O Brother, Where Art Thou? V.S. The Odyssey

O Brother, Where Art Thou?, to me was The Odyssey but in the 1930's. The main character of the Odyssey, Ulysses was played in O Brother, Where Art Thou? by Odysseus who which they called Everett. In both movies the main characters were on a mission or better yet a journey. On Everett's long journey he and his two not so bright friends encountered people and things that were modern 1930 references of the Odyssey.

For example the old blind man the tree men seen on the railroad track was interpreted as Tiresias , which was the prophet from The Odyssey. There are other characters like the Sirens, which were the three women in the water that lure Everett and his friend with their attractive looks and singing. The Cyclops also was Big Dan and I thought it was clever how there was an eye patch on Big Dan's face to represent the one eye a cyclops.

The greatest difference I notice between the two movies was how Everett and the other men experienced both bad luck and good luck.
I believe the good luck they received was actually god giving them another chance at life and freedom. For example when they were caught by the sheriff, and were about to be hanged, god was the only chance they had at getting out of that situation and he came through. Another large amount of luck was when the men rescued Tommy Johnson (the blues guitarist) from the KKK cross burning ceremony the men had to escape about 50 people. There were times when bad luck prevailed like when Everett, Delmar, and Pete jumped into the car of George "Baby Face" Nelson. I don't think there's anyone worse they could've jumped in the car with.