O Brother Where Art Thou

We have been watching o Brother Where Art Thou based on the epic, The Odyssey by Homer in class for the past week. It is about three guys who escaped from jail and went searching for this treasure. The encounter many obstacles along the way like a man named Dan who is significant to the cyclopse in the book. it follows the story line pretty well with a few alterations. In the book, the cyclospe is blinded because Odysseus and his men thrust a spear into his eye. In the movie the make it a little more creative and Dan catches the spear right before it makes contact and instead he is then crushed by a burning flame that was lit for the secret meeting he was attending. Although there were many differences like that in the movie, there were also many similarities. The names of many of the characters were similar such as Odysseus was Ulysses and they called the man his wife was going to marry a suitor. Also the personality of each character was similar. Ulysses was the leader of everyone with the brains and masculine traits and the other two men were just kind of partners like the crew members. Overall I think O Brother Where Art Thou did a good job of creating a fun remake of The Odyssey while still keeping the character and theme of the story.