While experts and armchair analysts alike feared that the advent of home video in the 1970’s and 80’s would result in the collapse of movie theaters, they should have saved their concern for the streaming age ushered in by the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime. “And b) the final story … ties all the stories together and gives you a real reason for watching them … so I think it holds together gorgeously as a cohesive film.Like the recording industry before it, the film industry has sustained a seismic shift over the past decade and change- both in small movements made gradually and in giant, abrupt leaps. “I think what separates this one is that a) all of them are really great, in my opinion, so there’s not a weak vignette in there,” Nelson said. Nelson, meanwhile, called Buster Scruggs a “classic anthology movie.” That kind of permeates throughout it, and that’s what the film is about.” His co-star in that section, Hines, added, “The theme is that nobody gets out of here alive: We’re all stuck. I don’t think they’d do nearly as well on their own as they do as a whole.” “We had all of these stories and they were all Westerns and then they all started to relate to each other but kind of retrospectively, not consciously when we started doing it,” Joel Coen said.īill Heck, who stars in “The Gal Who Got Rattled,” said the film is “an ode to storytelling and different ways to tell story, and each one bleeds into the next and opens up the gates for the next one and feels very of a piece to me. While the Coen brothers said they never considered merging the different stories together to make a more cohesive larger narrative, they did notice connections between the various tales, which Joel Coen compared to songs on an album. I’d wonder what was going on with that, and then Joel called me about a year and half ago and said, ‘Alright, we’re going to do it.’ We need to meet you for dinner to talk about everything you’re going to need to start preparing: playing the guitar, pistol twirling, dancing - plus all of the words. “ said, ‘We’re going to be writing some other ones over the ensuing years, and when we have enough we’re going to make a film out of it,’ and I said, ‘Alright, I’m in whenever you do it.’ You know it would nag on my mind now and again. Tim Blake Nelson, who plays the eponymous Buster Scruggs in the film’s first story, first got involved with the project in 2002. We looked at ’em and we thought, ‘OK, that’s a good order.'” They kind of fell into an order by virtue of the way we wrote them. We probably didn’t expect to make them until maybe eight or 10 years ago, when we started thinking, ‘Well, maybe we can do these all together.'”Įthan Coen added, “We didn’t really think of an order. They were short movies and we didn’t know what we would do with them. “They follow, with kind of a couple exceptions, in chronological order in terms of when they were written, roughly,” Joel Coen said of the stories. The stories that make up the anthology in the movie, the Coen brothers explain, were written over a period of 25 years, with the order in which they appear being almost the same as the sequence in which they were written. Indeed, Buster Scruggs does exist as a film, and while it’s now streaming on Netflix, the movie was screened at a number of the fall film festivals - including Venice, where it had its world premiere - and the title got one of Netflix’s rare pre-streaming theatrical releases, which the service is giving selected, awards-contender films this year.
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