They then quickly lose hope, while Ulysses doesn't give up and instead makes a plan. .
The filmmaker in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?- uses this to his advantage, playing very much on the comic side of the misadventures of these two. One funny scene that very much highlights this comic side is the scene where Pete is captured after being abandoned by the Sirens. Delmar sees a toad hop out of Pete's clothes and thinks that Pete has been changed into a toad. They are both very gullible, but funny and lovable characters.
He uses the Cyclops from the text in his film, but transforms the traditional monster into a modern monster- a greedy man posing as someone trustworthy. He creates the one-eyed bible salesman to take this role. The greedy one-eyed bible salesman does turn out to be a monster, attacking the men and stealing from them. He is also portrayed as a monster as he is later shown as being part of the Ku Klux Klan, and his image being a fat, greedy man.
The blind Negro Seer in the film replaces the Seer in the underground that is used in the text. He appears just as they had fallen off the train, at a point where they need some help. Just like the underground seer, he gives some good news and some bad news, informing them that they will not find the treasure they seek, which is true as there is no such treasure, it was just a story told by Everett to get Pete and Delmar to help him escape. The good news is that they will find treasure of another sort.
Another similarity between the two stories is seen in the beautiful song of the sirens. It attracts the three men in the film, and is dreaded by the men of Ulysses, but just as Ulysses longs to listen to their song, Everett and his men are lured by it. And in the same way that Ulysses says he would "gladly have sacrificed my life for the sound of their voices- Pete is caught in a life threatening situation when the Sirens abandon him to the police.