tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-176727671111610357.post4862769605291353185..comments2023-12-14T05:11:09.416-05:00Comments on The Latent Narratives of Oats Gulwick: Transubstantiant, Where Art ThouOats Gulwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08438790700771505167noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-176727671111610357.post-64899312669370767172017-02-16T14:34:33.946-05:002017-02-16T14:34:33.946-05:00O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Have the Coen b...O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Have the Coen brothers made a bad film?<br /><br />Simply honoring this delightful romp, and the moments that resonated for me: failure as an adult, failure as a father, failure to remain steadfast.<br /><br />The Art answer is an Oblique Strategy that randomly came up: Simple Subtraction. I read this as: Remove Clutter (mental clutter) to deal with those feelings of failure. But also, Things Get Removed, i.e., I had a house, it is gone; I had a family, it is gone; I had certainty, it is gone.<br /><br />In the voice of Jim Gaffigan: It's so simple!<br /><br />Life is about things going away.<br /><br />The toad line, of course, a very funny moment in the film when Tim Blake Nelson realizes (or perhaps he doesn't - the character is hard to read) that Turturro did not become a toad. So, the title, 'where did my miracle done gone to?'.<br /><br />The panels: Squidman berates a dejected man from a Victorian illustration; the Soap Strip man is Lee Mack, and it kind of bugs me because his expression is a little too sitcom-esque; the Pharm Life pills, again, I winged that panel and it turned out so great. Love it when that happens. Oats Gulwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438790700771505167noreply@blogger.com