Tens of thousands of stories fit the Hero's Journey archetype created by Christopher Volger. Of these, most are remake stories that share notable similarities with their heroes' journeys. However, none of these quite match the strong similarities found between Homer's The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou? by Joel Coens? These stories share crucial components of the hero's journey, whether it is "crossing the first threshold", where the main characters of both stories begin their long adventure that transforms them into heroes; “the supreme test”, in which the main characters are deprived of the opportunity to return home early; or "return with the elixir", where Odysseus and Odysseus both return to their homes with the comfort of their wives. At major plot points, the novel The Odyssey and the film O Brother convey clear similarities in key elements of their heroes' journeys such as "crossing the first threshold", "the supreme test", and "returning with the elixir". , the main characters of both stories, Odysseus and Odysseus, share “crossing the first threshold” qualities that show the similarities in these stories quite clearly. These parts of the heroes' journeys for Odysseus and Odysseus both consist of the beginning of their long journeys and the beginning of the transformation from ordinary people to heroes. In the Odyssey, this part of the journey occurs when Odysseus begins his journey to Troy to fight in the Trojan War and when he begins his transformation from commoner to hero. In O Brother, this section of the journey occurs when Odysseus and his fellow prisoners break out of prison and begin the long journey home which begins his character's change from an av... middle of paper... film, which re-enter both in the “return with the elixir”, are very similar experiences for Ulysses and Ulysses. From these shared experiences, we see that these stories resemble each other very well indeed and that these three parts of the hero's journeys are extremely relatable to each other. Ultimately, The Odyssey and O Brother are extremely similar and have really similar heroes. trips. These stories have three distinct parts of the hero's journey in common, and those parts are "crossing the first threshold", "the supreme test", and "returning with the elixir". These similarities clearly show the strong connection between this two thousand year old classic and this thirteen year old film. Due to the similarities and connection between these stories, it is clearly visible that the story of the Odyssey is the story on which Joel Coen based O Brother..