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In this movie Charles Durning plays a dancing/singing Governor of Mississippi Pappy O'Daniel based o [...]	D
The cow that gets run over is a CGI creation made by Digital Domain. Fortunately the company already [...]	D
The song recorded by the Soggy Bottom Boys ("I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow") , contains the line "I [...]	D
The prisoner's musical chant from the beginning of the movie (and soundtrack) was actually an old re [...]	D
Dan Tyminski, the mandolin player in the concert rally scene, is in reality the voice for the George [...]	D
Ray McKinnon previously appeared in Dead Man's Walk (1996) and subsequently in Comanche Moon (2008), [...]	D
In the scene where the three are around the campfire eating pie, Everett briefly looks at, and then [...]	D
Mr. French, the record distributor, tells Mr. Lund, the radio station manager who recorded the Soggy [...]	D
Although Homer is given a co-writing credit on the film, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen claim never to hav [...]	D
The scene where Everett, Pete and Delmar are approaching the Hogwallop cabin is from another Eudora [...]	D
Tim Blake Nelson's actual singing voice is heard during "In The Jailhouse Now."	D
About 350 extras were hired for the Klan rally sequence. Many of them were members of a military for [...]	D
George Clooney, upon reading the script did not immediately understand his character and so sent the [...]	D
John Turturro has called this movie "a hillbilly musical comedy adventure."	D
The character of Pappy O'Daniel is based on W. Lee (Pappy) O'Daniel, who served as Governor of Texas [...]	D
Christy Taylor (Siren) on seducing Tim Blake Nelson: "I really made him blush. It was very sincere."	D
The whole film was graded digitally on computer. The negative was scanned in with a Spirit Datacine [...]	D
George Clooney practiced his singing for weeks, but in the end his singing voice was dubbed by count [...]	D
Joel Coen: [fricassee] Dan Teague tells Everett "Thanks for the fricassee," in the picnic scene unde [...]	D
Tim Blake Nelson said that this is the Coen Brothers' least violent film.	D
At the end, Everett's line, "Finding one little ring, in the middle of all that water, is one hell o [...]	D
The historical Baby Face Nelson was a homicidal gangster named Lester M. Gillis, who was known for h [...]	D
The film soundtrack's official website ran a trivia contest to promote the film, giving winners cani [...]	D
George Clooney agreed to do this film without having read the script. The Coen Brothers visited him [...]	D
Charles Durning, uses the phrase "Cast the first stone", referring to the tale of Jesus and the woma [...]	D
"A man of Constant Sorrow" , became such a hit that it has led to at least 5 Covers of the song incl [...]	D
Another possible interpretation of the Sirens' actions at the river is that, by giving Pete over to [...]	D
George Clooney based his dance on clog dancers he saw growing up in Kentucky. "It's sort of like Lor [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The character Pappy O'Daniel was a direct reference to Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, who was sales m [...]	D
"O Brother Where Art Thou?" comes from the title of the movie-within-a-movie in Preston Sturges' I d [...]	D
Joel Coen revealed that the film was inspired by Il mago di Oz (1939). "It started as a 'three saps [...]	D
This was The Coen Brothers first film to be shot in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio through the Super 35 for [...]	D
The film playing in the movie theatre is Myrt and Marge (1933), which featured Eddie Foy Jr., Ted He [...]	D
John Turturro told Tim Blake Nelson on set, "Look, the way it works with their movies-and I've been [...]	D
When Everett jumps into the freight train car and talks to the hobos, they are leaning against bags [...]	D
According to Joel Coen, there was a snake catcher on set. "We hired this guy and he came to set with [...]	D
Joel Coen called this "the Lawrence d'Arabia (1962) of hayseed movies".	D
J.K. Simmons auditioned for multiple parts, but backed out when the one character the Coens were lea [...]	D
The use of the name "Soggy Bottom Boys" for the band actually foreshadows the end of the film, when [...]	D
Tim Blake Nelson was Joel Coen's neighbor. Joel hadn't really seen him act in anything. When the Coe [...]	D
The character of Sheriff Cooley, who is never referred to by name, fits Tommy Johnson's description [...]	D
George Clooney's character is best known by his middle and last names, Everett and McGill. This name [...]	D
This is the first adapted screenplay by the Coen Brothers	D
Throughout the entire shoot, Tim Blake Nelson acted during the day and edited O come Otello (2001) a [...]	D
In the scene at the Woolworth store, Ulysses calls his wife Penny a "lying inconstant succubus." Tha [...]	D
At the KKK rally, the chant is reminiscent of the chant used by the witch's soldiers in Wizard of Oz [...]	D
The character of Tommy Johnson is based on a famed blues guitarist of the same name who, according t [...]	D
Tim Blake Nelson based his accent on people he had heard while visiting relatives in rural Oklahoma.	D
The Sirens all appeared in a photo spread for Maxim magazine in 2000.	D
In one montage sequence we see Everett, Pete, and Delmar pass two African-American boys on a country [...]	D
The song "Man of Constant Sorrow" was first published in 1913 by the blind Richard Burnett.	D
Sheriff Cooley wears mirrored glasses and is called "the devil," just like Boss Godfrey in Nick mano [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
The scene in which Everett and Delmar are communicating to Pete in the movie theatre is an homage to [...]	D
This is John Turturro and John Goodman's third collaboration with the The Coen Brothers since Barton [...]	D
The whole concept is loosely based on author Howard Waldrop's novella "A Dozen Tough Jobs," which re [...]	D
The three little girls singing "In the Highways" at the political rally are a nod to the Carter Fami [...]	D
Though he plays the father of several little girls, George Clooney had no kids of his own at the tim [...]	D
Ulysses Everett McGill's childhood home shown at the end of the film, where they go to search for th [...]	D
The lyrics in "Man of Constant Sorrow" reference leaving the singer's home in Kentucky. George Cloon [...]	D
The film's soundtrack became an unlikely blockbuster, even surpassing the success of the film. By ea [...]	D
In this film, Michael Badalucco plays infamous crime figure Babyface Nelson. In the year prior, he p [...]	D
One of the notable features of the film is its use of digital colour correction to give the film a s [...]	D
The "picture show" that Ulysses and Delmar are watching before the chain-gang gets marched into the [...]	D
In the Coen Brother's film Raising Arizona, John Goodman's character is tracked by the smell of hair [...]	D
Despite the fact that Ethan Coen described the Odyssey as "one of my favorite storyline schemes" nei [...]	D
The THREE gravediggers were from the gospel group The Fairfield Four. However, the FOUR in the name [...]	D
"Po Lazarus" is a recording of actual prisoners from Parchman Farm prison in 1959. The Coens tracked [...]	D
The popularity of this movie spawned interest in several pomades, Dapper Dan and FOP, both able to b [...]	D
The song "You Are My Sunshine," used as Governor Pappy O'Daniel's theme song, was the theme song of [...]	D
In an interview in the Sept. 14, 2009 issue of GQ, Joel Coen said, laughing, 'All we've been doing f [...]	D
The idea for the film arose spontaneously. Work on the script began long before the start of product [...]	D
George Clooney, Charles Durning, and Michael Badalucco previously appeared in the movie "One Fine Da [...]	D
Joel Coen said that this is "a Three Stooges movie in a lot of ways."	D
Everett later identifies himself as Jordan Rivers. The Jordan River is where Jesus was baptized.	D
The American Humane Association, an organization that protects animal rights, mistook a computer-gen [...]	D
George Clooney was Ethan Coen and Joel Coen's first and only choice for the lead. Both had been impr [...]	D
There is a bust of Homer in the restaurant behind Pappy O'Daniel.	D
An MTV video was made for the song "Man of Constant Sorrow", using clips from the film. About halfwa [...]	D
The woman who asks the Woolworth's clerk about the Soggy Bottom Boys is Gillian Welch, one of the ar [...]	D
Almost at the end of the film, just before George Clooney shows Holly Hunter the wedding ring he has [...]	D
The gravediggers are three of the Fairfield Four, a gospel group that's been around for over 90 year [...]	D
The bluegrass trio The Peasall Sisters provided the singing voices for George Clooney's daughters, t [...]	D

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