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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      2. One way into Buster Scruggs is to remember Coens' last film "Hail, Caesar" -- an ode to classic Hollywood (including the Western genre) but filled with foreboding that film itself was an art that was about to become obsolete.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      3. In "Hail. Caesar" a Lockheed executive tries to convince Hollywood fixer Eddie Mannix that movies are on the way out: "It’s a new age, Mannix, and we’re part of it; the industry you’re in—what’s the future there? What happens when everybody owns a television set?"

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      4. Having anticipated TV replacing film in "Hail, Caesar" the Coens have now made a movie for Netflix -- it has a limited theatrical release but let's face it, most people are going to see it on TV. Yet "Buster Scruggs" continues "Hail, Caesar's" tribute to Hollywood.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      5. "Hail, Caesar" had a singing cowboy (Hobie Doyle, winningly played by Alden Ehrenreich), a character-type that returns in "Buster Scruggs" but in a more sinister & violent form. So: a continued tribute classic Hollywood but with a harsher satirical edge.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      6. Whereas the western segment of "Hail, Caesar!" revelled in the simple charm of the singing cowboy, "Buster Scruggs" gives generic forms but without generic comforts. It's as bloody as a western but in cruel, punitive universe that punishes guild & innocence alike.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      7. The segments making up "Buster Scruggs" feature generic tropes & situations (shootout, new kid challenging old gunslinger, prospector, Oregon trial, stagecoach) -- the novelty comes from harsh, fast, unexpected & often amoral (even flippant) killings. Movie is a memento mori.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Tero Kuittinen

      8. This is (SPOILER ALERT), a fair reading of the segment titled "Meal Ticket":https://twitter.com/teroterotero/status/1064256940233113600 …

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      Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero
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      The legless, handless man reciting high literature & getting replaced by a scam chicken that dazzles idiots = movie industry getting thrown into a creek
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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018

      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 …

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    10. Nick Fox-Gieg‏ @n1ckfg 18 Nov 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @Jo_Livingstone

      What's the 0.056?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2018
      Replying to @n1ckfg @Jo_Livingstone

      The Ladykillers

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