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* ShoutOut: Tommy's DealWithTheDevil is a reference to a similar deal supposedly made by real-life bluesman [[[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Johnson_(blues_musician) Tommy Johnson]]
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* DealWithTheDevil: Tommy Johnson traded his soul to the devil at the crossroads for his guitar skills. This is the same claim made by the real blues musician Robert Johnson.
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* AtTheCrossroads: The three meet Tommy here after he [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the devil]] ([[NotableQuotables "I wasn't usin' it for nothin'"]]) to become a famous musician, this is based on the real life Tommy Johnson who was the originator of the story, [[OlderThanTheyThink yes, even before Robert Johnson]]
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** It's actuallyis based on the real life Tommy Johnson, who originated the story. Robert Johnson stole this story (and is more famous), but thats not a bad thing to say about bluesmen at all. who was the originator of the story, [[OlderThanTheyThink yes, even before Robert Johnson]]
** It's actually
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Pete who will be 84 in 1989 should be in his 20s during the Great Depression. John Turturro was in his 50s.
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* LargeHam: Homer Stokes. [[spoiler: It's particularly noticeable in the scene where he leads a KKK rally.]] Of course, it makes sense, given that he's running for governor and a talent for public oratory would help him a lot.
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* FanDisservice: The Sirens, in addition to being generally beautiful, all wear wet dresses so you can see their lingerie. Yet, combined with the [[IronicNurseryTune creepy song]] they keep singing, and the fact that one of them is forcing a drug down Everett's throat, you can't help but feel there's something off about the whole thing.
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The story is (very) loosely [[TwiceToldTale based]] on Homer's ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', following [[MeaningfulName Ulysses]] Everett [=McGill=], Delmar O'Donnell and Pete as they meet, among others, a [[BlindSeer blind prophet]], sirens, the Cyclops and a gifted guitar player who "[[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the devil]]". Also during their journey, they record a hit song, rob a bank with George "Baby Face" Nelson, encounter the KKK, and inadvertently get mixed up in the state gubernatorial election. [[AwesomeMusic/{{Film}} It was noted for the tremendous success of its soundtrack]], most of which was recorded by Alison Krauss & Union Station (Dan Tyminski provided Everett's singing voice) and other country-bluegrass acts.
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The story is (very) loosely [[TwiceToldTale based]] on Homer's ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', following [[MeaningfulName Ulysses]] Everett [=McGill=], Delmar O'Donnell and Pete as they meet, among others, a [[BlindSeer blind prophet]], sirens, the Cyclops and a gifted guitar player who "[[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the devil]]". Also during their journey, they record a hit song, rob a bank with George "Baby Face" Nelson, encounter the KKK, and inadvertently get mixed up in the state gubernatorial election. [[AwesomeMusic/{{Film}} It was noted for the tremendous success of its soundtrack]], most of which was recorded by [[AlisonKraussAndUnionStation Alison Krauss & Union Station Station]] (Dan Tyminski provided Everett's singing voice) and other country-bluegrass acts.
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* MacGuffin: Dapper Dan Pomade.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Our "heroes" include a trio of escaped criminals and a bad-tempered, corrupt governor. The villains include the Grand Dragon of a KKK chapter and his lackeys, and an InspectorJavert [[spoiler:who may actually be the Devil]]. The most sympathetic characters are probably Delmar ([[GoodIsDumb a sweetly cheerful idiot]] who nevertheless still goes along with Everett's schemes) and Tommy, who ''sold his soul to the Devil.''
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* TheKlan: The Klan appears as enemies midway through the movie, as Everett, Pete, and Delmar must rescue their friend Tommy from the Klan.
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--> ''[[BrokenRecord "Damn, we're in a tight spot!"]]''
Written and directed by Creator/TheCoenBrothers, three [[TheGreatDepression Depression-era]] [[DeepSouth Mississippi]] prison fugitives go on a rollicking adventure in an attempt to reach the money buried by one of them in his back yard. They have only a short time to do this, though, as the backyard in question is in an area slated to be flooded by the damming activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The story is (very) loosely [[TwiceToldTale based]] on Homer's ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', following [[MeaningfulName Ulysses]] Everett [=McGill=], Delmar O'Donnell and Pete as they meet, among others, a [[BlindSeer blind prophet]], sirens, the Cyclops and a gifted guitar player who "[[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the devil]]". Also during their journey, they record a hit song, rob a bank with George "Baby Face" Nelson, encounter the KKK, and inadvertently get mixed up in the state gubernatorial election. [[AwesomeMusic/{{Film}} It was noted for the tremendous success of its soundtrack]], most of which was recorded by Alison Krauss & Union Station (Dan Tyminski provided Everett's singing voice) and other country-bluegrass acts.
Bonus points if you recognize the title from the 1941 Creator/PrestonSturges' film ''Film/SullivansTravels''.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AgentScully: Despite being pursued by Satan, meeting a prophet, being seduced by sirens, and [[spoiler: being apparently saved from execution by divine intervention]], Everett still insists that there is a reasonable explanation for everything. At least it's {{Lampshaded}}.
** And by the end, he doesn't really seem sure of himself any more.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "These boys is ''not'' white! Hell, they ain't even old-timey."
* AtTheCrossroads: The three meet Tommy here after he [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the devil]] ([[NotableQuotables "I wasn't usin' it for nothin'"]]) to become a famous musician, in reference to the Robert Johnson UrbanLegend. At this point, they also meet Big Dan Teague. Think about it.
** It's actually based on Tommy Johnson, who originated the story. Robert Johnson stole this story (and is more famous), but thats not a bad thing to say about bluesmen at all.
* BerserkButton: [[MyNameIsNotDurwood George "Babyface" Nelson]] ([[NotableQuotables "He's a live wire, ain't he?"]]). TruthInTelevision with the real George Nelson.
** Also, Pete doesn't take kindly to people stealing from his kin.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sort of. Delmar [[spoiler:is the only member of the group to turn and attack Big Dan head-on when Dan shows his TrueColors.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:he still gets his ass kicked.]]
* BewitchedAmphibians: Delmar is at one point convinced this has happened to Pete.
* BlatantLies: "That ain't your daddy. Your daddy was hit by a train."
* BlindSeer: Lampshaded by Everett, who insists the man has a DisabilitySuperpower.
* BookEnds: The film opens with a chain gang together working near a railroad track and singing. The film closes with [[spoiler: Everett and Penny's daughters tied together by twine walking over a railroad track and singing.]]
** Also near the beginning they meet the blind prophet on the tracks, who sets up the story; at the end the blind prophet is seen passing by on the tracks.
* BreakAwayPopHit: The soundtrack had its own sequels.
** In-movie also, since the Soggy Bottom Boys' singing is [[LampshadeHanging so good]] it helps resolve the plot.
* BrickJoke: The blind prophet at the beginning of the film mentions the trio will see a cow on the roof of a cotton house. Guess what they see after [[spoiler: the land is flooded near the end of the film]].
** There's also a very subtle example that probably went over the head of most viewers. John Goodman's character is clearly modeled on the cyclops of Homer's ''The Odyssey'', with his eye patch and his violent confrontation with the heroes. Goodman's character is later revealed to be a member of the Klan. Though unmentioned in the film, one of the Klan's rankings is "Grand Cyclops."
** After mocking Delmar and Pete for being baptized early in the movie, skeptic Everett [[spoiler: admits his failings and begs for mercy in a NotSoFinalConfession at the gallows. He is then forcibly immersed by the floodwaters, and everyone is saved. Literally.]]
* BurnBabyBurn
* TheCastShowoff: Real-life blues singer Chris Thomas King plays Tommy, and at one point gets to sing (in his own voice) a rendition of Skip James' "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues."
* CensorshipBySpelling: "Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T." Becomes somewhat of a RunningGag.
* ChainedHeat
* ChekhovsGun: Everett's pomade, particularly its distinctive smell, which lets the Sheriff track them down.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Delmar [[NotableQuotables "We Thought You Was a Toad"]] O'Donnell.
* ColorWash: They messed with the hue and saturation until everything was an intensely colorful brown, imitating the look of sepia-toned photos.
* CorruptHick: The insanely corrupt Big Dan Teague. Who is channeling the cyclops Polyphemus.
* CultSoundtrack: The soundtrack album is [[http://blog.rhapsody.com/2009/11/countdec.html regarded]] as one of the most important Country and Bluegrass albums of the decade and sold over 7 million copies. It also won the GrammyAward for Album of the Year in 2002, making it one of only three soundtracks to ever win that award.
* DealWithTheDevil: Tommy Johnson traded his soul to the devil at the crossroads for his guitar skills. This is the same claim made by the real blues musician Robert Johnson.
* DeepSouth
* {{Defictionalization}}: The Soggy Bottom Boys.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Of the sepia variety, see RealIsBrown below.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:The flooding happens at ''exactly'' the right time to save them all from being hanged.]] Possibly a literal example.
* DidNotDieThatWay: inverted, [=McGill=] finds out his wife has told his daughters that he got hit by a train, rather than tell them he was sent to jail.
* DisneyDeath: Pete was believed to have transformed into a Toad by the launderer sirens, so they take him in a box. The toad was then killed by Big Dan Teague by being crushed, and his friends were physically incapable of stopping his death because they were beaten to bloody pulps. It was later revealed that the toad was actually ''not'' Pete, nor was he even transformed by a toad: Turns out those "launderer sirens" actually delivered him to Sheriff Cooley's men for the reward, and is now a prisoner back at the farm.
* TheDitz: Delmar.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing: This (and a toad) cause the other two to assume Pete's been turned into a toad.
* EnthrallingSiren: The three washerwomen are the siren stand-ins.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: One is gunned down during a stampede ([[NotableQuotables "Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers!"]]), another is involved in the BrickJoke.
* EyepatchOfPower: Big Dan Teague.
* FairytaleMotifs: Well, more like Mythology Motifs, but whatever.
* FakeBand: The Soggy Bottom Boys.
* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Several. Most notably, Governor Pappy O'Daniel (for the mildly corrupt version) and Big Dan Teague (for the insanely corrupt version).
* FirstFatherWins
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Delmar, or butterflies at the least.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Everett, Delmar, and Pete are all chained together, and try to escape by boarding a moving train. In the foreground we see Everett (on the train) introducing himself to some hobos. In the background, Pete trips before he can climb in...
** Also, Pete's gloriously goofy dancing during Delmar's rendition of "In the Jailhouse Now."
** Background singing - in ''Man of Constant Sorrow'', Everett finishes singing a depressing stanza that ends in the line "perhaps I'll die upon this train..." and Delmar and Pete chime in with a cheery "Perhaps he'll die upon this train!"
* GenreBusting: It's a musical/comedy/social commentary/retelling of ''Literature/TheOdyssey''... that's set in TheGreatDepression.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Vernon gives Ulysses a good old-timey ass-whoopin' in the Woolworths. Vernon apparently has some training in the pugilistic arts, whereas Ulysses... not so much.
* GoOutWithASmile: George Nelson. We don't see him killed but his last scene is him having been caught by a mob and being led to his execution. He's more then happy with it, however; the mob was even nice enough to give him some violinists as a funeral march.
* HistoricalInJoke
* {{Hobos}}
* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler:Just before he's executed, Everett prays to God to let him see his daughters at least one more time. When the dam breaks and saves him, he starts going on about reason. The other two immediately call him out on it.]]
* ImplacableMan: the Sheriff.
* InsufferableGenius: Everett.
** Well, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll he's smarter than Delmar or Pete...]]
* InspectorJavert: The Sheriff tries to characterize himself this way at the very end, claiming that the boys have only been pardoned by the law of man.
** Not exactly tries, considering he's... [[LouisCypher well]]...
* IronicNurseryTune: The siren-seduction scene, to "Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby" Also a rare case of erotic NightmareFuel.
* TheLancer: Pete.
* LargeAndInCharge: Governor Pappy O'Daniel. [[NotableQuotables "We're mass communicatin'!"]]
* LouisCypher: The Sheriff who is [[SternChase chasing after them]]. His ScaryShinyGlasses [[IncendiaryExponent reflect fire]] a lot.
* MagicRealism: There are more than a few downright mystical occurrences in the film, such as the prophet, the sirens, and the strong implication that the Warden is Satan.
** The way the movie is framed - it starts with a scene of a generic chain gang with no main characters in it, singing as they break rocks, then cuts to black before the actual movie begins - gives rise to [[WildMassGuessing the theory]] that the entire story is being presented as a myth, a subject of chain gang songs, as opposed to "real" events. The pointedly non-realistic bent of many of the movie's events (the KKK marching in a chorus line?) would seem to indicate this.
* MeaningfulName: In a story based off ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', the main character's name is Ulysses.
* MusicalWorldHypotheses: Diegetic all the way through, making its classification as a musical to begin with dubious to some.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: There really was a Depression-era Governor named Pappy O'Daniel, but his given name was Wilbert Lee O'Daniel; in the film the governor's real first name is Menelaus (another Homer reference). Also the real O'Daniel was governor of Texas, not Mississippi.
* NotHisSled: The expected fate of John Goodman's "cyclops" is deliberately referenced then avoided. [[DoubleSubversion Then happens slightly differently anyway.]]
* OhCrap: JohnGoodman's reaction when he realizes that the fiery cross was coming down directly ''at'' him.
** Also, Homer Stokes' reaction when he realizes that the town, after his attempt at getting the Soggy Bottom Boys arrested failed, is now going to run him out of town on a rail as revenge for interrupting the performance.
* PaperThinDisguise: Toward the end of the movie, the fugitive "Soggy Bottom Boys" perform ([[NotableQuotables "Neighborhood of B"]]) while disguised with false beards. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] later, when their performance wins over the crowd and Everett deliberately yanks his beard off for a moment.
* ThePardon: Granted but ignored.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Zig-zagged. The white heroes refer to Tommy as a "boy," but otherwise treat him as an equal. The radio station manager insists that he won't play "colored songs," but once the "Soggy Bottom Boys" become popular, Pappy O'Daniel doesn't seem to care that "they's integrated." The KKK is shown in all its silly racist glory, but also portrayed as a fringe organization that is not looked upon favorably by the common townsfolk.
** Perhaps it was thanks to the [[PowerOfRock Power of Bluegrass]] that was able to sway their minds?
*** More likely that the townsfolk were more upset by Stokes interrupting the Soggy Bottom Boys' performance by trying to have them arrested and didn't care what else he said.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain [[spoiler: Homer Stokes, candidate for governor by day, Klansman by night.]]
** Note that in 1932 Mississippi, [[spoiler: being a Klansman]] would have been politically ''correct''. It would have been almost impossible for [[spoiler: Stokes]] to [[spoiler: be a serious candidate for governor]] ''without'' being one.
* PopcultureOsmosis: The Coens have claimed that they've never actually read ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', but know the story through its various adaptations.
* ProducePelting: What the audience does when Homer Stokes ends up interrupting the Soggy Bottom Boys performance to get them arrested, that as well as ride him out of town on a rail.
* RealIsBrown: Pursued with a vengeance, given that a substantial portion of the film's post-production budget went into extensive color-correction. The Coens wanted every frame of the film to reflect the dingy, withered dustbowl look, and in some cases took entire fields of green flora and turned them yellow.
* {{Retirony}}: Of a sort. Pete was two weeks from being released from prison anyway. Now that he's escaped, he won't get out until 19''87.''
* RockMeAsmodeus: "And I have it from the highest 'thority, that that negra...''sold his soul to the'' '''Devil!!!'''" (the townsfolk don't buy into it, though)
* RunningGag: Briefly.
-->"Damn, we're in a tight spot!"
** Everett's obsession with his Dapper Dan pomade also counts.
* {{Satan}}: Sheriff Cooley is explicitly theorized to be this.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: The Sheriff/Warden/[[spoiler: Devil]] wears these.
* SeinfeldianConversation: This charming example:
-->"He's gonna paddle our little behind."
-->"Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it. Real hard."
-->"No, I believe he's gonna paddle it."
-->"I don't believe that's a proper description."
-->"Well, that's how I'd characterize it."
-->"I believe it's more of a kickin' sitchiation."
** The discussion of a [[NotableQuotables "grease spot on the L&N"]] and a "bona-fide" suitor ranks right up there too.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Everett. For example, from the FunnyBackgroundEvent described above:
-->Say, any of you fellas happen to be smithies? If not smithies ''per se'', perhaps you trained in the [[TheBlacksmith metallurgical arts]] before straitened circumstances led you to a life of [[{{Hobos}} aimless wandering]]?
** Also Big Dan Teague:
-->And thank you for that conversational hiatus. I generally refrain from speech while engaged in gustation. There are those who attempt both at the same time; I find it coarse and vulgar.
* ShoutOut: Tommy's DealWithTheDevil is a reference to a similar deal supposedly made by real-life bluesman Robert Johnson.
** And [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Johnson_(blues_musician) Tommy Johnson]], also a real blues musician, who spread the same rumor about himself, to enhance his fame.
** The title of the movie is itself a ShoutOut, to Creator/PrestonSturges' ''Sullivan's Travels''.
** The KKK scene is based off of the scene in the Wizard of Oz where the Scarecrow, Lion and Tin man try to sneak into the witches castle. The guards are chanting the way the KKK does and even doing a similar dance, and the three heroes steal disguises from the guards/KKK.
** The Soggy Bottom Boys are a reference to the Light Crust Doughboys, who were featured on the real-life [[http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/characters/pappy.html Pappy O'Daniel's]] radio show.
** There's a coffin floating on a flooded river at the end, which is most certainly a shout out to William Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying''.
** A man named Ulysses meets a blues singer at a crossroads. [[{{Cream}} Coincidence]]?
* SophisticatedAsHell: Many of the characters in a patchily-educated way, but mostly Everett. "I'm the goddamn paterfamilias!"
* StoutStrength: Big Dan Teague.
* SternChase: The Warden's search for the three convicts.
* TheStoolPigeon: Pete ends up becoming a Lacerated Larry after the "Sireens" basically turned him over to the sheriff's men for a bounty (which initially led them to believe that Pete was actually turned into a frog due to it being in his clothes).
* SurroundedByIdiots - Pappy O'Daniel's cronies and son are sycophantic yes-men who are a bit slow on the uptake, and Pappy is painfully aware of this. This is most likely the reason he tries to convince Vernon T. Waldrip to leave Stokes' campaign and join his.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Who is that man?" "Not my husband." Also doubles as a ShoutOut to the source material.
* TheVamp: The three sirens
* ThoseTwoGuys: Pappy's two advisors, see the SeinfeldianConversation above.
* VillainousGlutton: Big Dan Teague, as befits his correspondence with the cyclops Polyphemus.
* TWordEuphemism: Sort of. One character wants to prevent his son from knowing that his mother left the family, so he just says she "Up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T."
** Subverted later on, in that the kid knew ''exactly'' what he was talking about, anyway.
* VillainousBreakdown: "Babyface" Nelson and Homer Stokes.
** [[spoiler:Nelson gets better]]...sort of.
** "MY NAME IS GEORGE NELSON, AND I'M FEELIN' TEN FEET TALL!"
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Homer Stokes, oh so much]]
* WorkingOnTheChainGang: The story begins with Ulysses, Pete, and Delmar escaping from this while chained to each other. Pete, at one point, is recaptured and put back to work on the chain gang and has to be broken out of prison ''again''.
* XMeetsY: TheThreeStooges meets ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
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[[caption-width:300:After a half-century of waiting, we finally get to see that Great Depression epic!]]
--> ''[[BrokenRecord "Damn, we're in a tight spot!"]]''
Written and directed by Creator/TheCoenBrothers, three [[TheGreatDepression Depression-era]] [[DeepSouth Mississippi]] prison fugitives go on a rollicking adventure in an attempt to reach the money buried by one of them in his back yard. They have only a short time to do this, though, as the backyard in question is in an area slated to be flooded by the damming activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The story is (very) loosely [[TwiceToldTale based]] on Homer's ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', following [[MeaningfulName Ulysses]] Everett [=McGill=], Delmar O'Donnell and Pete as they meet, among others, a [[BlindSeer blind prophet]], sirens, the Cyclops and a gifted guitar player who "[[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the devil]]". Also during their journey, they record a hit song, rob a bank with George "Baby Face" Nelson, encounter the KKK, and inadvertently get mixed up in the state gubernatorial election. [[AwesomeMusic/{{Film}} It was noted for the tremendous success of its soundtrack]], most of which was recorded by Alison Krauss & Union Station (Dan Tyminski provided Everett's singing voice) and other country-bluegrass acts.
Bonus points if you recognize the title from the 1941 Creator/PrestonSturges' film ''Film/SullivansTravels''.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AgentScully: Despite being pursued by Satan, meeting a prophet, being seduced by sirens, and [[spoiler: being apparently saved from execution by divine intervention]], Everett still insists that there is a reasonable explanation for everything. At least it's {{Lampshaded}}.
** And by the end, he doesn't really seem sure of himself any more.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "These boys is ''not'' white! Hell, they ain't even old-timey."
* AtTheCrossroads: The three meet Tommy here after he [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the devil]] ([[NotableQuotables "I wasn't usin' it for nothin'"]]) to become a famous musician, in reference to the Robert Johnson UrbanLegend. At this point, they also meet Big Dan Teague. Think about it.
** It's actually based on Tommy Johnson, who originated the story. Robert Johnson stole this story (and is more famous), but thats not a bad thing to say about bluesmen at all.
* BerserkButton: [[MyNameIsNotDurwood George "Babyface" Nelson]] ([[NotableQuotables "He's a live wire, ain't he?"]]). TruthInTelevision with the real George Nelson.
** Also, Pete doesn't take kindly to people stealing from his kin.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sort of. Delmar [[spoiler:is the only member of the group to turn and attack Big Dan head-on when Dan shows his TrueColors.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:he still gets his ass kicked.]]
* BewitchedAmphibians: Delmar is at one point convinced this has happened to Pete.
* BlatantLies: "That ain't your daddy. Your daddy was hit by a train."
* BlindSeer: Lampshaded by Everett, who insists the man has a DisabilitySuperpower.
* BookEnds: The film opens with a chain gang together working near a railroad track and singing. The film closes with [[spoiler: Everett and Penny's daughters tied together by twine walking over a railroad track and singing.]]
** Also near the beginning they meet the blind prophet on the tracks, who sets up the story; at the end the blind prophet is seen passing by on the tracks.
* BreakAwayPopHit: The soundtrack had its own sequels.
** In-movie also, since the Soggy Bottom Boys' singing is [[LampshadeHanging so good]] it helps resolve the plot.
* BrickJoke: The blind prophet at the beginning of the film mentions the trio will see a cow on the roof of a cotton house. Guess what they see after [[spoiler: the land is flooded near the end of the film]].
** There's also a very subtle example that probably went over the head of most viewers. John Goodman's character is clearly modeled on the cyclops of Homer's ''The Odyssey'', with his eye patch and his violent confrontation with the heroes. Goodman's character is later revealed to be a member of the Klan. Though unmentioned in the film, one of the Klan's rankings is "Grand Cyclops."
** After mocking Delmar and Pete for being baptized early in the movie, skeptic Everett [[spoiler: admits his failings and begs for mercy in a NotSoFinalConfession at the gallows. He is then forcibly immersed by the floodwaters, and everyone is saved. Literally.]]
* BurnBabyBurn
* TheCastShowoff: Real-life blues singer Chris Thomas King plays Tommy, and at one point gets to sing (in his own voice) a rendition of Skip James' "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues."
* CensorshipBySpelling: "Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T." Becomes somewhat of a RunningGag.
* ChainedHeat
* ChekhovsGun: Everett's pomade, particularly its distinctive smell, which lets the Sheriff track them down.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Delmar [[NotableQuotables "We Thought You Was a Toad"]] O'Donnell.
* ColorWash: They messed with the hue and saturation until everything was an intensely colorful brown, imitating the look of sepia-toned photos.
* CorruptHick: The insanely corrupt Big Dan Teague. Who is channeling the cyclops Polyphemus.
* CultSoundtrack: The soundtrack album is [[http://blog.rhapsody.com/2009/11/countdec.html regarded]] as one of the most important Country and Bluegrass albums of the decade and sold over 7 million copies. It also won the GrammyAward for Album of the Year in 2002, making it one of only three soundtracks to ever win that award.
* DealWithTheDevil: Tommy Johnson traded his soul to the devil at the crossroads for his guitar skills. This is the same claim made by the real blues musician Robert Johnson.
* DeepSouth
* {{Defictionalization}}: The Soggy Bottom Boys.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Of the sepia variety, see RealIsBrown below.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:The flooding happens at ''exactly'' the right time to save them all from being hanged.]] Possibly a literal example.
* DidNotDieThatWay: inverted, [=McGill=] finds out his wife has told his daughters that he got hit by a train, rather than tell them he was sent to jail.
* DisneyDeath: Pete was believed to have transformed into a Toad by the launderer sirens, so they take him in a box. The toad was then killed by Big Dan Teague by being crushed, and his friends were physically incapable of stopping his death because they were beaten to bloody pulps. It was later revealed that the toad was actually ''not'' Pete, nor was he even transformed by a toad: Turns out those "launderer sirens" actually delivered him to Sheriff Cooley's men for the reward, and is now a prisoner back at the farm.
* TheDitz: Delmar.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing: This (and a toad) cause the other two to assume Pete's been turned into a toad.
* EnthrallingSiren: The three washerwomen are the siren stand-ins.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: One is gunned down during a stampede ([[NotableQuotables "Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers!"]]), another is involved in the BrickJoke.
* EyepatchOfPower: Big Dan Teague.
* FairytaleMotifs: Well, more like Mythology Motifs, but whatever.
* FakeBand: The Soggy Bottom Boys.
* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Several. Most notably, Governor Pappy O'Daniel (for the mildly corrupt version) and Big Dan Teague (for the insanely corrupt version).
* FirstFatherWins
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Delmar, or butterflies at the least.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Everett, Delmar, and Pete are all chained together, and try to escape by boarding a moving train. In the foreground we see Everett (on the train) introducing himself to some hobos. In the background, Pete trips before he can climb in...
** Also, Pete's gloriously goofy dancing during Delmar's rendition of "In the Jailhouse Now."
** Background singing - in ''Man of Constant Sorrow'', Everett finishes singing a depressing stanza that ends in the line "perhaps I'll die upon this train..." and Delmar and Pete chime in with a cheery "Perhaps he'll die upon this train!"
* GenreBusting: It's a musical/comedy/social commentary/retelling of ''Literature/TheOdyssey''... that's set in TheGreatDepression.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Vernon gives Ulysses a good old-timey ass-whoopin' in the Woolworths. Vernon apparently has some training in the pugilistic arts, whereas Ulysses... not so much.
* GoOutWithASmile: George Nelson. We don't see him killed but his last scene is him having been caught by a mob and being led to his execution. He's more then happy with it, however; the mob was even nice enough to give him some violinists as a funeral march.
* HistoricalInJoke
* {{Hobos}}
* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler:Just before he's executed, Everett prays to God to let him see his daughters at least one more time. When the dam breaks and saves him, he starts going on about reason. The other two immediately call him out on it.]]
* ImplacableMan: the Sheriff.
* InsufferableGenius: Everett.
** Well, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll he's smarter than Delmar or Pete...]]
* InspectorJavert: The Sheriff tries to characterize himself this way at the very end, claiming that the boys have only been pardoned by the law of man.
** Not exactly tries, considering he's... [[LouisCypher well]]...
* IronicNurseryTune: The siren-seduction scene, to "Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby" Also a rare case of erotic NightmareFuel.
* TheLancer: Pete.
* LargeAndInCharge: Governor Pappy O'Daniel. [[NotableQuotables "We're mass communicatin'!"]]
* LouisCypher: The Sheriff who is [[SternChase chasing after them]]. His ScaryShinyGlasses [[IncendiaryExponent reflect fire]] a lot.
* MagicRealism: There are more than a few downright mystical occurrences in the film, such as the prophet, the sirens, and the strong implication that the Warden is Satan.
** The way the movie is framed - it starts with a scene of a generic chain gang with no main characters in it, singing as they break rocks, then cuts to black before the actual movie begins - gives rise to [[WildMassGuessing the theory]] that the entire story is being presented as a myth, a subject of chain gang songs, as opposed to "real" events. The pointedly non-realistic bent of many of the movie's events (the KKK marching in a chorus line?) would seem to indicate this.
* MeaningfulName: In a story based off ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', the main character's name is Ulysses.
* MusicalWorldHypotheses: Diegetic all the way through, making its classification as a musical to begin with dubious to some.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: There really was a Depression-era Governor named Pappy O'Daniel, but his given name was Wilbert Lee O'Daniel; in the film the governor's real first name is Menelaus (another Homer reference). Also the real O'Daniel was governor of Texas, not Mississippi.
* NotHisSled: The expected fate of John Goodman's "cyclops" is deliberately referenced then avoided. [[DoubleSubversion Then happens slightly differently anyway.]]
* OhCrap: JohnGoodman's reaction when he realizes that the fiery cross was coming down directly ''at'' him.
** Also, Homer Stokes' reaction when he realizes that the town, after his attempt at getting the Soggy Bottom Boys arrested failed, is now going to run him out of town on a rail as revenge for interrupting the performance.
* PaperThinDisguise: Toward the end of the movie, the fugitive "Soggy Bottom Boys" perform ([[NotableQuotables "Neighborhood of B"]]) while disguised with false beards. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] later, when their performance wins over the crowd and Everett deliberately yanks his beard off for a moment.
* ThePardon: Granted but ignored.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Zig-zagged. The white heroes refer to Tommy as a "boy," but otherwise treat him as an equal. The radio station manager insists that he won't play "colored songs," but once the "Soggy Bottom Boys" become popular, Pappy O'Daniel doesn't seem to care that "they's integrated." The KKK is shown in all its silly racist glory, but also portrayed as a fringe organization that is not looked upon favorably by the common townsfolk.
** Perhaps it was thanks to the [[PowerOfRock Power of Bluegrass]] that was able to sway their minds?
*** More likely that the townsfolk were more upset by Stokes interrupting the Soggy Bottom Boys' performance by trying to have them arrested and didn't care what else he said.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain [[spoiler: Homer Stokes, candidate for governor by day, Klansman by night.]]
** Note that in 1932 Mississippi, [[spoiler: being a Klansman]] would have been politically ''correct''. It would have been almost impossible for [[spoiler: Stokes]] to [[spoiler: be a serious candidate for governor]] ''without'' being one.
* PopcultureOsmosis: The Coens have claimed that they've never actually read ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', but know the story through its various adaptations.
* ProducePelting: What the audience does when Homer Stokes ends up interrupting the Soggy Bottom Boys performance to get them arrested, that as well as ride him out of town on a rail.
* RealIsBrown: Pursued with a vengeance, given that a substantial portion of the film's post-production budget went into extensive color-correction. The Coens wanted every frame of the film to reflect the dingy, withered dustbowl look, and in some cases took entire fields of green flora and turned them yellow.
* {{Retirony}}: Of a sort. Pete was two weeks from being released from prison anyway. Now that he's escaped, he won't get out until 19''87.''
* RockMeAsmodeus: "And I have it from the highest 'thority, that that negra...''sold his soul to the'' '''Devil!!!'''" (the townsfolk don't buy into it, though)
* RunningGag: Briefly.
-->"Damn, we're in a tight spot!"
** Everett's obsession with his Dapper Dan pomade also counts.
* {{Satan}}: Sheriff Cooley is explicitly theorized to be this.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: The Sheriff/Warden/[[spoiler: Devil]] wears these.
* SeinfeldianConversation: This charming example:
-->"He's gonna paddle our little behind."
-->"Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it. Real hard."
-->"No, I believe he's gonna paddle it."
-->"I don't believe that's a proper description."
-->"Well, that's how I'd characterize it."
-->"I believe it's more of a kickin' sitchiation."
** The discussion of a [[NotableQuotables "grease spot on the L&N"]] and a "bona-fide" suitor ranks right up there too.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Everett. For example, from the FunnyBackgroundEvent described above:
-->Say, any of you fellas happen to be smithies? If not smithies ''per se'', perhaps you trained in the [[TheBlacksmith metallurgical arts]] before straitened circumstances led you to a life of [[{{Hobos}} aimless wandering]]?
** Also Big Dan Teague:
-->And thank you for that conversational hiatus. I generally refrain from speech while engaged in gustation. There are those who attempt both at the same time; I find it coarse and vulgar.
* ShoutOut: Tommy's DealWithTheDevil is a reference to a similar deal supposedly made by real-life bluesman Robert Johnson.
** And [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Johnson_(blues_musician) Tommy Johnson]], also a real blues musician, who spread the same rumor about himself, to enhance his fame.
** The title of the movie is itself a ShoutOut, to Creator/PrestonSturges' ''Sullivan's Travels''.
** The KKK scene is based off of the scene in the Wizard of Oz where the Scarecrow, Lion and Tin man try to sneak into the witches castle. The guards are chanting the way the KKK does and even doing a similar dance, and the three heroes steal disguises from the guards/KKK.
** The Soggy Bottom Boys are a reference to the Light Crust Doughboys, who were featured on the real-life [[http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/characters/pappy.html Pappy O'Daniel's]] radio show.
** There's a coffin floating on a flooded river at the end, which is most certainly a shout out to William Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying''.
** A man named Ulysses meets a blues singer at a crossroads. [[{{Cream}} Coincidence]]?
* SophisticatedAsHell: Many of the characters in a patchily-educated way, but mostly Everett. "I'm the goddamn paterfamilias!"
* StoutStrength: Big Dan Teague.
* SternChase: The Warden's search for the three convicts.
* TheStoolPigeon: Pete ends up becoming a Lacerated Larry after the "Sireens" basically turned him over to the sheriff's men for a bounty (which initially led them to believe that Pete was actually turned into a frog due to it being in his clothes).
* SurroundedByIdiots - Pappy O'Daniel's cronies and son are sycophantic yes-men who are a bit slow on the uptake, and Pappy is painfully aware of this. This is most likely the reason he tries to convince Vernon T. Waldrip to leave Stokes' campaign and join his.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Who is that man?" "Not my husband." Also doubles as a ShoutOut to the source material.
* TheVamp: The three sirens
* ThoseTwoGuys: Pappy's two advisors, see the SeinfeldianConversation above.
* VillainousGlutton: Big Dan Teague, as befits his correspondence with the cyclops Polyphemus.
* TWordEuphemism: Sort of. One character wants to prevent his son from knowing that his mother left the family, so he just says she "Up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T."
** Subverted later on, in that the kid knew ''exactly'' what he was talking about, anyway.
* VillainousBreakdown: "Babyface" Nelson and Homer Stokes.
** [[spoiler:Nelson gets better]]...sort of.
** "MY NAME IS GEORGE NELSON, AND I'M FEELIN' TEN FEET TALL!"
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Homer Stokes, oh so much]]
* WorkingOnTheChainGang: The story begins with Ulysses, Pete, and Delmar escaping from this while chained to each other. Pete, at one point, is recaptured and put back to work on the chain gang and has to be broken out of prison ''again''.
* XMeetsY: TheThreeStooges meets ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
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