Both Neeson and Melling provide the strongest acting of the six parts, with no dialogue interaction between them. None of the speeches are particularly entertaining. The act is a one-man show, the actor giving famous verses from Percy Bysshe Shelley, to ‘The Gettysburg Address,’ to Shakespeare’s sonnets. An Impresario ( Liam Neeson) and his attraction, an actor ( Harry Melling) suffering from congenital amputation, traverse from small-town-to-small-town during the dead of winter. ‘Meal Ticket,’ the third chapter, might be the cruelest of the sextet. Instead, there’s greater odds that they’ll fail spectacular through random chance. There’s not even a guarantee of the protagonist succeeding. But much like ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,’ there is no hero. The segment is relatively short, comparative to the other chapters. The set-up is relatively simple, a young thief comes to a bank in the middle of nowhere.The teller also appears to be a typical Western coot. The second part, ‘Near Algodones,’ stars James Franco as a bank robber and Stephen Root as a teller. Shot from a low angle, he upends the cliched Western hero.
Wearing white, he upends the color coding of the genre. Because of it, from the first shot to the last, we trust Buster, even as he’s gunning down people for just being plain impolite. The Coens achieve a violent milieu, playing off the outlaw genre convention by breaking the fourth wall. Known as the San Sabba Songbird, yet described as a “misanthrope,” his warbling voice and strumming guitar belie his lightning quick gun. The character is nice, polite, and a sociopath. The first part, entitled ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,’ follows a Cowboy troubadour named Buster Scruggs ( Tim Blake Nelson). Oddly, even with the changing states, casts, and seasons, each portion of the sextet profoundly strings to the other.
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Originally, the film was supposed to be a series of shorts (the present stories were worked on by the Coen’s over the course of 25 years). There’s no star of the film, as each chapter relies on a singular and unique cast. Rather we’re taken through varying states and territories and seasons (though the shots were only done in Nebraska and New Mexico). Literally taking on the appearance of a book, published in 1873, running over the course of 133 minutes, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is as reliant on life and fate’s brutal eccentricities as No Country for Old Men and True Grit, while incorporating and morphing the reverberations of the Western genre with the Coen brothers’ oddball humor.Įach chapter of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs has its own feel, as the Coens don’t confine their stories to one portion of the West. Their newest venture, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is broken into six chapters.
Joel and Ethan Coen have made No Country for Old Men and True Grit, both films playing with the cruelty of chance.
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Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.Few major directors of recent memory have become as intimate with the Western as the Coen Brothers. Netflix is reportedly releasing the film in theaters on November 16.
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” also stars Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, James Franco, and Zoe Kazan. Somebody cast these guys in another horse movie, stat! Same with the white horse Rusty in Robin Hood we chatted again on Les Mis. Years later he was on the set of Robin Hood and we would have a chat everyday. There’s a horse George who I gave the speech in the forest in Gladiator on. Same with the white horse, Rusty, in Robin Hood. Years later he was on the set of Robin Hood and we would have a chat every day. There’s a horse, George, who I gave the speech in the forest in Gladiator on. Russell Crowe, who co-starred with Neeson in Paul Haggis’ 2010 thriller “The Next Three Days” was quick to back up his buddy, tweeting: “This is absolutely true. Gave him apples … He whinnied when he saw me. When we worked together before I took special care of him. He actually remembered me from another Western we made awhile back. When asked to follow-up, he added: “You won’t believe it. “The odd thing is the horse who pulls my wagon knew me,” Neeson said.
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