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It The movie O Brother Where Art Thou?, is a more modern version of the famous story the Odyssey .There are a lot of people and events in the movie that significantly relates to the story. Well first of all the line, "Sing to me of the man, Muse... ", was at the beginning of the film, as well in the Odyssey...
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", was at the beginning of the film, as well in the Odyssey. In the movie, Ulysses meets an old and blind man who prophesizes that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find". In the Odyssey, Odysseus goes to the underworld to seek the advice of Tiresias, an old and blind prophet, who tells him that his travels will not be over until he takes an oar and walks so far inland that someone asks him why he carries a winnowing-fan...
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