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| Year: | 2000 |
| Rating: | 7.8(94227) |
| Listed in: | Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Music |
| Directed by: | Ethan Coen Joel Coen |
| Actors: | George Clooney John Turturro Tim Blake Nelson John Goodman Chris Thomas King Holly Hunter |
| "Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Ethan Coen | |
| Joel Coen | |
| Actors | |
| George Clooney | as Everett |
| John Turturro | as Pete |
| Tim Blake Nelson | as Delmar |
| John Goodman | as Big Dan Teague |
| Chris Thomas King | as Tommy Johnson |
| Charles Durning | as Pappy O'Daniel |
| Del Pentecost | as Junior O'Daniel |
| Michael Badalucco | as George Nelson |
| J.R. Horne | as Pappy's Staff |
| Brian Reddy | as Pappy's Staff |
| Wayne Duvall | as Homer Stokes |
| Ed Gale | as The Little Man |
| Ray McKinnon | as Vernon T. Waldrip |
| Daniel von Bargen | as Sheriff Cooley |
| Royce D. Applegate | as Man with Bullhorn |
| Frank Collison | as Wash Hogwallop |
| Quinn Gasaway | as Boy Hogwallop |
| Lee Weaver | as Blind Seer |
| Millford Fortenberry | as Pomade Vendor |
| Stephen Root | as Radio Station Man |
| John Locke | as Mr. French |
| A. Ray Ratliff | as Record Store Clerk |
| Michael W. Finnell | as Interrogator |
| John McConnell | as Woolworths Manager |
| Issac Freeman | as Gravedigger |
| Wilson Waters Jr. | as Gravedigger |
| Robert Hamlett | as Gravedigger |
| Willard Cox | as Cox Family |
| Sidney Cox | as Cox Family |
| Buck White | as The Whites |
| Ed Snodderly | as Village Idiot |
| David Holt | as Village Idiot |
| Billy W. Blackwell | as Rally and Banquet Patron |
| Ron Block | as Banjo Player |
| Dan Braun | as Klansman |
| Jerry Douglas | as Dobro Player |
| Christopher Francis | as KKK Member |
| Geoffrey Gould | as Head of Mob |
| Nathaniel Lee Jr. | as Ice Boy on the Right with Straw Hat |
| Mark Munson | as KKK Member |
| Andy Sims | as Rally Patron |
| Shayne Tingle | as Rail Man |
| Dan Tyminski | as Mandolin Player on Stage at the Stokes Fundraiser |
| Actresses | |
| Holly Hunter | as Penny |
| Gillian Welch | as Soggy Bottom Customer |
| Mia Tate | as Siren |
| Musetta Vander | as Siren |
| Christy Taylor | as Siren |
| April Hardcastle | as Waitress |
| Georgia Rae Rainer | as Wharvey Gal |
| Marianna Breland | as Wharvey Gal |
| Lindsey Miller | as Wharvey Gal |
| Natalie Shedd | as Wharvey Gal |
| Evelyn Cox | as Cox Family |
| Suzanne Cox | as Cox Family |
| Sharon White | as The Whites |
| Cheryl White | as The Whites |
| Emily D. Haley | as Party people |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 7 June 1999 - 23 August 1999 |
| Budget: | USD 26,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 9,544,001 USD (21 January 2001) UK - 564,064 GBP (17 September 2000) Spain - 543,561,422 ESP (15 February 2002) |
| Plot: | Everrett Ullysus McGill, sick of breaking rocks in the heat of a Mississippi summer, escapes with his two dim accomplices, Delmar and Pete. Trying to reclaim a buried treasure before its lost forever underneath a lake, the three make their way to Everett's homestead. Along the way, they meet a conniving one-eyed Bible salesman, a blind prophet, a trio of sexy sirens, and a man who sold his soul to the devil. In their race to reach the treasure before it's flooded, they end up crashing a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob, help a sensitive Baby-Face Nelson rob three banks in two hours, and even have enough time to put out a best selling record as "The Soggy Bottom Boys." |
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"Po Lazarus" Arranged by Alan Lomax Performed by James Carter & The Prisoners Recorded by Alan Lomax Courtesy of Rounder Records by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group "Big Rock Candy Mountain" (1928) Written by Harry McClintock Performed by Harry McClintock Courtesy of The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment "You Are My Sunshine" (1940) Written by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell Performed by Alan O'Bryant "Down to the River to Pray" Traditional Performed by Alison Krauss "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" Traditional Arranged by Carter Stanley Performed by Dan Tyminski Solo Fiddle Version Arranged by Ed Haley Performed by John Hartford Solo Guitar Version Performed by Norman Blake "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" (ca 1931) Written by Skip James Performed by Chris Thomas King Instrumental Version Performed by Colin Linden "I'll Fly Away" (1929) Written by Albert E. Brumley Performed by The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling Courtesy of Tradition, A Rykodisc Label "Keep on the Sunny Side" (ca 1930) Written by A.P. Carter Performed by The Whites End Title Version Performed by The Cox Family "Admiration" (1915) Written by William Tyers Performed by Pat Rebillot (as Pat Rebillo) "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby" Arranged by Alan Lomax, Mrs. Sidney Carter, Gillian Welch, and T-Bone Burnett (as T Bone Burnett) Additional Lyrics by Gillian Welch, and T-Bone Burnett (as T Bone Burnett) Performed by Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, and Gillian Welch "Tom Devil" Arranged by Alan Lomax Performed by Ed Lewis & The Prisoners Recorded by Alan Lomax Courtesy of Rounder Records by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group "In the Highways" Written by Mother Maybelle Carter (as Maybelle Carter) Performed by Sarah Peasall (as Sarah), Hannah Peasall (as Hannah), and Leah Peasall "O Death" Traditional Performed by Ralph Stanley "What Is Sweeter" Written by M.K. Jerome "In the Jailhouse Now" (1928) Written by Jimmie Rodgers Performed by Tim Blake Nelson and Pat Enright "I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)" Written by Pete Roberts Performed by The Cox Family "Angel Band" Arranged by Ralph Stanley Performed by Sarah Peasall (as Sarah), Hannah Peasall (as Hannah), Leah Peasall and Robert Hamlett End Title Version Performed by The Stanley Brothers Courtesy of Mercury Nashville Records Under license from Universal Music Enterprises "Indian War Whoop" Written by Hoyt Ming Performed by John Hartford "Lonesome Valley" Traditional Performed by The Fairfield Four |
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SYNC: The people singing along with "You Are My Sunshine" near the end are clearly a few beats off. Their clapping syncs up but they're singing a different line. DATE: In the movie theatre, clearly posted above each door is a modern red-lit EXIT sign. Fact errors: The real W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel had no presence in the politics of Mississippi (where, until 1975, incumbent governors were not allowed to run for reelection anyway). He was a Texas flour salesman who became a regional radio personality (as host of broadcasts of Bob Wills and the Light Crust Doughboys), then used that as a platform to launch himself into Texas politics, becoming governor, then Senator. The filmmakers knew this. SYNC: In the cafe with Big Dan Teague, Everett's voice doesn't match up with his lips while he is ordering during the close-ups of Big Dan. FAIR: When the escapees suddenly realize that large numbers of Christian congregants are walking by them singing, it comes as a surprise; this could be because they walked from the church to the river, and so arrived fairly quietly. Continuity: When Ulysses goes into the department store to confront his wife, you see her fiancé walking around upstairs. It cuts away and when it cuts back, he walks the same place he walked before. DATE: When Ulysses is walking out of the store having found his pomade, a modern electrical transformer can be seen on a utility pole in the background. DATE: The Martin guitar played by the woman at the rally is obviously not from the era. The gold sealed gear tuning machines were first used in the '60s. Continuity: The scenes before and after the flood must only be one or two minutes apart, as they were able to hold their breath and not drown. But before the flood it is very sunny (strong shadows), and after the flood the sky is a hazy white (no shadows). SYNC: SPOILER: When the crowd is escorting Baby Face Nelson to the electric chair, two musicians are playing. One is playing the fiddle, the other a mandolin. However, the music we hear is that of a fiddle and guitar. DATE: During the picnic with Big Dan, the guys are drinking Budweiser, but the labels are clearly from a modern Budweiser bottle. Revealing mistakes: During the picnic, you can see the false branch that Big Dan is about to rip off the tree. SYNC: During the café scene, Big Dan's lips don't match his words when he's talking about how he sells Bibles. You can see this clearly when the camera faces Everett, just as Big Dan says, "From Genesis on down to the book of Revelation." Continuity: When Delmar runs to be baptized, he cuts in front of a bald man at the front of the left-hand line. The shot changes, and when it returns, the bald man has disappeared as Delmar is being baptized, and the two women who were second and third in line have moved to the front. Fact errors: During the Mr. Lund/Mr. French conversation at WEZY, the July 1937 calendar on the back wall is wrong. It notes that July 1st 1937 fell on a Tuesday, whereas it in fact fell on a Thursday. Crew: The camera is reflected in a window of the locomotive that passes in front of the three escaping convicts. SYNC: The group singing "Keep on the Sunny Side" at the rally is prominently accompanied by a Dobro (a resonator guitar) being played with a slide... but there is none to be seen. There are other people on stage, but it becomes clear that none of them has an instrument. SYNC: During the recording of "Man of Costant Sorrow" Ulysses steps away from the microphone to let Pete and Delmar sing their part but we hear three part harmony. Continuity: During his argument with his son about the campaign, Pappy's dinner plate changes positions several times. At times it is directly in front of him, while other times it is clearly off to his left side. Continuity: When the boys pull up to the radio station to record their song, the car is parked parallel to the building. In the following scene, when they get out of the car, it is parked facing away from the building. DATE: All of the records shown in the film are turning at 33-1/3 RPM. In 1934, only 78 RPM was used. The first 33-1/3 RPM album was released in 1947. DATE: The song "You Are My Sunshine" by Jimmie Davis was not written until 1939 and not recorded and released until 1940. The calendar at the radio station puts the year at 1937, three years too early. The filmmakers knew this. SYNC: Despite Chris Thomas King being an actual blues guitarist, the scenes in which he is accompanying the Soggy Bottom Boys, his guitar playing is very obviously not in sync with the sound track. Crew: Baby Face Nelson is driving his car down the road, before approaching Everett, Pete, and Delmar. When he goes over a large bump in the road, a person can be seen in the back seat (with arms flailing) while Nelson is supposed to be the only person in the car. Continuity: When Pappy is talking with his employees after Big Dan, Everett, and Delmar leave the restaurant, the orange on his plate changes from shot to shot; it goes from being cut cleanly on the top to being cut serrated-style. Continuity: When the blind man arrives following the passing train the caboose can be seen on the tracks just ahead. After the three escapees jump on the moving handcar the camera pans to the track ahead and no train can be seen. DATE: The closing scene shows a modern railroad track structure with welded rail joints that were not in common usage until after the 1960s. Continuity: When Everett and the boys arrive at the town to find his daughters singing in the election rally, his moustache is visible when he is talking to Pete and Delmar, but when he goes over to talk to his daughters it disappears, and then reappears in the following scene Continuity: After the flood, Everett, Delmar, and Pete find themselves drifting on the coffin. You can tell that they are either are being pulled/pushed up stream or they are not moving at all; the debris and broken trees are floating downstream pass them as they converse. SYNC: During the KKK meeting, when Ulysses and Delmar are following Tommy to the noose, the clan members are marching on the spot, but the sounds of marching do not match the movement of their feet. DATE: When Everett and gang enter the radio station, he asks, "Who's the honcho around here?" The word "honcho" is taken from the Japanese 'Hancho', which means "group leader," and did not become an English expression until GI's brought it back from the Pacific war. Its first recorded use in the U.S. is in 1947, many years after this movie's timeframe. Continuity: When the guys come out of the recording studio after recording "Man of Constant Sorrow" Delmar is covered in a white powder, but when they go in and while recording the song he is not. Also, while they boys are walking down the road before Baby Face Nelson picks them up, Delmar is again covered in the same white powder, but is not after they get into the car. CHAR: At the KKK meeting when Goodman catches the flag, the leader says don't let that flag touch the ground. But after Goodman catches the flag he sets the end with the flag on it on the ground. Continuity: When Pappy O'Daniel and his staffer, who refers to him as "Daddy" are talking about the 'reform candidate', the staff members left hand changes locations on his face between shots of him front and back. DATE: In the movie theater (and elsewhere) the guards are shown holding Remington 870 shotguns, which were introduced in the early '50s. It would be more accurate to show them holding Winchester Model 12s or maybe Ithaca 37s. Continuity: In the overhead shot of people walking into the river from behind them, the preacher and the person being baptized are deep in a tree shadow. When Delmar emerges some the same place and declares that the "preacher has washed his sins away", the shadow has moved several feet away from the preacher. Continuity: When the car breaks down following their escape from the burning shed and they tell the kid to go on back home to his Pa, he walks off in the direction the car was going which would of course been the opposite direction from where the boy lived. Continuity: When Pete is being whipped for information, one of the posse members throws a rope and noose over a naked tree-branch. The noose then dangles in Pete's face. But there should already be another rope over that branch, as Pete is clearly being suspended by his tied hands, and that's the only overhead spot where it could be attached. CHAR: When Ulysses, Pete and Delmar wind up their recording of "Man of Constant Sorrow", but before the guitar fades out, Ulysses lets out a loud whoop. Since the recording was direct to disk, this would have effectively ruined the ending of the recording and necessitated another take. DATE: During the Soggy Bottom Boys' performance near the end, the bassist can clearly be shown playing an all metal set of strings. Metal strings for an upright bass were not available until the '60s. The correct material would be gut (more commonly known as catgut) which is brown in color and slightly translucent. Gut strings are very important to the sound of traditional bluegrass and country music. SYNC: While sitting around the campfire, Tommy Johnson is playing his guitar. The sound of a resonator guitar is heard but Tommy plays a standard guitar with a sound hole rather than a resonator top. CHAR: Baby Face Nelson asks if any of "you fellers" knows his way around a Walther PPK. He then pulls out a submachine gun. The Walther PPK is a pistol. DATE: Baby Face Nelson died of gunshot wounds in Illinois in 1934, 3 years before the movie has him active in Mississippi. (The filmmakers knew this, however.) PLOT: In the opening scene, two long strings of prisoners are chained together and hammering at large white rocks on either side of a remote dirt road in a flat field. The rocks and workers have obviously have been brought to that remote location, but there's no earthly reason why those rocks should be lining the road the way we see them. DATE: There is a very heavy focus on the use of the Confederate Battle Flag at the KKK rally. However, the association of the KKK (and racists in general) with the "Rebel" flag grew out of the Civil Rights conflict of the 1960s. During the Twenties and Thirties, the peak of KKK membership, only the U.S. flag was represented at KKK rallies, even in Mississippi. PLOT: When the convicts are met by Hogwallop's gun-toting little boy, the kid brags that he "nicked the census taker." It's 1937, and the census is taken in decade years, so where would a boy that young have even seen a census taker, let alone shot at one? |
Quotes
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George Nelson: Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers! [fires his Tommy gun at them] Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, George... not the livestock. Ulysses Everett McGill: Deceitful, two-faced she-woman. Never trust a female Delmar, remember that one simple precept and your time with me will not have been ill spent. Delmar O'Donnell: Ok, Everett. Ulysses Everett McGill: Hit by a train! Truth means nothing to a woman, Delmar. Triumph of the subjective. You ever been with a woman? Delmar O'Donnell: Well, I... I... I gotta get the family farm back before I can start thinking about that. Ulysses Everett McGill: That's right, if then. Believe me Delmar, woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man. Interrogator: Talk, you un-Reconstructed whelp of a whore! Pappy O'Daniel: Sounded to me like he was harboring a hateful grudge against the Soggy Bottom Boys on account of their rough and rowdy past. Looks like Homer Stokes is the kind of fellow who wants to cast the first stone. [boos] Pappy O'Daniel: Well, I'm with you folks. I'm a forgive-and-forgettin' Christian, and I say, if their rambunctiousness, and misdemeanoring, is behind them... [turns away from the mike, towards Everett] Pappy O'Daniel: [no-nonsense] It is, ain't it, boys? Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, yes sir, it is. Pappy O'Daniel: And furthermore, by way of endorsing my candidacy, the Soggy Bottom Boys are gonna lead us all in a rousing chorus of "You Are My Sunshine." [Applause. Pappy turns away from the mike, towards Everett] Pappy O'Daniel: [no-nonsense] Ain't you, boys? Ulysses Everett McGill: Governor, it's one of our favorites. Pappy O'Daniel: Son... you're gonna go far. Pete: The Preacher said it absolved us. Ulysses Everett McGill: For him, not for the law. I'm surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar. Delmar O'Donnell: But they was witnesses that seen us redeemed. Ulysses Everett McGill: That's not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi's a little more hard-nosed. [laughs] Ulysses Everett McGill: Baptism! You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers! [Repeated line] Ulysses Everett McGill: Damn! We're in a tight spot! Ulysses Everett McGill: Me an' the old lady are gonna pick up the pieces and retie the knot, mixaphorically speaking. Ulysses Everett McGill: I'll tell you what I am - I'm the damn paterfamilias! You can't marry him! Pete: Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit? Ulysses Everett McGill: Well Pete, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote. Pete: Suits me. I'm voting for yours truly. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well I'm voting for yours truly too. [Everett and Pete look at Delmar for the deciding vote] Delmar O'Donnell: Okay... I'm with you fellas. Pete: I've always wondered, what's the devil look like? Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork. Tommy Johnson: Oh, no. No, sir. He's white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He likes to travel around with a mean old hound. That's right. Tommy Johnson: I had to be up at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated. Ulysses Everett McGill: Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train? Penny Wharvey McGill: Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal farm and I divorced you from shame? Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, I take your point. But it does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny. [first lines] Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'? Pete: You miserable little snake! You stole from my kin! Ulysses Everett McGill: Who was fixin' to betray us. Pete: You didn't know that at the time. Ulysses Everett McGill: So I borrowed it until I did know. Pete: That don't make no sense! Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. Penny Wharvey McGill: Vernon here's got a job. Vernon's got prospects. He's bona fide. What are you? Delmar O'Donnell: Them syreens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad. Pete: Since we been followin' your lead, we ain't got nothing but trouble. Pete: Well hell, it ain't square one! Ain't nobody gonna pick up three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and one of them a know-it-all that can't keep his trap shut. Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field or... hell! Take at look at Delmar here as your paradigm of hope. Delmar O'Donnell: Yeah, look at me. Pomade Vendor: I can get the part from Bristol. It'll take two weeks, here's your pomade. Ulysses Everett McGill: Two weeks? That don't do me no good. Pomade Vendor: Nearest Ford auto man's Bristol. Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on, I don't want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan. Pomade Vendor: I don't carry Dapper Dan, I carry Fop. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man! Pomade Vendor: Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere! Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't want FOP Damn it, I'm a Dapper Dan Man! Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, it didn't look like a two-horse town, but try finding a decent hair jelly. Delmar O'Donnell: Friend? Some of your foldin' money's come unstove. Delmar O'Donnell: I'm gonna visit those foreclosing son-of-a-guns at the Indianola Savings & Loan, slap that money on the barrelhead and buy back the family farm. You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land. George Nelson: Jesus saves, George Nelson withdraws! Delmar O'Donnell: You work for the railroad, Grampa? Blind Seer: I work for no man. Delmar O'Donnell: Got a name, do you? Blind Seer: I have no name. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, that right there may be the reason you've had difficulty findin' gainful employment. You see, in the mart of competitive commerce... Delmar O'Donnell: We thought you was a toad! Pete: What? Delmar O'Donnell: [leaning in, speaking slower] We thought you was a toad! Lund: Now, what can I do you for Mr. French? French: How can I lay a hold of them Soggy Bottom Boys? Lund: Soggy Bottom? I don't precisely recollect them. French: They cut a record in here a few days ago, was an old-timey harmony thing with a guitar accom... accomp... Lund: Oh here, here, here, I remember them! They was colored fellas, I believe. French: Uh huh. Lund: Yessuh, they're a fine bunch a boys. They sang in the yonder can and skeedadled. French: Well that record is goin' through the goddamned roof. They playin' it as far away as Mobile. Lund: Naw? French: Whole damn state's goin' apey. Lund: Well it was a powerful air. French: Hot damn, we gotta find them boys and sign 'em to a big fat contract. Hells Bells, Mr. Lund, if we don't the goddamned competition will. Lund: Ohhhh mercy! Yes we got to beat that competition. Ulysses Everett McGill: The treasure is still there boys, believe me. Delmar O'Donnell: But how'd he know about the treasure? Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; its not so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision... Pete: He said we wouldn't get get it. He said we wouldn't get the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well what the hell does he know, he's just an ignorant old man? Pete: Do not seek the treasure! Blind Seer: You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though it will not be the one you seek. But first... first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. Mm-hmm. You shall see thangs, wonderful to tell. You shall see a... a cow... on the roof of a cotton house, ha. And, oh, so many startlements. I cannot tell you how long this road shall be, but fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward. Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye follow them, even unto your salvation. Homer Stokes: The color guard is colored! Washington Hogwallop: Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T. Ulysses Everett McGill: I was not hit by a train. Damnit, I am the paterfamilias! Delmar O'Donnell: Gopher, Everett? Pappy O'Daniel: Shake a leg Junior! Thank God your mammy died givin' birth. If she'd have seen you, she'd have died o' shame. Delmar O'Donnell: They... left... his... heart! Ulysses Everett McGill: [Upon being startled awake] Mmmm. How's my hair? Ulysses Everett McGill: I detect, like me, you're endowed with the gift of gab. Big Dan Teague: Thank you boys for throwin' in that fricassee. I'm a man of large appetite, and even with lunch under my belt, I was feelin' a mite peckish. Ulysses Everett McGill: It's our pleasure, Big Dan. Big Dan Teague: You don't say much my friend, but when you do it's to the point, and I salute you for it. Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the only daddy you got! I'm the damn paterfamilias! Wharvey Gal: But you ain't bona fide! Ulysses Everett McGill: A woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man. Ulysses Everett McGill: Tommy, what you ridin' there? Tommy Johnson: Uh... Roll top desk! Delmar O'Donnell: where's the happy little tire swing? Washington Hogwallop: I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I think it's startin' to turn. Penny Wharvey McGill: The only good thing you ever did for the gals was get hit by that train! Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, you lying... unconstant... succubus! Vernon T. Waldrip: Whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't swear at my fiancé! Ulysses Everett McGill: Oh, yeah? Well, you can't marry my wife! Ulysses Everett McGill: I'm not sure that's Pete. Delmar O'Donnell: Of course it's Pete! Look at him!... We gotta find some kind of wizard to change him back. Delmar O'Donnell: Care for some gopher? Ulysses Everett McGill: No thank you, Delmar. One third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding it down. Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had one apiece. We ran across a whole... gopher village. Pete: My pa always said "Never trust a Hogwallop!" Pappy's Staff: The reason he's pullin' our pants down. Pappy's Staff: Gonna paddle a little behind. Pappy's Staff: Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it, real hard. Pappy's Staff: No, I believe he's gonna paddle it. Pappy's Staff: I don't believe that's a proper characterization. Pappy's Staff: Well, that's how I'd characterize it. Pappy's Staff: I believe it's more of a kickin' sitcheyation. Pappy O'Daniel: I'll press your flesh, you dimwitted sumbitch! You don't tell your pappy how to court the electorate. We ain't one-at-a-timin' here. We're MASS communicating! [Discussing how to counter Homer Stokes' campaign for governor] Junior O'Daniel: We could hire our own midget, even shorter than his. Pappy O'Daniel: Wouldn't we look like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, bragging on our own midget, doesn't matter how stumpy. Pappy O'Daniel: Moral fibre? I invented moral fibre! Pappy O'Daniel was displaying rectitude and high-mindedness when that egghead you work for was still messing his drawers! Homer Stokes: These boys is not white! These boys is not white! Hell, they ain't even old timey! Homer Stokes: This band of miscreants, this very evening, interfered with a lynch mob in the performance of its duty. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I guess hard times flush the chump. Everybody's lookin' for answers... Where the hell's he goin'? [as Delmar runs out to be baptized] Pete: Well, I'll be a son of a bitch. Delmar's been saved! Ulysses Everett McGill: You can't display a toad in a fine restaurant like this! Why, the good folks here would go right off the feed! Delmar O'Donnell: I just don't think it's right keeping him under wraps like we's ashamed of him. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, if it is Pete, I am ashamed of him! Way I see it, he got what he deserved, fornicating with some whore of Babylon. These things don't happen for no reason, Delmar. It's obviously some kinda judgment on his character. Delmar O'Donnell: Well, the two of us was fixin' to fornicate! Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, uh, Cousin Wash, I suppose it'd be the acme of foolishness to inquire if you had a hair net. Washington Hogwallop: Got a bunch in yon bureau, Mrs. Hogwallop's as a matter of fact [sniff] . Help y'self... I won't be needin' 'em. Man with Bullhorn: All right, boys! It's the authorities! We got you surrounded! Just come on out and grabbin' air! And don't try nothing fancy! Your sityeachin is purty nigh hopeless! Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete's cousin turned us in for the bounty. Pete: The hell you say! Wash is kin! Washington Hogwallop: Sorry, Pete, I know we're kin, but they got this depression on. I got to do for me and mine. Pete: I'm gonna kill you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop! Ulysses Everett McGill: The old tactician has got a plan. For the transportation that is, I don't know how I'm gonna keep my coiffure in order. Pete: How's this a plan? How we gonna get a car? Ulysses Everett McGill: Sell that. I figure it can only have painful association for Wash. Pete: [reading] "To Washington Bartholomew Hogwallop, from his loving Cora. Amor Fidel... is." Ulysses Everett McGill: It was in his bureau. I figure it'll fetch us enough cash for a good used auto-voiture, and a little left over besides. [after the *FOUR* soggy bottom boys finish recording "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"] Ulysses Everett McGill: Woo! Hot Damn, son I believe you did sell your soul to the devil. Lund: Woooooooo-wee. Boy, that was a miiiighty fine a-pickin' and a-singin'. I'll tell you what, you come on in here and sign these papers here and I'm a gonna you ten dollars a piece. Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, okay sir. But Murt and Aloysius will have to sign Xes as only four of us can write. [as a noose is flung over Pete] Sheriff Cooley: Stairway to heaven. We shall all meet by and by. [about to be hung] Ulysses Everett McGill: It ain't the law! Sheriff Cooley: The law? The law is a human institution. Pappy O'Daniel: Holey moley! These boys are a hit! Junior O'Daniel: But Pappy, they's integrated! Homer Stokes: Is you is, or is you ain't, my constituency? George Nelson: I'm George Nelson, and I'm feeling ten feet tall! Ulysses Everett McGill: So you're against me now too? Is that how it is boys? The whole world, God almighty, and now you. Ulysses Everett McGill: What'd the devil give you for your soul, Tommy? Tommy Johnson: Well, he taught me to play this here guitar real good. Delmar O'Donnell: Oh son, for that you sold your everlasting soul? Tommy Johnson: Well, I wasn't usin' it. Pete: Well I'll be a sonofabitch. Delmar's been saved. Delmar O'Donnell: Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward. Ulysses Everett McGill: Delmar, what are you talking about? We've got bigger fish to fry. Delmar O'Donnell: The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo. Ulysses Everett McGill: I thought you said you was innocent of those charges? Delmar O'Donnell: Well I was lyin'. And the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away too. Neither God nor man's got nothin' on me now. C'mon in boys, the water is fine. Soggy Bottom Customer: Do you have the Soggy Bottom Boys performing "Man of Constant Sorrow"? Record Store Clerk: No ma'am. We got a new shipment in yesterday. Sorry, but we just can't keep 'em on our shelves. Ulysses Everett McGill: Ain't you gonna introduce us, Pete? Pete: I don't know their names. I seen 'em first! Big Dan Teague: So long boys. See you in the funny papers. Penny Wharvey McGill: I've spoken my piece and counted to three. Ulysses Everett McGill: She counted to three. Goddamit! She counted to three. Sonofabitch! Pappy O'Daniel: Furthermore, in the second Pappy O'Daniel administration, these boys is gonna be my *brain* trust. Delmar O'Donnell: What's that mean, Everett? Ulysses Everett McGill: I like the smell of my hair treatment; the pleasing odor is half the point. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, as soon as we get ourselves cleaned up and we get a little smellum in our hair, why, we're gonna feel 100% better about ourselves and about life in general. Homer Stokes: Those boys desecrated a burning cross! Delmar O'Donnell: Hey mister! I don't mean to be tellin' tales out of school, but there's a feller in there that'll pay you ten dollars if you sing into his can. Big Dan Teague: I'm gonna propose you a proposition! Pete: You ruined my life! [while being choked] Ulysses Everett McGill: I do apologize about that Pete. Homer Stokes: [as Grand Kleagle at a KKK rally] Brothers! Oh, brothers! We have all gathered here, to preserve our hallowed culture and heritage! We aim to pull evil up by the root, before it chokes out the flower of our culture and heritage! And our women, let's not forget those ladies, y'all. Looking to us for protection! From darkies, from Jews, from papists, and from all those smart-ass folks say we come descended from monkeys! Homer Stokes: And so, we gonna hang us a negro! [last lines] Penny Wharvey McGill: Well, we need that ring. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well that ring is at the bottom of a pretty durn big lake. Penny Wharvey McGill: Uh-uh. Ulysses Everett McGill: A 9,000 hectare lake. Penny Wharvey McGill: I don't care if it's 90,000... Ulysses Everett McGill: But honey... Penny Wharvey McGill: that lake was not my doing. Ulysses Everett McGill: Of course not honey... Penny Wharvey McGill: I counted to three, honey. Ulysses Everett McGill: No, wait, honey! Finding one little ring in the middle of all that water is one hell of a heroic task! Pete: Crazy! No one's ever gonna believe we're a real band. Ulysses Everett McGill: No, it's gonna work. I just gotta get close enough to talk to her. Takin' off with us has got more future than marryin' a guy named Waldrip. I'm Goddamned bona fide! Delmar O'Donnell: Everett, my beard itches. Ulysses Everett McGill: Jesus! Can I count on you people? Delmar O'Donnell: Sorry, Everett. Siren, Siren, Siren: [singing] Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you little baby / You and me and the devil makes three / Don't need no other lovin' baby // Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you little baby / Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones / And be my ever lovin' baby // Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you little baby / Your momma's gone away and your daddy's gone to stay / Didn't leave nobody but the baby // Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you little baby / Everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn / Didn't leave nobody but the baby // You're a sweet little baby / You're a sweet little baby / Honey in the rock and the sugar don't stop / Gonna bring a bottle to the baby // Don't you weep pretty baby / Don't you weep pretty baby / She's long gone with the red shoes on / Gonna meet another lovin' baby // Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you little baby / You and me and the devil makes three / Don't need no other lovin' baby // Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you little baby / You and me and the devil makes three / Don't need no other lovin' baby // Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you little baby / Your momma's gone away and your daddy's gone to stay / Didn't leave nobody but the baby // Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you little baby / Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones / And be my ever lovin' baby [singing] Ulysses Everett McGill: I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my days. I bid farewell to old Kentucky, the place where I was born and raised. Delmar O'Donnell, Pete: The place where he was born and raised. Ulysses Everett McGill: For six long years I've been in trouble, no pleasure here on Earth I've found. For in this world I'm bound to ramble, I have no friends to help me out. Delmar O'Donnell, Pete: He has no friends to help him out. Ulysses Everett McGill: Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger, my face you never will see no more. But there is one promise that is given, I'll meet you on God's golden shore. Delmar O'Donnell, Pete: He'll meet you on God's golden shore. George Nelson: [after Nelson has robbed the bank] Thank you folks! And remember, Jesus saves, but George Nelson withdraws! [laughs] Go fetch the auto voiture, Pete. Woman In Bank: [whispering] Is that "Babyface" Nelson? George Nelson: Who said that? [pause] What ignorant, low down, slanderizin, son of a bitch said that? [goes up to woman] My name is George Nelson, get me? Delmar O'Donnell: She didn't mean nothin by it, George. George Nelson: [noticeably upset] George Nelson! Not "Babyface"! You remember, and you tell your friends! I'm George Nelson! Born to raise hell! [Nelson points his Tommy Gun towards the ceiling and fires it, and the bank patrons jump] Ulysses Everett McGill: [riding past a chain gang, Everett and Delmar see Pete] Pete got a brother? Delmar O'Donnell: Not that I'm aware. Ulysses Everett McGill: Heat must be getting to me. |
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