{"id":14407,"date":"2015-12-28T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14407"},"modified":"2015-12-24T11:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:11:29","slug":"14-fun-facts-about-o-brother-where-art-thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14407","title":{"rendered":"14 Fun Facts About “‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roger Cormier<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/b>present 14 Fun Facts About ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/em><\/a>  <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n

1. IT WAS ORIGINALLY INSPIRED BY THE WIZARD OF OZ<\/em>.
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Joel Coen revealed as much at the 15th anniversary reunion. \u201cIt 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\u2014let’s just say this is The Odyssey<\/em>. We were thinking of it more asThe Wizard of Oz<\/em>. We wanted the tag on the movie to be: ‘There’s No Place Like Home.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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3. THE TITLE IS FROM A PRESTON STURGES CLASSIC.
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Sullivan\u2019s Travels<\/em> (1941) was a Hollywood satire about a comedy director who wanted to make a serious, epic drama, travels the country to research it, and discovers the world is better off laughing. The movie the character wanted to make was titled O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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8. THE MUSIC BECAME AN UNEXPECTEDLY HUGE HIT.
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For the movie’s music\u2014and even before they’d finished the script\u2014the Coens turned to musician\/producer T Bone Burnett, whom they had worked with on The Big Lebowski<\/em>  in 1998. Along with singer-songwriter Gillian Welch, Burnett found the songs for the movie. Its soundtrack\u2014which combined original and traditional bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and folk music\u2014was the first movie soundtrack to win the Grammy for Album of the Year since 1994. More than eight million copies of the album were sold.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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