O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

"You're getting your ass whupped by a guy who fights like the Notre Dame logo." - It's stuff like this that keeps me coming back here. The title of this movie comes from the movie Sullivan's Travels (1941), in which the main character wants to make a movie by that name but never gets to do it. The soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou? became a top-selling CD. Bluegrass and folk music fans especially love it. I don't know how many people notice this, but the scene where the three guys watch the Klan rally from the bushes is a reference to the scene in The Wizard of Oz where Scarecrow, The Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion watch the palace guards outside the witch's castle. They literally ran Homer Stokes out of town on a rail.

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol all he needed was the fighting Irish hat

[@VineVitumEt5]

They also tarred and feathered him didn't they?

[@janedoe5229]

I noticed they imitated the Wizard of Oz. They also did that in Blazing Saddles.

[@flarrfan]

And the prisoners marching in to watch the movie is also an homage to Sullivan's Travels...

[@derekbidelman2442]

But he had gotten into his hair treatment, so he had to fight him...

[@timhibbard4226]

My favorite bit of crossover between the movie and the story of the Odyssey took me a few watches to even catch. It’s Ulysses refraining from baptism and mocking Pete and Delmer for doing it. In the Odyssey, Odysseus kicks off his whole trial to get home by pissing off Poseidon at the end of the Trojan War. Odysseus was taking too much credit for the Greek victory and didn’t give Poseidon the proper respect for helping out. So the god of the seas sent the hero on a wild ride all over the ‘world’ until he apologized and made amends and was allowed to get home. In the movie when Ulysses insults the other two for their faith he is disrespecting God and all of the weirder more dangerous events of the story happen to them after this point. Then at the end he apologizes and prays humbly and God shows up to get him home (in the form of a shit ton of water as a nice Poseidon reference lol) to get Ulysses home. As a HUGE mythology nerd, I love that the mythological references in this film have such subtle layers to them and there is more to them to appreciate than just Big Dan = the Cyclops or Hot Ladies = the Sirens.

[@0okamino]

Of course, Big Dan would be in the KKK, since cyclops is among their rankings. I’m quite sure Polyphemus wasn’t in such an organization, though, which would make him a bit less of a monster.

[@brandimurray1984]

"I don't think he's fully racist" had me dying 😭😭🤣

[@J_EOMReacts]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MaceGill]

"He's no Jimi Hendrix". My dear man, delving into the old blues masters from the 20s and 30s will open a WORLD of some of the most innovative guitar players from back in the day. Hendrix knew these songs, and took them in a new direction. Whether you 'react' or not, I highly recommend you listen to a few tracks from Lonnie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie, Blind Blake, amd a whole host of others! Hendrix was a GIANT. But he stood on the shoulders of giants!

[@J_EOMReacts]

I will definitely check them out

[@existenceisrelative]

I don't know if she's in the same category or what, but i found out that i quite enjoy Bessie Smith too.

[@MaceGill]

@@existenceisrelative she's a singer, and not a guitar player, but she is a LEGEND! The raw depths of power and pathos in her voice is unparalleled!

[@kevinsmith4429]

@@MaceGill Have to say you know your history. Here in Dallas(Deep Ellum) is the building where he first recorded & the famous picture of him ,sitting with legs crossed & hat cocked was taken there.

[@MaceGill]

@@kevinsmith4429 thank you! Can't help it, just love the blues, history, folklore, etc. A lot of folks point out Tommy Johnson in this film and say "No, that was really Robert Johnson" ... Only, no, it was really Tommy Johnson ... Good job, Coen brothers!

[@deathproofpony]

Tim Blake Nelson actually sang "In the Jailhouse Now" and won a Grammy because the soundtrack won Album of the Year. Although George Clooney practiced "Man of Constant Sorrow" the Coens decided to have bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski perform his singing vocals. This film is a masterpiece.

[@jimstanley_49]

Aparently, George agreed with their decision after hearing Dan's rendition. It's a pretty tough song to pull off if you're not already a singer.

[@timhibbard4226]

Nelson was also a history professor friend of the Coen’s with no professional acting experience. They were consulting him for the accuracy of the script for this film, he expressed interest in being in the film, and they basically created the Delmer character for him to play.

[@Scary__fun]

The album sold 7 million copies and while the soundtrack came out in December/2000 when the film was released, it finally reached #1 on the pop chart in March/2002. It's the longest climb to #1 for a pop album. The awards recognition helped keep it in public spotlight. Of course, bluegrass music never sells this much before or after the movie. So, the music and soundtrack truly became a phenomenon.

[@12milestyle]

And Tim Blake Nelson is basically the Jailhouse warden in Minority Report lol

[@jeffprice4376]

The guitarist selling his soul to the devil is a reference to the real blues musician Robert Johnson. Supposedly he mastered the guitar in just two years and a legend was born that he met the devil at a crossroads in Mississippi and traded his soul to becomes a master blues picker. Also this movie is a retelling of the Odyssey by Homer. That's why it includes plot points like the blind prophet, the sirens, the cyclops, etc.

[@valdovaldo2224]

Saw your comment after making mine 😅 Men of culture here

[@Fallopia5150]

Clapton did a blues album called Crossroads... wondering if he went there or just homage.

[@sandimcalisterblood2675]

Never knew that. Finally it all makes sense😊

[@barbarachieppo9603]

👍❤

[@phaedruslive]

Watch the movie called Crossroads from 1986. Modern classic.

[@Thom1212]

As they used to say: "He wuz run'd out on a rail!" Also, the boy was (hillbilly) spelling "runned off".

[@timlois]

He fought like the mascot for Notre Dame!!!! Lol, I died, you a trip. Thanks for reacting to one of my favorite movies!

[@J_EOMReacts]

You more than welcome.

[@12milestyle]

lol same

[@toddwynn3397]

You were talking about people singing to help pass the time and keep their spirits up. You also mentioned how slaves would do that. Spirituals were meant to do that for slaves, but a lot of those songs contained hidden instructions for escaping via the Underground Railroad. For instance, a song about being baptized in the water could mean to take the route along the river.

[@itt23r]

"You just got your a** whipped by someone who fights like the Notre Dame Logo". You are hilarious sir. Best reactor on the Internet. And you have dogs too!

[@J_EOMReacts]

Thank you 🙏🏾. I greatly appreciate that

[@embriggs1]

"That could be a jug of a$$ juice." Almost spit out my drink laughing.

[@J_EOMReacts]

🤣🤣🤣

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

The film is a partial retelling of Homer's, the Odyssey. The blind man on the cart is the ferryman, who takes Odysseus and his party across the river Styx after they escape the Underworld. The film is also set during depression era America. The part near the end, where the guys come in with a rail and lift the Klan guy up onto it, was "running him out of town on a rail." Sort of like the expression tar and feathered.

[@WolfHreda]

Fun fact: Running someone out of town on a rail predates the invention of the railroad.

[@DinoNardelli]

The dialogue is what made this movie...and the soundtrack.

[@emil87th]

This movie is a true gem. Unlike how a previous poster felt; to me this is easily top 20 movies of all time. Good stuff all around!

[@J_EOMReacts]

Great movie

[@janedoe5229]

About the little girls: the one with the string on her is so that she won't run away. But baby, Everette didn't even KNOW about her. And that baby's ears stick out like Waldrop's.

[@mena94x3]

30:03 . . . He was “run out of town on a rail.” It’s an old-fashioned form of punishment, which back in colonial times also involved being tarred and feathered.

[@stonebaxter]

At the end, they "ran the guy out of town on the rails" (an old expression for sending someone packing out of town post-haste, usually walking the railroad rails). Making them leave before the train even gets there to pick them up, if you will. It was a subtle joke.

[@S_047]

Ah hell no. If I went through hell and high water for my lady's ring and THEN she says it's the wrong one... Nah I'm out. Taking my pomade with me

[@J_EOMReacts]

Facts lol

[@joellenglass2344]

😂😂😂

[@loganinkosovo]

My mother was a kid in Kansas during the Dust Bowl and the height of the depression. She told us stories of her childhood. She was the youngest of four girls and when her Mother went to town she tied a cord around my mother's waist and the other three girls had to grab on to the cord as they walked through town.When they moved to California in the late 30's she was too small to pick crops so they had her drive the truck they put the full boxes on. They had to put her on stacks of phone books and tied a 4x4 to her foot so she could reach the petals ALA short round in the Indiana Jones film.

[@carson9359]

Does she enjoy this movie? We're from Oklahoma and I showed it to my grandpa when it came out, he was born in 1920. He was the youngest of 14 children and he didn't like it all that much. I think it just reminded him of a time that wasn't so great for him and his family. Also thanks for your comment I always enjoy reading or hearing about others experience during that time.

[@Elerad]

Ulysses is such a riot. Constantly pulling five dollar words out of a ten cent brain. I remember back when this came out, and the soundtrack was a top seller across the country for weeks and weeks and weeks. All of a sudden, old timey bluegrass was crazily popular. Good times.

[@NoelleMar]

He really is the kind of “clever idiot” Homer’s Ulysses was LOL

[@taztaztaz]

one of my alltime favorites.. and the actor playing Tommy the guitarist is actually a legit blues musician named Chris Thomas King.. sold tons of records. was also in the movie “ Ray “

[@bluereenie2]

Not even started, but your dog LOVES you! Mad props for being a doggie daddy. He's prosh!

[@J_EOMReacts]

Thank you and thank you for showing my baby some love

[@notmyrealname8282]

I totally forgot about this film. This film was so easy to quote back in the day. “I’m a dapper Dan man!”. Hahaha.

[@theirishslyeyes]

Lol I live out in BFE, and when people ask me about it, I always say, "It's a geographical oddity. Two weeks away from everywhere."

[@notmyrealname8282]

@@theirishslyeyes , stay out of the Woolworth!

[@theirishslyeyes]

@@notmyrealname8282 🤣🤣🤣

[@FireTiger941]

19:55 "I generally refrain from speech during Gestation"....he meant "digestion". I wonder if anyone else knows he messed that up haha

[@fp4man542]

He may have said "gustation" (tasting) rather than "gestation".

[@lsu1992]

"I'm the Got dam Pater Familias!" ranks right up there with "A friend with a cleft asshole?" 🤟

[@valdovaldo2224]

The boys' s journey is actually copying Ulysses Odyssey : The Cyclope (J.Goodman), the Mermaids/Witches, the tempest, etc... Tommy's character is inspired by Robert Johnson, the actual guitar legend, who according to the legend, is said to have sold his soul to the Devil at a crossroads, in exchange for becoming extremely gifted with the guitar. We learned nothing more about the first part, but we know that the second part actually became true !

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

Homer wrote the Odyssey. Ulysses is the Latin version of the name Odysseus, who is the main character of Homer's story the Odyssey. Also, the women are Sirens, which are different than Mermaids.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I really wish people would actually read The Odyssey before posting this comment. There really isn't much resemblance.

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

@@jean-paulaudette9246 What do you mean? There are many elements that have been taken from Homer's story. It's not an exact copy but it borrows certain segments from the story. I really don't know how anyone could miss it, it's pretty blatant if you've read it.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

@@jean-paulaudette9246 Does "loosely inspired by The Odyssey" work for you?

[@timhibbard4226]

I also thought Tommy was a Robert Johnson reference the first time I watched it, but I looked it up and was surprised to find that Tommy Johnson was real, predated Robert, told the same story of how he got his skills, and also wrote songs about it just like Robert Johnson.

[@handsomestik]

Used to put this on a loop while I cleaned house. It is just so damned comfy for the summer. This movie and Do the right thing are perfect summer feel movies

[@vawest2052]

There's a movie, loosly based around the story of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil. Its called Cross Roads and its about Robert going back as an old man to get his soul back. It starred Ralph Macchio, even if you don't react to the movie, it's still something you'd enjoy on you're own time.

[@timhibbard4226]

Funnily enough, Tommy Johnson and Robert Johnson are actually two separate real guys who were both talented blues guitar players but also had their own separate stories of how they sold their soul to the devil for their skills and both also wrote and recorded songs about it. Tommy was contemporary to the 20’s like he is in this movie and Robert was recording in the 30’s. So Tommy came first, but Robert’s song Crossroad is definitely the better know of the two thanks to the cover by Eric Clapton and Robert’s more direct influence on early Rock and Roll.

[@fbksfrank4]

Also Homer’s odyssey.

[@russellward4624]

Love that film. Steve Vai aka Jack Butler made me buy a guitar.

[@boogermansdaddy1]

Yeah...be sure you don't get the Brittney Spears version of crossroads.😁

[@ubit397]

@@timhibbard4226 So few people realize that. I've had people argue with me and act as if I had no idea what I was talking about when I made the same point. 🤣

[@anthonykelly1368]

“Fights like the Notre Dame logo.” Lol. Back before gloves prize fighters placed their hands like that because they thought throwing punches that way lowered risk of hand fractures.

[@TheOtterOnes]

My man your dog is so adorable. The way it stood up straight on it's hind legs was so cute.

[@J_EOMReacts]

Thank you for showing my baby some love

[@LordGdawg]

"I don't know Tommy that well" I lost it. Been laughing for 2 minutes now. Take this and comment damnnit!

[@J_EOMReacts]

🤣🤣🤣 I’m just saying they was doing a lot of risk for somebody they had a car ride with and disappeared

[@wayniac917]

Tommy, the guitarist, is Chris Thomas King - a famous blues musician.

[@iKvetch558]

LOLOLOL...I see what you did there...you used the FOP lid to cover your bleeps, so that way you were covering the F word with an F word...LOL Plus, there is the added level to it that Emmit would definitely consider FOP to be a curse word...since he is a Dapper Dan man! Very clever...well played. 😏💯😂😜

[@J_EOMReacts]

lol thank you

[@judithturner1593]

Blues/Jazz History: "Legend has it that Robert Johnson met the devil at a crossroads and gave him his soul in exchange for mastery of the guitar. He was THAT GOOD! Instruments Played: Guitar Place of birth: Hazlehurst, Mississippi" Robert Johnson | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

[@IdealUser]

29:54 That's what my grandparents would say "ride someone out of town on a rail". It's a vigilante form of punishment given to someone who offended a town in someway. They would be dumped somewhere outside of town and basically told they weren't welcome. Sometimes people got hot tar poured on them as well.

[@kittykatt7652]

This dog's eyes are hypnotic. He never blinks!

[@J_EOMReacts]

🤣🤣🤣 Rom really don’t blink a lot unless he nervous

[@theresawrightman3097]

My Husband in photo of Icon when he was in the US Army they sang songs like that from Boot camp and the whole time he was in service that he knows from 16 years of service.

[@donnastupka7507]

Great reaction!! Your co-pilot is the one I really tune in for! Thanks🐶❤🐶

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol most people do

[@joedavis6029]

I used to hunt along the tracks when I was a kid. That, our garden and fishing is how we ate 90% of the time. I would grab onto the caboose handrail and ride the train back toward our house...feet dangling and gun across my lap. I'd give the guy in the caboose a squirrel or rabbit for letting me hitch along.

[@ChatarraCrow]

So, when I was much much younger, there was a screensaver that was of the flood scene with cans of dapper dan and the wedding ring floating around.

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol that’s awesome

[@gotpaladin9520]

I lost it when you said "I aint have much for neck". Literally laughing in tears. Your reviews are some of the best on the platform! Also, this was a big movie from my childhood and love the parallel between it and the Odyssey

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol I’m glad you enjoyed and thank you for saying my reviews are one of the best

[@Letha-Mae]

I love the sound track a lot was played at my dads funeral

[@johnathanstruble1064]

When they brought the beam into to exit the Grand Wizard..it is where the term ..RUN EM OUT ON A RAIL..came from..1930's term....

[@kingjellybean9795]

Bro, blues guitar is what birthed rock guitar lol blues cats are the hendrix of that Era. Muddy waters, howling wolf, lightning Hopkins, BBking... I can go on lol

[@gggooding]

Tommy Johnson is based off both blues singers Tommy Johnson and Robert Johnson (like in Die Hard, no relation between the Johnsons) who both supposedly sold their souls to the Devil at a crossroads. Scattered my dad's ashes at the supposed crossroads in Mississippi where the deal went down. Gave him back to the devil, which he woulda liked...my pop, I mean. Probably annoyed the hell outta the Devil.

[@DevInvest]

“The Gods Must Be Crazy” 👊🏻

[@BigGator5]

"Damn! We're in a tight spot!" I get that this is The Odyssey in Depression Era Mississippi, but I just couldn't get into it. I don't hate it, I'm just unamused. This really should be up my alley, but I grow bored every time I try watching it and just move on. Fun Fact: The woman who asks the Woolworth's clerk about the Soggy Bottom Boys is Gillian Welch, one of the artists on the film's soundtrack. Music Enthusiast Fact: The film's soundtrack became an unlikely blockbuster, even surpassing the success of the film. By early 2001, it had sold five million copies, spawned a documentary film, three follow-up albums ("O Sister" and "O Sister 2"), two concert tours, and won Country Music Awards for Album of the Year and Single of the Year (for "Man Of Constant Sorrow"). It also won five Grammys, including Album of the Year, and hit #1 on the Billboard album charts the week of March 15, 2002, 63 weeks after its release and over a year after the release of the film. Historical Fact: The historical Baby Face Nelson was a homicidal gangster named Lester M. Gillis, who was known for his hot temper and itchy trigger finger. He was shot by FBI agents and died of his wounds in Wilmette, Illinois on November 27, 1934, three years before the setting of this film. There is a very heavy focus on the use of the Confederate Battle Flag at the KKK rally. However, the association of the KKK (and racists in general) with the "Rebel" flag grew out of the Civil Rights conflict of the 1960s. During the Twenties and Thirties, the peak of KKK membership, only the U.S. flag was represented at KKK rallies, even in Mississippi.

[@J_EOMReacts]

These facts are brought to you by 🐊

[@0okamino]

Very clever play on the cyclops, too. Big Dan played an antagonistic part like the cyclops Polyphemus ( though Dan didn’t imprison them in a cave), he had one functional eye, and cyclops is a rank in the KKK. They subverted the stake to the eye, but he got what was coming to him.

[@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735]

They ran him out of town on a rail. It's where the phrase comes from. Plus the tarred and feathered him if I recall right.

[@davidhasselblad3825]

So, Tommy was based off of a man named Robert Johnson. He wrote one album. He recorded it all in one session I believe. All the jazz musicians used to talk about how bad of a guitar player he was. Buts it’s all he ever wanted to do. So legend has it that he skipped town for about a year. When he came back to New Orleans he killed the rooms when he played. He was known as the father of the blues, and we wouldn’t have blues rock or metal without his influence in music. One year after recording that album, It’s said the devil came to collect his due. The night he passed he was playing for like a small bar. He started freaking out yelling about seeing black dogs. Then according to eye witness reports, he started foaming at the mouth, and crawling on all fours and ended up dying. Truly an interesting story and terrifying to think about.

[@J_EOMReacts]

That is wild

[@FireTiger941]

8:55 How I feel when I try to find something at the store LOL

[@J_EOMReacts]

Facts

[@kf8346]

Man of constant sorrow is on bob Dylan’s first album, so is house of the rising sun. . . These are songs that are much older than any kind of machine that can record sounds. So bob or the animals or George Clooney’s character might have been the first to record it. But the beauty of folk music is that nobody really knows who came up with the song in the first place. It feels like it has just always existed.

[@RraMakutsi]

Reminds me of a quote from another Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis... "If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it's a folk song."

[@kf8346]

@@RraMakutsi just a simple question. Do you think that seven nation army by the white stripes is a folk song, because more people know it from every athletic event they went to than people who know it was the white stripes? Is this a song that more people know and love than people who know who recorded it first? Does that make it folk by definition. Cuz it is played at any sporting event anywhere on earth and it always will be.

[@dperry203]

Thanks for the reaction! I enjoyed it. Always enjoy the movie and your comments and reaction were funny!

[@doctorlorthos]

"You gettin' your ass whooped by somebody that fights like the Notre Dame logo," that fucking killed me damn

[@J_EOMReacts]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TheFacrecords]

I might get some negative press for this but I maintain the Coen’s best film is “Miller’s Crossing.” I hope that you plan to check it out. It’s in the top 3 gangster films of all time.

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

Thissun is probably one of my favourite films of all time

[@bruuno77]

I am so happy you did this movie. One of my all time favorites. Gotta do Raising Arizona

[@bruuno77]

And your dog is star LOL

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol I think he knows it

[@JustinWillisDevil240Z]

You made me laugh so much during this one that I signed up for the patreon.

[@EOMReacts]

Much appreciated and stoked you enjoyed it that much.

[@WitchessJae]

The whole soundtrack is great, you should give it a full listen

[@J_EOMReacts]

I’m going to

[@seansersmylie]

This film is like James Joyces' Ulysses, it's based around Homer's The Odyssey. Big Dan with the eye patch is the Cyclops for example.

[@NoelMcGinnis]

Years ago I was convinced that George Clooney was WAY overrated as an actor. But then I saw this movie a few months after it came out, and I was like: “I’ll be damned. This guy can actually act. And really well.” His character in this movie is silly and over the top (“My hair!”) but he does a truly amazing job. Good job George. And I don’t like FOP either! 😂

[@kf8346]

Of course not. You are a dapper Dan man. . . Fuck fop is what I always said.

[@USCFlash]

clooney is not much of an actor & pretty 1-dimensional like great leading men of the past (Beatty, Redford, Ford) but he was great in this.

[@rugr82day]

I felt the same way. And it was because he initially played the same character in his earlier project. He played them all the same as he played Dr Doug from the TV show ER. Even when he played the worst Batman ever, he was still acting like his character from the TV show. His performance in Oh Brother Where Art Thou really surprised me and I also enjoyed his role as Danny in Ocean's Eleven. That role was a great combination of slick, cool, smart, humerus and optimistic. He had great chemistry with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts.

[@JustinWillisDevil240Z]

I never know how to feel when a band plays a song from this movie where I work. It happens way more than I ever expected.

[@ozarkhillibilly9584]

Miller's Crossing is a great film.

[@matthewgiese7811]

The end he got "rode out of town on a rail". It was an older form of punishment in a town. Rarely was done on a pole like he was... But normally what would happen instead is they would take you to a train station, buy you a ticket to anywhere else and tell you to never return. Rode out of town on a rail (train).

[@jessereyna6662]

“Damn, we in a tight spot”. I love this movie and the music was fantastic.

[@patrickary3956]

"You got your ass whipped by someone who looks like the Notre Dame logo." Dude... I almost fell out of my chair!

[@J_EOMReacts]

🤣🤣🤣

[@The_Rad_Dad3]

Tim Blake Nelson, who plays Delmar is actually singing the song in the jailhouse now

[@hookstomper7322]

"I don't want FOP, goddammit! I'm a Dapper Dan man!" 🤣

[@J_EOMReacts]

🤣🤣🤣

[@tubularap]

Before I start the video I want to say: What a nice surprise: One of my favourite reactors watches one of my favourite movies.

[@tubularap]

Oh man, I've been laughing my socks off. Thoroughly enjoyed this one. But ... ... you have been cruel to "Dapper Dan man" Emmet for using the FOP label for your 'bleep'-cover ;-) ;-) My suggestion for another Coen Brothers with George Clooney in a funny role: "Burn After Reading"

[@J_EOMReacts]

I think we have that on the list.

[@benf1111]

BTW, Milton from Office Space is blind Mr. Lund at the radio station who recorded the Soggy Bottom Boys

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol I know that’s why I started laughing and saying Stfu when I seen him. I love that dude

[@benf1111]

@@J_EOMReacts I thought you noticed but wasn't sure. That dude looks so different in everything he does.

[@alexanderwagner4587]

FYI Robert Johnson and Tommy Johnson (no relation) and Jimi Hendrix were rumored to have sold their souls to Satan in order to master the guitar, it's what inspired the movie Crossroads with Ralph Machio and also The Pick Of Destiny with Tenacious D.

[@J_EOMReacts]

I’ve heard the pick of destiny is hilarious

[@brentfugett2700]

"He said 'nigra'?? He ain't a true racist.". That's about the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. We need to get a bunch of us together and have some bbq. LOL

[@J_EOMReacts]

That would be awesome lol

[@TheDivayenta]

I love how your sleeping pups are somehow part of the story!

[@J_EOMReacts]

They my babies they will be apart of it 🐾🐾

[@Spikeelsucko]

even these days if you listen real close to the right kind of folks youll hear the phrase "run out of town on a rail", which is exactly what you saw happen to Homer Stokes at the end there. This was a thing actually done occasionally in the 18th and 19th century if people in a particular town wanted to be rid of you.

[@J_EOMReacts]

That’s wild

[@bethking7348]

Soundtrack was Alison Krause and Union Station. I'd heard the movie is loosely based on The Odyssey by Homer. Very fun story

[@carlosvejar3938]

Bro you have to watch Miller's Crossing. Like all their movies, it's amazing. And watch Raising Arizona. That's hilarious

[@J_EOMReacts]

Those are on the list

[@carlosvejar3938]

@@J_EOMReacts Miller's Crossing is their gangster movie. It's one of my favorite movies

[@lyleb.5614]

Well ain't this place a geographical oddity....2 weeks from everywhere....makes me laugh every time .

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol that was awesome

[@chernobog1351]

Glad you enjoyed this film, Murder Whistle. It's one of my favorite Coen Brothers films, and watching along with you I kept saying to myself "Wait'll J sees what happens next!" or "J's gonna love this part!" BTW, I don't know if anyone else made this point, but George "Baby Face" Nelson (real name: Lester Joseph Gillis, though all his friends and associates called him "Jimmy") was an actual Depression-era bank robber, a one-time partner of John Dillinger, and killed more FBI agents than anyone before or since. His actual fate was worse than that in the film; the real Baby Face died after a gun battle with the FBI (check out his Wikipedia page to see how bad this guy was). Anyway, enough with the history lesson. Great video as always! These have become the best part of my Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights, and I thank you for that. And shout out to The Co-Pilots! When are they getting their own channel?

[@J_EOMReacts]

I absolutely loved this movie. I did look up some stuff of baby face and he was a tough dude. I’m glad you been enjoying and we been talking about starting a channel for them

[@gregcarter9680]

This movie had one of the best soundtracks ever put together. Old blues and bluegrass with some gospel mixed in. Such a great collection.

[@crystalscolza1663]

At the end after the whole issue is or is you ain't my constituency speech.... And they put them up on top of that rail way Pole... That is where the figure of speech run them out of town on a rail came from

[@SigRho1429]

When they ran the post into the concert at the end and hauled the politician off, they were “running him out of town on a rail”.

[@Rock-n-Rolla369]

“I don’t want FOP!” My favorite line.

[@artbagley1406]

The rhythm of the songs sometimes were used to keep the working men in coordinated swings of the sledgehammers, picks, etc.

[@leeneufeld4140]

"Riding the rail (also called being "run out of town on a rail") was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The subject was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside." Wikipedia :)

[@Citizenesse8]

I'm sure somebody has already mentioned this but riding somebody out on a rail is an old old expression where people got ridden out of town on a rail and dumped after being paraded around and shamed.

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol I had never heard that before. I was so confused on what they was doing

[@hellsing507]

If your wondering why Homer was dragged out on a beam, it was an old custom to tar and feather trouble makers in the south and ride them out of the town on a rail to parade them around. Looks like the mob didn’t have any tar handy but still had the rail.

[@shaggyrumplenutz1610]

Another thing about the old blind man at the beginning. How did he get the hand cart he was riding on the track so fast after that MUCH faster train had passed? It is just one detail that leads you to believe he is an angel. This movie is a masterpiece.

[@frost1977]

Man of constant Sorrows is the song, but it is a MUCH older song than this film is. It is an Old Blue grass tune from like the 60's

[@1newbert]

Coen Brothers are gold for reaction. I met them during Blood Simple in Austin because I had friends involved in production. No one knew who they were back then.

[@J_EOMReacts]

That’s awesome

[@2skeletonz14]

"Teenager Robert Johnson was booed off the stage in Robinsonville, he went to a Mississippi crossroad at midnight and summoned the devil. The devil promised to endow him with supernatural musical abilities - as long as the musician gave up his soul in return." From Wikipidia I'm sure someone let you know that George " Babyface " Nelson was an infamous bank-robber during the 1930's along with the likes of Bonnie and Clyde, The Ma Barker gang, John Dillenger and Willie Sutton, who when captured, a reporter asked why he robbed banks? He famously deadpanned : " Cuz that's where the money is. "

[@J_EOMReacts]

I’ve heard of babyface before but I hadn’t heard of Robert Johnson

[@ThePorpoisepower]

Gotta love George Clooney's Duck Dynasty riz during the concert.

[@garybacica5709]

Back then, even the law had fully automatic weapons. Check out The River Runs Through It. Same time period. FBI and law enforcement using Thompson fully automatic machine guns.

[@garybacica5709]

Wait, I have been mistaken. The movie was called Legends of the Fall. Prohibition era film with Brad Pitt. Tommy guns and bootleg liquor.

[@transistor281]

The old blind guy used a countdown buzzard watch from Southern pacific. They would sweep 2,3,4,5,6 miles of rail using the timer and Frog clicks to gauge the location (not the reptile)

[@willr7169]

We don't got no radio down here. I believe the power company broacast that they were going to flood that valley for a hydroelectric dam.

[@robertjewell9727]

The Coens based this movie on the epic poem by Homer called The Odyssey and moved it to the Great Depression instead of Greek myth. There's a cyclops (one-eyed John Goodman) and strange witchy women called the Sirens where they transform men into animals, but the best thing about is satirical representation of a time period in a specific location namely the segregated South and the peculiarly accented use of words and ways of communicating in the sense that that particular South was as off-kilter as a Greek myth. Are there more Corn brothers movies to come? My personal favorite is called BARTON FINK. The title of the movie comes from an older film called Sullivan's Travels in which a famous Hollywood director of comedies wants to make a serious movie called Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? Oh, puppy where art thou? is my alternate title for your reaction. Ciao for now. 👍

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol I like the alternative title

[@elsievickie]

Coen Brothers can't go wrong...Love their movies. Soundtrack on phone, Love this movie....

[@J_EOMReacts]

They are 4/4 with me right now

[@birch5757]

This movie is my grandma's favorite movie. She was the one who recommended it to me and my college roommate. We were a bit skeptical, but it actually became one of our favorites as well.

[@jakubfabisiak9810]

the film is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey (it says so in the beginning) - John Goodman is the Cyclops, there are Sirens, Everett is trying to get back to his wife before she remarries. And the songs are top notch - if you haven't already, you have to listen to the cover of Man of Constant Sorrow by Home Free.

[@TheRealMirCat]

It kinda sounded like something else but he said "He's an ignorant old man."

[@J_EOMReacts]

🤣🤣🤣 that twang had me thinking he said something else

[@jameskirschling7887]

I forgot how funny this movie is. Another Clooney movie that I think is funny but I don't think it's very well known is Men Who Stare At Goats. I gave the DVD to my son because he is a big Star Wars fan, that's all I'll say about that.

[@rogercline5377]

The thing you said you didn't understand was Homer Stokes getting literally "run out of town on a rail".

[@J_EOMReacts]

Lol I have to be the only to have never heard of that