John Goodman

John Goodman plays a one-eyed villain in Joel Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Big Dan Teague, a crooked Bible salesman and Ku Klux Klan enforcer. The archive's lead review for the month argues that what the film takes from the Odyssey really does work, and takes that part for the counterpart of the epic's one-eyed giant. Elsewhere in the archive a second piece has him in another film as an over-protective father; it grants him the effort but says he could not get the better of the material. He has thirty-four films here, and the archive opened a page for just two of them.