Extended Reading
  • Reva 2022-04-22 07:01:23

    maybe six and a half

    Of course, I personally like the Coen brothers too much. Although the rhythm and order of the screenwriters and producers remain unchanged, they will never make people feel boring and boring. With their extreme humor and unique intellectual perspective, they inject the absurd into reality. This new...

  • Theresa 2022-04-21 09:02:03

    What is it like fluttering, a seagull in the world

    six stories

    The first story, neat and tidy, tells about a person’s karma in twenty minutes, the second story, it is a blessing in disguise, just ten minutes condenses the joys and sorrows of life, the third story, loneliness and sorrow, heaven and earth The inhumane regards all things as a dog. The...

  • Dejon 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    It's rare now that you can decide what you like in five minutes. I like the first and third stories the most.

  • Elsa 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    Not so good, it tried to use a chaotic way to represent the noir burlesque and red horror of old Hollywood, and it turned out to be meaningless. The only really worthwhile one is "Golden Valley," which upends our expectations for a tragic ending to the Coen brothers. Five out of six films, the endings are similar, and the plots are neither painful nor itchy, which will make people feel tired.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs quotes

  • Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): [Buster blows off the fingers of the right hand of Curly Joe's brother, who screams and clumsily tries to draw with his left] Whoa! Looks like when they made this fella, they forgot to put in the quit. Five fingers at a bullet a piece...

    [turns to the camera, grinning]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): I ain't got but the one bullet left. Sure hope I don't miss!

    [turning his back to Curly Joe's brother, he points the gun backwards and studies his target on a hand mirror]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): Let me see here. His heart would be on the left, but in the mirror it'd be on the right... of course, we is both facing the same way and the gun is upside down, so... Yeah, best not play it too fancy.

    [he shoots and Curly Joe's brother collapses to the ground, dead]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): Cause for reflection!

  • Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): [after killing Curly Joe by kicking a table and making him shoot himself with his own gun] I'm not a devious man by nature... but when you're unarmed, your tactics might gonna be downright Archimedean.