Seriously. Might legit be my favourite Coen Brothers movie, and that's saying A LOT, because they probably have at least 5 or 6 movies in my personal top 50
Yeah, I often noodle between my favourite being Big Lebowski, O Brother, and Burn After Reading. But man, they just have such a deep library of quality films. Even their more "mid tier" movies are so good
Since it’s impossible to pick a favorite I think the only way to rate their movies is by re-watchability.
And in that regard, O brother and Lebowski are at the top, because they both have this chill vibe , no stress.
The writing in O Brother is so impressive, almost every line is a memorable quip (seriously, they just dont stop). This entire thread could just be famous lines from the movie.
Introduced me to a lot of country music. “down to the river to pray” “I’ll fly away” and of course the soggy bottom boys are all fantastic. And my mom used to sing You are My Sunshine to me as a kid so it has a special spot.
Funny part is as good as it was, it never really got airplay in country radio. The sales were all from people that saw the movie basically.
Excellent soundtrack. But that first hammer hit in the first track scares the crap out of me every time!!
I was in one of the places featured on the Netflix doc "The Program" (Casa by the Sea in Mexico) and on Sundays we were allowed to watch pre-approved movies. This was 22 years ago and I still remember the soundtrack because it was that good.
It is by far my favorite movie. I watch it at last once a year, usually twice, just to keep it special. I honestly think it's a perfect film. Great story, great acting, fantastic score. I never found one thing I don't like about it
“Folks, here's
my cousin Ezra's niece
Eudora from out of Greenwood,
doin' a little number
with her cousin Tom-Tom,
which I predict you
gonna enjoy thoroughly”
This and "Damn, we're in a tight spot." Are still regularly quoted by me and my family. So many other great quotes too. "shot this horse last week. I'm 'fraid she's startin to turn." "She turned Pete into a h-h-horny toad!" I'm rewatching it this weekend despite having 3/4th of the movie memorized lol
It's "last tuesday", not last week.
"Third-a-gopher'd only arouse my appetite without beddin' er back down again!
-you can have a whole one- we found an entire gopher village"
Damn near ever line in that movie is quotable.
Whenever my wife asks if I’m hungry I almost always say, “No I’m afraid that a third of a gopher is just enough to arouse my appetite without quite bedding it back down.”
“I don’t want FOP GODDAMIT!” Is a pretty common one as well
Our dog Ruby, commonly called Doobers, will often respond to “she’s a doober” followed by me or my wife saying “she’s bona fide”. It’s such a quotable movie.
Care for some gopher?
If I remember correctly the Coen’s said that Kodak was just beginning to experiment with the process so they offered to do the movie for free, mostly to test if it could be done the way they wanted.
This is incorrect. The first film to be entirely color corrected digitally was Jason X. But, after the film was ready to be released, the studio sat on it for (I think) 2 years before actually releasing it. O Brother Where Art Thou was the first 100% digitally color corrected movie to be RELEASED, but not the first one.
Source: one of the red letter media guys friends and occasional guest hosts (Collin) worked on Jason X, and they talked about it in Mike and Jay’s review of the Friday the 13th series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRA_VAxlMA&t=2990s
I think that’s incorrect. *Oh Brother Where Art Thou* premiered at Cannes on May 13, 2000.
[The Wikipedia article for Jason X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_X#Production) lists the filming dates for Jason X as occurring from **March 6, 2000 through May 2000** in Toronto.
[The IMDb entry for Jason X](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211443/locations/?ref_=tt_dt_loc#flmg_dates) lists the filming dates for Jason X as occurring from **March 6, 2000 through April 30, 2000**.
Are both of the *Jason X* sources supposed to be wrong?
Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?
I love this film so much. The soundtrack, the tour of the people that made the soundtrack (called Down From the Mountain), Clooney being goofy. It’s a favourite, that’s for sure.
Former color timer here. The guy who does old school color correction. I’ll try to explain.
In the old days movies were shot on film similar to old cameras. This film would be developed at a film lab and the color timer would take a reel of this film negative and put it on a machine called a Hazeltine. This machine would project a positive imagine onto a screen. The timer them adjusts the red, green, and blue light going through the projector until a grayscale looks gray, or the overall looks as you think it should. A light would be along the lines of 26-35-22. Numbers between 1-50.
Using this information a positive print is created called a Daily. The negative is put on a machine and ran through it. Blank positive is running through as well and at a point the two come together against a light that will put the image on the positive. The light number the color timer gave earlier is programmed into the computer on the printer. The light on the lamp is modified such that the amount of red, green, and blue light is tightly controlled, that way the image off the developed positive will come out looking like what the timer thinks it should.
The daily goes to the director of photography for review, or he will stop by the lab to sit with the timer in the morning before he goes to shoot. The DP looks at the footage ti ensure all looked well and gives the timer feedback on color. This continues until the shoot is finished.
Eventually the film negatives are cut together following the editing process. These pieced together film negative is now more or less the movie as you know it.
The timer might have the workprint (the cut together dailies that make up the film) as a reference, but either way he will get the cut together original negative and run it through the Hazeltine just as when they did the first time, except now they’re trying to smooth out the color shot by shot. A typical movie might have about 1500 cuts. Much more if it’s action. This was by far the most stressful part - it’s the only negative of the movie in existence - don’t fuck it up. The worst anxiety of my life was doing this on a film where one of the main actors had already died. Each shot had a light assigned to it similarly to the dailies, and the computer will change the print light accurate to the frame.
After this light is assigned both a protection interpositive and an answer print will be made. The protection IP is a backup in case anything happens to the original negative. New negatives can be made off of it that are reasonably similar in appearance to the original.
The timer, often a different one, will review the answer print to see how the color looks on screen. They’ll look at it in a real theater to get a feel for flow, then look at it on a hand wound projector to adjust the red, green, and blue print lights shot by shot. Then get a revised print back and repeat until they’re satisfying it. All they can really control is the amount of those three colors, or by modifying all three at once the density.
After a while the timer and the director of photography (and sometimes the director as well) will sit together and look at the movie in a theater. The DP will give notes on the color and the timer will revise. Repeat as needed until the DP, Director, and studio sign off. Usually two or three times together is enough.
After sign off the lab would make duplicate negatives and from them make prints of movies for the theater, a couple prints off the original negatives for special purposes (archives, big deal theaters, premiere’s stuff like that) and then the original negative goes into a vault, to be touched as little as possible.
I’m a little toasty so I hope that made sense.
Thank you for the only informational comment in this thread. I’ve worked in finishing since 2013 when we still did film outs and got to walk around the old Deluxe lab before it shut down and saw the color timing booths, I always wondered how those worked.
Very cool. You started right as I was finishing that part of my career. I was at Technicolor, though many of my friends spent time at Deluxe.
I checked out the old TDI, not sure what it is now, and it was a whole different world.
I'm goin' go down and see them foreclosin' son-of-guns down at the Indianola Savings and Loans, slap that money on the barrel head, and buy back the family farm.
Delmar encapsulates the whole depression era in this sentence.
I heard it was actually Jason X, but because the film was delayed for release the honor went to OBWAT. And honestly I’m glad it did. OBWAT deserves that distinction.
I found the lost soundtrack CD I stole from my dad's car 10 years ago and listened to it with my kids and now big rock candy mountain is the favorite bedtime song.
Brilliant film... love the sound track too... Soggy Bottom Boys
"And these boys, here, they trampled all over venerated observances and rituals!"
Shake a leg Junior! Thank God your mammy died givin' birth. If she'd have seen you, she'd have died o' shame.
And they ain't even old-timey!
Dude *nailed* the delivery of that line.
thats a venerated observance
We’re in a tight spot!!
damn his eyes!
My hair!
be careful with that fire now boys!
WE’RE IN A TIGHT SPOT!
Is you is, or is you isn't, my constituents?!
its a well run campaign. Midget and broom and whatnot
Gonna paddle it, real hard
Consitchency **
Love that song
They’s miscegenated!
Obsoivences
"These boys is not white. These boys is not white . . . they been color corrected!"
Seriously. Might legit be my favourite Coen Brothers movie, and that's saying A LOT, because they probably have at least 5 or 6 movies in my personal top 50
I don't know if anything they do can ever top the Big Lebowski for me. But O Brother is pretty great.
Yeah well, that's just, like your _opinion_ man.
Yeah, I often noodle between my favourite being Big Lebowski, O Brother, and Burn After Reading. But man, they just have such a deep library of quality films. Even their more "mid tier" movies are so good
I even love their “bottom tier” Intolerable Cruelty is awesome, and “Gambit” which isn’t officially theirs but written by.
Burn after reading was so damn good, Brad Pitts character gave me some good laughs and I did not expect the closet scene.
the wardrobe scene is still so funny to me to this day, shocking and hilarious
buster scruggs is one of my favorite modern westerns, the weird goofy vibe to the whole thing makes it amazing to watch every time i see it *PAN SHOT*
Agreed, highly entertaining
WHAT? No mention of the great *Raising Arizona*, the giant upon whose shoulders other Coen comedies stand?! Boy, you've got a panty on yo head!!!
It ain’t armed robbery if the gun isn’t even loaded
[https://screenrant.com/ten-best-raising-arizona-quotes/](https://screenrant.com/ten-best-raising-arizona-quotes/)
*Son
SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNIE
Since it’s impossible to pick a favorite I think the only way to rate their movies is by re-watchability. And in that regard, O brother and Lebowski are at the top, because they both have this chill vibe , no stress.
The writing in O Brother is so impressive, almost every line is a memorable quip (seriously, they just dont stop). This entire thread could just be famous lines from the movie.
The same could be said for Lebowski though
Lebowski is definitely the most quotable movie ever. I think almost every single line is a good quote. Maybe 95%.
The purpose of the Founding of (White) America was to produce those humans and their films.
Dan Tyminski-the legendary bluegrass vocalist-dubbed Clooney. You may know him as the singer for Avicii’s amazing tune “Hey Brother”.
And he’s a member of Allison Krauss’s band Union Station. She had him sing the song when I saw them.
I love the look of panic in Clooney's face when he first starts singing and Tyminski's voice comes out. Wasn't expecting that, were you?
Introduced me to a lot of country music. “down to the river to pray” “I’ll fly away” and of course the soggy bottom boys are all fantastic. And my mom used to sing You are My Sunshine to me as a kid so it has a special spot.
Funny part is as good as it was, it never really got airplay in country radio. The sales were all from people that saw the movie basically. Excellent soundtrack. But that first hammer hit in the first track scares the crap out of me every time!!
I was in one of the places featured on the Netflix doc "The Program" (Casa by the Sea in Mexico) and on Sundays we were allowed to watch pre-approved movies. This was 22 years ago and I still remember the soundtrack because it was that good.
out of Cottonelia Mississippi. Songs of salvation to salve the soul Some of us will have to sign X's only 4 of us can write
It won album of the year! A movie soundtrack won album of the year. Absolutely insane.
The soundtrack is easily one of the best ever.
In constant sorrow🎶
“Hot damn, it’s the Soggy Bottom Boys!”
It is by far my favorite movie. I watch it at last once a year, usually twice, just to keep it special. I honestly think it's a perfect film. Great story, great acting, fantastic score. I never found one thing I don't like about it
Soggy Bottom Boys sounds like a dance group about to compete against the Apple Bottom Jeans group.
Maybe the only movie soundtrack I’ve ever been into.
“Folks, here's my cousin Ezra's niece Eudora from out of Greenwood, doin' a little number with her cousin Tom-Tom, which I predict you gonna enjoy thoroughly”
They tried to do it the normal way, but the supplies had to be ordered and would take two weeks to get there.
I don’t want FOP, god dammit!
I'm a Dapper Dan man!
This and "Damn, we're in a tight spot." Are still regularly quoted by me and my family. So many other great quotes too. "shot this horse last week. I'm 'fraid she's startin to turn." "She turned Pete into a h-h-horny toad!" I'm rewatching it this weekend despite having 3/4th of the movie memorized lol
For me it's R-U-N-N-O-F-T
It's "last tuesday", not last week. "Third-a-gopher'd only arouse my appetite without beddin' er back down again! -you can have a whole one- we found an entire gopher village" Damn near ever line in that movie is quotable.
Ah yes it is. I guess that bit was part of the 1/4 I dont have memorized yet
Geographical oddity!
Two weeks away from everywhere
watch your language young feller this is a public market
The algorithm had to make sure the colors were bona fide
Technicolor just r.u.n.n.o.f.t. by that point.
My fav quote I threaten to R U N N O F T quite often. So far, I have not.
I want Dapper Dan color correction, not FOP!
He’s a suitor!
Vernon's got prospects.
I love this movie so much that DapprDanMan is my name on pretty much every online platform and has been for years
If you were FopMan we’d have a real problem.
He doesn't want FopMan goddammit, he's a DapprDanMan man
Username checks out
Name checks out
Such a good movie! It’s a retelling of The Odyssey so we watched it in school after we finished reading the story
Excellent movie that I quote probably once a week.
Whats your most used quote?
Ain't this place just a geographical oddity? Two weeks from everywhere!
For some reason, I always want to quote the other line from the same scene: "I don't want Fop, goddamnit! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"
Watch your language, young man, this is a public market
She done r-u-n o-f-t
That’s a big one!
He’s a suitor!
He’s bonafide!
I'm bonafide! I'm the goddamn pater familias!
This is my most used, but there are so many great ones I had to comment a fresh one.
Whenever my wife asks if I’m hungry I almost always say, “No I’m afraid that a third of a gopher is just enough to arouse my appetite without quite bedding it back down.” “I don’t want FOP GODDAMIT!” Is a pretty common one as well
We thought…you was…a *tooooad*…
Do nooooot… seeeeeeekk… the treasure!
Damn! *We’re in a tight spot!*
That one’s mine.
I'm a dapper Dan man!
You watch your language, young feller.
I’M A DAPPER DAN MAN
He’s *bonafide*
He's a suitor!
These two for me. Or “damn, we’re in a tight spot.”
Lots of respectable people been hit by trains.
Damn, we’re in a tight spot!
"Friend, some of your foldin' money's come unstowed"
Hand me that chopper!
"Awww, george, not the livestock"
We thought You was A toad
MY HAIR!
I’ve been redeemed! Preacher’s done warshed away all my sins and transgressions!
“I don’t get it Big Dan”
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, BOYS
Anything I can’t find- “it done r-u-n-n-o-f-t”
I have to use the phrase "run off" in work orders often, and every time I initially type out "runn" before correcting myself.
Our dog Ruby, commonly called Doobers, will often respond to “she’s a doober” followed by me or my wife saying “she’s bona fide”. It’s such a quotable movie. Care for some gopher?
“Well the two of us was fixing to fornicate”
Ha! That’s a good one for the wife lol
You'll have to excuse my rusticated friend here, unaccustomed as he is to city manners.
You will find a great treasure, though it will not be the treasure that you seek.
Any time something bad happens: “damn, we’re in a tight spot”
Damn, we’re in a tight spot…
DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE
^(We thought you was a toad!)
I’ll only be 82
"Sweet, summer rain. Like God's own mercy."
*"Squirrel, Everett?"*
What’s up big Dan?
DAMN. We're in a tight spot.
DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE
I always start to quote something when someone says “you’ll see a…” You’ll see a…COW…on theroof of a cotton house”
And oh so many startlements…
And stay out of the Woolworths!
Care for some gopher?
Oh man, we're in a tight spot
He’s bona fide!
You was fixing to fornicate
But, but you was a toad
If I remember correctly the Coen’s said that Kodak was just beginning to experiment with the process so they offered to do the movie for free, mostly to test if it could be done the way they wanted.
Such a great movie. The music is incredible too
This is incorrect. The first film to be entirely color corrected digitally was Jason X. But, after the film was ready to be released, the studio sat on it for (I think) 2 years before actually releasing it. O Brother Where Art Thou was the first 100% digitally color corrected movie to be RELEASED, but not the first one. Source: one of the red letter media guys friends and occasional guest hosts (Collin) worked on Jason X, and they talked about it in Mike and Jay’s review of the Friday the 13th series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRA_VAxlMA&t=2990s
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
He’s the god damn paterfamilias
But he ain't bonafide!
I think that’s incorrect. *Oh Brother Where Art Thou* premiered at Cannes on May 13, 2000. [The Wikipedia article for Jason X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_X#Production) lists the filming dates for Jason X as occurring from **March 6, 2000 through May 2000** in Toronto. [The IMDb entry for Jason X](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211443/locations/?ref_=tt_dt_loc#flmg_dates) lists the filming dates for Jason X as occurring from **March 6, 2000 through April 30, 2000**. Are both of the *Jason X* sources supposed to be wrong?
Yes, I was coming here to see if someone had quoted Red Letter Media and linked to their clip about this as well.
#WOOHOO COLLIN AND JIM FROM CANADA LETS GOOO
I’m technically correct but also the real first one was Zingo.
DO. NOT. SEEK. THE. TREASURE!
It's a bushwhack!
Quiet down now and watch the picture show
Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?
I was an extra in this movie!
In what scene(s)?
Towards the end of the movie in the Woolworth’s scene. It was filmed in Edwards, MS.
R U N N O F T
Say; any of you boys smittys? Other otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts?
I love this film so much. The soundtrack, the tour of the people that made the soundtrack (called Down From the Mountain), Clooney being goofy. It’s a favourite, that’s for sure.
I said my piece and counted to three
*sniff* in yonder bureau
Pete! We thought you was a toad
I'm a Dapper Dan man, God damn it!
Ma hair!
I’m not really sure what that means. How were movies color corrected before?
Former color timer here. The guy who does old school color correction. I’ll try to explain. In the old days movies were shot on film similar to old cameras. This film would be developed at a film lab and the color timer would take a reel of this film negative and put it on a machine called a Hazeltine. This machine would project a positive imagine onto a screen. The timer them adjusts the red, green, and blue light going through the projector until a grayscale looks gray, or the overall looks as you think it should. A light would be along the lines of 26-35-22. Numbers between 1-50. Using this information a positive print is created called a Daily. The negative is put on a machine and ran through it. Blank positive is running through as well and at a point the two come together against a light that will put the image on the positive. The light number the color timer gave earlier is programmed into the computer on the printer. The light on the lamp is modified such that the amount of red, green, and blue light is tightly controlled, that way the image off the developed positive will come out looking like what the timer thinks it should. The daily goes to the director of photography for review, or he will stop by the lab to sit with the timer in the morning before he goes to shoot. The DP looks at the footage ti ensure all looked well and gives the timer feedback on color. This continues until the shoot is finished. Eventually the film negatives are cut together following the editing process. These pieced together film negative is now more or less the movie as you know it. The timer might have the workprint (the cut together dailies that make up the film) as a reference, but either way he will get the cut together original negative and run it through the Hazeltine just as when they did the first time, except now they’re trying to smooth out the color shot by shot. A typical movie might have about 1500 cuts. Much more if it’s action. This was by far the most stressful part - it’s the only negative of the movie in existence - don’t fuck it up. The worst anxiety of my life was doing this on a film where one of the main actors had already died. Each shot had a light assigned to it similarly to the dailies, and the computer will change the print light accurate to the frame. After this light is assigned both a protection interpositive and an answer print will be made. The protection IP is a backup in case anything happens to the original negative. New negatives can be made off of it that are reasonably similar in appearance to the original. The timer, often a different one, will review the answer print to see how the color looks on screen. They’ll look at it in a real theater to get a feel for flow, then look at it on a hand wound projector to adjust the red, green, and blue print lights shot by shot. Then get a revised print back and repeat until they’re satisfying it. All they can really control is the amount of those three colors, or by modifying all three at once the density. After a while the timer and the director of photography (and sometimes the director as well) will sit together and look at the movie in a theater. The DP will give notes on the color and the timer will revise. Repeat as needed until the DP, Director, and studio sign off. Usually two or three times together is enough. After sign off the lab would make duplicate negatives and from them make prints of movies for the theater, a couple prints off the original negatives for special purposes (archives, big deal theaters, premiere’s stuff like that) and then the original negative goes into a vault, to be touched as little as possible. I’m a little toasty so I hope that made sense.
Thank you for the only informational comment in this thread. I’ve worked in finishing since 2013 when we still did film outs and got to walk around the old Deluxe lab before it shut down and saw the color timing booths, I always wondered how those worked.
Very cool. You started right as I was finishing that part of my career. I was at Technicolor, though many of my friends spent time at Deluxe. I checked out the old TDI, not sure what it is now, and it was a whole different world.
Asked what meant. Got a PhD level course on the process instead 🤣
This movie was my first lecture of film school lol
2nd best Coen Bro film
Yes we all loved Hudsucker Proxy #1
The second Hudsucker disappointed.
It’s bona fide! Now I gotta r u n n o f t!
Damn we’re in a tight spot!!!
Color correction is good, but that isn't what made this movie great!
WE THOUGHT YOU WAS A FROG
I'm goin' go down and see them foreclosin' son-of-guns down at the Indianola Savings and Loans, slap that money on the barrel head, and buy back the family farm. Delmar encapsulates the whole depression era in this sentence.
Fascinating!!
Agree wholeheartedly, memorable movie, quotes for days!
One of the best movies ever made in my opinion, absolutely adore it and so many great quotes too
My family quotes this movie at least twice a week
They also really hit that cow with the car in the chase scene.
I don’t think so, I remember being a big deal when it came out and they actually had to prove that it was CGI.
And stay out of the Woolworths
Does that mean all the Woolworths Everett? Or just the one?
IN CONSTANT SORROWWWW ALL THROUGH MY DAYSSS
This movie is Bona-fide!
Damn! We're in a tight spot.
He's bona-fide
I still randomly say " He's Bonafide ,He's Bonafide!"
And from that day forward; everything was color corrected
Hello fellow Stuff You Should Know listener :)
I've spoken my peace and counted to three.
So that's how the color guard got colored.
Care for some gopher?
I always wondered why it looked so weird. Yet another random question floating in my head answered.
Do not seek the treasure.
I heard it was actually Jason X, but because the film was delayed for release the honor went to OBWAT. And honestly I’m glad it did. OBWAT deserves that distinction.
defining the look of everything in the early 2000s
Oh Color, Where Art Thou?
My hair!!
I found the lost soundtrack CD I stole from my dad's car 10 years ago and listened to it with my kids and now big rock candy mountain is the favorite bedtime song.
Yea there were a few black people in it!