O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
4 questions
Directed by: Joel Coen
Starring: George Clooney, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
Question: The only way that the valley could be flooded by rampaging water is that a dam was broken up river. Otherwise the water rises very slowly. Does the movie explain this? If so I missed it. In which way was that river flooded?
Question: In the KKK scene, Homer Stokes says "The color guard is colored." Did he mean this literally, like Everett was a black man, or did he mean that he was white (unlikely because John Goodman is white and so is he), or is he mistaking Everett for a black man because of his dirty face?
Chosen answer: He mistook Everett for a black man because of his dirty face. It's the only way the line makes sense.
J I CohenQuestion: The scene when the Ku Klux Klan are assembling is very similar to the scene in "The Wizard of Oz", when the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion sneak into the witch's castle. The marching music, the disguises and the way they enter the procession are almost identical. Was this intentional?
R W HlavacChosen answer: Yes, it was.
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Chosen answer: Probably they have dismantled the coffer dam that was used while constructing the main dam. Hence, the flooding.