Stories have been told and retold passed down to the next generation in order to preserve culture or history. Stories with overall lessons learned from challenges that need to be overcome by the main character(s), normally on a journey, have an everlasting moral effect that allows for the same story to be retold in a completely different style or setting but still carry the same key essential elements that give the story it's true inner meaning. The film “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?” is the perfect example of a well told reinterpretation of the ancient and classic tales from the greek poet Homer, Homer’s Odyssey by changing the settings and characters names but keeping all the essential elements from the challenges faced and lessons learned by Homer’s original protagonist Odysseus. …show more content…
Ulysses is representing Odysseus; the directors did a great job at representing his original traits of being cunning, quick-tongued, a leader and his biggest flaw that will cause him to suffer throughout the film, his pride. His two friends Delmar and Pete represent his crew that will ultimately suffer from Ulysses decisions while traveling with him on his journey home; luckily for them the directors are not as cruel a Homer was, so they are not killed like Odysseus’s entire crew was. The director does specific things in the beginning to set up an alike comparison to the main plot of the Odyssey by staging it in the 1930’s during the great depression floating down from the clouds in an omniscient like god’s view shot opening the scene over prisoners that are guarded, chained, and lined up pounding