O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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In the far more impressive O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), he brings perfectly cartoonish exaggeration to the role of Ulysses Everett McGill – a pomade-loving escaped convict, known for his quirky verbosity and debatably ingenious stratagems – as he wiles his way home to his beloved, long-suffering Penny (Holly Hunter), now engaged to a properly “bona fide” businessman.
Among others, Jeff Smith rightly claims that, ‘although popular music certainly contributes to the winking, ironic tone of the Coen brothers’ films, it also serves very conventional storytelling functions by reinforcing particular settings, underlining character trait, and establishing mood and tone for specific scenes’.
