Red Dead Redemption 2: 18 Easter Eggs And References You Totally Missed
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Fans of Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou? may be quick to point out that the film is set in 1937, 38 years after the events of Red Dead Redemption 2, but the film is still referenced in the game, as one of the many random interactions that perforate the world.
When travelling through the border between Lemoyne and West Elizabeth, players may come across a chain-gang comprised of three individuals. Feigning a fight, they murder the marshals transporting them and take off into the woods to escape, in a similar fashion to how the trio of McGill, Hogwallop and O'Donnell do in the Coen Brothers Depression-era story.
As a side, go watch the film while you're at it. You won't be disappointed!
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
