What's up with everyone singing?
Almost every group of people they meet start singing or doing weird chants.
sharePeople sing all the time. Or hum. Don't you?
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MovieChat Forums > O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001) Discussion > What's up with everyone singing?
This movie has a very slow pace and the music doesn't help. For me the story gets lost some where in the middle and doesn't catch up. It does have threads of humor but the humor doesn't give the movie any lift. the title could be, 'O Brother What are We Doing?
shareThe movie isn't slow paced. There are certain scenes that are slow paced but overall the movie flows at a pretty steady pace. The music is one of the best aspects of the film and is used in incredibly fitting and varied ways. Humour is just one of many facets that make this film what it is; no one thing lifts the film. But that is all just my opinion.
shareThe music is the co-star.
And MTV hadn't been invented yet, so people had to entertain themselves.
What?! MTV has been around since the early eighties and this movie came out twenty years later.
shareHe's talking about the 1930s setting, not the year the movie was released.
Courage, men! we've not sunk before, and we'll not sink now!
Did you really think tgey were talking about 2000?
shareThe music is the co-star.
Exactly. And that's all anyone needs to know.
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Yup, the music was the star and it is the reason the Soggy Bottom Boys were pardoned. One of my absolute favorite films ever. I never get bored rewatching it.
shareIt does have threads of humor but the humor doesn't give the movie any lift.Are you kidding? You have to be. Your humorous comment has just given my day a gigantic lift.🐭 share
In ancient Greek theater, the "chorus" (Greek: χορός, khoros) was a homogeneous, non-individualised group of performers in the plays of classical Greece, who comment with a collective voice on the dramatic action. The chorus consisted of between 12 and 50 players, who variously danced, sang or spoke their lines in unison and sometimes wore masks.
These guys are again, loosely following the basics of Classical Greece. As this is a retelling of The Odyssey, I guess such a chorus is apropos.
Not every Greek man is homogeneous. What they do in private is none of our business. Unless of course we get invited to sing. Then we'll do like everyone else, we'll sing. I don't think I have to tell you what's up. Oh those Greeks.
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raymondunc, I liked your comment even more than spookyrat1 liked the comment by mloessel.
I'm not generally a fan of country/bluegrass, but even I liked the music from this movie, and "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow" won a a Grammy and a Country Music Award.
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Nice reply but I think the art of storytelling and the idea that there are many ways to communicate a story, though different generations, would be lost on someone with such a question as the OP posted! Thanks anyway.
The Coen Brothers know what they are doing, and I bet even they realize most of it is lost on a majority of folks. I base that assumption by reading a lot of the questions and comments I see here on all of their movies.
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