And it is hard to imagine studio suits lining up to release an anthology oater in six non-connecting parts, with no big box-office prospects and no overriding theme except for the omnipresence of sudden death. In Hollywood, they call this kind of cinematic leap of faith a hard sell. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is like no horse opera you’ve ever seen - imagine Blazing Saddles as directed by Ingmar Bergman. Try Joel and Ethan Coen, those filmmaking brothers from the dusty plains of suburban Minnesota who are famously fearless about moseying down new paths. Saddle up for a rowdy, rip-snorting, hilarity-and-hellfire western full of riding, fighting, hanging, shooting, gold prospecting and bloody massacres - plus silly songs, a limbless poet, cowboy love rituals and philosophical musings about the inevitability of dying.
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