O' Brother Where Art Thou: Something New?

 Well you can never go wrong with a Coen Brothers movie. This is especially the case of them mixing in elements from one of my favorite Greek stories as well. This movie I will say has a few too many stories going on at once (in the case of the election, the convicts, and their pursuers) with even more stories popping up along the way. Though there was one scene in the film that really stood out to me. It occurred after John Goodman’s character tricked, beat up, and stole from two of the convicts.

The closing shot of this scene greatly resembles the ending transition of the Merrie Melody cartoons. I can only guess for this shot the Coen Brothers were going for that kind of feeling for the scene itself.  I believe this to be so because, of how outlandish the prior events were that led up to this specific point not to mention the usual formula for the Merrie Melody cartoons is to have the main character(s) to end up in either a terrible situation or leave those character(s) beaten or even so much as to have them killed by their situation (most of the time with characters ending up in hell) with no moral or resolution of the problem.