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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><br>O Brother, Where Art Thou?</font> <font size="2"> <br>movie review David Ng</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p>To fully enjoy <i>O Brother, Where Art Thou?</i> it not only helps to have a passing familiarity with Homer’s <i>The Odyssey</i>, on which the movie is loosely based, but also the films of Preston Sturges (whose <i>Sullivan’s Travels</i> gives the movie its title) as well as any other movie that could even remotely be described as "southern" or "gothic." The Coen brothers, in their first movie since <i>The Big Lebowski</i>, borrow lightly from these many and varied sources to form a pastiche so derivative in nature that you will find yourself wondering just what exactly <i>O Brother, Where Art Thou?</i> is supposed to be. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>