{"id":627,"date":"2009-01-01T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2011-04-23T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:25:48","slug":"dvd-o-brother-where-art-thou-coen-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/dvd-o-brother-where-art-thou-coen-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen, 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Over time, each new viewing of this film has me thinking that it is less funny, but an all-around better movie. The music is and has always been beautiful, and there are certain scenes that I always want to come back to. I think this film most resembles Altman’s Nashville<\/span> (outside of any other Coen Brothers film) with the music and backdrop of an election, and just how genuinely American it is. Nashville<\/span> is the better film at pretty much every angle, but I think O Brother<\/span> will be regarded on a similar level one day. I still have problems with the first 20 minutes. I remember when I first saw this that I felt like I had wasted 6 dollars because the opening scenes were so hokey and lame. I think that George Clooney shows some of his worst acting in these 20 minutes, but later shows some of his best.<\/p>\n

I was more distracted by the overall look of the film this time than I ever have been before. Most of it felt like those tacky black and white photos that have a single colored object (like a red rose). The yellow leaves light up the background in O Brother while all of the actors are close to completely desaturated. It gave the film a slightly false feeling that I don’t think I would have sensed if they had just left the colors alone. I’m working on a video right now, though, that needs a similar procedure done, so I think I’m very sensitive to this kind of look. Anyway, great film, I’ll continue coming back to it in the future, I’m sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over time, each new viewing of this film has me thinking that it is less funny, but an all-around better movie. The music is and has always been beautiful, and there are certain scenes that I always want to come back to. I think this film most resembles Altman’s Nashville (outside of any other Coen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}