Tim Blake Nelson as Buster Scruggs, singing and playing the guitar in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Big Picture The Ballad of Buster Scruggs may not be the best Coen Brothers movie, but it’s one that crystallizes their themes by using the Western as a canvas to explore morality and death. Buster Scruggs never tries to play it real as a historical Western with real people, but rather showcases the Western as it has been seen through cinema, complete with oversized characters against even larger vistas.
As a means of tying the six shorts together, the Coens end The Ballad of Buster Scruggs with a segment that metaphorically explores the passage into the afterlife; each of the characters resembles a "reaper" from Biblical scripture. The reapers in "The Mortal Remains" are the ones who are correct that only two kinds of people are "dead or alive," but that’s not to say they’re the only ones in the stagecoach who are right.
Liam Neeson Finds a New "Meal Ticket" and Kills the Artist Perhaps the most disturbing of all the segments, "Meal Ticket," starring Liam Neeson, focuses on an Impresario who travels with an artist named Harrison, who has no arms or legs but theatrically orates stories from history, mythology, and scripture. While the Impresario initially relies on the artist to have a career and serves as his caretaker, their profits begin dwindling.
While it looks like Alice's fate is turning up, the group soon sees an approaching war party. The other wagon leader, Mr. Arthur , hands Alice a pistol and tells her to shoot herself if he is killed, as the warriors would potentially kidnap and assault her. As with many of the shorts, "The Girl Who Got Rattled" ends on a tragically ironic note. Arthur survives the attack and kills the assailant, but, hearing the gunshot, Alice assumes that Arthur has been killed.
3:13 Related Joel Coen Thinks One of The Best Coen Brothers Movies Is "Pretty Damn Bad" Talk about being hard on yourself!
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