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Aside from the story itself the film has great visuals, some amazing one liners and incredible acting performances - especially considering the lengths actors went to in order to get into character for just a 20 minutes segment of a film. It could also have ended with a different short as the 5th story for me (and the gold panning segment) was arguably the best.

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But the subversion of that expectation I also admire, my brain was just full of the interesting situations that could have unfolded had these characters come into contact with each other - as per a Tarantino film. I understand these shorts are independent of one another but had they intersected in some way I think there could have been a much more satisfying conclusion. Buster Scruggs: Well, it looks that when they made him, they forgot to put in the quit. Buster amusedly acknowledges that hes got that, at least.

In between singing songs, the trapper regales the passengers about his life on the frontier and his sexual relations with a Comanche woman. Starring: Liam Neeson,James Franco,Tim Blake Nelson. Determinator: After Buster blows away all of his gun hands fingers, he still tries to draw with his off hand. In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' ending chapter, a lady (Tyne Daly), a trapper (Chelcie Ross), a Frenchman (Saul Rubenik), an Irishman (played by Coen directed The Tragedy of Macbeth 's Brendan Gleeson), and an Englishman (Jojo O'Neill) share a stagecoach ride together. Each of the stories are completely contained and the final short was one of the most disappointing for me ending in quite an anticlimax. Ranging from absurd to profound, these Western vignettes from the Coen brothers follow the adventures of outlaws and settlers on the American frontier. Of course, in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, some of the stories work better than others, but it's hard to pick a favorite. The performances, from the leads to those with one line, are wonderful. What was slightly disappointing was its lack of continuity. Art decoration, sets, costumes, makeup, music, and framing the stories with an 'authentic' book feel just right. Stories unfolded in the way only a Coen brother's film could - a style that I have always admired. Each story was completely different from the one either side of it and none were short of originality.

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During their introduction they mentioned how they wrote each chapter as a series of shorts over 25 years, and it certainly felt like this both in good ways and bad. Its soundtrack relies on a mix of traditional Irish and American songs alongside orchestral numbers to set the scene and music features prominently in each segment especially the film’s titular vignette which stars Tim. Buster then holsters his pistol, opens the door of the cantina for a wounded thug and sets off on Dan, for the nearby town of 'Frenchmans Gulch'. As The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs is a homage to the singing cowboy subgenre, music is an essential part of the movie. I was fortunate enough to see this at the LFF with the Coen brothers present. When the mans friends attempt to fire on Buster, Scruggs quickly guns the rest of them down as well before shooting the bartender who was in the act of reaching for a shotgun above the bar.