What Are The Similarities Between The Odyssey And O Brother Where Art Thou

Odysseus in the ancient epic The Odyssey, and Everett from O Brother, Where Art Thou? are very similar but also has its differences. The makers of O Brother, Where Art Thou? I believe did an amazing job making the epic and the film parallel. But also did a great job adding a little more modern things to the movie

The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou are very similar, yet there are numerous differences between the story by homer and the motion picture. In the introduction for The Odyssey, Odysseus is on his way back to his kingdom from war. In the introduction for O Brother Where Art Thou Everette and his men are escaping from their “prison” and on their way to the town where Everette’s family is, but Everette lied to Pete and Delmar and told them that they were going to get gold just to get them to agree to leave with him because they were chained together.

The Odyssey is nearly 2,800 years old. O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released nearly 16 years ago. For these reasons, it may be hard to believe that an old text like The Odyssey could be portrayed in a contemporary film. However, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a film based on the events in The Odyssey, opposes this idea. Although it is not an identical copy of The Odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou? takes its main character, Ulysses Everett McGill, and puts him through situations similar to those Odysseus endured. The most prominent similarity between The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou? is their main

Another Lyrical Element is the Sirens in The Odyssey who have beautiful voices that try to lure sailors to their deaths. Odysseus made his men plug their ears and tie him to the mast of the ship so he could listen to the song but not go after it. After Pete, Everett, and Delmar’s car was found by the police, they parted ways with Tommy as they escaped. Next they meet George Babyface Nelson and accompany him on his escape from the police and afterwards receive a share of the stolen loot. Then Pete, Everett, and Delmar encounter three beautiful women washing clothes in the river and are seduced by them.

The Sirens are another big part in the movie. In The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men are warned to put wax over their ears. Odysseus has his men tie him to the mast, just so he can tell everyone that he resisted the song of the sirens. At one point during the movie, Pete hears the song off in the distance and has to follow its sound. They find the Sirens; yes they call them Sirens in the movie, and are given corn liquor. The men wake up and notice that Pete's gone. The Sirens in the book are said to lure the sailor to the cliffs where they would end up drowning themselves. The movie has a very similar take on this, they would lure a man and get him drunk. Luckily, in this movie, they didn't actually kill Pete or even turn him into a toad.

O’ Brother Where Art Thou and The Odyssey have similar plots that follow each other, but little things change to make them different. What the husbands struggle

On their adventure in the video, the men heard a captivating song from the woods and quickly ran to it, rather, the men were trying with all of their might to get away from the hypnotizing song as stated in the text,”Bestowing in the hold, sat to their oars, which with their polished blades whitened the Deep.” The sirens song was very compelling; in Homer’s text, only Odysseus was permitted to hear the song,”Me only she permits those strains to hear,” while in the video all of the men listened and were enchanted by the seductive song. The sirens in The Odyssey wanted nothing more than to devour Odysseus and his men, however, in the video, the sirens lured the men willing men into their territory with the mesmerizing song and, not devoured, but took an illegal alcohol, moonshine, and coerced them to drink it till they fell unconscious. There are various similarities in the sources given, but numerous differences are seen as

The Odyssey by Homer is a classic epic that has been translated and retold again and again throughout time. The main characters, Odysseus, in The Odyssey, and Ulysseus, in Oh Brother Where Art Thou, interact with many characters in the same way. Odysseus remains a traditional epic hero, and Ulysseus begins to show qualities of an epic hero as well. The characters and the conflict correspond; however, major characters make different choices when presented with the same challenges. The movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou retells The Odyssey in a way that many characters are similar, and both main characters show qualities of epic heroes, but the modernization of the movie causes differences in the character traits portrayed.

The amazing epic poem by Homer entitled “The Odyssey” shares many similarities and many differences as well with the Hallmark movie of the same name. The epic poem is about the hero Odysseus who has spent twenty long years filled with toil and loss, through war and sea desperate to return to his home of Ithaca. Odysseus has angered some of the gods and goddesses of a Greek Mythology with his destruction of the mighty city of Troy. Odysseus is represented in the poem and the movie, but there are several differences between the two in the events he encountered. There are also numerous similarities

Odysseus is the genius tactician whom Everett is modeled after. In the movie O’ Brother Where Art Thou, Everett is extremely similar to Odysseus. Everett is comparably much smarter than those around him, like Odysseus, and believes in his own power. He is also surrounded by people who want to betray him or hurt him, and uses similar methods of not being caught. Also, they both fully believe they are better than and don't need others. Everett and Odysseus also both only want to get back to their wives while they still hold slight concern for their companions. Everett in the movie O’ Brother Where Art Thou is made to be like Odysseus because they are both intelligent, narcissistic and have the same goal.

The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou is a wonderful movie that was directed by the Coen brothers. The movie features a cast of talented actors, the movie has also won several awards. The book The Odyssey is a timeless classic and it was written by the mysterious bard Homer. The book tells the tale of our hero Odysseus as he attempts to make it home to his wife. There are many ways to relate the movie plot and characters, to Odysseus's journey in The Odyssey.

Specifically, three parallels surface in the discussion of the similarities between Homer’s classic epic and O Brother, Where Art Thou. Each story contains a comparable scene of the Cyclops. Also, the more familiar comparison is between the Lotus Eaters portrayed in each piece of work. But the strongest similarity that is between The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou is correlation of the Sirens and the witch goddess Circe.

The film O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a reinterpretation of the epic poem The Odyssey. The Coen brothers, writers and directors of the film, did not over analyze their representation. “It just sort of occurred to us after we’d gotten into it somewhat that it was a story about someone going home, and sort of episodic in nature, and it kind of evolved into that,” says Joel Coen in Blood Siblings, “It’s very loosely and very sort of unseriously based on The Odyssey” (Woods 32). O Brother, Where Art Thou? contains ideas from The Odyssey for the sake of modernization and entertainment of an audience that comprehends the allusions to the epic. The Coen brothers utilize elements of Homer’s The Odyssey to improve and to give direction to O

The author of The Odyssey is also portrayed in O’ Brother. Everett and his friends hear about a man who will pay them to sing on the radio if they are good. When they reach the

Most people have fixed concept that modern day films and Medieval Greek Epic poems differ a lot as if they are black and white, but the film O Brother, Where Art Thou and the story of The Odyssey are both parallel and perpendicular. O Brother, Where Art Thou and The Odyssey portray their story on the same path, yet on the branched path.