Best coloured guard ever! Dumb racists, death to every grand wizard that proudly refuses to give up their hood. If kkk was good they wouldn't need to cover their faces. I hope the kkk gets irradicated and people stop glorifying their wicked cause. They are worse than Nazis because they hide under hoods. This scene is a prime example of people blowing hot air.. the fact that we didn't come from monkeys is the only truthfull thing that nutless simian said.
Fun fact: this whole movie was filmed on location in Mississippi except for this scene. They were afraid they’d put out a casting call and people would show up with their own robes.
I don’t know what it is, but something about this scene just strikes me in the soul. This is one of the creepiest scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie by far. The leader’s voice as he sings, the clomping of their feet as they march and the deep pitch in their vocals as they chant just hits me hard
When your old enough to realize the kkk isn’t a cult. But is actually recognized by the us government. And has yet to be abolished or seen as domestic terrorist. That’s the scary part of walking into a group like this. Who you gonna call? Not the police. Not anybody. You can’t tell which of those are civilians and which are trained military or police or even government officials. You just don’t know. Besides they will probably automatically kill you if your caught. It’s just even more terrifying to know some of these men are still in high places in America. And also low places you don’t wanna cross towns to see. Kkk won’t ever leave america so as long as we have politicians and governments that are in place to keep blacks in turmoil. That’s what’s terrifying. Not a group of men in a field who can’t chase you with their poorly cut hoods on. But not being to escape a country who eventually wants you as a Christmas ornament. But ok larger trees not anywhere near your home.
Right? That's what always cracked me up the most about this scene - the choreographed marching sequences, LOL. I think it actually went right over most people's heads.
i'm surprised Pete and Everett didn't grab Delmar and use him as battering ram to get through the crowd he's shorter than them like without a paddle tom and jerry used Dan as a battering ram to get through a wall
@@boxybob6976 it is well-known that Oh, Brother Where Art Thou is a retelling of The Odyssey. Now, go rewatch it with this new awareness and have your mind blown again!💚
@@hollyholy641 Yeah nah i was aware of that but i hadn't considered that there might still be little details and references to uncover after 10 viewings. Guess the 11th's tonight.
This scene was truly creepy in every sense. The weird choreography, the music, and even the lighting which I studied in college (cinematography). All brilliantly captured the oddities and atmosphere I imagine, since I had never been to one of these gatherings. lol, Wow. "Colorguard colored?" Hats off to the crew on this one.
Odd that this scene starts out like a scene from the Wizard of Oz while the Klan sings hi-ho from Snow White. What a great allegory to Homer's Odyssey, with John Goodman as the cyclops.
My favourite part is how the boys try to sing along to the chants when they are running up behind Tommy, and then instantly give up. Except maybe the reveal of the dwarf. That’s amazing and cannot be touched.
It's perfectly orchestrated. The sinister piano accompanying the klansmen's chanting, the camera angles make the tip of their hoods look like shark fins, it's just amazing!
@Hattan AlShutaifi they're just Retarded af, There's OG Human Aryan, and "White" Aryan, OG Aryan being Coming from Countries or Areas of the Earth where Humanity and Civilization Started I.e Middle East and Egypt whilst being Humble af to other Races, and "White" Aryan is....Cringe, ya know what that is it's That Bullshit.
@Hattan AlShutaifi Ask the Arabs why they enslaved your folks and sold them to white folks. Hell even white folks were also enslaved by Arabs, the meaning of Slave (Slav, Slavic) originated from the people who were enslaved and lived in Eastern Europe. African Americans are not synonymous with slavery, other groups been through that as well. Pick up a book for a change instead of watching TikToks.
@ yeah but part of that conclusion also likely came from the fact that there were wearing dirt and a lot of other stuff on their face making them look less white and more like a colored person.
@ no such thing as colored people. Irish Catholics, Italians, and Jews were all considered barely white back in the day, now we're white no problem lol and in South Africa, Asians were considered "honorary whites"
The real hilarity was that it already did, they just didn't know it. After the boys bonked the color guard, they have to retrieve it from the ground. 2:30
idk why but the horrifying off key chanting and out of tune piano mixed with the imagery really, really unsettled me first time i watch this. Coen brothers did a great job introducing this scene
I love how he can catch a spear coming at him in the dark with those quick reflexes but can't take a few steps back or to the side to avoid a falling cross lol
It’s very refreshing to see people scared by this scene, it’s meant to be scary and this kind of thing is still going on even if they don’t always dress like ghosts and dance around.
This scene is legitimately more scary than almost any horror movie I've ever seen. There's a huge sense of fear and dread that this scene captures so well.
@@HunterMagunter You have to realize that while the scene has a comedic undertone and ending, it depicts the very real and very cold organized brutality of the kkk pretty straightforward. It only takes a little empathy to see why someone would be really scared by that
@@pooperscooperltm6312 I think anyone watching a Coen Brothers movie is aware of who they are and what their humor style is, I don't empathize with someone taking a fictional movie scene seriously especially when the clan members get joked on
@@awesome-xg4hl the way they seem to just fall into the scene accidentally and without warning is a very disturbing set up to me. Also the chanting Always gave me wicked witch of the west's evil army vibes, which has been very unsettling to me ever since I first say The Wizard of Oz when I was like 4. Obviously once you get into the scene it's as much a comedy as the rest of the movie, but the opening of the scene is extremely well done.
There was this one line he did in Burn After Reading that really cracked me up. He comes in that apartment and immediately asks what type of wood the hardwood floor is. Maybe it just reminded me of a friend but and that's why its so funny but it's just, such a subtly goofy quirk lol
Eta: Several of the Extras in this scene happen to be African Americans. Several understandably felt it was rather a surreal experience! The marching reminds me of the monkey guards in the Wizard of Oz! I love how they thought up how to save Tommy! And Tommy cracked me up with 'The devil come to collect his due'! 😆
This is à pi cture of life thé Young dont understand this day in time there is an activé kkk group in lufkin texas. Thé folks usée To .be good folks. Kkk is outdated
One thing I always found funny about this film was how the singing voices for Everett, Homer Stokes, and Pete don't sound a thing like their speaking voices. Tim Blake Nelson's the only one who actually got to sing as his character.
First time I saw this movie years ago I thought to myself “How did they get Ralph Stanley to agree to be the voice of the grand master?” A couple years before he passed away I saw Ralph perform that song live. It sounded perfect even in his old age.
This is the most realistic Klan video in Cinematic history. Its a great scene, we might not get like these scenes these days. Glad this was part of the movie
Not a popular movie in Georgia, where ceremonies like this still go on in the woods today. Classic line in the movie: "You see I belong to a certain secret society, I don't believe I gotta mention its name..."
I've seen a rally like this in North Georgia behind an abandoned church. They don't do the chanting or wear the robes though. Only ones that wear the robes is the highest ranking members. They pray and have a cookout while the cross burns. We get letters and phone calls all the time about them trying to recruit members. There are lots of KKK members but a lot never go to rallys to not show their identity.
@@BannedSports The KKK use to have millions of members, now its less than ten thousand. So i mean, the scaryness of them is no longer a factor. Hell the Mexican Cartels are doing much worst, beheading children etc.
@@MrHammerman97 Really a different issue, a whataboutism if you like. You are comparing the white supremacy of the Jim Crow south to drug traffickers. The former is more insidious as it is ingrained in a whole culture whereas the other is straight up drug crime and frankly the worst of it occurs in Mexico. The latter has been recently overplayed as a scare tactic in any case. On the other hand the culture of the JIm Crow south and the myth of the lost cause is still with us today, maybe not as obvious but there nevertheless.
The scene is highly unsettling and frightening when you first see the movie. I remember as a kid when this came out feeling so scared for Tommy. Honestly any time I see this movie, when they first introduce this scene it's really scary.
I don’t know if this was the intention, but the silly dancing actually makes this even scarier for me. It kinda hammers home that feeling that you couldn’t get from just seeing it as is: seeing people so openly, even proudly, engaging in deep evil without seeing anything even slightly wrong with it. The dancing I think better illustrates that, at least as well as a comedic film can since it can’t teleport you to a sincere Klan burning in person. They’re doing something ridiculous, and they really don’t see it that way.
"They’re doing something ridiculous, and they really don’t see it that way." Well a lot of the point for this stuff historically was to be wild and out-there with a hint of mysticism and esoteric practices(the flaming crosses and white robes were partly for similar reasons), sort of the same line of thinking as the freemasons and other secret societies of the time.
@@lilafeldman8630 Back then they did not dance but they did sing and some more facts for you, the one in red is called a hydra or titan and is not the imperial wizard. The imperial wizard wore a golden robe with a skull mask and a fancy crown.
people in the comments are calling him the "cyclops" which isnt his rank also the one in red a titan/hydra which is a leader of an entire state however the imperial wizard leads all 50 states
i love how they made it like the wizard of oz kind of with them marching around like that. the KKK imagery coupled with it makes for an image that's incredibly odd and evil
@@rjohnm666 right, i agree. but it's kind of silly even with the music, which to me makes it more disturbing; given the fact that it's a kkk ralley, and all the historical baggage that comes along with it. it's a weird parody or caricature.. which to me underscores or heightens the symbolism of it.. what the whole thing represents. it makes something very familiar (something very evil from our history) seem weird and unfamiliar, which adds to the disturbing-ness of it ..that's just my take on it anyway.
Ok, so we watched this in my reading class recently. They were fighting in a Bush and this was the last thing both me and my friend expected to see. We couldn’t help but start laughing due to the fact that the KKK came out of nowhere and were marching and dancing with the shocked look on each of their faces. We werent laughing when they were gonna hang tommy tho bc he was my favorite character tied with Everett.
This scene epitomizes the scary reality of illegal behavior out in the woods. - anyone should be scared to come across a scene like this - thank God they are not around doing this anymore
One of my former bosses hated this movie. Loved movies otherwise. I flat-out told him I hated him for hating this. A brilliant movie. We laughed and got along great after that. Agree to disagree and we could end wars.
Movies make them out to seem really backwoods and not very intelligent. But as someone who lives in the Deep South, you’d be surprised at the kinds of people who took part and still do take part in the Klan. People from lawyers to gas stations clerks. I even met a old man once at work that showed me some of his belongings from his klan days. It’s insane
This reminds me of the scene from The Wizard of Oz outside the Wicked Witch of the West's castle, with the guards. It even has the three protagonists sneaking in disguised in enemy uniforms.
Cause of David Duke he killed the Klan by basically saying the Klansmen from the 50s and 60s were dumb hicks the same men who blew up some many buildings in Birmingham earning it the nickname of Bomingham the same men who pull off the Mississippi Burning Murders and many other atrocities
This scene was definitely a personal "WTF?" moment for me. Back around 1979 we went to visit family in Arkansas and our cousins showed me and my sister stuff inside their dad's closet. They opened this chest and on top was a confederate flag. I was 8 and who didn't like the Dukes Of Hazzard? They handed it to us and then pulled out a little white robe. And a little white pointy hood. We had no idea what it was at the time, but it clearly belonged to their dad, who happened to be a little person. 😐
Goodness me this is one of my favourite films Great scene and the Klan in this very tuneful, but ridiculous and that cross falling very cleverly filmed The Coen Brothers are simply brilliant
"The color guard is colored?! Who made them the color guard?!" had me crying tears of laughter
Best coloured guard ever! Dumb racists, death to every grand wizard that proudly refuses to give up their hood. If kkk was good they wouldn't need to cover their faces. I hope the kkk gets irradicated and people stop glorifying their wicked cause. They are worse than Nazis because they hide under hoods. This scene is a prime example of people blowing hot air.. the fact that we didn't come from monkeys is the only truthfull thing that nutless simian said.
u still laughing till the tears come?
nobody writes like the cohen brothers
@@melissasmith3296 u still choking till the tears come?
“Of course I’m colored. I’m Batman”
Fun fact: this whole movie was filmed on location in Mississippi except for this scene. They were afraid they’d put out a casting call and people would show up with their own robes.
@@joanngreen8747 racism ? Not our biggest problem rn
@@zoyo8903 ha ha ha truth hurts huh ? It is true, they were advised not to film it in Mississippi
@@timohess3909 might not be yours
Wow but i guess this thing doesn't happen on modern days
@@zoyo8903 People arent allowed to make jokes on the internet you might hurt somebody's feelings 😂
I don’t know what it is, but something about this scene just strikes me in the soul. This is one of the creepiest scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie by far. The leader’s voice as he sings, the clomping of their feet as they march and the deep pitch in their vocals as they chant just hits me hard
It has badass music
and they practiced for like a year for that marching they did
You don't know what it is? It's called cinematography.
It’s reminds me of old times
That and the eery lighting.
I just noticed how Pete is the most terrified by the noose (and most eager to save Tommy) because he had narrowly avoided being hanged himself.
Good catch
Pete acts like the most toughest but deep down he has the biggest heart
Yeah, he even whimpered when he saw the noose
I like how they didn’t even hesitate to come up with a plan to help Tommy. This was their true moment as a team, saving Tommy.
I love that their whole plan discussion was, "We gotta save Tommy!" "...colorguard."
That was the whole plan
Batman, Phantom, and Scruggs were so brave
@Mr. Graves It is almost like it is easy to be brave when it is just play acting.
@@nealm6764 Don't poop on the party = ]
the first KKK conference was at the Democratic national convention. they were all democrats.
I don't care what race you are, if you were walking through the woods and came up on that it would be fucking terrifying.
Yeah finding any cult would be terrifying.
When your old enough to realize the kkk isn’t a cult. But is actually recognized by the us government. And has yet to be abolished or seen as domestic terrorist. That’s the scary part of walking into a group like this. Who you gonna call? Not the police. Not anybody. You can’t tell which of those are civilians and which are trained military or police or even government officials. You just don’t know. Besides they will probably automatically kill you if your caught. It’s just even more terrifying to know some of these men are still in high places in America. And also low places you don’t wanna cross towns to see. Kkk won’t ever leave america so as long as we have politicians and governments that are in place to keep blacks in turmoil. That’s what’s terrifying. Not a group of men in a field who can’t chase you with their poorly cut hoods on. But not being to escape a country who eventually wants you as a Christmas ornament. But ok larger trees not anywhere near your home.
Lol please. A black person and a white person coming upon a scene like this, are going to experience two totally different kinds of fear. Stop it.
@@actnow3 Not necessarily. It's possible. Also, you're a douchebag.
@@actnow3 Personally I’m white and If I found that I wouldn’t fear for my life but I would be pretty spooked
Damn, the band kids really elevated their marching formations
Thought the same thing. (What we said in high school) Marching band anyone? Nah, they're just practicing for later in the woods.
As a former marching band kid I truly appreciate your words
Right? That's what always cracked me up the most about this scene - the choreographed marching sequences, LOL. I think it actually went right over most people's heads.
i'm surprised Pete and Everett didn't grab Delmar and use him as battering ram to get through the crowd he's shorter than them like without a paddle tom and jerry used Dan as a battering ram to get through a wall
As a band kid I approve of this comment
I love how the cyclops was defeated by burning wood to the face, just like in the real Odyssey
Still makes me laugh too 😂
@@warriorsorb1111 same😂
idk if I'm stupid for never realizing this, or if you're a genius. Either way, much obliged partner.
@@boxybob6976 it is well-known that Oh, Brother Where Art Thou is a retelling of The Odyssey. Now, go rewatch it with this new awareness and have your mind blown again!💚
@@hollyholy641 Yeah nah i was aware of that but i hadn't considered that there might still be little details and references to uncover after 10 viewings. Guess the 11th's tonight.
This scene was truly creepy in every sense. The weird choreography, the music, and even the lighting which I studied in college (cinematography). All brilliantly captured the oddities and atmosphere I imagine, since I had never been to one of these gatherings. lol, Wow. "Colorguard colored?" Hats off to the crew on this one.
yeah i would hope you hadn't gone to one of these gatherings
@@SlurpyTheDog fr he acting like its just something he haven't gotten around to
@@SlurpyTheDogIt's a good ole time trust me
The chanting sounds like the chanting of the flying monkeys in the wizard of oz
Odd that this scene starts out like a scene from the Wizard of Oz while the Klan sings hi-ho from Snow White. What a great allegory to Homer's Odyssey, with John Goodman as the cyclops.
I thought their song was suppose to be a homage to the "Oh We Oh" song in the Wizard of Oz.
@@willpickering3873 Yeah but, they're definitely singing, "hi ho."
@@eddiemorrone870 It sounded more like "Eeny Meaney miney mo."
@@willpickering3873 Both phrases are in there.
@@eddiemorrone870 Yeah, you're right.
Imagine how scary it would be to find that though.
Seriously, this scene actually spooks me a little, I’d be gone pretty quickly.
I'd cry if I saw that. I wouldn't know what to do, but damn! This movie is actually funny
i live in the south so im scared i will soemtimes
I would run
Danielle Is a rat i saw 3 crosses with hooks on the side and it scared me
My favourite part is how the boys try to sing along to the chants when they are running up behind Tommy, and then instantly give up.
Except maybe the reveal of the dwarf. That’s amazing and cannot be touched.
As much as I hate the KKK, hearing the leader sing was my one of my favorite parts of the movie. Hell I loved how they shot the scene
It's perfectly orchestrated. The sinister piano accompanying the klansmen's chanting, the camera angles make the tip of their hoods look like shark fins, it's just amazing!
@Hattan AlShutaifi they're just Retarded af, There's OG Human Aryan, and "White" Aryan, OG Aryan being Coming from Countries or Areas of the Earth where Humanity and Civilization Started I.e Middle East and Egypt whilst being Humble af to other Races, and "White" Aryan is....Cringe, ya know what that is it's That Bullshit.
That voice and song is Nimrod Workman. Look him up
@Hattan AlShutaifi Ask the Arabs why they enslaved your folks and sold them to white folks. Hell even white folks were also enslaved by Arabs, the meaning of Slave (Slav, Slavic) originated from the people who were enslaved and lived in Eastern Europe. African Americans are not synonymous with slavery, other groups been through that as well. Pick up a book for a change instead of watching TikToks.
@Hattan AlShutaifi it’s just human nature, only thing you can do is just learn from it and move on.
"The color gaurd is colored" for some reason that made me laugh.
'Who made them colorguard.'
Made me spill my drink 😅
@ yeah but part of that conclusion also likely came from the fact that there were wearing dirt and a lot of other stuff on their face making them look less white and more like a colored person.
@ no such thing as colored people. Irish Catholics, Italians, and Jews were all considered barely white back in the day, now we're white no problem lol and in South Africa, Asians were considered "honorary whites"
Of course I’m colored! I’m Batman.
it should this entire movie is comedy the song they are singing in the start all menacingly is innie miny minnie moe
Its nice to see people getting out and socializing...
Joining the local Fraternity
No cellphones in sight. Just having a blast.
The look on Clooneys face when his hood gets taken off always cracks me up 😂
It reads “EXCUSE ME SIR! The audacity”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Everett: 😧
Delmar: 😲
Pete: 😯
George Clooney in black face I guess Hollywood Commies don’t have a problem with that
@@ksdthehammer1284 he's been rolling around in the dirt. It's not blackface. It's dirtface.
"Can let that flag touch the ground!"
*immediately puts flag on the ground"
Glad that I wasn't the only one who noticed.
Pretty sure they was talkin bout the flag itself not the pole
Edit: nvm he had the flag upside down lmao so the flag did touch the ground
Directors should have caught that.
@@greatkentuckian9032 They probably did it on purpose.
The real hilarity was that it already did, they just didn't know it. After the boys bonked the color guard, they have to retrieve it from the ground. 2:30
“Hey dad, what rolls did you play in Hollywood?”
Klansman Extra: *sweats nervously*
Fire ghost! Ooooo
That's assuming every single person in that crowd was a man...
*roles
idk why but the horrifying off key chanting and out of tune piano mixed with the imagery really, really unsettled me first time i watch this.
Coen brothers did a great job introducing this scene
Boo!
Lmao
Yeah imagine stumbling across this in the middle of night all alone
Gotta say, my skin is whiter than any of of those klansmen and it scared the hell outta ME the first time I saw it.
@@freedomlover9560 yeah the albinos are lucky as hell if they come across that
Very scary, yet still not as scary as real-life people like this.
I love how he can catch a spear coming at him in the dark with those quick reflexes but can't take a few steps back or to the side to avoid a falling cross lol
He went to the prometheus school of running away from things
@@alexdraco9926 he graduated last in class
@@alexdraco9926 I knew this comment would be here lol
Lesson: don't gloat when there's a burning cross falling at you
Plot logic
It’s very refreshing to see people scared by this scene, it’s meant to be scary and this kind of thing is still going on even if they don’t always dress like ghosts and dance around.
Doesn’t seem so scary to me, just dudes dressed up as ghosts.
@@MrNoBody198 yes, but the representation of hatred doesn’t scare you at all?
@@MrNoBody198 if you were in this situation you probably would i guess
@@kris242
No, because I am not sheep.
@@gatsbymaguire
I’m white, so I don’t think I’d be the target lmao.
This scene is legitimately more scary than almost any horror movie I've ever seen. There's a huge sense of fear and dread that this scene captures so well.
I don't think you'd do well with dark comedies then lmao
@@HunterMagunter You have to realize that while the scene has a comedic undertone and ending, it depicts the very real and very cold organized brutality of the kkk pretty straightforward. It only takes a little empathy to see why someone would be really scared by that
@@pooperscooperltm6312 I think anyone watching a Coen Brothers movie is aware of who they are and what their humor style is, I don't empathize with someone taking a fictional movie scene seriously especially when the clan members get joked on
everybody’s saying this but i really don’t see it
@@awesome-xg4hl the way they seem to just fall into the scene accidentally and without warning is a very disturbing set up to me. Also the chanting Always gave me wicked witch of the west's evil army vibes, which has been very unsettling to me ever since I first say The Wizard of Oz when I was like 4.
Obviously once you get into the scene it's as much a comedy as the rest of the movie, but the opening of the scene is extremely well done.
George Clooney mannerisms really crack me up.
His perfomance here, in Burn after Reading, and The Men Who Stare at Goats was just phenomenal.
He was so funny in Burn After Reading.
Return of the killer tomatoes
There was this one line he did in Burn After Reading that really cracked me up. He comes in that apartment and immediately asks what type of wood the hardwood floor is. Maybe it just reminded me of a friend but and that's why its so funny but it's just, such a subtly goofy quirk lol
@@wesone7429 loved the first! Now i gotta watch that
Or the part where it slowly shows the wire cutters cut the wire and just take off running 🏃 lol
Eta: Several of the Extras in this scene happen to be African Americans. Several understandably felt it was rather a surreal experience! The marching reminds me of the monkey guards in the Wizard of Oz! I love how they thought up how to save Tommy! And Tommy cracked me up with 'The devil come to collect his due'! 😆
The KKK guys were definitely as organized in their marching as the monkey guards were.
This is probably one the scariest scenes I’ve seen in comedies in quite a while.
Batman, The Phantom, and Mr. Blue were so brave
@@blitzkrieg1941 impersonating a klansmen is very dangerous! And those three were brave enough to do it!
What about when they were marching past the wizard while he was singing? The top of all of those hoods looked like shark fins!
@@blitzkrieg1941 sure you would bud
@@FecklessCretin he wouldnt
The imperial wizard has one great voice
Indeed.
His one good feature.
pretty sure it's the lead singer in the actual Soggy Bottom Boys, or at least his voice
To me, that sounds like Ralph Stanley
Thats Ralph Stanley
That's Ralph Stanley bud..please listen to his music..it will set it mind to a simpler time
Imagine taking a hike in the woods and seeing this
It's the world's worst ghost convention
We watched this in HS, mandatory and this black kid in our class goes, “this is a black man’s nightmare!”
"The color-guard is colored!" 😲
They just look "colored" because they have dirt on their faces.
That had me dying during my freshman year.
Who made them the colorguard?
RUN BOYS !
Everett: That’s right, and I’m not just colored!
I’m Batman
teacher: why didn't you go at lunch?
the bathroom at lunch:
Your bathroom holds KKK rallies?
@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 What, yours didn't? Lucky
I can’t help but think of the Wizard of Oz (the original) and the guards at the witch’s castle. In any event a vintage spoof. Great film.
3:38 I love the little Three Stooges stumble they do
0:04 when the pre schoolers find the secret stash of snacks
🤣
This is à pi cture of life thé Young dont understand this day in time there is an activé kkk group in lufkin texas. Thé folks usée To .be good folks. Kkk is outdated
@@catheylunsford4461 what?
@@catheylunsford4461 are you Courtney's mom
And every kid when they find a red bull can
As intense this scene was u have to admit, they were on point with their movement
“Why don’t you play with the neighbor kids?”
The neighbor kids
One thing I always found funny about this film was how the singing voices for Everett, Homer Stokes, and Pete don't sound a thing like their speaking voices. Tim Blake Nelson's the only one who actually got to sing as his character.
Clooney attempted to but was unable.
@@radrook4481 that's a shame, considering his last name is Clooney....
First time I saw this movie years ago I thought to myself “How did they get Ralph Stanley to agree to be the voice of the grand master?” A couple years before he passed away I saw Ralph perform that song live. It sounded perfect even in his old age.
hes not called the grand master that rank is called the hydra and is not the leader of the kkk
“WE THOUGHT YOU WAS A TOAD”
This is the most realistic Klan video in Cinematic history. Its a great scene, we might not get like these scenes these days. Glad this was part of the movie
"now let's play 'Who Has The Silliest Thing On Under Their Robe!"
Nothing
Yes!!!!🤣
@@jamesferris2664 HOT SHOWER HOT SHOWER
"WE'RE SMART!"
Mr. Garrison you're a Klan member?!
The part where John Goldman catches the flag an inch from his face was by far the best
Not a popular movie in Georgia, where ceremonies like this still go on in the woods today. Classic line in the movie: "You see I belong to a certain secret society, I don't believe I gotta mention its name..."
I've seen a rally like this in North Georgia behind an abandoned church. They don't do the chanting or wear the robes though. Only ones that wear the robes is the highest ranking members. They pray and have a cookout while the cross burns. We get letters and phone calls all the time about them trying to recruit members. There are lots of KKK members but a lot never go to rallys to not show their identity.
@@BannedSports this is more like Alabama besides mississippi
Have you ever actually been to Georgia?
@@BannedSports The KKK use to have millions of members, now its less than ten thousand. So i mean, the scaryness of them is no longer a factor. Hell the Mexican Cartels are doing much worst, beheading children etc.
@@MrHammerman97 Really a different issue, a whataboutism if you like. You are comparing the white supremacy of the Jim Crow south to drug traffickers. The former is more insidious as it is ingrained in a whole culture whereas the other is straight up drug crime and frankly the worst of it occurs in Mexico. The latter has been recently overplayed as a scare tactic in any case. On the other hand the culture of the JIm Crow south and the myth of the lost cause is still with us today, maybe not as obvious but there nevertheless.
The scene is highly unsettling and frightening when you first see the movie. I remember as a kid when this came out feeling so scared for Tommy. Honestly any time I see this movie, when they first introduce this scene it's really scary.
You may not like these people, but that song was pure soul.
Think the guy singing is a real soul singer
White supremacists love black music
CAN'T LET THAT FLAG TOUCH DA GROUND!!
Lmao
Lmfao
And yet it does, but nobody seems to mind.
JimmySteller I know right? Idk why it’s so funny to me, but just the sound of his voice when he yells that is hilarious.
SKilledP0TATO Agreed. I also love his reactions when the flag is caught.
SNIP!! WHOOSH!! BOOM!! LMAO!!
The sound design is just impeccable in this scene.
I don’t know if this was the intention, but the silly dancing actually makes this even scarier for me. It kinda hammers home that feeling that you couldn’t get from just seeing it as is: seeing people so openly, even proudly, engaging in deep evil without seeing anything even slightly wrong with it.
The dancing I think better illustrates that, at least as well as a comedic film can since it can’t teleport you to a sincere Klan burning in person. They’re doing something ridiculous, and they really don’t see it that way.
"They’re doing something ridiculous, and they really don’t see it that way."
Well a lot of the point for this stuff historically was to be wild and out-there with a hint of mysticism and esoteric practices(the flaming crosses and white robes were partly for similar reasons), sort of the same line of thinking as the freemasons and other secret societies of the time.
They're making fun of their rituals with the dancing but that's probably exactly how their meetings went.
Is it really? I was curious how accurate this was. Looks like witchcraft to me.
@@lilafeldman8630 “lOoKs lIkE wItChcRaFt”
-someone who has clearly never read anything about witchcraft.
@@lilafeldman8630 Back then they did not dance but they did sing and some more facts for you, the one in red is called a hydra or titan and is not the imperial wizard. The imperial wizard wore a golden robe with a skull mask and a fancy crown.
@@GooberDapplewasn't the imperial wizard the one in purple robe???
@alexcholagh8330 Great question actually and YES but the purple robe came after William Simmons which had a orange robe with a skull mask and crown
lol even the horse had a mask...
I mean, the only matters is can the horse see...
There's Klan photos of their horses wearing a a Klan hoods
@@kyleshiflet9952
Really ? Is it not to much ? But okay, thanks for the tip...
@@rocketracoon9424 huh
@@kyleshiflet9952
I didn’t know that they really put masks on their horses.
Thank you for giving me the information...
Nice to see youtube has a sense of timing.
I cant be the only one who just noticed Big Dan only has one eyehole on his hood lol
people in the comments are calling him the "cyclops" which isnt his rank also the one in red a titan/hydra which is a leader of an entire state however the imperial wizard leads all 50 states
@@GooberDapple He's the cyclops because he literally has one good eye.
i love how they made it like the wizard of oz kind of with them marching around like that. the KKK imagery coupled with it makes for an image that's incredibly odd and evil
@@rjohnm666 right, i agree. but it's kind of silly even with the music, which to me makes it more disturbing; given the fact that it's a kkk ralley, and all the historical baggage that comes along with it. it's a weird parody or caricature.. which to me underscores or heightens the symbolism of it.. what the whole thing represents. it makes something very familiar (something very evil from our history) seem weird and unfamiliar, which adds to the disturbing-ness of it ..that's just my take on it anyway.
1:13 looked like a lot of shark fins going back and forth
They may as well be.
The best scene from the most underrated movie of all-time.
Love this movie.
Of course it's 'underrated'.
That's the buzzword to use at the moment.
In fact, the very word is underrated.
You can not be serious. @Samson I swear people come on here and say Muhammed Ali was underrated just for attention
Uh no actually it was one of the biggest movies at its time
5:17
He may have caught that flag. Let's see if you can catch this cross
Staring instead of getting out of the way?
A burning one for that matter
Funny how the cyclops both here and in the odyssey were defeated by wood to the face. Pause.
No phones, no social media, just people being outside with each other.
you know lots of the actors in this scene were people of color
How can that be? Whoever heard of "people of color" in the Ku Klux Klan?
Michael Palmieri The actors were
Bc it was for the movie
@@michaelpalmieri7335 because this is a film. They didn't go and find the real KKK my dude...
@@quigley61
Did I say they did?
"It's free real estate!"
-Arthur Morgan, 1899
not a cell phone in sight just a community come together man you love to see it
4:32 Clooney's face is priceless lol!
Stokes: Color guard is colored!
“Of course I’m colored. I’m Batman.”
Robert Downing Jr. Twin
Ok, so we watched this in my reading class recently. They were fighting in a Bush and this was the last thing both me and my friend expected to see. We couldn’t help but start laughing due to the fact that the KKK came out of nowhere and were marching and dancing with the shocked look on each of their faces. We werent laughing when they were gonna hang tommy tho bc he was my favorite character tied with Everett.
This scene epitomizes the scary reality of illegal behavior out in the woods. - anyone should be scared to come across a scene like this - thank God they are not around doing this anymore
👀 oh they are, they just hide it better.
Look up "sun down towns"
They still do it, if you think racists are gone from America you’re asleep
Oh, you sweet summer child.
Now they just have badges
Imagine doing that, wouldn't be me, ever.
back then it was common to be apart of this
@@dubb9020 it was not common... some of the people were part but it was on no ways common
Not a KKK Member guess mustaches aren’t allowed huh.
You seem legit
Larry Smith Accepted by some yeah but not a “sign of respect” in anywhere but the most backwards corners of the south
You could stop this movie in any frame and it still looks realistic. Incredible great acting!!!
I'd know that singers 'Oh Death' voice anywhere. He grew up in my neck of the woods. One of my favorite singers.
The coloured guard joke makes me think of Blazing Saddles 😂
“Where are the white women at?”.
🤣
One of my former bosses hated this movie. Loved movies otherwise. I flat-out told him I hated him for hating this. A brilliant movie. We laughed and got along great after that. Agree to disagree and we could end wars.
2022 couldn’t handle this movie.
Not even 2015 could handle this.
This and Django unchained is basically a documentary on the sophisticated culture of the KKK 😂😂😂
M M The question is can these guys see?
Chase Kaplan , idk but it be nice to see ! It only matters if the horse sees i guess.
Movies make them out to seem really backwoods and not very intelligent. But as someone who lives in the Deep South, you’d be surprised at the kinds of people who took part and still do take part in the Klan. People from lawyers to gas stations clerks. I even met a old man once at work that showed me some of his belongings from his klan days. It’s insane
@@calebdowling8651 Criminals, all of em.
@@naughtydog201 this time it's full regalia?
The beginning of this scene is Midsommar levels of terrifying.
This reminds me of the scene from The Wizard of Oz outside the Wicked Witch of the West's castle, with the guards. It even has the three protagonists sneaking in disguised in enemy uniforms.
Her: "He's probably cheating on me."
Me and the boys:
yikes
LOL yes
This is way worse than cheating, but sure (unless "me and the boys" refer to the people who ruined the meeting, than it's absolutely based and heroic)
@@mshaqed2538 it's up to interpretation my friend.
He's talking about making movies.
I hope he's talking about making movies...
This shit used to scare me as a kid, livin' in the upper south, you don't hear bout it happenin' anymore too much.
Cause of David Duke he killed the Klan by basically saying the Klansmen from the 50s and 60s were dumb hicks the same men who blew up some many buildings in Birmingham earning it the nickname of Bomingham the same men who pull off the Mississippi Burning Murders and many other atrocities
I'm from SC. Every once in a while I here something about it. They're definitely still around.
@@bobcat420 but not as strong as the 20s and 30s
@@kyleshiflet9952 oh yeah, I know lol I meant to say that thanks
@@kyleshiflet9952 Thank the lord it’s at least died off a bit. Poisonous wound in the South.
"The Colored Guard is Colored!"
I like the song "Oh Death" and like the singer's voice.
If you listen to the full recording of "O Death" it's chilling
Agreed
This scene is trippy af
...It’s honestly sad to see so many adults triggered by this scene.
@@AmericansikkuntWhy would anybody get triggered?
As much as you, me or anyone else for that matter may hate the KKK, you can't deny that the choreography in this scene was really well done.
Facts
This is literally the Wicked Witch of the West's bodyguards 😂
Caused by the men of your rival, General Robert E. Lee 😂
As scary as this scene is, it's still one of my favorite scenes 😂🙊🙈
5:06
For some reason, I’ve always imagined that that’s how his right eye was messed up in the first place
This scene is fantastic, scary and funny at the same time! Amazing movie!
This scene was definitely a personal "WTF?" moment for me. Back around 1979 we went to visit family in Arkansas and our cousins showed me and my sister stuff inside their dad's closet. They opened this chest and on top was a confederate flag. I was 8 and who didn't like the Dukes Of Hazzard? They handed it to us and then pulled out a little white robe. And a little white pointy hood. We had no idea what it was at the time, but it clearly belonged to their dad, who happened to be a little person. 😐
mini Klansman half the height\double the hatred
"The Color Guard is Colored! Who made them the Color Guard?" Rotfflmao!!!!
4:44 lol at the cc "Carl got his color homemade Nutella God"
No i cant🤣🤣🤣
Imperial Wizard song slaps harder than my dominatrix.
I saw this movie last week, this scene really hit hard, it felt so real.
"dammit, dave, you're marching all wrong, we need to start this whole thing over..."
*"THE COLOR GUARD IS COLORED? WHO MADE THEM THE COLOR GUARD?"*
As a Catholic I had to grin when he said "Papists!"
Why is that
@@yulee3266 Papist is an insult against Catholics, basically a religious based slur.
@@kevincass9917 interesting
Ironically they copied the Catholics in Spain for their outfits
3:21 "Hooraaaaay" 😅 they sound so unenthusiastic the way they say it lmao
The idea of them getting smacked by a flaming telephone pole... so satisfying.
It was a wooden cross
2:37 Imagine if they did the salute💀
00:45 Ralph Stanley amazing artist, with true American folk music
Goodness me this is one of my favourite films
Great scene and the Klan in this very tuneful, but ridiculous and that cross falling very cleverly filmed
The Coen Brothers are simply brilliant
Only the Coen Bros. can make the Ku Klux Klan look like amazing dancers.
Yes, the kkk are a bunch of d**ks but yes they are good dancers
I hate the kk with all my heart, but the chant at the beginning was pretty cool
But his is pleading to satan for more power
O Death by Ralph Stanley
It’s a classic Gregorian chant used for centuries. Wizard of Oz and Snow White even used it.
This song is sung by the late Ralph Stanley. Amazing voice.
The nodding after catching the flag always kills me 😅
Me too.
Her: "he's probably cheating on me"
Me and the boys at 3am: 0:19
This scene terrified me. We watched in class and I almost screamed when it first showed up.
They stole the robes from the spanish religious holidays, some countries still wear similar ones but with a different meaning
Ghosts can be scary.
LOL!
One of the most frightening scenes in all moviedom. Awesome movie.
This is one of the greatest scenes in movie history.