When I saw this in theaters, the film reel burned to a crisp during this scene. It took 2 minutes of dark silence before anyone in the theater moved or talked because we all assumed it was just the Coens fucking with us.
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Joel Coen on the works that inspired "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000): "'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (2000) started as a ‘three saps on the run’ kind of movie, and then at a certain point we looked at each other and said, ‘You know, they’re trying to get home — let’s just say this is ‘The Odyssey.’ We were thinking of it more as ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ We wanted the tag on the movie to be: ‘There’s No Place Like Home." ("The Coen Brothers and George Clooney Uncover the Magic of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ at 15th Anniversary Reunion", Zack Sharf, 2015) P.S: On this day, 26 years ago, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.
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