Sei storie, ognuna delle quali rappresentano un aspetto della vita nel Far West.Sei storie, ognuna delle quali rappresentano un aspetto della vita nel Far West.Sei storie, ognuna delle quali rappresentano un aspetto della vita nel Far West.
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Candidato a 3 Oscar
- 6 vittorie e 38 candidature totali
Alejandro Patiño
- Cantina Bartender (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")
- (as Alejandro Patino)
Clinton Roberts
- Cantina Scum (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")
- (as Clinton Robert)
Recensioni in evidenza
Finally a movie that feels genuine start to finish and a movie that entertains.
You are never sure where it starts and where it will end,all the characters immediately feel real without wasting any time.
And perhaps most importantly, this is a movie that does not insult your intelligence like almost all other movies do.
This movie has an accumulative effect. The stories range from funny to grim to harrowing to ironic to haunting to horrifying. You barely have time to recover from one before you're thrust into the next one. The format is set up as a dime Western book where we get to see six of the stories. There is a real authentic western feel to them. A real grit.
Bruno Delbonnel's cinematography is spectacular. Wide sweeping vistas, majestic mountains, stylized towns, all beautifully captured. There's also a surreal feel to some the stories. Imagine if 'Pulp Fiction' were all western stories. And on that train of thought, TBoBS succeeds in many areas where 'The Hateful Eight' did not. A great collection of short movies by the Coen Brothers.
Bruno Delbonnel's cinematography is spectacular. Wide sweeping vistas, majestic mountains, stylized towns, all beautifully captured. There's also a surreal feel to some the stories. Imagine if 'Pulp Fiction' were all western stories. And on that train of thought, TBoBS succeeds in many areas where 'The Hateful Eight' did not. A great collection of short movies by the Coen Brothers.
When they remade TRUE GRIT, the Coen Brothers clearly thought there weren't enough John Ford westerns -- I agree with them -- so they offered the audience one. With THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS they clearly think there aren't enough movies offering the strengths of the classic B and short westerns: open vistas, lone prospectors, wagon trains, bank robbers, cattle rustlers, gunslinging, moralizing singing cowboys who wander the barren west, strumming their "Radio King" guitars for their horses, and five people inside a stage yarning to each other. So they stuck together half a dozen stories, got their usual assortment of top talent and offered them to us. I am extremely grateful.
Their cinematographer, Bruno Delbonnel, offers us a variety of lighting. I was most impressed by his choices for "The Girl Who Got Rattled", which is staged like posters for WESTWARD THE WOMEN and lit like the covers for Louis Lamour paperbacks in the 1960s. There's an air of artificiality that pervades the movie. That's common enough for the Coens, who like to mock their dead cinematic peers, but. like HAIL, CAESAR shows their fondness for their subject.
Their cinematographer, Bruno Delbonnel, offers us a variety of lighting. I was most impressed by his choices for "The Girl Who Got Rattled", which is staged like posters for WESTWARD THE WOMEN and lit like the covers for Louis Lamour paperbacks in the 1960s. There's an air of artificiality that pervades the movie. That's common enough for the Coens, who like to mock their dead cinematic peers, but. like HAIL, CAESAR shows their fondness for their subject.
The first 17 minutes were the highlight, and it went downhill from there. That first segment, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", was excellent. I could watch an entire movie based on that character, played extremely well by Tim Blake Nelson. It was interesting and funny.
"Near Algodones" kept me interested, and I enjoyed the characters, but there was no take away, so it kind of fell flat.
"Meal Ticket" was worthless and should have been cut altogether. It was extremely boring and sad.
"All Gold Canyon" and "The Gal Who Got Rattled" were enjoyable and interesting. Good characters and beautiful cinematography. Both segments kept my interest.
"The Mortal Remains" had some interesting dialogue but it fell off and didn't seem to have a point.
So one segment was fantastic, three others were pretty good, and two were completely forgettable. A mixed bag, but I generously give it a 6/10.
"Near Algodones" kept me interested, and I enjoyed the characters, but there was no take away, so it kind of fell flat.
"Meal Ticket" was worthless and should have been cut altogether. It was extremely boring and sad.
"All Gold Canyon" and "The Gal Who Got Rattled" were enjoyable and interesting. Good characters and beautiful cinematography. Both segments kept my interest.
"The Mortal Remains" had some interesting dialogue but it fell off and didn't seem to have a point.
So one segment was fantastic, three others were pretty good, and two were completely forgettable. A mixed bag, but I generously give it a 6/10.
Beautifully observed vignettes which give believable insights into the lives of early settlers to the Wild West. Ironic, tragic and sometimes comic, each one is entertaining in its own way and serves as a reminder of the harshness of the time.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizThe poker hand Buster Scruggs refuses to play in the saloon is a two-pair of black aces and eights, known as "the dead man's hand." According to legend, that was the hand 'Wild Bill' Hickok had when he was shot in the back of the head and killed by Jack McCall.
- BlooperAfter the Cowboy in Near Algodones is about to get hanged for the first time, the horse wanders from its initial spot under the tree. If the rope around the Cowboy's neck is long enough to let the horse wander that far, he would have landed on his feet if the lawmen had had luck fulfilling the deed. Also, the rope changes angle in closeups vs. in landscape footage.
- Citazioni
Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): There's just gotta be a place up ahead where men ain't low-down and poker's played fair. If there weren't, what are all the songs about? I'll see y'all there. And we can sing together and shake our heads over all the meanness in the used-to-be.
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- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingue
- Celebre anche come
- La balada de Buster Scruggs
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Stati Uniti(location)
- Aziende produttrici
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- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 13 minuti
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- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1
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