O brother where art thou, and the Odyssey Prompt: Creatures encountered in the film and the text- how are they similar/ different?

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When the film O Bother Where Art Thou first started, I was unable to make any correlation between that and The Odyssey, but as it progressed I soon was able to follow the plot and match creatures to their ancient Greek counterparts. As Odysseus encountered many monsters, mystical creatures, and gods, Ulysses (the main Odysseus like character in O Bother Where Art Thou) had many of his own encounters with Odyssey like creatures. While O …

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…amp;lt;Tab/>So overall most of the main creatures in The Odyssey have a modern counterpart in the movie O Bother Where Art Thou, but, some of these creatures are portrayed more accurately than others. Also when a story is told in a way that is more comprehendible to the viewer than they are more easily able to formulate opinions, and find a deeper symbolic meaning for the story, and its characters.