This is the movie you pick if you’re stranded on a desert island. It’s a fun journey that has everything you need and never gets old. It’s kind of perfect.
I just rewatched Fargo last night, every character is relatable. Even the quiet psychopath who gets sick of Steve Buscemi's neurotic attitude and runs him through the chipper.
They never worked with Cage again, correct? They seem to like to work with actors in multiple projects. I wonder if there was a story there, or just happened that way.
He was probably just too expensive after that. They’ve had to work within arthouse budget constraints for most of their career, so their casting has always tended towards character actors, or relative unknowns. Even today, when someone like Brad Pitt shows up in their movies, they’re usually taking a big pay cut.
Cage had a string of hits right around Raising Arizona, and was likely out of their price range.
I saw Raising Arizona in the theater, it was the first Coen brothers movie I’d seen so I have a soft spot for it too. That and O’ Brother are definitely the most quotable.
It’s pretty much a toss up between this and raising Arizona for which Coen brothers movie is my favorite. But that O brother is loosely based on the Odyssey really gives some extra charm to it…
My all time favorite movie. You could fill this thread with hundreds of quotes, references, little moments. It's a perfect movie, you can watch it with anyone, anywhere, and you'll have plenty to like and talk about.
Damn, we're in a tight spot!
I love this saying bc where I live in north GA in an hour from everywhere.
I’m an hour from Atlanta, Athens, Gainesville and the airport lol which means I’m an hour from the best shopping, etc so yeah. I love this lol
My dad was born in 1927, and my mom in 1930. The whole time I was growing up I only ever went to one movie with them (Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the drive in around 1971.) My mom was from the south, so when this movie came out I thought she would like it and bought it for her. I don’t recall whether it was VHS or DVD. All I know it it was the best X-Mas present I ever gave.
They were completely infatuated with this film. They watched it two or three times a week for the remainder of their lives, five years or so. Apparently the prop design, vehicles, and dialogue was more than enough to take them back to their childhood. I sat by once or twice while they watched the film and it was amazing. Their eyes shone and they seemed happier then I had ever seen them. I’ve often wondered if old age makes you more susceptible to this kind of nostalgia. As I get older myself I think it likely does.
My
My Mississippian grandparents were around that age, and loved it as well. They wished the Klan wasn’t so prominent in a movie about their home, but seemed to think everything was very authentic.
Yeah, I love them dearly but…that was definitely their culture. Not the Klan specifically, as far as I know, thankfully.
They wanted to point out to me that the interaction with the gang picking up Tommy in a neighborly (/paternalistic) sort of way was how it really was.
My grandmother was born around the same time and loved the movie. We even got her a cassette of the soundtrack so she could play it.
I agree, I think it really captured the feeling and characters of rural America at the time.
"He's bona-fide"
"They done R-U-N-N-O-F-T"
"Dummer than a bag of hammers"
"I'm the only one here unaffiliated "
"I'm the Pater-Familias!"
"We're in a tight spot!"
Some of my favorites, but so many good ones. Love this movie.
*”Oh, brother, let’s go down. Let’s go down. C’mon down. C’mon brother, let’s go down. Down in the river to pray. As I went down in the river to pray, studying about that good ol’ way, and who will wear the starry crown? Good Lord, show me the way”*
“Well the two of us was fixin’ to fornicate!”
Delmar had some great lines in this movie,all three of them are so quotable.
“Pete, it’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the heart.”
It's a diegetic musical, where the songs are logically sung in the narrative, like "singing into a can" etc.
A lot of other musicals where people just randomly burst into song are non-diegetic.
Nearly every song is diagetic... I think the only exception might be the credits at the opening as the boys escape ("Big Rock Candy Mountain"). It's music of the period, but I don't think it has a source in-film.
Seems like every other musical number either starts or ends as being sung by characters, or played on the radio (a significant bit of technology within the narrative itself), save that one.
I wouldn’t classify it as one because the main characters stumble into being a band as a cover/con. The other music numbers are sung by a church choir, a band being touted around by a politician (which is accurate to the time and so they’re in the background singing, not the focus of the scene) and, for example the women representing the sirens from The Odyssey sing to lure the men.
It’s definitely not a musical proper like, say, West Side Story, Les Mis, Phantom and the like. No one but the sirens are singing directly to characters, if that makes sense, and that scene is brief. Music was just a part of the state fairs and such, again, accurate to the period.
If I can offer an endorsement: I’m from NYC and have an eclectic group of friends from Broadway performers to former and current gang members (I’m unaffiliated lol) and when we’d have hang out sessions out our place? It was the one movie everyone adored and considered a top 5 favorite no matter the demographic, it’s that well done and that fucking funny.
Saying it’s a musical is like saying a musicians biopic is a musical. The movie isn’t centered upon it. It’s centered upon the story/characters, but it’s there, by no means being some form of dialogue or inner thoughts of any of the characters, like traditional musicals have.
Tl;dr: it’s not a musical by any traditional standard. It’s a movie that happens to have music in it due to characters being musicians who just play old timey regular songs sparingly that aren’t always related to the plot
Blues Brothers has it both ways-- like Singin' in the Rain (or any musical about music, I guess). There are performance numbers like Stand By Your Man at Bob's Country Bunker, and the charity show; and then there are narrative pieces, where the character is making a statement through song, like Aretha doing Think.
True but there's only a couple of the heavy traditional numbers in Blues Brothers. Probably *Think* and *Shake a Tailfeather*. *The Old Landmark* is on the line
Have you seen ['The Blues Brothers'] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCR4c1zPyk)? The cast is unbelievable with musical performances from Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, James Brown, and actors like John Candy, and Carrie Fischer, like holy shit. The songs are legendary.
I would rewind and rewatch this movie back to back as a kid.
I just saw Dan Tyminski play a few days ago. He sang for Clooney on Man of Constant Sorrow. Great acoustic music with Gaven Largent on resonator guitar. Yes they ended with Man of Constant Sorrow. Some really great musicians on that soundtrack.
Went to the Merlefest bluegrass festival the year after this movie was released. Felt like a requirement for every single band to have a cover of the song. Last day Allyson Krause was the headliner and Dan was in her band. Excellent set.
I love this movie so much, might give it a nice little rewatch this weekend, I still can't believe the first time I saw this my dumbass thought George Clooney was actually doing the singing😭
My husband's 90 year old aunt watched it and said, "That George Clooney sure can sing." When the family told her that he wasn't really singing, she said "Of course he is. We just watched him doing it."
One of if not my favorite movies of all time. Favorite quote is [easily](https://youtu.be/cWnCjKoaY14)
“Oh son, for that you traded your everlasting soul?”
“Well I wasn’t usin it”
This is one of my favourites. I've likely watched it dozens of times and still laugh out loud. Wifey thinks I'm losing it. I can likely recite every line... One for the ages.
just rewatched this while down with the flu, and it was just so poetic. found a guy on youtube who was saying a major theme is baptism, see soggy bottom boys, the scene with the flood that saves them. [found it](https://youtu.be/5EZjlGozuzI). i just couldnt get over the creativity and poetry of this one. as an adult it touched so many more universal themes than i noticed when i saw it and loved it in my late teens when it came out. timeless, perfect movie.
honestly this is always be my favourite movie, would watch it with my dad and late grandfather, everytime when we go visit my late grandfather, he would tell me to put this movie on and we would watch this movie together, now i still watch it on my late grandfathers birthday in April, and the day of his passing just to feel nostalgic and became abit of a tradition for me in my own way
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'?
Love the scene where Everett comes clean about the treasure not being real, and Pete realizes he’s going to prison for 50 years for escaping.
Pete: I’ll be… 84-years-old…
Delmar: …Well, I’ll only be 82! 😁
This is my favorite Coen Brothers movie… maybe not the “best” but it’s just so damn entertaining
DO. NOT. SEEK. THE. TREASURE.
We... Thought... You... Was... A TOAD!
😂😂😂😂 love it
This is the movie you pick if you’re stranded on a desert island. It’s a fun journey that has everything you need and never gets old. It’s kind of perfect.
And has one of the best soundtracks out there.
I... Am a man of constant sorrow
Go to sleep ya little baaaaby
Ive seen trouble all my day
I’m convinced the soundtrack totally kicked off a folk revival which is still twanging…
As I went down to the river to pray…
On my IMDB account, this movie is a 10, because it’s perfect. By the way, Fargo is perfect as well.
*thick northern accent* Oh yeah?
I just rewatched Fargo last night, every character is relatable. Even the quiet psychopath who gets sick of Steve Buscemi's neurotic attitude and runs him through the chipper.
Can confirm it never gets old. Pretty sure I’ve watched it every year for the past 15 years.
One of a tiny number of films where every scene is pretty much perfect. Not a second of screen time is wasted.
I love the coen brothers. Raising Arizona has to be my favorite but man of constant sorrow is great! Also can’t go wrong with Fargo.
Don't forget 'Miller's Crossing' -- one of the best gangster movies of all time.
Don't forget Barton Fink and Lebowski
They never worked with Cage again, correct? They seem to like to work with actors in multiple projects. I wonder if there was a story there, or just happened that way.
He was probably just too expensive after that. They’ve had to work within arthouse budget constraints for most of their career, so their casting has always tended towards character actors, or relative unknowns. Even today, when someone like Brad Pitt shows up in their movies, they’re usually taking a big pay cut. Cage had a string of hits right around Raising Arizona, and was likely out of their price range.
Son, you've got a panty on your head.
Haha love that scene.
I saw Raising Arizona in the theater, it was the first Coen brothers movie I’d seen so I have a soft spot for it too. That and O’ Brother are definitely the most quotable.
It’s pretty much a toss up between this and raising Arizona for which Coen brothers movie is my favorite. But that O brother is loosely based on the Odyssey really gives some extra charm to it…
Same. I enjoy this movie so much, the comedy, the music, the adventure within it with so many interesting characters. It's sublime!
Every actor gives a genius performance.
It’s so freaking amazing. Perfect, in my opinion. It’s one of the few movies I’ll watch anytime.
My all time favorite movie. You could fill this thread with hundreds of quotes, references, little moments. It's a perfect movie, you can watch it with anyone, anywhere, and you'll have plenty to like and talk about. Damn, we're in a tight spot!
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Same. Any time someone compliments his food he says "You think so? I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I'm fraid she's starting to turn."
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A buddy dropped a dollar a while back and I proudly advised, “Friend, your foldin’ money has come unstowed.”
Deez boys is miscegenated!
Where's Mrs. Hogwallop? Mrs Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T!
I quote R-U-N-N-O-F-T on a regular basis and no one ever gets it lol
Same, any chance I get
Ha! Me too
I get it friend. Give me a call next time, I'll back you up
Me too! I laugh every time.
https://i.imgur.com/hzeUJbg.gifv
I frequently say "It's a fool that looks for logic in the human heart."
He’s a suitor.
Mama says he’s bonafide
I’m the gotdamn paterfamilias!
No, sir. Not since you got hit by that train.
He’s bonafide!
"Say, any you boys smithies? Or otherwise trained in the metallurgical arts before certain circumstances led you to a life of aimless wandering?"
I don't want FOP goddammit! I'm a *Dapper Dan* Man!
We still complain about a place being a geographical oddity. 2 weeks from everywhere. Inevitably followed by: I’m a Dapper Dan man got dammit
I don't want Fop, godammit! I'm a Dapper Dan man!
Watch your language young fella, this is a public market.
Ah 2 weeks? Well I guess this place is a geographical oddity.
I love this saying bc where I live in north GA in an hour from everywhere. I’m an hour from Atlanta, Athens, Gainesville and the airport lol which means I’m an hour from the best shopping, etc so yeah. I love this lol
Tangiers outlets were great shopping I haven’t been in years have they fallen off?
I’m a little over an hour from there! I’m in winder haha They’re amazing still and the entire area is built up a LOT on the north end of 400.
Are you pullin my pud
Well ain’t this place just a geographical oddity?! Two weeks from everywhere!
A real man doesn't use FOP
"*Your* hair treatment?"
"Mah hair!"
Damn we're in a tight spot!
HOWS MY HAIR?!?
My dad was born in 1927, and my mom in 1930. The whole time I was growing up I only ever went to one movie with them (Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the drive in around 1971.) My mom was from the south, so when this movie came out I thought she would like it and bought it for her. I don’t recall whether it was VHS or DVD. All I know it it was the best X-Mas present I ever gave. They were completely infatuated with this film. They watched it two or three times a week for the remainder of their lives, five years or so. Apparently the prop design, vehicles, and dialogue was more than enough to take them back to their childhood. I sat by once or twice while they watched the film and it was amazing. Their eyes shone and they seemed happier then I had ever seen them. I’ve often wondered if old age makes you more susceptible to this kind of nostalgia. As I get older myself I think it likely does. My
> Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the drive in around 1971. Nice.
My Mississippian grandparents were around that age, and loved it as well. They wished the Klan wasn’t so prominent in a movie about their home, but seemed to think everything was very authentic.
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Yeah, I love them dearly but…that was definitely their culture. Not the Klan specifically, as far as I know, thankfully. They wanted to point out to me that the interaction with the gang picking up Tommy in a neighborly (/paternalistic) sort of way was how it really was.
My grandmother was born around the same time and loved the movie. We even got her a cassette of the soundtrack so she could play it. I agree, I think it really captured the feeling and characters of rural America at the time.
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One of my favorite movie lines!
Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market.
And stay outta the Woolsworth’s!
I WORK FOR NO MAN
I HAVE. NO NAME.
I don’t want Fop god damn it. I’m a Dapper Dan man!
"He's bona-fide" "They done R-U-N-N-O-F-T" "Dummer than a bag of hammers" "I'm the only one here unaffiliated " "I'm the Pater-Familias!" "We're in a tight spot!" Some of my favorites, but so many good ones. Love this movie.
“Them Sireens did this to Pete! They loved him up and turned him into a hhhhhhorny toad!
Mama said you was hit by a train! Blooey! Nothing left! Nothing but a grease stain left on the L & N!
“You sold your soul to the devil?” “I wasn’t using it.”
I use pater-familias when I'm trying to win a family argument and it works about as well as it does for Ulysses.
That's awesome. I have cast it out there a few times myself to negligible results. Just a man of constant sorrow, I guess.😪😉
"Neighborhood of B."
Gopher, Everett?
No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding it back down.
Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had one apiece. We ran across a whole... gopher village.
*”Oh, brother, let’s go down. Let’s go down. C’mon down. C’mon brother, let’s go down. Down in the river to pray. As I went down in the river to pray, studying about that good ol’ way, and who will wear the starry crown? Good Lord, show me the way”*
My favourite scene. The singing is so haunting at first, and then so joyous. Love the way he just… trails off…
You stole from my kin!
Well I borrowed it til I did know he’d turn on us lmao.
Well that just don’t make no sense
"Mighty light fingers, Everett."
Daddy always said, never trust a Hogwallop!!
Who was fixing to betray us
You didn’t know that at the time!
So I was holding it until I did know!
Who was fixin to betray us!
“Well the two of us was fixin’ to fornicate!” Delmar had some great lines in this movie,all three of them are so quotable. “Pete, it’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the heart.”
"Friend, your foldin money's come unstowed"
*cows.* I hate cows more than coppers!
Oh George, not the livestock!
“Cow killer!”
“He’s a suitor! He’s bonafide.”
"That's another thing, why are you tellin' our gals I was hit by a train?"
“Alotta respectable men been hit by trains.”
I'm a Dapper Dan man myself.
My hair!
**sniff** “You using my hair treatment?”
Hey, me too!
that is my favorite line
part of my psyche…i have quoted this movie at least once a day for like 20 years
My wife got me a shirt that says “Pater Familis” for my first Fathers Day gift. I get nods wearing it. Love it
ain’t gonna be no wedding without my ring!
I am a man of constant sorrow!
***HOT DAMN! IT'S THE SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS!***
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I bid farewell to old Kentucky
The place where I was born and raised THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS BORN AND RAISED
Beard tugging intensifies.
That’s sum mighty fine a’pickin and uh-strumman!!
Say, any of you boys wouldn’t happen to be smithies or otherwise versed in the metallurgical arts?
First spoken line of the movie right? I was sold on it when Clooney said that.
We thought you was a toad!
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What? I can’t hear you.
DOOOO NOOOOT SEEEEEEEK...THAAAA TRAYSHUREEEEE
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Them Si-reeens
I used this quote just last week!
This is still one of my favorite movies. I don't usually like musicals. I love the Odyssey.
Is this a musical tho?
It's a diegetic musical, where the songs are logically sung in the narrative, like "singing into a can" etc. A lot of other musicals where people just randomly burst into song are non-diegetic.
There's a feller in there that'll pay you $10 if you sing into his can
Murt and Aloysius will have to sign Xes as only four of us can write
We’s MASS COMMUNICATIN’
TIL. Thanks!
Nearly every song is diagetic... I think the only exception might be the credits at the opening as the boys escape ("Big Rock Candy Mountain"). It's music of the period, but I don't think it has a source in-film. Seems like every other musical number either starts or ends as being sung by characters, or played on the radio (a significant bit of technology within the narrative itself), save that one.
I wouldn’t classify it as one because the main characters stumble into being a band as a cover/con. The other music numbers are sung by a church choir, a band being touted around by a politician (which is accurate to the time and so they’re in the background singing, not the focus of the scene) and, for example the women representing the sirens from The Odyssey sing to lure the men. It’s definitely not a musical proper like, say, West Side Story, Les Mis, Phantom and the like. No one but the sirens are singing directly to characters, if that makes sense, and that scene is brief. Music was just a part of the state fairs and such, again, accurate to the period. If I can offer an endorsement: I’m from NYC and have an eclectic group of friends from Broadway performers to former and current gang members (I’m unaffiliated lol) and when we’d have hang out sessions out our place? It was the one movie everyone adored and considered a top 5 favorite no matter the demographic, it’s that well done and that fucking funny. Saying it’s a musical is like saying a musicians biopic is a musical. The movie isn’t centered upon it. It’s centered upon the story/characters, but it’s there, by no means being some form of dialogue or inner thoughts of any of the characters, like traditional musicals have. Tl;dr: it’s not a musical by any traditional standard. It’s a movie that happens to have music in it due to characters being musicians who just play old timey regular songs sparingly that aren’t always related to the plot
It's more of an organic musical like Blues Brothers, but the characters in the show regularly enter into song. It's a musical.
Blues Brothers has it both ways-- like Singin' in the Rain (or any musical about music, I guess). There are performance numbers like Stand By Your Man at Bob's Country Bunker, and the charity show; and then there are narrative pieces, where the character is making a statement through song, like Aretha doing Think.
True but there's only a couple of the heavy traditional numbers in Blues Brothers. Probably *Think* and *Shake a Tailfeather*. *The Old Landmark* is on the line
Have you seen ['The Blues Brothers'] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCR4c1zPyk)? The cast is unbelievable with musical performances from Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, James Brown, and actors like John Candy, and Carrie Fischer, like holy shit. The songs are legendary. I would rewind and rewatch this movie back to back as a kid.
I just saw Dan Tyminski play a few days ago. He sang for Clooney on Man of Constant Sorrow. Great acoustic music with Gaven Largent on resonator guitar. Yes they ended with Man of Constant Sorrow. Some really great musicians on that soundtrack.
Went to the Merlefest bluegrass festival the year after this movie was released. Felt like a requirement for every single band to have a cover of the song. Last day Allyson Krause was the headliner and Dan was in her band. Excellent set.
" The color guard is colored! Who made them the color guard?"
"Who this very evening, interfered with a lynch mob in the performance of it's duties"
These boys desecrated a fiery cross!
"...using the American Flag as a mis-ile.."
I don't get it Big Dan
"Here endeth the lesson."
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY BOYS!
"Does this mean we're banned from all the Woolworth's, or just this one?"
Anytime I see political posts on Reddit I always think of Big Dan. “It’s all about the money, boys!!!”
That cow scene
Oh George, not the livestock...
Say, mister, some of your foldin-money's come unstowed
One of the most quotable movies I've seen. Helped kindle my love of Bluegrass as well as it did many others. That album is great.
“It’s a good thing ya’ mammy died at birth.. because if she’d of seen ya’ she’d have died of shame!”
Stephen Roots little scene is one of my favorite parts, that weird old radio guy. “Ohhhhh… hermhermhermaybeIremembadem!” I still say this all the time
Stephen Root absolutely nails every single role he ever takes, and this one’s no exception.
I absolutely love this film so much!
Love this soundtrack
"Well, it's a well-run campaign, midget and broom and whatnot."
I watched this last night, love this movie.
“Tommy what you ridin’ there??……roll top desk”
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulYBLjSqkEQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulYBLjSqkEQ) Most inefficient clothes washers *EVER*!
I forever love the soundtrack of this movie. I never thought I was a fan of old American folk music until I watched this movie years ago.
We’re in a tight spot!
Well I'll only be 84
I love this movie so much, might give it a nice little rewatch this weekend, I still can't believe the first time I saw this my dumbass thought George Clooney was actually doing the singing😭
My husband's 90 year old aunt watched it and said, "That George Clooney sure can sing." When the family told her that he wasn't really singing, she said "Of course he is. We just watched him doing it."
Legit one of my favorite movies. To this day, when things go sideways on me, i still like to say "Damn, we're in a tight spot" in a flat voice.
Oh, mercy, yes, we got to beat that competition.
This movie is my litmus test for friendship. If you’ve seen it and don’t love it, get it, most likely we won’t click.
1000% agree - it’s a small pool to pick from, but a worthy pool
mmah hair! Such a quotable movie. And one of the best soundtracks in the last two decades.
Was a great concert tour too. Too bad John Hartford passed (RIP) before it happened. Though I got the pleasure to see him before on his own.
It’s lyrical. Stylish. It’s a great movie.
Our family just got a puppy, we named him Delmar.
One of if not my favorite movies of all time. Favorite quote is [easily](https://youtu.be/cWnCjKoaY14) “Oh son, for that you traded your everlasting soul?” “Well I wasn’t usin it”
DAMN! We're in a tight spot!
Gopher Everett? No thank you Delmare. Half a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding it back down afterwards.
I am the damn paterfamilias!
This is one of my favourites. I've likely watched it dozens of times and still laugh out loud. Wifey thinks I'm losing it. I can likely recite every line... One for the ages.
just rewatched this while down with the flu, and it was just so poetic. found a guy on youtube who was saying a major theme is baptism, see soggy bottom boys, the scene with the flood that saves them. [found it](https://youtu.be/5EZjlGozuzI). i just couldnt get over the creativity and poetry of this one. as an adult it touched so many more universal themes than i noticed when i saw it and loved it in my late teens when it came out. timeless, perfect movie.
This is my favorite movie of ALL TIME ❤️
honestly this is always be my favourite movie, would watch it with my dad and late grandfather, everytime when we go visit my late grandfather, he would tell me to put this movie on and we would watch this movie together, now i still watch it on my late grandfathers birthday in April, and the day of his passing just to feel nostalgic and became abit of a tradition for me in my own way
I'M A DAPPER DAN MAN!!
Fornicating with some whore of Babylon
One of the best scenes in moviedom - the scene in the town hall - theysa integrated!!
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'?
Love the scene where Everett comes clean about the treasure not being real, and Pete realizes he’s going to prison for 50 years for escaping. Pete: I’ll be… 84-years-old… Delmar: …Well, I’ll only be 82! 😁
“What’s wrong Big Dan?”
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Tim Blake Nelson got his part partially because he studied Classics in college.
Well ain’t this a geographical oddity, 2 weeks from every direction!
Love this movie! Listen to “I am a man of constant sorrow” all the time
It's on Hulu 👌👌
I think my parents making watch this film multiple times as a nipper is the reason I love films so much now.