1. Introduction to Film Musical Score and Songs The Hero’s Journey

2. Musical Score Silent films Scores

3. Directors Joel and Ethan Coen Quirky, allude to Southern life, Hollywood.

4. Coen Brothers’ Movies Include Raising Arizona Fargo Big Lebowksi No Country for Old Men Academy Award for Best Picture Burn After Reading A Serious Man

5. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Things to enhance: Ulysses is Latin name for Odysseus 1937 Mississippi Appalachian Music in film: Plot Setting Reflects Emotions Dirges vs. Bright Music Somber vs. Happy Times Allusions Foggy Mountain Boys (Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs) Soggy Bottom Boys (Band in the movie) Other allusions: Political atmosphere in the south Ku Klux Klan Southern Gossip Literature William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor Look for a Wizard of Oz Allusion