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Grouping
Notice how the guards are set off from the work farm prisoners. This is setting the motif of grouping…The good guys as it were are show in groups, where as the antagonists (or the crazy characters that our heroes meet along the way) are usually singular, and they are framed in such a way.
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Grouping
Our three heroes - a "group of three" set apart from the workfarm group.
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Grouping
Close-up of our three main guys
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Grouping
Our guys are litterally and figuratively chained together.
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Grouping
Even the strange hobos on the train are set off in a group. During the film there is a lot of power play for who is the leader of the group between Evertt (George Clooney) and Pete (John Turturro). Here is a funny moment, where Evertt tries to exert a little bit of independence and is litterelly pulled back to the group.
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05:45
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Grouping
Joke - Tim Blake Nelson (Delmar) is stuck in the middle between Pete and Everett. So he is framed in the middle. And Everrett is really the leader, it's his goal to get to his wife, that initiated the journey, so he will be set off on his own the most.
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Grouping
Trio driving in the car
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Grouping
The foursome is created
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Grouping
And the group creates beautiful music together.
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Grouping
Our group of adventurers/ musicians meets the political group. Who even though they're kind of surreptitious - they end up being the lesser of two evils.
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Grouping
Our trio shot together. This time Everett is on the left, Pete on the right.
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Grouping
Three sirens singing. Another trio and a musical harmony. (Water)
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Grouping
Pete temporarily leaves the group - so of course he must be replaced - by a Horny Toad.
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49:14
Grouping
Even with Pete as a Horny Toad, he is still included in the group framing.
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Grouping
Pete the Horny Toad is killed - so he will have to be replaced - by the real Pete again.
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Grouping
Pete is reintroduced to the group.
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Grouping
Another trio of singers.
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Grouping
Three of Everett's six daughters singing.
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Grouping
Three daughters.
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Grouping
Our group is really returned.
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Grouping
Pete makes a confession and is treated in a single as he apologizes to the group.
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Grouping
Then as Everett makes his confession he separates from the group.
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Grouping
The political group and our adventurer group.
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Grouping
The musical group is returned.
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Grouping
The Soggy Bottom Boys doing their thing. - The political group realizes they can use them to their benefit.
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Grouping
Political and adventurers join. "You are my sunshine."
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Grouping
True to the odyessy - the happy ending keeps alluding our hero (some more fire to symbolize the upcoming…)
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Grouping
Our group has just been told they're going to get hung. So of course there are Three grave diggers?! I don't think this is a coincidence. - and again a tenor of singers.
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Grouping
Everett prays for the good of the group.
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Grouping
Our group floating on the coffin that was meant for them.
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Grouping - Individual
When an individual comes into their group, the individual is introduced from the distance and slowly comes into the foreground. The individual will often come from screen right. The individual is often treated differently in the frame. Framed on one side/ seperated from the main trio.
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Grouping - Individual
The boy - again enters the scene from deep in the background. But the way he is treated in the shot - shows that he will become an ally in the trio's journey.
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Grouping - Individual
Here we see Pete's family member Wash Hogwallop (Frank Collison)
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Grouping - Individual
Another individual is introduced to the group Tommy Johnson (Chris Thomas King). Notice how he is introduced in a long shot. First a POV and then a high crane shot. But in Tommy's case he is actually going to become a fourth member of the group, so he will be treated with framing that includes him in the group, as opposed to keeping him separate.
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Grouping - Individual
Again we see an individual about to join the group, Tommy has temporarily left, so there is about to be a substitution - George Nelson (aka Baby-face Nelson) played by Michael Badalucco.
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Grouping - Individual
Nelson is including with the rest of the group - but as he is shown to be kind of crazy and beyond the morals of their group he will be treated in a different manner, exluded from the group.
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Grouping - individual
Nelson leaves the group
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Grouping - individual
George is set in the foreground against our trio.
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Grouping - Individual
George is depressed and about to leave the group.
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Grouping - Individual
George leaves the group - makes way for someone else to join.
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Grouping - Individual
Coen brothers like to insert shots of anonymous citizens viewing the characters in the film (sort of like the audience).
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Grouping - Individual
Big Dan Teague (John Goodman) from the Odyssey it's Cyclops.
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Grouping - Individual
Pappi trying to sway over Vernon T. Waldrip (Ray McKinnon / trivia - Ray McKinnon won and Oscar in 2001 for his short film narrative "The Accountant") Waldrip is an individual divide between the political group and between Everett and his family.
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Grouping - Individual
The single Political figure, Homer Stokes (Wayne Duval) - spewing hate, etc.
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Grouping - Individual
Individual trying to speak bad against the group - gets ousted.
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Grouping - Individual
Homer Stokes is carried out by the mob…back to the Soggy Bottom Boys. Are the Coen's coming with a communist agenda? A trio Joel, Ethan, and Roger Deakins.
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Fire
The law comes weilding fire.
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Fire
reflection of fire in Evil Sheriff's glasses. (also antagonist set of in a single shot)
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fire
Another example of our guys sitting around fire.
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Fire
Go from the campfire to the devil's fire. Burning another barn.
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Fire
Another campfire
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Fire
Water - then Fire. Perhaps alluding to our ending…..water washing away fire.
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Fire
We see the evil sheriff again. Sweet summer rain.
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Fire
Fire of the Ku Klux Klan
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Fire
Cyclops is among the Ku Klux Klan rally.
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Fire
The fire motif is partly paid off here with Cyclops being ousted by fire.
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Fire
George is about to get the chair - surrounded by torches.
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Fire
The fire is paid off - being washed away by the floods - going back to the group. Everett prays for the survival of the group of his family. First time we see sheriff without fire around him. No reflection in the glasses. Water puts out the fire.
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Color
Color plays an important role in this film, and color or the absence of color is actually bookmarked in the beginning and end of the film, as the film goes from a highly muted (almost black and white) to being colored in. And this is interesting because this was one of the earliest films to use the DI (Digital Intermediate) process which allowed the fillmmakers to literally paint in their color pallette in the post-production process. I feel that these bookmarks, are in a way a nod to this process, but also a nod to the importance that the colors will have in creating the texture of the film.
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Color
The closing bookend - see our prophetic railroad main. "I have no name"
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Color
Cool shot of our trio - plus good example of DI coloring.
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Color
When the guys first meet the sirens the colors are a lot more saturated.
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Color
After the sirens left the colors are a lot more desaturated - muted.
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Cows
Old man portents the cow on a barn.
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Cows
George shoots the cows - this really separates him from the group. I hate cows worse than "Copers"
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Cows
Cow following George's execution procession.
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Cow
Final payoff with the cow.
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