> > (5) As someone else mentioned, nominating "O Brother Where Art Thou" for Adapted Screenplay
> > is the silliest nomination since Kenneth Branagh was nominated for Adapted Screenplay
> > for "Hamlet" despite not changing a single word.
>
> Not to be pedantic, but, actually, he did change a word. *One* word.
> I.v.166-167: "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
> philosophy." In the Branaugh version, that line reads "... in our philosophy." A nitpick, but,
> hey, I'm a Shakespeare nerd. And I legitimately *did* notice that watching the movie the *first*
> time. :-}
>
> More notably than that, he changed the order of some of the scenes (though I fail to remember
> which offhand).

One obvious point is the rearrangement of Act IV, scene 5.
As Shakespeare wrote it, there's a speech about halfway through where Claudius recaps all the things that have gone wrong in the play so far.
In the movie, where IV:5 is the first scene after the intermission, it's been shifted to the beginning of the scene to refresh the audience members' memories.

And if you don't restrict yourself to dialogue, Branagh did a lot of adapting of the stage directions as well.


...getting back to "O, Brother", I've actually seen a movie tie-in paperback edition of The Odyssey. The cover has a picture from the "O, Brother" poster and blurb something like "The story that inspired the blockbuster".
Hopefully, it'll get more people to read the Odyssey, but it's still silly.


Paul