O Brother, Where Art Thou?

In PATH, we started watching O Brother, Where Art Thou? It's loosely based on The Odyssey. Loosely. But there are some comparisons, like the fact that the main character (Ulysses Everett McGill) shares a first name with Ulysses/Odysseus. In both the movie and the book, the men are trying to find something. Odysseus wants to go home, Everett wants to find treasure. Also, there's plenty of violence in the movie - and in the book. In one scene in the movie, there's a group of women singing while doing laundry in a river. This scene is sort of like the Sirens in the Odyssey. In the movie, the singers are tempting the men, just like the Sirens. The women eventually seduce or put the men to sleep, and when they wake up, Delmar is gone. In the spot where Delmar was is a "horny toad" (as Pete put it), who Pete thinks is Delmar. This is kind of like the scene in the Odyssey where Circe turns some of Odysseus' men into pigs. There are more comparisons, but you have to find those for yourself.