The Coens insert historical figures such as Tommy Johnson (a black bluesman who claimed he sold his soul to the devil) and George “Baby Face” Nelson (a diminutive bank robber who partnered with John Dillinger), as well as fictitious figures reflective of dark aspects of the American psyche – including John Goodman’s violent, thieving bible salesman, and a popular politician (Wayne Duvall) who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Photograph: Allstar/BUENA VISTA/Sportsphoto Ltd./AllstarĪfter the trio bump into a blind soothsayer who accurately predicts that the journey ahead of them will involve “a road fraught with peril” and an encounter with “a cow on the roof of a cotton house”, they embark on a kind of vignette-filled tour of folkloric America. O Brother, Where Art Thou?: A loose adaptation of The Odyssey.
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