd just as soon it happened to someone else."
@reginaldgickington4793
20 күн бұрын
So, with you having not read the odyssey, I can offer some insight; The odyssey tells the story of Odysseus (romanized name "Ulysses", like the movie's protagonist), as him and his crew attempt to sail home after the trojan war. Unfortunately, Odysseus spites Poseidon, and is forced to wander for years having misadventures before he arrives home. Along the way, he encounters a dangerous one-eyed cyclops who he defeats with a flaming stake, a witch who transforms his crew of sailors into animals, sirens who attempt to lure him to his death, cows who his crew are punished for killing, king mennalaeus, and other curiosities. Eventually he arrives home to find his wife suited by all the men in town, and he sneaks into a party in disguise as a beggar where he proves himself the best suitor for her, and reveals his identity (after slaughtering the other suitors), living happily ever after. The film uses bits and pieces from the story, as well as its thematic element of "ulysses on a longwinded and perilous journey home to reunite with his wife". For example, governor mennalaeus and king mennalaeus are very different and the name is likely just a reference. Or similarly, the witch and the sirens are combined into one sequence. But theres a lot of similarities, even if the adaptation is pretty loose.
@marcusfridh8489
20 күн бұрын
There is the miniseries from 1997 with Armand Assante as Odysseus
@michaelodonnell824
19 күн бұрын
There's also the blind man on the trolley car who makes the predictions - Homer, who wrote The Iliad was reputedly blind.
@marcusfridh8489
19 күн бұрын
@@michaelodonnell824 and theresias that Odysseus met down in Hades was blind too
@jacksonconley5117
20 күн бұрын
I remember watching this movie back when I was a freshman in high school. We were reading Homer’s Odyssey and we watched this movie to draw comparisons to the Odyssey.
@surlycanadian
20 күн бұрын
I grew up in Canada’s sub arctic. My family use to quote Clooney’s geographical oddity line all the time on account of how many things were never kept in stock locally.
@infiad1275
20 күн бұрын
I guess that would be a thing so far away! "Two weeks from everywhere!" 😁
@clodboy-ci6ed
20 күн бұрын
For an excuse to be a bit freaked out, the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink is an engrossing watch 🙂
@FeaturingRob
20 күн бұрын
To get the right cadence for the character and the accent, George Clooney turned to his Uncle Jack, who lived in Clooney's home state of Kentucky. Clooney sent him the script and a tape recorder and had him read the script so that Clooney could do the accent for the film. The funny thing was, whenever the character was supposed to say "hell" or "damn" in the script, Uncle Jack changed it to "heck" and "dern" because, on the tape, Uncle Jack said, "George, I don't think folks around here say things like this, but I'll try." When the filming started, the Coens asked George why he didn't say the dialogue as written, with the "hell" and "damn" in the script...Uncle Jack had unwittingly rewrote the Coen Brothers, and the changes stuck, for the most part. George Clooney didn't sing...however, Tim Blake Nelson (Delmer) did sing "In The Jailhouse Now." (27:02) Charles Durning, who plays Pappy O'Donnell, has done a fundamental musical role in the film...he played the Governor of Texas in the 1982 musical comedy The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, and Dom DeLuise. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his brief performance (probably 10 minutes of screen time). I recommend this film for many reasons...but Durning's performance is a highlight with his song "The Sidestep," which is hilarious!
@SFOlson
20 күн бұрын
I literally just watched this movie about a week ago, I absolutely love it! Some of my favorite lines are; “My hair!” “Damn, we’re in a tight spot!” “Look like a bunch of Johnny-Come-Latelies, breaking out own midget. Don’t matter how stumpy!” “Oh, George. Not the livestock!”
@silverhairedgamer
20 күн бұрын
OK, I'm with you fellas!
@daltonmoore8971
19 күн бұрын
"Pete and Delmar just got Baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one who remains unaffiliated." My favorite line from my favorite movie.
@jpavlik04
20 күн бұрын
This movie is famous for being the first film to be fully digitally color graded which is very interesting from a technical standpoint, and very VERY boring to most people. :D It was for an "old timey or old picture book with a depression era vibe" feel without using the classic method which created inconsistent results. You really have to be familiar with the Odyssey to get what the Cohens are going for here. From the prosecution of the group, to the oracle, "Menelaus" Pappy O'Daniel, the sirens, the cyclops, the vanity of Everett, him fighting for his family, etc... Oh and; Who elected you leader of this outfit?! I'm voting for yours truly. I'm voting for yours truly too. Well...I'm with you fellers. Edit - I wrote this before the end of the video. If you want a general idea of the Odyssey without reading it, I recommend the eponymous TV movie with Armand Assante from the late 90s.
@chrisnielsen9885
20 күн бұрын
I was hoping someone would mention color grading. For those of us interested in in that stuff this is a groundbreaking film
@maddwitch
20 күн бұрын
George Clooney said in an interview that he tried to sing for the film. He went in to the recording booth, sang Man of Constant Sorrow, and when looked at everyone through the glass, no one would look him in the eye. He went out and asked how it went, excited, because he thought he did great, but everyone sort of hemmed and hawed. Nobody wanted to have to tell a lead actor in the film that he sucked. He told them to go ahead and bring in a singer and they bought in Dan Tuminsky.
@vermithax
20 күн бұрын
A terrible irony given that his aunt was the great singer Rosemary Clooney. Guess he didn't get that gene.
@jamesbednar8625
19 күн бұрын
Similar thing happened with Diane Lane in the 1980s movies "Streets of Fire". She had a decent enough voice, but a professional singer sang the songs and Diane Lane did an excellent job of lip-syncing.
@dufflepod
20 күн бұрын
10 points to Gryffindor for correct use of "vignettes".
@md_vandenberg
20 күн бұрын
Just so you know Jen, the gun used by George Nelson is the famous Thompson Submachinegun, aka, a Tommy gun. A Walther PPK is a German made compact pistol. PPK = Polizeipistole, kompact.
@dufflepod
20 күн бұрын
Makes me want to read The Odyssey again for the first time since I was a kid & try to spot where the film matches.
@McBeelzebub
20 күн бұрын
“Hot and cold,” is the best description for the characters of the story.
@michaelgonzalez6295
20 күн бұрын
My father was born in 1927 and had lots of '78s of bluegrass and South folk music (odd because we are Mexican American 🤷♂) which was got me to watch this when it came out. That and I had read The Odyssey as a teen. I was wasn't quite getting this but when Goodman showed up as the Cyclops, I said "duh!" bc it all made sense.
@rcrawford42
20 күн бұрын
Nothing odd about liking good music.
@infiad1275
20 күн бұрын
@@rcrawford42 Yea I'm thinking "Mexican Americans can have good taste in music, too." 🤣
@jasonremy1627
20 күн бұрын
The blind guy that owns the radio station is Stephen Root. He played Milton in a Office Space.
@Dillpicks95
21 күн бұрын
Jen’s reactions always make the day 10 times better.
@Tonyblack261
20 күн бұрын
He was run out the town on a rail. The soundtrack to this film is awesome.
@kevinhayes1656
20 күн бұрын
That’s where the meeting “ being run out of town on a rail” comes from
@stupidsmart-phone6911
20 күн бұрын
The title comes from Sullivan's Travels (1941). I had seen that before O Brother was made which is why I was intriguied when this came out in 2000.
@rextside
20 күн бұрын
I find this to be one of the most rewatchable movies ever made. Very episodic so it's easy to jump in at any point, great humor, iconic moments and fantastic music throughout. Loved the reaction.
@JaguarDave54
20 күн бұрын
The other politician was “run out of town on a rail” meaning he was unpopular
@NoelMcGinnis
20 күн бұрын
"MY HAIR!"
@mr.a8315
20 күн бұрын
I used to say that.
@scorchogrey2385
5 сағат бұрын
Just the whole idea of the Odyssey being set in depression era Mississippi is just brilliant. Such a well done movie.
@rcrawford42
20 күн бұрын
"You Are My Sunshine" is always treated as a happy song, but pay attention to the lyrics. It's dark and sad, about a man whose love left him and how all the joy has left his life. The band "Dead South" does an incredible cover, keeping the tone true to the words.
@glenngalloway6191
20 күн бұрын
Now if we can only convince Jen to do Raising Arizona.😁
@donaldb1
20 күн бұрын
Oh yes! Absolutely!
@jenmurrayxo
20 күн бұрын
It's on this week's Patreon poll!
@lukebarton5075
20 күн бұрын
How about Miller’s Crossing? A classic Coen Bros. prohibition era, noir-esque mob movie. It’s very cool.
@vermithax
20 күн бұрын
Love that movie, and it's about as Coen brothers as it gets.
@iamamaniaint
19 күн бұрын
Barton Fink!
@josephamesdacey6442
20 күн бұрын
Me and my dad would steal this album back and forth for years, big rock candy mountain is my favorite
@infiad1275
20 күн бұрын
"Where they hung the jerk that invented work..." My dad and I loved it, also!
@TylerD288
20 күн бұрын
I learned how to sing it and play it on guitar. Fun song, great lyrics.
@josephamesdacey6442
20 күн бұрын
@@infiad1275 there's a lake of stew and whiskey too
@kdub3871
20 күн бұрын
@14:43 the segment with the sirens is a favorite scene of mine because in the behind the scenes info...that was a real blush by the actor and its revealed that the actress playing the siren was flattered at the actor's blush response after the scene was over. 😂😮😆👍🏾😳😆😂🤣👏🏾
@greatrp
20 күн бұрын
Clooney didn't sing on this. He thought he would be able to, but he thought wrong, apparently. Tim Blake Nelson (Delmar) is Juilliard trained, and he did sing his character's part.
@runnytango3304
20 күн бұрын
I’ve never noticed Everett asking the waitress for grub’s before, even though he didn’t believe it was Pete he still ordered him something to eat 😂😂
@Lex-up6mg
20 күн бұрын
I DONT WANT no dang Fop! Im a Dapper Dan man.
@jbwarner8626
20 күн бұрын
Watch y'language, son, this is a family establishment.
@TheMarcHicks
20 күн бұрын
I could be mistaken but, judging from Tommy's description of The Devil, I reckon The Devil is the bloke who has been tailing them throughout the story-the "hollow eyes", "booming voice"....not to mention the dog he always has with him.
@rcrawford42
20 күн бұрын
And when he's introduced, flames are dancing in his "eyes"...
@richeaton5752
20 күн бұрын
16:50 "How they gonna run Reform, when we're the damn incumbent?"- today in DC...
@SkyForgeVideos
21 күн бұрын
We thought you was... a Toad...
@James_Ford4815
20 күн бұрын
Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are must reads. To get into the minds of mankind so long ago is truly amazing
@carlosspeicywiener7018
20 күн бұрын
2:35; and that, kids is the Springfield model 1903/12 30-06 bolt action rifle. Also my first gun.
@gaulstonedog4633
20 күн бұрын
Robert Johnson, crossroad blues. Old-school delta blues guitarist, he created the myth of selling your soul for fame and fortune then died under unusual circumstances and a legend was born.
@3DJapan
20 күн бұрын
I haven't read The Odyssey since high school but it's fun to see the references I do remember like John Goodman as the cyclops.
@jerryd1813
20 күн бұрын
That’s just how I pictured you doing laundry.
@mikewhite6138
20 күн бұрын
Rocks are used in different construction materials like asphalt, gravel and cement. The first thing you gotta do is break them up into smaller pieces.
@AceMoonshot
13 күн бұрын
"I don't get it, Big Dan." The way Clooney delivers that line never fails to crack me up.
@msgSharke
20 күн бұрын
9:19 no they didn’t really sing The soundtrack is awesome ❤this movie!❤❤❤
@Chamomileable
16 күн бұрын
The blind guy at the radio station was Stephen Root. He's in Office Space and No Country For Old Men, but he's also famous for being the voice of Bill and Buck in King of the Hill.
@seantlewis376
20 күн бұрын
This is my favorite Coen Brothers movie. I love the story of how they created the movie after hearing some bluegrass music at a festival. I can't say how many times I've watched it on DVD. Crushing rocks on the side of the road is to create more gravel to create more roads. All of the music was dubbed in by Alison Kraus's band, even the live bits. I have the soundtrack, and it is excellent! I listen to it frequently as I fall asleep.
@Jezeriah
19 күн бұрын
George Clooneys face acting when singing into the can is top notch.
@jeffdetmer4681
19 күн бұрын
Hi Jen. Clooney did not sing. His singing was done by a guy in Allison Krauss' band, Dan Tyminski. The 3 sirens voices were also dubbed. The 3 singers were Allison Krauss, Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch. Gillian also was the woman who asked the store owner if he had the Soggy Bottom Boys record. Tim Blake Nelson (Delmar) did do his own singing. Oh and the log they carried the guy out on. There was a thing called running someone out of town on a rail. That's what that was.
@andyc66612
20 күн бұрын
Anytime I travel, I always gotta mention how are location is a “geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere!”
@WolfHreda
20 күн бұрын
I occasionally find myself muttering the phrase, "Oh no, George, not the livestock." whenever things go a little off the rails.
@williambrownlee9978
20 күн бұрын
No, Clooney didn't do the singing. I don't remember the man's name, but he is a member of Union Station who plays with Allison Krauss. He wrote the song.
@PatrickJRyan-ri7ue
20 күн бұрын
Dan Tyminski I think
@rcrawford42
20 күн бұрын
"A Man of Constant Sorrow" dates to 1913. It's also an amazing fit for my grandfather's life. He left Kentucky during the Great Depression to try to get enough money to marry his sweet heart. He rode the rails for a while, eventually got a solid job at a steel mill, and returned to marry my grandmother.
@robertreichle1
20 күн бұрын
"That's how I do laundry." I've told that joke so many times myself. :)
@drhall343
20 күн бұрын
13:30 That's Gillian Welch, who also sings as one of the sirens. Definitely recommend checking out her music, especially the album Time (The Revelator).
@Crazyivan777
20 күн бұрын
Clooney tells the story of how he wanted to sing for the radio scene, and after he tried to, no one would look him in the eye about it. He apparently can't sing real well. So they overdubbed him. He seemingly has a good sense of humor about the whole thing.
@kingbrutusxxvi
19 күн бұрын
My grandfather was 13 and living in NYC when the Great Depression hit the U.S.. He was the oldest of five kids and his parents told him "We can't feed seven so... good luck" and kicked him out. He snuck onto trains and travelled around the country working odd jobs for food. When he was 16 he was busted for "hoboing" in Alabama and got a year on a chain gang. I've always tried to imagine what it was like but really can't wrap my head around it. People were built different a hundred years ago.
@SporkRevolution
20 күн бұрын
Some of the retelling points from The Odyssey: The man on the train track is a blind oracle. The Sirens that sing to call sailors to them. The man wanting to get back to his wife, because there are other suitor. John Goodman is a literal cyclops with a club. In Odyssey they go to an island of cyclopses. All with one eye clubs.
@kjmorley
20 күн бұрын
29:05 “Run outta town on a rail” 😂
@user-ld9tf4td8s
20 күн бұрын
Breaking rocks had 2 general purposes. 1. It tired out the prisoners, making them less likely to fight. 2. It produced gravel for roadways. This is why you see them smashing rocks on the side of the road being built. While not accurate it visually shows the context of what they're doing Clooney didn't actually sing Tommy Johnson, however, did play and sing. He's actually a musician named Chris Thomas King
@thomast8539
20 күн бұрын
Dan Tyminski said that his wife thought the movie exhibited the best of both worlds. His singing voice coming out of George Clooney's face. Dan then feigned heartbreak.
@Filmfiend27
20 күн бұрын
Not sure if you noticed but Tommy’s description of the devil is exact to the man hunting the boys, which makes it more cathartic when they are saved from him by Everette humbling himself.
@absalomvane7776
20 күн бұрын
"Oh, he is kinda bona fide" lmao
@indiecab9593
20 күн бұрын
THEY RODE HIM OUT ON A RAIL is an old American expression.
@Hayseo
20 күн бұрын
Tommy’s description of the devil being white with hollow eyes and accompanied hound is what the law man that was chasing them looked like… Tommy Johnson was the blues singer that sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads. … the “ohh eee ohh” song is what the witches guards were singing in the Wizard of Oz and there are other similarities to the Wizard of Oz in that scene.
@johndaily263
19 күн бұрын
I didn’t think there was any doubt that he was the devil. “The law is a *human* institution.”
@meanmax9663
20 күн бұрын
14:19 "That's how I do laundry!" Thank you, I now have a new fantasy. 😉
@corralescoyote
20 күн бұрын
The dialog in the Coen brothers’ movies is very peculiar, and is always the best part. . As Jen said, it’s based on the Odyssey by Homer with Americana like Old Time Religion and a mythical historical gangster in the mix. Ulysses (renamed by Virgil) is on an epic voyage back to his wife Penelope. The old timer says “you seek a great fortune…but first you must travel a long and difficult road, fraught with peril”. “A man in there, pay you fifty dollars to sing into his can”. Then Homer’s sirens, and the cyclops. . “Midget and broom and what not..fifty years… til 1987”. “O come, angel band…bear me away…to my immortal home.” Jen was aware that it’s the Odyssey, and cute she hadn’t read the book before. She called it “fantastical…magical”. I agree. It was exactly how I hoped she would like it. Peace, from NM ✌️
@BillTheScribe
20 күн бұрын
Trivia Dump: The year they filmed this was one of the greenest years that area had seen for a long time. The colors of the outside scenes were changed digitally and it was one of the first times changes of that scale had ever been done. George Clooney did in fact sing his heart out for the scene n the studio. It was then replaced by the voice you actually heard. No one told him until later. The blind radio man was played by Milton from Office Space and the obscure sports guy from Dodgeball. This moves was either loved or hated by critics. Entertainment Weekly put out a collection of critics' best of/worst of lists for the year and it was either one of the ten best or ten worst, depending which critic you talked to, but it was on all 11 lists. Observation: Charles Durning as Pappy was the same character he played in the Muppet Movie. Pretty sure it's the same wardrobe (mostly kidding)
@LordVolkov
20 күн бұрын
Pomade is also a plot point in the Coen's Raising Arizona 😉
@freakshowfilmfestival3591
20 күн бұрын
Every time I hear how long something is going to take to get, I think of: "Well isn't this a geographical odditity. It's 2 weeks from everywhere."
@ArthurChappell
20 күн бұрын
They released a live concert film recording of the musicians performing the soundtrack to this, called 'Down From The Mountain', lovely film and music. This may be the best use of Bluegrass music ever.
@fusionaddict
20 күн бұрын
Dan Tyminski is the writer & singer on “Man of Constant Sorrow.” I’ve met him a couple of times, one of the nicest guys around.
@caldwellkelley3084
20 күн бұрын
Dan would light up auditoriums with "A Man of Constant Sorrow'!
@keithjones5309
20 күн бұрын
My favorite story about this movie is that George Clooney was worried about getting the accent just right and decided to get help from a relative (I think uncle) that still lived in Kentucky where Clooney was born. He sent the script to the relative and had him record himself reading it; but the man was very religious and refused to say the swear words like 'hell' or 'damn' so he just changed them. That recording is what Clooney used to learn the script.
@rcrawford42
20 күн бұрын
The Clooneys come from Maysville, KY, which is almost as far north as Kentucky gets. Maybe his uncle lived further south?
@keithjones5309
20 күн бұрын
@@rcrawford42 In all honesty, I'm from Kentucky almost on the TN border and we don't sound like Clooney did in this movie.
@jollyjakelovell6822
20 күн бұрын
Raising Arizona is a Top Notch Coen Brothers film
@Calico_Jack_
20 күн бұрын
This is one of my top ten comfort movies. You did it justice Jenn. You did miss some references but I am sure you are going to get the info. The three at the river were Sirens. John Goodman was the Cyclops. The old blind man was the Seer. Tommy is Athena. Thank you for doing this. It really improved my day!
@crimsonknight7011
15 күн бұрын
The whole selling his soul at the crossroads is a real thing. There is a story about Robert Johnson who made some amazing songs. It is rumored that he sold his would at the local crossroads to get musical talent and he came out of nowhere with all the songs during the next seven months and then died.
@jckpedersen6592
14 күн бұрын
there are several references to the Odyssey, the travels by Ulysses, the Roman name for Odysseus. First of all, Clooney's character Everett McGill's first name is Ulysses, like the hero of the poem. Then there is the sirens whose song no man could resist (the three women by the river), the enchantress who turned men into beasts (when they thought Pete had been turned into a toad), The one-eyed cyclope (John Goodman's character), when Ulysses returned from his travels to find his wife Penelope ("Penny" in the film) besieged by suitors, (Vernon T. Waldrip). George "Babyface" Nelson - who was a famous real-life bank robber of the depression era, can be seen as an interpretation of Hermes, the Greek god of thieves. Everett dresses as a hobo to confront his wife, which is basically the same thing that Ulysses did. Both the poem and the film ends happily, with Ulysses re-united with his family and the main heroes have developed as an individual and become a better man. The main difference is the amoount of violence, as in the poem, Ulysses kills all the suitors to his wife, while the film's tone would have suffered if Everett had killed Waldrip.
@ozmaile7938
20 күн бұрын
The Crossroads scene and the guitar player Tommy. is an ode to Robert Johnson Famous blues musician that inspired lots of rock and blues music including "Crossroads". Cream/Eric Clapton. fame
@brianmonks8657
20 күн бұрын
being run out of town on a rail (a railroad rail) is an old term for being thrown out of town. That's what that log was.
@williamberry9013
20 күн бұрын
They ran him out on a rail... young 'un. :)
@kevinsieg2076
20 күн бұрын
I'm so jealous that you get to watch these movies for the first time. Great reaction as always. For more Coen brothers, check out their early work like Blood Simple, Barton Fink, and Miller's Crossing.
@jimmyb.6272
20 күн бұрын
Have you ever heard the phrase “being run out of town on a rail?” That’s what they did when they put that guy on a log.
@Werockpso
20 күн бұрын
Jen "thats how I do my laundry" lol,good one
@gussiejives
20 күн бұрын
“I don’t want ‘Fop’, goddamn it! I’m a Dapper Dan man!”
@joeblankenship377
20 күн бұрын
Love this movie. Super re-watchable. Might be my favorite of the Coen brothers.
@funkmeisterB-5000
20 күн бұрын
7:46--You've seen Stephen Root before in "Office Space" as Milton ( The mumbler guy who burned the place down in the end) and other quirky roles. And Baby-Face Nelson really was that wild..Both John Dillenger and Bonnie and Clyde kicked him out of their gangs for his recklessness.
@flakmagnet9357
20 күн бұрын
This is legit one of my fav movies
@bartimus32
20 күн бұрын
This is one of my FAVORITE movies - it's even more brilliant if you know The Odyssey.
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