Thesis Statement: What I hope to do in the following paper is compare the entertaining film, O Brother Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen. Perf. George Clooney, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, John Turturro, Touchstone/Universal, 2000) to the classic epic The Odyssey (Crowell’s Handbook Of Classical Literature, The Odyssey, Lippincott and Crowell Publishers, New York, pgs.268-291, Internet Reviews of the movie). The plots in both selections are very similar even though they occur in two …showed first 75 words of 1089 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1089 total…fact that this movie has a slight resemblance to the poem is very humorous to me. The movie seems to be more of a satire than a recreation of the classic story. A high school english class could really go far with a lesson on comparing the two plots, characters and events in both works. I personally enjoyed the movie more than the book, however seeing the movie made the epic more comprehensible for me.