O’Brother on Prime Video: ‘They Listened Again and It Was Terrible’ How was George Clooney’s iconic song recorded in the film?

For many, this is the Coen brothers’ funniest film. O’Brother joins the Prime Video catalog today, and if you haven’t seen it, then this is a golden opportunity. This dark comedy takes place in deep Mississippi during the Great Depression.

Three chained prisoners escape from a penal colony and attempt the adventure of a lifetime to regain their freedom and their home. With nothing to lose and chained together, they embark on a journey full of traps and colorful characters. But they will have to be more resourceful to escape the mysterious and cunning Sheriff Cooley, who is chasing them…

Clooney’s comedic potential

George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson play opposite each other and reveal all their comedic potential in front of Coens’ camera. Especially the former, who stands out as the group’s foreman, Ulysses Everett McGill. A fan of the two filmmakers, the actor admitted that he accepted the project without even reading the script.

While reading the script, Clooney discovered a scene where three friends, then calling themselves the Soggy Bottom Boys, agreed to record a country song for a small fee. Their performance was so well received in the country that the governor pardoned them at the end of the film.

“They thought I knew how to sing.”

To be able to sing herself, the actor decides to take some lessons. But when it came time to record the piece in the studio, it was a disappointment. In Interview in 2014George Clooney says: “The Cohens thought I could sing. I told myself I could do it. Everyone looked at the ground, shaking their heads. They listened to my song again and it was terrible. I realized that they were going to bring someone to sing for me.”

That someone would be Dan Tyminsky, a bluegrass singer. He will interpret I am a man of perpetual sorrow, was released in the early 1910s, a title popularized by O’Brother. A year after the film’s release, this cover reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot Country chart.

oh brother Available on Prime Video.