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Title: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Homer Odyssey
ISBN: 0-571-20518-6
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pub. Date: November, 2000
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $14.00
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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

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Rating: 3
Summary: Not a 'Real' Screenplay
Comment: O Brother is one of my top five favorite movies. I was hoping, when I purchased this book, to see the screenplay that would have been used to shoot the film. Instead, what I received was (mostly) a transcription of the movie. Some of the lines are slightly different, but there are precious few notes on sets and camera shots; you cannot read the screenplay and see what the Coen brothers intended to convey to their cast and crew.

As such, I recommend this book only as a say to remember the movie if your precious DVD isn't available, say perhaps as teading while on vacation. It's not a tool for learning about scripting and shooting movies.

Rating: 5
Summary: Coens Are Truly Learning How To Write!
Comment: This is a fun and wacky screenplay to read! It really puts images into your mind that will make you laugh and wonder. I haven't even seen the movie yet, and I still was able to "get" the jokes and laughed a lot. Just think to yourself, "This is going to be a lot like Raising Arizona" and you'll figure it out.

Ranks right up there with the Coens' Fargo script, which is also a good read.

Rating: 5
Summary: Required reading
Comment: I've been a fan of the Coens' movies for years and I do believe I've figured out a way to enjoy them more thoroughly: READ THE SCREENPLAY. There's no writing that's better in the movies right now. I'm not a film maker, I'm not a script writer, I'm not a director, I'm not an actor, I'm not a movie critic, I'm not even the damn guy who tears the ticket and stands behind that big velvet rope sayin' "To your right" or "To your left." All that I am is a fan of the movies as well as a fan of literature. These guys know how to make words create people and they do it well time after time.

Specifically "O Brother ..." is a screenplay that mixes Homer with Bluegrass with Old Movies with (whether the Coens know it or not) Mark Twain and folks along those lines. In fact, there's a scene in Huck Finn in which Huck states he'd prefer his dinner all cooked together in one pot so that the juices swap around and make things go better. That's a pretty good metaphor for "O Brother ..." Rather than the screenplay that's about hicks or racism or a woman scorned, the Coens mix it all up and believe me things go better that way.

This is the literature of our time. You should watch AND READ these movies.

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