Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the movie, one of the characters states that it is the 17th and the valley would be flooded on the 21st. Yet, throughout the movie, there are too many nights that go by for it to just be the few days when the valley finally floods.
dizzyd
27th Aug 2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
16th Jan 2003
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Corrected entry: When Everett and company enter the radio station, Everett asks 'Who is the honcho here?' 'Honcho' is derived from a Japanese word for 'group leader' and did not enter American slang until after World War II, by way of Allied occupation forces in Japan. (00:23:35)
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Correction: This might be a character mistake by Pete, a by-product of Everett's lies (after all, he was not actually after his loot, or in prison for any kind of loot-taking crime), or simply explained by sundry delays at the actual construction site (happens all the time even without all the turmoil in the movie); but it also could be that the day and night sequences in the "Flyaway" musical number are simply not spliced perfectly chronologically, and caused the illusion of several days when in fact it may have been less.
dizzyd