On their way to Everett's home town, Everett and Delmar see Pete working on a chain gang. Later, one-eyed Bible salesman Big Dan invites them for a picnic lunch, then mugs them and kills the toad. Delmar is convinced the women were Sirens and transformed Pete into the toad. Upon waking, Delmar finds Pete's clothes lying next to him, empty except for a toad. The women drug them with corn whiskey and they lose consciousness. They see three women washing clothes and singing. Unbeknownst to them, the recording becomes a major hit. That night, the trio part ways with Tommy after their car is discovered by the police, and they briefly fall in with outlaw Baby Face Nelson. In need of money, the four stop at a radio broadcast tower where they record a song as the Soggy Bottom Boys. They pick up Tommy Johnson, a young black man who claims he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the ability to play guitar. They sleep in the barn, but Wash reports them to Sheriff Cooley, who, along with his men, torches the barn. The trio make their way to the house of Wash, Pete's cousin. He tells them they will find a fortune, but not the one they seek. The three get a lift from a blind man driving a handcar on a railway. Three convicts, Pete and Delmar led by Ulysses Everett McGill, escape from a chain gang and set out to retrieve a treasure Everett said was buried before the area is flooded to make a lake. They joined to perform the music from the film in the Down from the Mountain concert tour, which was filmed for consumer consumption via TV and DVD. The country and folk musicians who were dubbed into the film include John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Chris Sharp, and Patty Loveless. The film was met with a positive critical reception, and the soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002. It was released by Buena Vista Pictures in North America, while Universal Pictures released it in other countries. The movie was one of the first to extensively use digital color correction to give the film an autumnal sepia-tinted look. Much of the music used in the film is period folk music. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression. Some examples of this include Sirens, a Cyclops, and the main character's name, "Ulysses", which is the Roman name for " Odysseus". Its story is a modern satire which, while incorporating social features of the American South, is loosely based on Homer's epic Greek poem the Odyssey. The film is set in rural Mississippi during the 1930s, and it follows three escaped convicts searching for hidden treasure while a sheriff relentlessly pursues them. It stars George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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