O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- During the filming of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, George Clooney improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The original script for O Brother, Where Art Thou? was written over a decade before production finally began in 2000.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Joel Coen's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 American adventure comedy directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, loosely based on Homer's Odyssey. George Clooney stars as Ulysses Everett McGill, a smooth-talking, pomade-obsessed escaped convict in Depression-era Mississippi who leads two fellow escapees โ Pete, played by John Turturro, and Delmar, played by Tim Blake Nelson โ on a picaresque journey across the rural South to find buried treasure before his wife Penny, played by Holly Hunter, remarries. Their odyssey encounters modern versions of Homer's mythological figures: sirens by the river, a cyclops played by John Goodman, a blind prophet on a railroad handcar, and a candidate for governor who might be the devil himself.
The film was the first to use extensive digital color correction to create its distinctive sepia-toned, sun-bleached visual palette. The bluegrass-heavy soundtrack, featuring "Man of Constant Sorrow" performed by Dan Tyminski, became a surprise phenomenon, earning the Grammy for Album of the Year and selling over eight million copies. O Brother earned $72 million worldwide on a $26 million budget.
