Pappy Odaniel Buy His Vote for Him in the Upcoming Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Pomade Vendor: I can go the role from Bristol. It'll accept two weeks, here'due south your pomade.
Ulysses Everett McGill: 2 weeks? That don't practise me no proficient.
Pomade Vendor: Nearest Ford automobile man's Bristol.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Agree on, I don't want this pomade. I desire Dapper Dan.
Pomade Vendor: I don't comport Dapper Dan, I carry Fop.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn information technology! I'chiliad a Dapper Dan human being!
Pomade Vendor: Watch your language, immature feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I tin order information technology for you, have it in a couple of weeks.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
Pete: Wait a minute. Who elected you lot leader of this outfit?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well Pete, I figured it should be the ane with the capacity for abstract thought. Simply if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, allow's put it to a vote.
Pete: Suits me. I'm voting for yours truly.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well I'g voting for yours truly too.
[Everett and Pete look at Delmar for the deciding vote]
Delmar O'Donnell: Okay... I'm with you lot fellas.
Tommy Johnson: I had to be up at that there crossroads final midnight, to sell my soul to the devil.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't it a modest world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar but been baptized and saved. I judge I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated.
[after the *Iv* soggy bottom boys cease recording "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"]
Ulysses Everett McGill: Woo! Hot Damn, son I believe y'all did sell your soul to the devil.
Lund: Woooooooo-wee. Boy, that was a miiiighty fine a-pickin' and a-singin'. I'll tell yous what, you come on in here and sign these papers here and I'grand a gonna you ten dollars a piece.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, okay sir. But Murt and Aloysius will have to sign Xes as only 4 of us tin write.
[first lines]
Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, whatever of you lot boys smithies? Or, if non smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of bumming wanderin'?
Blind Seer: You seek a great fortune, y'all iii who are now in chains. You volition find a fortune, though it will not exist the one you seek. But commencement... starting time you must travel a long and difficult route, a route fraught with peril. Mm-hmm. You lot shall meet thangs, wonderful to tell. You shall come across a... a cow... on the roof of a cotton fiber house, ha. And, oh, so many startlements. I cannot tell you how long this route shall be, only fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your advantage. Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts abound weary, still shall ye follow them, fifty-fifty unto your salvation.
Pappy O'Daniel: And furthermore, by way of endorsing my candidacy, the Soggy Bottom Boys are gonna pb us all in a rousing chorus of "You Are My Sunshine."
[Applause. Pappy turns away from the mike, towards Everett]
Pappy O'Daniel: [no-nonsense] Ain't you lot, boys?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Governor, it'southward 1 of our favorites.
Pappy O'Daniel: Son... y'all're gonna become far.
Pete: Well I'll exist a sonofabitch. Delmar's been saved.
Delmar O'Donnell: Well that'south information technology, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Delmar, what are you talking near? We've got bigger fish to fry.
Delmar O'Donnell: The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.
Ulysses Everett McGill: I idea y'all said you was innocent of those charges?
Delmar O'Donnell: Well I was lyin'. And the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away also. Neither God nor man's got nothin' on me at present. C'mon in boys, the h2o is fine.
Delmar O'Donnell: Care for some gopher?
Ulysses Everett McGill: No give thanks y'all, Delmar. A 3rd of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back down.
Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, you tin can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had 1 apiece. Nosotros ran across a whole... gopher village.
Pete: I've always wondered, what's the devil look like?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, there are all way of bottom imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork.
Tommy Johnson: Oh, no. No, sir. He's white, every bit white as you lot folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He likes to travel around with a mean old hound. That's correct.
Pete: The Preacher said it absolved us.
Ulysses Everett McGill: For him, not for the law. I'1000 surprised at y'all, Pete, I gave you credit for more than brains than Delmar.
Delmar O'Donnell: Only they was witnesses that seen u.s. redeemed.
Ulysses Everett McGill: That's non the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi's a little more difficult-nosed.
[laughs]
Ulysses Everett McGill: Baptism! Y'all two are just dumber than a handbag of hammers!
Ulysses Everett McGill: You tin't display a toad in a fine restaurant like this! Why, the good folks hither would go right off the feed!
Delmar O'Donnell: I merely don't think information technology'south correct keeping him under wraps like we's aback of him.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, if information technology is Pete, I am ashamed of him! Way I come across information technology, he got what he deserved, fornicating with some whore of Babylon. These things don't happen for no reason, Delmar. It's plainly some kinda judgment on his character.
Delmar O'Donnell: Well, the two of us was fixin' to fornicate!
Pappy O'Daniel: Sounded to me similar he was harboring a hateful grudge against the Soggy Lesser Boys on account of their rough and rowdy past. Looks similar Homer Stokes is the kind of fellow who wants to cast the commencement stone.
[boos]
Pappy O'Daniel: Well, I'm with you folks. I'm a forgive-and-forgettin' Christian, and I say, if their rambunctiousness, and misdemeanoring, is behind them...
[turns away from the mike, towards Everett]
Pappy O'Daniel: [no-nonsense] It is, own't it, boys?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, yes sir, it is.
Ulysses Everett McGill: The treasure is nevertheless there boys, believe me.
Delmar O'Donnell: But how'd he know virtually the treasure?
Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the indicate of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would autumn into neatly into that category; its not so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision...
Pete: He said nosotros wouldn't become get information technology. He said we wouldn't go the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well what the hell does he know, he'south just an ignorant onetime man?
Lund: At present, what can I do you for Mr. French?
French: How tin can I lay a hold of them Soggy Bottom Boys?
Lund: Soggy Lesser? I don't precisely call up them.
French: They cut a record in here a few days agone, was an old-timey harmony thing with a guitar accom... accomp...
Lund: Oh here, hither, here, I remember them! They was colored fellas, I believe.
French: Uh huh.
Lund: Yessuh, they're a fine bunch a boys. They sang in the yonder can and skeedadled.
French: Well that record is goin' through the goddamned roof. They playin' information technology as far abroad every bit Mobile.
Lund: Naw?
French: Whole damn state's goin' apey.
Lund: Well it was a powerful air.
French: Hot damn, we gotta find them boys and sign 'em to a big fatty contract. Hells Bells, Mr. Lund, if we don't the goddamned competition will.
Lund: Ohhhh mercy! Yes we got to beat that contest.
George Nelson: [after Nelson has robbed the banking company] Thanks folks! And remember, Jesus saves, merely George Nelson withdraws!
[laughs]
George Nelson: Go fetch the auto voiture, Pete.
Woman In Bank: [whispering] Is that "Babyface" Nelson?
George Nelson: Who said that?
[interruption]
George Nelson: What ignorant, low downward, slanderizin, son of a bitch said that?
[goes up to woman]
George Nelson: My name is George Nelson, go me?
Delmar O'Donnell: She didn't mean nothin past it, George.
George Nelson: [noticeably upset] George Nelson! Not "Babyface"! Yous remember, and y'all tell your friends! I'grand George Nelson! Born to raise hell!
[Nelson points his Tommy Gun towards the ceiling and fires it, and the depository financial institution patrons jump]
[singing]
Ulysses Everett McGill: I am a human being of constant sorrow, I've seen problem all my days. I bid goodbye to old Kentucky, the place where I was born and raised.
Delmar O'Donnell,Pete: The place where he was born and raised.
Ulysses Everett McGill: For half dozen long years I've been in problem, no pleasure here on Earth I've found. For in this world I'm bound to ramble, I accept no friends to assist me out.
Delmar O'Donnell,Pete: He has no friends to help him out.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Perhaps your friends think I'one thousand simply a stranger, my face up you lot never volition meet no more. Just at that place is one promise that is given, I'll meet yous on God's gold shore.
Delmar O'Donnell,Pete: He'll run across yous on God's gilded shore.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Me an' the quondam lady are gonna choice up the pieces and retie the knot, mixaphorically speaking.
Delmar O'Donnell: I'm gonna visit those foreclosing son-of-a-guns at the Indianola Savings & Loan, slap that money on the barrelhead and purchase back the family farm. You ain't no kind of man if yous ain't got country.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete's cousin turned u.s. in for the bounty.
Pete: The hell you say! Launder is kin!
Washington Hogwallop: Sorry, Pete, I know we're kin, only they got this depression on. I got to practice for me and mine.
Pete: I'1000 gonna kill you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop!
Pete: Well hell, it ain't square 1! Own't nobody gonna pick upward iii filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and one of them a know-it-all that tin can't go on his trap close.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. Merely I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field or... hell! Take at look at Delmar here as your paradigm of promise.
Delmar O'Donnell: Yeah, look at me.
[Discussing how to counter Homer Stokes' campaign for governor]
Junior O'Daniel: Nosotros could hire our own midget, even shorter than his.
Pappy O'Daniel: Wouldn't we expect like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, bragging on our own midget, doesn't matter how stumpy.
Pappy O'Daniel: Shake a leg Junior! Give thanks God your mammy died givin' birth. If she'd take seen you lot, she'd have died o' shame.
Homer Stokes: [as G Kleagle at a KKK rally] Brothers! Oh, brothers! We have all gathered here, to preserve our hallowed culture and heritage! We aim to pull evil up past the root, before it chokes out the flower of our culture and heritage! And our women, let's not forget those ladies, yous. Looking to u.s. for protection! From darkies, from Jews, from papists, and from all those smart-ass folks say we come descended from monkeys!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Deceitful, 2-faced she-woman. Never trust a female person Delmar, remember that one simple precept and your fourth dimension with me volition non have been ill spent.
Delmar O'Donnell: Ok, Everett.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Striking by a train! Truth ways nothing to a woman, Delmar. Triumph of the subjective. You always been with a woman?
Delmar O'Donnell: Well, I... I... I gotta get the family farm back earlier I can start thinking well-nigh that.
Ulysses Everett McGill: That'due south right, if then. Believe me Delmar, woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man.
Penny Wharvey McGill: Vernon hither's got a task. Vernon'southward got prospects. He'south bona fide. What are yous?
Pete: Practise non seek the treasure!
Big Dan Teague: You don't say much my friend, but when y'all practice it's to the point, and I salute you for it.
Pappy O'Daniel: I'll printing your flesh, you dimwitted sumbitch! Yous don't tell your pappy how to court the electorate. Nosotros ain't i-at-a-timin' here. We're MASS communicating!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, every bit before long equally nosotros get ourselves cleaned upwards and nosotros get a piddling smellum in our pilus, why, we're gonna experience 100% better well-nigh ourselves and most life in general.
Pete: Crazy! No one's ever gonna believe we're a real band.
Ulysses Everett McGill: No, it'due south gonna work. I just gotta go close enough to talk to her. Takin' off with us has got more future than marryin' a guy named Waldrip. I'grand Goddamned bona fide!
Delmar O'Donnell: Everett, my bristles itches.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Why are yous telling our gals that I was hitting by a train?
Penny Wharvey McGill: Lots of respectable people take been hit by trains. Gauge Hobbie over in Cookville was hitting by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal subcontract and I divorced you from shame?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, I take your point. Only it does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny.
Siren,Siren,Siren: [singing] Go to sleep you little baby / Go to slumber you little infant / You and me and the devil makes iii / Don't need no other lovin' baby // Go to sleep you piffling baby / Go to sleep you little baby / Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones / And be my ever lovin' infant // Go to sleep you lot picayune baby / Go to sleep you picayune baby / Your momma's gone away and your daddy's gone to stay / Didn't leave nobody but the baby // Become to sleep yous footling baby / Go to sleep you lot piddling baby / Everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn / Didn't leave nobody merely the infant // You're a sweet trivial babe / You're a sweet piddling baby / Honey in the rock and the sugar don't end / Gonna bring a canteen to the baby // Don't you weep pretty baby / Don't you lot cry pretty baby / She's long gone with the red shoes on / Gonna see another lovin' infant // Go to sleep you little infant / Go to slumber you little infant / You and me and the devil makes three / Don't need no other lovin' infant // Get to sleep you petty baby / Go to slumber yous little infant / You and me and the devil makes 3 / Don't demand no other lovin' baby // Go to sleep you little babe / Go to sleep you trivial baby / Your momma'southward gone away and your daddy's gone to stay / Didn't leave nobody merely the infant // Go to sleep you little infant / Go to sleep y'all footling baby / Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones / And be my ever lovin' baby
Delmar O'Donnell: Them syreens did this to Pete. They loved him upwards and turned him into a horny toad.
Homer Stokes: These boys is not white! These boys is not white! Hell, they ain't even old timey!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I judge hard times flush the doormat. Everybody's lookin' for answers... Where the hell's he goin'?
[as Delmar runs out to be baptized]
Pete: Well, I'll exist a son of a bitch. Delmar's been saved!
Man with Bullhorn: All right, boys! Information technology's the government! Nosotros got you surrounded! Merely come on out and grabbin' air! And don't try zip fancy! Your sityeachin is purty virtually hopeless!
[as a noose is flung over Pete]
Sheriff Cooley: Stairway to sky. We shall all meet by and past.
Ulysses Everett McGill: And so you're against me now besides? Is that how information technology is boys? The whole world, God almighty, and now y'all.
Delmar O'Donnell: Jacking upward banks. I tin run across how a fella'd derive a whole lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of information technology.
Big Dan Teague: Cheers for the conversational hiatus. I generally refrain from oral communication durin' sense of taste. I find it course and vulgar. Where were we?
Delmar O'Donnell: Makin' money in the service of the Lord.
Big Dan Teague: Heh, you don't say much, friend, but when yous do, it's to the point and I salute you for it!
Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the but daddy you got! I'm the damn paterfamilias!
Wharvey Gal: But you lot ain't bona fide!
Big Dan Teague: Cheers boys for throwin' in that fricassee. I'thou a man of large appetite, and even with lunch nether my belt, I was feelin' a mite craving.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Information technology's our pleasance, Big Dan.
Pappy O'Daniel: Moral fibre? I invented moral fibre! Pappy O'Daniel was displaying rectitude and high-mindedness when that egghead yous work for was still messing his drawers!
Pappy O'Daniel: Furthermore, in the 2d Pappy O'Daniel administration, these boys is gonna exist my *brain* trust.
Delmar O'Donnell: What's that mean, Everett?
Homer Stokes: And I say to you that the bang-up state a Mississippi cannot afford four more years a Pappy O'Daniel - four more than years a cronyism, nepotism, racialism and service to the Innarests! The selection, she'southward a clear 'un: Pappy O'Daniel, slave a the Innarests; Homer Stokes, servant a the little man! Ain't that correct, lilliputian fella?
The Petty Man: He ain't lyin'!
Ulysses Everett McGill: Yessir, the Southward is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with onetime spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna meet a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook united states of america all upwards to the filigree. Yessir, a veritable historic period of reason - like they had in France. And not a moment too soon...
Soggy Bottom Customer: Do you have the Soggy Bottom Boys performing "Human being of Constant Sorrow"?
Tape Shop Clerk: No ma'am. We got a new shipment in yesterday. Sad, but nosotros merely tin can't keep 'em on our shelves.
Pete: Since we been followin' your lead, we ain't got nothing merely trouble.
Pete: My pa ever said "Never trust a Hogwallop!"
Ulysses Everett McGill: The one-time tactician has got a plan. For the transportation that is, I don't know how I'g gonna keep my coiffure in order.
Pete: How'south this a plan? How we gonna get a motorcar?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Sell that. I figure it can simply have painful clan for Wash.
Pete: [reading] "To Washington Bartholomew Hogwallop, from his loving Cora. Amor Fidel... is."
Ulysses Everett McGill: It was in his bureau. I figure it'll fetch us enough cash for a good used auto-voiture, and a niggling left over as well.
Delmar O'Donnell: Hey mister! I don't mean to be tellin' tales out of school, but in that location's a feller in there that'll pay you ten dollars if you sing into his can.
Large Dan Teague: Bible sales. Now the trade is not a complicated i. There are simply 2 things to acquire. I bein' where to find a wholesaler - the Word of God in bulk as it were. Two, how to recognize your customer. Who are you dealin' with? It's an practise in psychology, so to speak.
Homer Stokes: This band of miscreants, this very evening, interfered with a lynch mob in the performance of its duty.
[Final Lines]
Blind Seer: [sings] Oh, carry me away on your snow white wings to my celestial home
Woolworths Customer: Who is that homo?
Penny Wharvey McGill: He'southward non my husband... Just a drifter, I judge... Just some no-business relationship out-of-stater.
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