Saturday, 14 May 2011

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

This was the second Coen Brothers film I decided to watch and a good one at last. A story based on the poem 'The Odyssey' by Homer set in south America in the 1930's. A whimsical story about 3 escaped convicts trying to get to the so called treasure that 'Everett' the hair product 'dapper dan' obssesed narcissiest (George Clooney) made up. Everett created a story about some treasure so he could get help from Pete and Delmar (John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) to break out of jail. The story was made up so he could stop his wife from wedding another bloke.
Throughout the film they come across a series of problems and challenges they have to wiggle their way out of and try and make their way towards Everett wife and kids. On their travels they stumble across a black kid with a guitar and they all help him create a track to earn some quick dollar. Without them knowing the track becomes a big hit and in the end helps them from being taken down by the mayor devouring them from all their crimes.

The film got me thinking about a few possibilities for photo-shoot ideas and concepts but nothing that really stood out and made me want to crack on with anything. I liked the idea of 3brothers going through hard times together, and whilst not actually being blood brothers but brothers at heart and soul. The highs and lows you admit with each other, something that will always stay with you in memory.

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