[UA] Darkening Children's Tales

holycrow at mindspring.com holycrow at mindspring.com
Tue Feb 13 13:40:56 PST 2001


>Take your kids to O
>Brother Where Art Thou. Talk about the Odyssey, the Depression, the >KKK, Dapper
>Dan. Nothing in it will scar your kids. And it's definitely one of >the most UA
>movies I've ever seen. And it was just damn good.

I loved "O Brother," but I never considered it a PARTICULARLY UA movie.  I'm curious why you think it is.  Though there is that common Cohen brothers vibe that EVERYONE is a fuckup, which is also something of a UA vibe.  

-G.

Whose favorite single moment from that film has to be when the Soggy Bottom Boys play their signature hit and wonder why the audience is going berserk.

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