Opening Quote of O Brother Where Art Thou Muse
Pomade Vendor: I can get the part from Bristol. Information technology'll take ii weeks, here'due south your pomade.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Two weeks? That don't do me no good.
Pomade Vendor: Nearest Ford auto man'southward Bristol.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on, I don't want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan.
Pomade Vendor: I don't carry Dapper Dan, I carry Fop.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don't desire Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan homo!
Pomade Vendor: Lookout your language, immature feller, this is a public market. Now if you lot want Dapper Dan, I can order it for yous, have it in a couple of weeks.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't this identify a geographical oddity. Ii weeks from everywhere!
Pete: Wait a infinitesimal. Who elected you lot leader of this outfit?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well Pete, I figured information technology should exist the one with the chapters for abstract idea. Just if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote.
Pete: Suits me. I'one thousand voting for yours truly.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well I'm voting for yours truly too.
[Everett and Pete wait at Delmar for the deciding vote]
Delmar O'Donnell: Okay... I'm with yous fellas.
Tommy Johnson: I had to be up at that at that place crossroads terminal midnight, to sell my soul to the devil.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, own't information technology a modest world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar simply been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the but one that remains unaffiliated.
[afterward the *Iv* soggy lesser boys finish recording "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow"]
Ulysses Everett McGill: Woo! Hot Damn, son I believe yous did sell your soul to the devil.
Lund: Woooooooo-wee. Boy, that was a miiiighty fine a-pickin' and a-singin'. I'll tell yous what, you lot come on in hither and sign these papers hither and I'thou a gonna you 10 dollars a piece.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, okay sir. But Murt and Aloysius will accept to sign Xes as only 4 of us can write.
[first lines]
Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, whatever of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were y'all otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts earlier straitened circumstances forced y'all into a life of aimless wanderin'?
Blind Seer: Yous seek a great fortune, you three who are now in bondage. You volition notice a fortune, though it will not exist the one you lot seek. But first... offset you lot must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. Mm-hmm. You shall come across thangs, wonderful to tell. You shall run across a... a cow... on the roof of a cotton wool firm, ha. And, oh, so many startlements. I cannot tell yous how long this route shall be, but fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your advantage. Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, however shall ye follow them, even unto your conservancy.
Pappy O'Daniel: And furthermore, by manner of endorsing my candidacy, the Soggy Lesser Boys are gonna lead usa all in a rousing chorus of "You Are My Sunshine."
[Adulation. Pappy turns away from the mike, towards Everett]
Pappy O'Daniel: [no-nonsense] Own't you, boys?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Governor, it'due south one of our favorites.
Pappy O'Daniel: Son... you're gonna go far.
Pete: Well I'll be a sonofabitch. Delmar'south been saved.
Delmar O'Donnell: Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's washed warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the direct and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Delmar, what are y'all talking about? Nosotros've got bigger fish to fry.
Delmar O'Donnell: The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.
Ulysses Everett McGill: I thought you said you was innocent of those charges?
Delmar O'Donnell: Well I was lyin'. And the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away too. Neither God nor man'south got nothin' on me now. C'mon in boys, the water is fine.
Delmar O'Donnell: Intendance for some gopher?
Ulysses Everett McGill: No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back down.
Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had 1 apiece. We ran across a whole... gopher hamlet.
Pete: I've always wondered, what's the devil expect like?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, simply the smashing Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork.
Tommy Johnson: Oh, no. No, sir. He'due south white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow phonation. He likes to travel around with a hateful one-time hound. That's right.
Pete: The Preacher said it absolved us.
Ulysses Everett McGill: For him, not for the law. I'one thousand surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more than brains than Delmar.
Delmar O'Donnell: Just they was witnesses that seen us redeemed.
Ulysses Everett McGill: That's not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put y'all square with the Lord, the Country of Mississippi'south a lilliputian more hard-nosed.
[laughs]
Ulysses Everett McGill: Baptism! You two are merely dumber than a bag of hammers!
Ulysses Everett McGill: You lot can't display a toad in a fine restaurant like this! Why, the good folks here would go correct off the feed!
Delmar O'Donnell: I just don't retrieve it'due south right keeping him under wraps like nosotros's ashamed of him.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, if it is Pete, I am aback of him! Manner I see it, he got what he deserved, fornicating with some whore of Babylon. These things don't happen for no reason, Delmar. It's obviously some kinda judgment on his graphic symbol.
Delmar O'Donnell: Well, the two of usa was fixin' to fornicate!
Pappy O'Daniel: Sounded to me like he was harboring a hateful grudge against the Soggy Lesser Boys on account of their rough and rowdy by. Looks like Homer Stokes is the kind of beau who wants to cast the kickoff stone.
[boos]
Pappy O'Daniel: Well, I'one thousand with you folks. I'yard a forgive-and-forgettin' Christian, and I say, if their rambunctiousness, and misdemeanoring, is behind them...
[turns away from the mike, towards Everett]
Pappy O'Daniel: [no-nonsense] It is, ain't it, boys?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, yes sir, it is.
Ulysses Everett McGill: The treasure is still in that location boys, believe me.
Delmar O'Donnell: But how'd he know nigh the treasure?
Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the betoken of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the time to come would autumn into neatly into that category; its non and then surprising and so that an organism deprived of its earthly vision...
Pete: He said we wouldn't get get information technology. He said nosotros wouldn't get the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well what the hell does he know, he'southward just an ignorant one-time man?
Lund: Now, what tin I do you lot for Mr. French?
French: How tin I lay a concord of them Soggy Bottom Boys?
Lund: Soggy Bottom? I don't precisely recollect them.
French: They cut a record in here a few days ago, was an old-timey harmony thing with a guitar accom... accomp...
Lund: Oh here, here, here, I remember them! They was colored fellas, I believe.
French: Uh huh.
Lund: Yessuh, they're a fine agglomeration a boys. They sang in the yonder can and skeedadled.
French: Well that record is goin' through the goddamned roof. They playin' it as far away as Mobile.
Lund: Naw?
French: Whole damn state's goin' apey.
Lund: Well it was a powerful air.
French: Hot damn, we gotta find them boys and sign 'em to a big fatty contract. Hells Bells, Mr. Lund, if we don't the goddamned contest will.
Lund: Ohhhh mercy! Aye we got to vanquish that competition.
George Nelson: [after Nelson has robbed the bank] Thank you folks! And remember, Jesus saves, but George Nelson withdraws!
[laughs]
George Nelson: Get fetch the auto voiture, Pete.
Woman In Banking concern: [whispering] Is that "Babyface" Nelson?
George Nelson: Who said that?
[pause]
George Nelson: What ignorant, low downwards, slanderizin, son of a bitch said that?
[goes up to woman]
George Nelson: My name is George Nelson, get me?
Delmar O'Donnell: She didn't mean nothin by information technology, George.
George Nelson: [noticeably upset] George Nelson! Not "Babyface"! You call up, and yous tell your friends! I'm George Nelson! Born to heighten hell!
[Nelson points his Tommy Gun towards the ceiling and fires it, and the bank patrons jump]
[singing]
Ulysses Everett McGill: I am a man of abiding sorrow, I've seen trouble all my days. I bid farewell to onetime Kentucky, the identify where I was born and raised.
Delmar O'Donnell,Pete: The identify where he was born and raised.
Ulysses Everett McGill: For vi long years I've been in problem, no pleasure hither on Earth I've found. For in this world I'm bound to constitutional, I have no friends to assistance me out.
Delmar O'Donnell,Pete: He has no friends to help him out.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Possibly your friends call back I'yard simply a stranger, my face up you never will run across no more. Simply there is i promise that is given, I'll encounter yous on God'southward golden shore.
Delmar O'Donnell,Pete: He'll meet you on God's golden shore.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Me an' the old lady are gonna option upwards the pieces and retie the knot, mixaphorically speaking.
Delmar O'Donnell: I'm gonna visit those foreclosing son-of-a-guns at the Indianola Savings & Loan, slap that money on the barrelhead and purchase dorsum the family farm. You ain't no kind of man if yous ain't got country.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete'south cousin turned us in for the bounty.
Pete: The hell you say! Wash is kin!
Washington Hogwallop: Sorry, Pete, I know nosotros're kin, but they got this depression on. I got to practise for me and mine.
Pete: I'm gonna kill you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop!
Pete: Well hell, it own't square ane! Ain't nobody gonna pick upward three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and ane of them a know-information technology-all that can't continue his trap shut.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. Merely I would like to address your full general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field or... hell! Take at wait at Delmar hither equally your image of hope.
Delmar O'Donnell: Yep, await at me.
[Discussing how to counter Homer Stokes' campaign for governor]
Junior O'Daniel: Nosotros could hire our own midget, even shorter than his.
Pappy O'Daniel: Wouldn't we expect like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, bragging on our own midget, doesn't matter how stumpy.
Pappy O'Daniel: Shake a leg Junior! Give thanks God your mammy died givin' birth. If she'd have seen you, she'd take died o' shame.
Homer Stokes: [every bit Grand Kleagle at a KKK rally] Brothers! Oh, brothers! Nosotros accept all gathered here, to preserve our hallowed culture and heritage! We aim to pull evil up past the root, before it chokes out the flower of our civilization and heritage! And our women, let's not forget those ladies, yous. Looking to usa for protection! From darkies, from Jews, from papists, and from all those smart-donkey folks say we come up descended from monkeys!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Mendacious, two-faced she-woman. Never trust a female person Delmar, recall that i simple precept and your time with me will not have been ill spent.
Delmar O'Donnell: Ok, Everett.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Hit past a railroad train! Truth ways zippo to a woman, Delmar. Triumph of the subjective. You e'er been with a woman?
Delmar O'Donnell: Well, I... I... I gotta go the family farm back earlier I tin start thinking virtually that.
Ulysses Everett McGill: That'southward right, if and then. Believe me Delmar, woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture always devised to bedevil the days of human.
Penny Wharvey McGill: Vernon here's got a job. Vernon's got prospects. He's bona fide. What are you?
Pete: Do non seek the treasure!
Big Dan Teague: You don't say much my friend, but when you lot exercise it's to the point, and I salute you lot for it.
Pappy O'Daniel: I'll press your flesh, y'all dimwitted sumbitch! You don't tell your pappy how to court the electorate. We ain't one-at-a-timin' here. We're MASS communicating!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, as soon as we get ourselves cleaned up and we get a lilliputian smellum in our hair, why, we're gonna feel 100% better about ourselves and about life in general.
Pete: Crazy! No i'southward e'er gonna believe we're a real band.
Ulysses Everett McGill: No, it'southward gonna work. I just gotta get shut enough to talk to her. Takin' off with us has got more future than marryin' a guy named Waldrip. I'm Goddamned bona fide!
Delmar O'Donnell: Everett, my beard itches.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Why are you telling our gals that I was striking by a railroad train?
Penny Wharvey McGill: Lots of respectable people have been hitting by trains. Gauge Hobbie over in Cookville was hitting by a railroad train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal subcontract and I divorced you from shame?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, I take your point. Simply information technology does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny.
Siren,Siren,Siren: [singing] Get to slumber you trivial baby / Become to sleep y'all niggling babe / You and me and the devil makes 3 / Don't need no other lovin' babe // Go to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you lot piffling baby / Come up and lay your basic on the alabaster stones / And exist my ever lovin' baby // Go to sleep you trivial infant / Go to slumber you lot niggling baby / Your momma's gone abroad and your daddy'southward gone to stay / Didn't go out nobody but the infant // Become to sleep you little baby / Go to sleep you trivial baby / Everybody's gone in the cotton wool and the corn / Didn't leave nobody but the baby // Y'all're a sweet fiddling babe / You're a sweetness piddling baby / Dear in the stone and the carbohydrate don't end / Gonna bring a bottle to the baby // Don't y'all cry pretty baby / Don't you lot weep pretty infant / She's long gone with the red shoes on / Gonna see another lovin' baby // Get to sleep yous little infant / Get to sleep yous lilliputian baby / Y'all and me and the devil makes 3 / Don't demand no other lovin' babe // Go to sleep you lot niggling infant / Go to sleep you lot lilliputian baby / Y'all and me and the devil makes 3 / Don't need no other lovin' babe // Go to sleep y'all piddling baby / Go to slumber you little infant / Your momma's gone away and your daddy'south gone to stay / Didn't get out nobody but the baby // Go to sleep yous little babe / Go to sleep you lot niggling baby / Come up and lay your bones on the alabaster stones / And be my ever lovin' infant
Delmar O'Donnell: Them syreens did this to Pete. They loved him upwardly and turned him into a horny toad.
Homer Stokes: These boys is not white! These boys is not white! Hell, they ain't even old timey!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I guess difficult times flush the doormat. Everybody's lookin' for answers... Where the hell'due south he goin'?
[equally Delmar runs out to be baptized]
Pete: Well, I'll be a son of a bitch. Delmar's been saved!
Man with Bullhorn: All correct, boys! It's the authorities! We got you surrounded! But come on out and grabbin' air! And don't try nothing fancy! Your sityeachin is purty nigh hopeless!
[as a noose is flung over Pete]
Sheriff Cooley: Stairway to sky. Nosotros shall all come across past and past.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Then you're against me now too? Is that how it is boys? The whole world, God omnipotent, and now you.
Delmar O'Donnell: Jacking upwards banks. I tin can see how a fella'd derive a whole lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of information technology.
Big Dan Teague: Cheers for the conversational hiatus. I generally refrain from speech durin' gustation. I notice it course and vulgar. Where were we?
Delmar O'Donnell: Makin' money in the service of the Lord.
Big Dan Teague: Heh, y'all don't say much, friend, but when you do, it'southward to the point and I salute you for it!
Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the only daddy y'all got! I'k the damn paterfamilias!
Wharvey Gal: But you ain't bona fide!
Big Dan Teague: Thank you boys for throwin' in that fricassee. I'm a human of large appetite, and fifty-fifty with dejeuner under my chugalug, I was feelin' a mite peckish.
Ulysses Everett McGill: It's our pleasance, Large Dan.
Pappy O'Daniel: Moral fibre? I invented moral fibre! Pappy O'Daniel was displaying rectitude and loftier-mindedness when that egghead you work for was still messing his drawers!
Pappy O'Daniel: Furthermore, in the 2d Pappy O'Daniel administration, these boys is gonna be my *encephalon* trust.
Delmar O'Donnell: What's that hateful, Everett?
Homer Stokes: And I say to you that the bang-up state a Mississippi cannot afford four more years a Pappy O'Daniel - four more years a cronyism, nepotism, racialism and service to the Innarests! The choice, she'south a articulate 'un: Pappy O'Daniel, slave a the Innarests; Homer Stokes, servant a the fiddling man! Ain't that right, fiddling fella?
The Little Man: He own't lyin'!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Yessir, the Southward is gonna change. Everything'due south gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. Nosotros're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook usa all upward to the filigree. Yessir, a veritable age of reason - like they had in French republic. And non a moment too soon...
Soggy Bottom Customer: Do you have the Soggy Bottom Boys performing "Homo of Abiding Sorrow"?
Tape Store Clerk: No ma'am. We got a new shipment in yesterday. Distressing, just we just can't continue 'em on our shelves.
Pete: Since nosotros been followin' your lead, we own't got nothing merely problem.
Pete: My pa always said "Never trust a Hogwallop!"
Ulysses Everett McGill: The old tactician has got a plan. For the transportation that is, I don't know how I'm gonna continue my coiffure in order.
Pete: How'south this a plan? How we gonna get a car?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Sell that. I figure it tin simply have painful association for Wash.
Pete: [reading] "To Washington Bartholomew Hogwallop, from his loving Cora. Amor Fidel... is."
Ulysses Everett McGill: Information technology was in his bureau. I effigy information technology'll fetch us enough greenbacks for a good used automobile-voiture, and a fiddling left over likewise.
Delmar O'Donnell: Hey mister! I don't mean to be tellin' tales out of schoolhouse, but there'southward a feller in there that'll pay yous ten dollars if yous sing into his can.
Big Dan Teague: Bible sales. Now the trade is not a complicated one. There are but two things to learn. One bein' where to find a wholesaler - the Word of God in bulk as it were. Two, how to recognize your customer. Who are you lot dealin' with? It's an practise in psychology, and so to speak.
Homer Stokes: This band of miscreants, this very evening, interfered with a lynch mob in the performance of its duty.
[Last Lines]
Bullheaded Seer: [sings] Oh, bear me away on your snow white wings to my celestial home
Woolworths Customer: Who is that man?
Penny Wharvey McGill: He'south not my husband... Just a drifter, I guess... Merely some no-account drifter.
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