BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS MOVIE

The stories also all contain classic aspects of the old west - standoffs, outlaws, gold digging - and some are more directly based on actual existing stories than others. While the stories vary from one about a singer/sharpshooter to one about the Oregon Trail, they all involve death in some way, whether it's someone being killed (which happens often) or a dead person being transported on a covered wagon.

'We probably didn't expect to make them until maybe eight or 10 years ago, when we started thinking, 'Well, maybe we can do these.'' 'They were put in a drawer, because they were short movies, and what were we going to do with them?' Joel said.

BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS MOVIE

In this case, though - and as is clearer with some of the more outlandish sections of the movie - the stories primarily come from Joel and Ethan Coen themselves, with a couple of them being more directly inspired by existing work.Īccording to CBS News, the Coens explained during a press conference in October that they wrote the stories about 25 years ago. After all, there are a lot of stories about the American west out there. This makes it seem that there might be some sort of source material outside of the Coen brothers' minds that the film is based on. The movie is an anthology with six different stories, all about the wild west, and between each story the pages of a storybook are shown flipping on to the next tale.

In the Coen brothers' latest film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the actual ballad of Buster Scruggs is only one-sixth of the experience.

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