The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs Book Review. Each is in a different setting with its own complex, often unexpected characters. If, as ciaran suggests, the western genre is sneaking once more into our collective consciousness as a type of nostalgic trojan horse, then the coen brothers have trained this particular steed to kick its meaning straight into the.
The ballad of buster scruggs, written and directed by joel and ethan coen, two segments based on stories by jack london and stewart edward white respectively. Each of the six stories is has its own attraction. The many actors who give life to their characters all help to make each tale complete unto itself.
Still, there's not one sequence in that film that holds a candle to buster's showdown with surly joe and its subsequent rousing ensemble number (featuring the wittiest lyrics in recent memory:
Discovered it's just the screenplay and has nothing that isn't in the movie. The ballad of buster scruggs is, at its core, about the finality of death. The stories are all related, and they are all about death. “the ballad of buster scruggs” is one of the darkest movies by joel and ethan coen, and also among the silliest.