It is about a man whose name is Ulysses Everett Mcgill. ... The three men- Ulysses (Everett), Delmar, and Pete- have already escaped from prison, and we do not learn of the reasons of their imprisonment until later. ... He beats up Ulysses (Everett) and Delmar and steals their money and their car; But that's not the last they see of Big Dan Teague. ...
For example, the main character of the movie is Everett Ulysses. It is widely known that Ulysses is the Roman name version of Odysseus. ... In the movie, we also see that Ulysses is also skilled with his tongue because he tricks Pete and Delmar into helping him escape by promising them treasures when in all actuality there was no treasure and his real motive was to get home to his wife Penny. ...
He says, Moreover, just as an epic poet, if he is scrupulous and disinclined to break the rules, undertakes to extol not the whole life of the hero whom he proposes to celebrate in his verse, but usually one event of his life (the exploit of Achilles at Troy, let us say, or the return of Ulysses, or the arrival of Aeneas in Italy) and passes over the rest (685) This view of the classical epic may be justified, but its authority hardly applies to the task or "event" that "Paradise Lost" undertakes to explain. ...
