O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Watching the movie was sort of weird when you were thinking about things like names and events that were similar. I was talking about it to my mom, and she was saying that most people, even who The Odyssey, too. I wrote down some things, and some of them I didn't connect them to anything in The Odyssey, but here are some of the ones I have found.

One is just characters. Ulysses/Odysseus obviously shares his name with Ulysses Everett McGill, and I know I heard 'Menelaus' in the movie, I'm pretty sure it was 'Gov. Menelaus'. I was sort of thinking that his two friends were like Odysseus's unintelligent crew. There is also the one eyed man (and I can't think of his name) that is pretty much evil and squashes their amphibian friend, like the cyclopes. (Particularly when the cyclopes eats their friends.

I also have put together that his journey to get that money, is sort of like Odysseus's journey home from the war. The old guy on the train tracks is like the dead prophet Odysseus meets, and the last thing was that Ulysses comes back home to find his wife is going to be married, sort of like Odysseus comes home to find all the suitors in his house, except sort of the opposite because one wife wants to be remarried, and the other really doesn't.

That wasn't really three, but I didn't know how much recognizing peoples' names counted as connections, so I just threw in an extra one, trying not to say the same things other people have said. I hope we get to see the rest of the movie next week!!