Some people think O Brother, Where Are Thou? (2000) was a great movie. Maybe so. But it definitely had a killer soundtrack. And it had some great performances—including from some actors who had relatively little screen time. And you can see these two things combined in a scene in the movie when you watch the stars lip sync “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow.” Stephen Root’s “Radio Station Man” listens to it with glee and exclaims, “That was a mighty fine a pickin’ and a singin’!”

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I watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? years ago. I thought it was . . . okay. But since it’s a Coen Brothers’ film, people deem it to be good or even great. Perhaps I’d agree with them if I watched it again. Who knows? But the soundtrack to the movie is outstanding. And there are some great performances by the actors in it too. Stephen Root as the blind “Radio Station Man” turns in one of the great performances. And in the scene where his character listens to the stars’ characters lip synch “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (performed in real life by the semi-fictional band the Soggy Bottom Boys), it combines that great performance with one of the great songs on the soundtrack.

As a side note, they probably couldn’t film this scene today. Listen to all the racial comments in it. It fits the scene and movie perfectly but Hollywood would now deem it “offensive.”

“I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow,” and the rest of the O Brother, Where Are Thou? soundtrack, remain available at all the normal places you can go to find and purchase music.

Top image via IMDB.