Yet the way the mood of these individual parables shifts between comic (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) and tragicomic (Meal Ticket, in which Harry Melling’s armless, legless actor is outshone by a clever chicken), throwaway (Near Algodones) and lingering melancholy (The Mortal Remains), makes more sense when you consider the scope of the directors’ wider filmography. Its writer-directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, decided instead to jam the episodes violent.
#CHICKEN MATH BUSTER SCRUGGS SERIES#
When Scruggs realizes that his arrogance has finally gotten the better of him, as he looks upon the bullet hole in his hat, Nelson humanizes a brazen jackass. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was originally conceived and shot as a six-episode series for Netflix.
All six parts are western-themed, and indeed a lineage can be drawn between this film and the Coens’ previous frontier excursions, including Blood Simple (1984), No Country for Old Men (2007) and True Grit (2010). In the opening segment, Nelson’s gleefully sociopathic portrayal of Scruggs sets up the film’s uniquely cynical tone. I s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs a TV show or a film? Conceived as a collaboration with Annapurna Television, distributed by Netflix and comprising six shortish vignettes, on paper, Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest project seems like the former, though it functions as the latter.
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