#2000 movies
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7, 2005
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival on 13 May 2000.
With a plot taken from Homer and a title taken from Preston Sturges (1941′s Sullivan’s Travels), the Coen Brothers’ 8th feature film included many cast and crew they had worked with previously, including cinematographer Roger Deakins (5th film with the brothers), John Turturro (4th film), John Goodman (3rd film), Charles Durning (2nd), and Holly Hunter (2nd).
Music was integral to the story from the start, and the soundtrack was recorded before filming even started.
The film was released in the US in December, and was a commercial and critical success, nominated for 2 Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography. It did not receive an Oscar.
The soundtrack (released in December) topped the US Billboard charts and received the Album of the Year Grammy Award in 2002 (only the 2nd soundtrack to receive the award), and Ralph Stanley received the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for “O, Death.” The soundtrack was also named Album of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards and International Bluegrass Music Awards. It has sold more than 8 million copies.
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One Dress a Week Challenge
May: Gold & Silver
Dungeons and Dragons / Thora Birch as Empress Savina
Let’s be clear: this is a terrible movie. A terrible movie. About the only thing that makes it watchable is Jeremy Irons deciding to throw all caution to the wind and chew the scenery with abandon. The costumes aren’t great either, on the whole; they look low-budget and stagey at their best, “local costume shop rental” at their worst.
But still, I feel like this dress shows just a glimmer of possibility for the movie to have been something better, something fun and cheesy in the vein of Flash Gordon. A bit of thought and even worldbuilding went into this costume. The dragon-claw-as-Elizabethan-ruff effect is actually kind of clever, one of the few things that goes beyond the most generic Ren Faire design.
They’ve also incorporated a few Asian-inspired elements, like the flared shoulders. I half suspect someone was watching The Phantom Menace the previous year and busily taking notes.
