Lonesome Valley | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | TUNE 

By the blind bounty hunter you mean Sheriff Cooley. He wasn't blind.

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@@noeldown1952 He wasn't?

@@TomEyeTheSFMguy No, he wasn't. He's even implied to be the devil, as he's the only character we see with a mean hound, and deep dark eyes because of his sunglasses, as Tommy described him earlier in the film.

@@NimbusTM I genuinely thought he was blind because of those glasses. Guess I must be dumber than a bag of hammers

I love when Everett resurfaces he immediately reverts back to his old self and writes off the whole thing.

@@Roosterboi21exactly. There is a perfectly good explanation for his hahaha

Commandant Spangler

That line just summed up in one sentence, what kafka describes in one Book.

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I think the bounty hunter is my favorite depiction of the devil in a movie

Many great singers have been financially underwater.

@@dans9463 😆

Is it because you realize the bounty hunter is actually the devil ?

You're a buffoon.

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What geezers? The strong men singing who also dug those deep graves in hard soil?

@@recoveringsoul755 Yes,them. Geezer isn’t pejorative in the UK,it just means,fellow or bloke.

@@johncorrall1739 Oh I see. Here geezer refers to a really old person, a derogatory term usually. I don't think the elderly would generally want to be called geezers

And the 'gravediggers' were real gospel singers from the Fairfield Four!

when they met tommy, he described the devil as white, with black eyes,and a hound by his side

@@skapaloka222 The way I came to understand Hades, even though he was the God of the underworld, he was himself very uninvolved in interactions with living mortals. There were some exceptions but he had minions to do the interacting.

Assuming this is a retelling of the Odyssey, the appropriate analogue for the blind guy with the dog is Poseidon, since he’s the god who really has it out for Odysseus and actively tries to kill him several times.

How good is the actor playing the Devil? It took decades and multiple viewing to realize he's the same guy that played Mr Kruger on Seinfeld.

​@@gratch46Commandant Spangler. He has such a unique nose, I can spot him anywhere.

Amen

Never got the implied baptism reference b4. Good one

No

No you are not.

Or maybe all four were just really baptized for real and wiped clean to begin anew there is alot of symbolism in this movie

The other characters were Nazis. The black dudes were our own and they aren’t doing that well so it was time for them to rest. The other white Nazis were absolute bastards.

Yes indeed. A tremendous actor. RIP.

I always wondered that too.

Because it was uber natural

o brother where art thou

Its based on the Odyssey where Odysseus, who scorned Poseidon, refusing to credit him for his good fortune. After many years of torment, Odysseus finally reconciles with Poseidon, like Everette in the movie. Real athiests wouldn't actually pray because they just don't believe in superstition.

@@josgretf2800 That's the point, there's like zero cases of atheists not breaking down in a fox hole. Pretty much every vet I've ever heard from has corroborated this. "There's no atheists in a foxhole" is a generally very true statement. You've clearly never suffered any severe hardships to think otherwise, just saying. You're right about Poseidon, though. Atheism is actually the death of intelligence, because Agnostics are at least scientifically open minded, whereas Atheists assert a hypothesis as a Law, unfoundedly, when it's not even a strong theory. To me, atheism is just a symptom of contrarianism because a lot of Churchtians make it hard to respect the idea of a higher power since they're often hypocrites. Faith is often based on direct experience, in contrast. Similar to Buddha having some kind of direct form of enlightenment, etc. Belief would be taking someone else's word for it. To me, only firsthand experience really validates anything like that. "Every being, regardless of time or space, attains harmony with heaven and earth alone." - O'sensei

“God exists because people who are scared out of their minds and willing to believe anything that could possibly save them no matter how little sense it makes” isn’t exactly a strong argument for the truth of religion. It’s an argument that people believe it out of fear and self interest.

In the old days, fugitives who were "wanted dead or alive" were often taken back dead, because, well.. Why take the risk if you don't have to.

Have you actually watched the film?

Like the first guy said,dead or alive,but it’s also implied earlier in the movie the sheriff is actually the devil.

I think you maybe missed the point

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I suppose it’s all a matter of perspective. My feeling is that The bonds of brotherhood regardless of race or religion is exactly what brings you close enough to the lord to see the miracles he works in your life. Despite the mythic references, there’s still tons of symbolism for The Gospel throughout. “The law is a human institution” is meant to say that no mortal can get in the way of Justice. Then as Ulysses gives his first sincere prayer begging for forgiveness, suddenly the massive flood comes and saves them from certain doom. The way I see it, that flood represents baptism. Which symbolizes the death of your sinful self, the washing away of your sins, and your rebirth as a new and better person. And since Ulysses rejected going to the water before, now the water came to him because Nothing can prevent The Lord from saving his children if they want to be saved. Church as an institution is not God, but it’s a tool to bring people closer to him so he can work in their lives. Some churches do it better than others and it’s just a sad fact of life that no church is immune to the mortal failings of the people who run them. I’m sorry for the bad experiences you’ve had with religion, but I just hope your life’s journey is full of hope and love. Because if it is then you’ll surely get to somewhere pleasant in the end.

As an addendum, I know the flood is foreshadowed earlier as something that the government was doing anyways, but the timing and circumstance is no less miraculous just because there’s a logical explanation.

@@brockkeasler9642 I fear you missed the point also. The film is a straight up adaptation of Homer's Odyssey - so not just simple comparisons with mythology. It isnt a satire of religion either and the message isnt about brotherhood. The whole story is the journey and how religion, man, greed and everything else can steer you away but you have to keep driving on. Depression era deep south was a fairly on point comparison with the world the Greek's observed

Praise be to Lucifer.

Hail Satan

@@ragnarokkrdragonash7897 He's waiting for you, too.

@@salvationbordercountry3800 lol savage

Why choose a newer, weaker god like Yahweh when much more ancient gods exist? what made them wrong and yours right? Is there any more credit to Jehovah than the horned man of the woods?

God sent the water, god untied thier hands. Realistically, they probably wouldn't spend the time and effort to tie the hands securely . They weren't being tied so they couldn't escape, just so they could interfere with the hanging. So it was probably easy to slip out of the ropes

@@MrYfrank14 : Apparently you don't know much about knots. Interesting fantasy about the water though. Please cite any similar occurrence in reality. Fairy tale books don't count.

@@TahoeJones - there is a knot for every purpose. The knot for tying your shoe is a simple to untie knot. The knot you use to tie a guy up so he can't escape while you are sleeping is a knot that can not be easily untied . As I already said, they are not going to take the time and effort to tie a secure knot just for a hanging. If you want to use reality, they never would gave survied a flash flood that was over thier heads. And, if they survived, why didn't the other guys survive?

@@MrYfrank14 : I realistically doubt tying hands before a lynching were ever easy symbolic knots. And the debris they are hanging onto would have been washed far away downstream along with their bodies... Great movie. Ridiculous ending.

It's almost like this is a move lmao