O Brother Where Art Thou Analysis

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Do you think O Brother, Where Art Thou is a epic? The Odyssey was written by Homer. O Brother, Where Art Thou was made by Coen brothers. Are both of them comparable to each other or they different each other. The Odyssey is a epic and O Brother, Where Art Thou is half a epic.
The movie is half a epic because they take adventures like the story but the characters are not heroic. An epic is a long poem and the poem needs adventures of heroic or legendary figures. An epic is typically one derived from ancient oral tradition. O Brother, Where Art Thou is half epic and The Odyssey is an epic. The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou both had adventures but The Odyssey had heroic adventures. The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou had a lot