1. "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" is catnip for Coen fans but (I suspect) a challenging film for more general viewers. It mixes hilarity with horror in Coen-esque way that is an acquired taste. It's a death-saturated Western, perhaps haunted by fear that cinema is dying.
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9. The Western genre has threaded through the Coens' career, even in movies that aren't explicitly Western (Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, No Country, Hail Caesar). So this film is also a call back to their career (especially True Grit) as well as classic Hollywood.
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10. Like all the good Coen films (they're batting .944 right now) it'll repay revisiting & discussion. My colleague
@Jo_Livingstone has some thoughts on films debt to earlier Hollywood:https://newrepublic.com/article/152263/ballad-buster-scruggs-coen-brothers-odd-paean-western …Show this thread
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@balladofbuster is amazing. I could find a bunch of other metaphors for the advent of the chicken beyond the decline of the film industryThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Ok, I’m gonna have to watch this.
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Repitition of Ozymandious and Gettsyburg Address made it feel like it was more contemporary political critique, but that seems unlike Coens.
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No, I think the politics are there
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Meal Ticket was by far the most scathing of the installments I've seen
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