{"id":3701,"date":"2016-04-18T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T06:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2016-04-18T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T06:48:36","slug":"the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-review-coen-brothers-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3701","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Review: Whimsical Death Looms Over the Coen Brothers\u2019 Western"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f I was faced with the unenviable task of recommending a single Coen Brothers film to a rookie unfamiliar with their oeuvre, I\u2019d probably pick <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ballad of Buster Scruggs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It\u2019s by no means their best (mainly because they\u2019ve made such an awful lot of movies), but because it marks a point in Joel and Ethan Coen\u2019s filmography where they can only parody their previous cinematic hang-ups <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a point which we want <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/the-adventures-of-abbaas-mastan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tarantino<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to arrive at before he stops altogether.<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Beware, here be spoilers)<\/span><\/i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThings have a way of escalating out here in the West,\u201d Buster Scruggs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a surprisingly unironical rendition of a singing Westerner on a horse, and also a wanted \u201cmisanthrope\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tells the audience within the first five minutes of the film. Within the next 10, he is dead. Buster realises he has been shot by his duelling opponent, only when he sees an almost well-ordered red smear and two holes on the either side of his pristine white cowboy hat. You will come to notice, that all <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/a-death-in-the-gunj-review-konkona-sensharma-vikrant-massey\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deaths<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in this Coen film are unceremonious, cruelly hurried, and they make very little mess <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that\u2019s the only thematic prop which connects the six stories, which the Coen Brothers wrote at different periods in their lives.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no anime-style blood gushing out from the arteries on a severed arm, or a blood-splattered rear-view mirror <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> again, all Tarantino. Death in this film doesn\u2019t get its moment (much like any other Coen Western). There is just the knowledge of an end and its context, which again is just cause and effect. This is a good time to point out that this is the first Coen Brothers film to be shot on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/modern-jobs-fancy-designations\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">digital<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and note the over-eager liberties they could have taken <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they don\u2019t.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The Coens\u2019 new Western goes beyond character tics, it\u2019s about who they are when no one\u2019s watching. The ballad is undramatic, self-aware and probably won\u2019t reach your conscience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They take some fantastic ones though, like casting Tom Waits in the role of a gold-digging (literally) prospector, in a god-in-his-valley kind of a role. Perhaps one of the finest cinematic performances of the year, Waits is a boisterous revelation. His lonely old camper act is as glistening as the raw gold he finds, and exactly as undaunted as you\u2019d want Tom Waits to be in a Coen Brothers\u2019 movie. By the way, death in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ballad of Buster Scruggs <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">only comes for the young, and the nearly middle-aged. The old survive, and they do so by physically prevailing over the young.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Coens\u2019 fellowship with the ageing shines through perfectly in Waits\u2019 sobs of rage. The same sentiment is also embodied in a sprightly old bank teller (played by a wonderful Stephen Root) who blackhat cowboy James Franco tries to rob. The story is called \u201cNear Algodones\u201d, and is the least Coen-esque of the lot, but has the basics of their signature overcast <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/who-wore-it-best-the-new-violet-100-rupee-note-or-the-saffron-200\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">humour<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Franco\u2019s outlaw is executed for a crime he didn\u2019t commit, but that doesn\u2019t surprise him as much as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/black-money-demonetisation-government\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bank teller<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s gleeful \u201cpan-shot\u201d attack, which is called so because the old man literally hangs a lot of pans on himself and marches up to the robber with a rifle. But then again, old men of the West in the Coen Brothers\u2019 imagination, have never been doddery.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s nothing very original about what the film tries to do, but there\u2019s novelty in what it stays away from. \u201cThere\u2019s very little that\u2019s completely original,\u201d Joel Coen told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2018\/11\/21\/arts\/ap-us-film-joel-coen.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cand I\u2019m not sure that that\u2019s even very interesting when it does happen.\u201d Too many good films this year \u2013 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Widows<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suspiria<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 have already traded in originality for perspective.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking of perspective, Liam Neeson\u2019s character does not have one in this movie. He just wants enough for himself. Perhaps the most macabre take on the artiste-manager narrative, Neeson plays an impresario who travels around with a completely limbless young man (Harry Melling aka <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/harry-potter-jk-rowling-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-eddie-redmayne\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dudley Dursley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) who recites Shakespeare and Shelley in a makeshift theatre. Neeson soon finds a different meal ticket and \u201chandles\u201d the handicapped artiste, but the execution of the scene is chilling and a marvellous kind of awkward.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lack of credible witnesses in the film is also a haunting prop. \u201cAnd in all that mighty sweep of earth he saw no sign of man nor the handiwork of man,\u201d the old gold rusher quotes Jack London (who his character is based on), as he looks around from atop a tree. No one saw Neeson push a crippled young boy off a cliff, not even the audience. James Franco, with hands tied, sits on his horse with a noose around his neck and just waits <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for a kind of end. Zoe Kazan\u2019s unwitting country girl kills herself without any knowledge of a possibility or an onlooker. No one\u2019s watching <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it is the simplest takeaway. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But as far as Westerns go, the film is merciful in its brevity. The narrative is pithy, the blood very little and it\u2019s all over too soon. The Coen Brothers recently criticised TV series for being so open-ended with their storylines. \u201c&#8230;they\u2019re beaten to death until they\u2019re exhausted and die. They don\u2019t actually have an end,\u201d Joel told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/11\/coen-brothers-wont-make-television-series-buster-scruggs-1202021001\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indiewire<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ballad of Buster Scruggs <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will have you know that the end is overrated, courtesy <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game of Thrones<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Coens\u2019 new Western goes beyond character tics, it\u2019s about who they are when no one\u2019s watching. The ballad is undramatic, self-aware and probably won\u2019t reach your conscience. Remember when some thugs let loose a mongoose in The Dude\u2019s bath? This anthology is its cinematic equivalent. That movie, by the way, was 20 years ago. Buster Scruggs won\u2019t age so great, but \u201cit\u2019s good knowing it\u2019s out there.\u201d<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like any other Coen Brothers\u2019 Western, death in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs doesn\u2019t get its moment. There is no Tarantino-esque blood gushing out from arteries on a severed arm, or a blood-splattered rear-view mirror. 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