O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Coen Brothers · 2000 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Three convicts break off a Mississippi chain gang in 1937 and head for a fortune one of them says is buried ahead of a valley about to be flooded. The road gives them a blind prophet, a radio station, sirens at a river and a one-eyed Bible salesman. The Odyssey replayed across Depression-era Mississippi.

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Lineage

• adapts ↑ The Odyssey
  Homer · c. 725 BCE · Poem

Attributes

Closest analogues

• The Odyssey
  Homer · c. 725 BCE · Poem

  53% · 13 shared
  AdventureExile & HomecomingIdentity & SelfTemptationTricksterVoyage and ReturnRoad of TrialsTemptationReturn with the ElixirHome / ReturnThe Journeyvs Fate / GodsMythic
• Journey to the West
  Wu Cheng'en · 1592 CE · Novel

  46% · 12 shared
  ComedyAdventureTemptationTricksterEpisodicThe QuestRoad of TrialsReturn with the ElixirThe JourneyThe BeastComicMythic
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories
  Salman Rushdie · 1990 CE · Novel

  45% · 13 shared
  AdventureFreedom vs FateContemporaryTricksterVoyage and ReturnThe QuestCall to AdventureRoad of TrialsReturn with the ElixirThe Rivervs SocietyComicMythic
• Henderson the Rain King
  Saul Bellow · 1959 CE · Novel

  45% · 13 shared
  ComedyAdventureIdentity & SelfContemporaryVoyage and ReturnThe QuestCall to AdventureRoad of TrialsReturn with the ElixirThe BeastComicMythicModern / American
• The Ramayana
  Valmiki · c. 400 BCE · Poem

  45% · 12 shared
  AdventureExile & HomecomingVoyage and ReturnThe QuestCall to AdventureRoad of TrialsReturn with the ElixirHome / ReturnThe JourneyThe Beastvs Fate / GodsMythic
• The Wind in the Willows
  Kenneth Grahame · 1908 CE · Novel

  45% · 11 shared
  ComedyExile & HomecomingTemptationTricksterEverymanVoyage and ReturnEpisodicHome / ReturnThe JourneyThe RiverComic