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