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The title is related to the Preston Sturges film, Sullivan's Travels (1941). In the older movie, Sully, the main character in the movie (also a movie producer), wants to make a film about the poor. So in order to get a factual film about them he sets out with only ten cents in his pocket. When things start to get too hard for him he pulls out and goes back to his normal life. At one point, a homeless man steals his shoes (which has his identification in them in case something happened to him) and runs off. Later in the film we find out that the same homeless man knocks Sully in the head and drags him onto a train. Karma eventually catches up with the man when he is hit by a train. The body, which was completely unidentifiable, was found with Sully's shoes, and therefore Sully was assumed dead. Sully eventually gets into his own trouble and is sent away for six years to a work camp. Eventually he sees that he's dead from seeing a paper and he says he committed the murder. After being freed, the film that he wanted to make was "O Brother, Where Art Thou?". The only reason that Sully didn't want to make it is because he saw what suffering really was, and that comedy is the only thing that some people have, so he decides to make a comedy instead of this so to be "epic movie." He understands that the poor really do have it hard and he wouldn't want to make a movie about their hard times, because they know about them already. They would rather see a comedy to make them laugh.
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