Speaker 1: Will you wait? Miss?
Speaker 2: Welcome back midnight viewers to Anthologies Attack, where we take
Speaker 2: a look at anthologies of every media and every genre.
Speaker 2: I'm father alone and with me is my co host
Speaker 2: Antonio Lapour. How are you doing, Antonio?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 3: Well, Holly alone, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing very well considering what we're going to be
Speaker 2: talking about tonight. This is two in a row for filmmakers,
Speaker 2: though this one is an actual anthology. This one was
Speaker 2: released on November ninth, twenty eighteen. This is the ballad
Speaker 2: of Buster Scrugs.
Speaker 4: People are so easily distracted, So I'm the distractor with
Speaker 4: a little story. People can't get enough of them because well,
Speaker 4: they connect the stories to themselves, I suppose, and we
Speaker 4: all love hearing about ourselves. So long as the people
Speaker 4: in the stories are us, but not.
Speaker 3: Us, you will tail to tail. I'm bust, bust, your scruggs, your.
Speaker 1: Shoe and iron work.
Speaker 3: Payers to do years?
Speaker 5: Do you have anything to say for sentences carried out?
Speaker 1: What's my sense? Thanks?
Speaker 3: I have away escalate?
Speaker 6: Not here in the west, oh name it's AUSI Mandus
Speaker 6: king o King.
Speaker 3: That man is wonderful. I will just have to seem crazy.
Speaker 2: Business first, time. Yes, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was
Speaker 2: a written by Joel and Ethan Cohen and directed by
Speaker 2: Joel and Ethan Cohen. Well, I should point out that
Speaker 2: two of the stories here are based on previous materials.
Speaker 2: All Gold in the Canyon was written by Jack London
Speaker 2: and The Girl Who Got Rattled by Stewart Edward White.
Speaker 2: This one stars James Franco, Brendan Gleasee. This is in
Speaker 2: no particular order, James Franco, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Heck Grainger, Hinds,
Speaker 2: Zoe Kazan, Liam Neeson, Blake Nelson, John Joe O'Neil, Saw Rubinik,
Speaker 2: Tom Waits, Chelsea Ross that I mentioned Tyan Daily She's
Speaker 2: in it too. And this is as I said, This
Speaker 2: is an anthology film, a Western anthology film. Those are
Speaker 2: fucking rare. I can only think about a handful of them, honestly,
Speaker 2: like grim prairie tales. But six stories set in the
Speaker 2: American frontier, all in different sections of the American frontier,
Speaker 2: all the different landscapes, all the different experiences. Everything you've
Speaker 2: heard about of the American experience in the Old West.
Speaker 2: You're going to get a little slice of the bitterest
Speaker 2: parts of them. Antonio, I'm sure you've watched this immediately
Speaker 2: when it was released on the Netflix years ago. This
Speaker 2: is their first film that, although released technically in theaters,
Speaker 2: was a straight to video situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it.
Speaker 5: Was technically released in theater sports limited on and then
Speaker 5: writes in Netflix, but calling not straight the video, everything
Speaker 5: straight the streaming now'sas's last movie went straight the max,
Speaker 5: just like, at least get.
Speaker 3: A nice little.
Speaker 5: But that's a whole another thing, a whole other discussion.
Speaker 5: This is their last beating other too so far so Corney,
Speaker 5: anybody I've read that they've got something in the works again.
Speaker 3: They went and flunched their muscles on their own. Joel
Speaker 3: did the just phenomenal, sonomenal, sonomenal, phenomenal The Death with
Speaker 3: Denzel Washington and Francis mcdormott and Ethan did.
Speaker 2: Drive Away Dolls, Driveway Doll, which is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Is that christ over a Christian store?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no, it's Margaret quality.
Speaker 3: Margaret Qualley okay was creating it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And a lot of the sort of clever
Speaker 2: Coen Brothers dialogue, A lot of those clever Coen Brothers
Speaker 2: plot twists okay, fully on display. The more show body
Speaker 2: of the of their cinema, I think is in Ethan's Corner.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 2: I think if there's a there's a moment in a
Speaker 2: Coen Brothers movie like cinematically where you go like WHOA,
Speaker 2: why did that? Was cool? Probably even behind it all
Speaker 2: the solid filmmaking seems to be coming from Joel though, well.
Speaker 5: Because that was solid, and the way he does the
Speaker 5: one lady playing the three waitches, it's just all so good.
Speaker 5: Back from Buster Scrugs, which is a delightfully fun movie
Speaker 5: about death's.
Speaker 2: Hey, it certainly is that there are six tales presented
Speaker 2: to us. One of them is hopeful, only one really,
Speaker 2: and that one is provided by Jack London. Not exactly
Speaker 2: the like a laugh riot of a man, not even remotely.
Speaker 3: A laugh light of a man, but an amazing performance.
Speaker 2: From Tom Waits, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Comp her daughter was Tom Waits because I watched it.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it in a minute a year. I've
Speaker 3: seen it a few junks, but every time I'm kind
Speaker 3: of he said, I wish sheepen than bour things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as do. I always think about his performance in
Speaker 2: Rumblefish and Dracula and.
Speaker 3: The Cop Club, all the Cotton Club, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the other thing I think I'm thinking about
Speaker 2: lately because later this week I'm recording a podcast about
Speaker 2: pet Cemetery, the nineteen eighty nine movie is Fred Winn's
Speaker 2: performance in The Cotton Club is so fucking good as
Speaker 2: Bob hoskins right hand.
Speaker 5: Man, Cheed Gwinny's was a lot better than that pop
Speaker 5: culture understands.
Speaker 3: They just were all that was a guy from the Munsters.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, yeah, but he had this long ass
Speaker 5: career as a character actor too, Like he's was his
Speaker 5: last one?
Speaker 3: Was he the last way went the Judge in My cousin.
Speaker 2: Vimy, that's the last one I remember him in. Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Us anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 2: A perfect Southerner, and he's a perfect old Northern main
Speaker 2: fella in pet Cemetery anyway, That's neither here there we're
Speaker 2: talking about Buster Scruggs here, folks talking about the American West,
Speaker 2: talking about the Cohen Brothers. We're talking about let's just
Speaker 2: talk about the fact that and I love this movie
Speaker 2: starts and they've presented the film as if it's a book.
Speaker 2: So we see the book that this old sort of
Speaker 2: leatherbound novel that is the collection of these stories filled
Speaker 2: with plates like beautiful Wiler esque drawings of the essential
Speaker 2: scene from each of the vignettes we're gonna get, as
Speaker 2: well as a handy little quote underneath it that becomes
Speaker 2: all the more resonant when you see it like in
Speaker 2: context in the movie. I just love all of that
Speaker 2: sort of artifice. It reminded me of the Old West
Speaker 2: type pictures that they're pinballing against here before we get
Speaker 2: into the meat of each of the stories. Like overall,
Speaker 2: on rewatching this movie, it is all about death, and
Speaker 2: it is specifically about the death of the Old West,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the death of the Old West, death of the
Speaker 3: Western genre.
Speaker 2: That specifically, I think is what I mean. What we're
Speaker 2: given here in each of the stories are plays not
Speaker 2: only on the on the mythic elements of the American
Speaker 2: Old West, but on the way that it's been presented
Speaker 2: to us over and over again. We really in each
Speaker 2: of these segments we get little different genres of Old
Speaker 2: West storytelling that we've seen probably hundreds of time, but
Speaker 2: that their natural conclusions.
Speaker 5: On everybody does but Tom waits, But that's still that
Speaker 5: that death is the big part of it, and it
Speaker 5: is and it's just everything is oppened. Oh, and that's
Speaker 5: the way it goes. It's almost like a weird companion
Speaker 5: fist A Million Ways to Die in the West.
Speaker 3: It's like Parlotte movie. And again that's another movie about
Speaker 3: the Old West and death and the genre itself, like
Speaker 3: the examination of the genre. This is a very traditional
Speaker 3: Hollywood zone that it looks like it kind of just
Speaker 3: been made by MGMI.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised that it's not shot in Academy yet surprising
Speaker 5: it's not a one three three because just sort of
Speaker 5: a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, I think once you commit to that, though,
Speaker 2: you're you're restraining yourself. And because and when I think
Speaker 2: of American Old West pictures, I tend to think of
Speaker 2: the john Ford and I think of VistaVision, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: exactly technoscope.
Speaker 3: Well, what's the word how the West was One?
Speaker 5: Was it?
Speaker 3: The How the West was One? Which is three academies
Speaker 3: like smashed next to each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with three Bridge pictures sink down madness?
Speaker 5: Well, absolutely madness. I don't know, I watched that in school. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're right, But the sinners Algary's beautiful. This is Deacons
Speaker 5: and It's clearly Dickens is like the reads like Dickens
Speaker 5: or Robert Richardson. Robert Richardson is ali twig in the
Speaker 5: book and gives you the most. This is what Cinder
Speaker 5: is capable of with all my magic. And I love
Speaker 5: him and I think Casino might be the most beautiful
Speaker 5: shot will be ever. But there here those Deacons, He's like,
Speaker 5: all this gonna type whatever are caught in front of
Speaker 5: me and all the leg.
Speaker 3: Abuse, and he's just tasty. He no hood pa Deacons,
Speaker 3: no no, no no flares, no no no iris, the
Speaker 3: store shirt on, the anti mormic.
Speaker 5: Everything he does is clean and pristine, even with the
Speaker 5: santuating because a lot of it in Rust's products isn't
Speaker 5: super saturated. It's still wildly colorful. Like he just does
Speaker 5: a really great job. His stuff is always just a
Speaker 5: beauty to so just lovely the way he's I love he.
Speaker 5: I already talking about Deacons and then Richardson being almost
Speaker 5: the opposite and still being equally amazing, And I'm gonna
Speaker 5: talk about those two dudes all day.
Speaker 2: And his talents are certainly being flexed here with with
Speaker 2: this sort of landscape. All of this is shot on location.
Speaker 2: God bless them well. When I heard that they were
Speaker 2: making a movie for Netflix, I think my reaction was like, Okay, good, whatever,
Speaker 2: just give us another Coen Brothers movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah and yeah, I see a Colin Brothers movies in
Speaker 5: the cinema, but I see them over and over and
Speaker 5: over and over, and I rewatch their movies.
Speaker 3: That was not good.
Speaker 5: With my buddy Y, we were having We're having Drac's Pizza,
Speaker 5: and we were talking about cinema versus television and how great.
Speaker 3: Television has got.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, yeah, but you don't go back to
Speaker 5: watch Waking Bad every Christmas. You might revisit it once
Speaker 5: or twice over ten years, but you're not going to
Speaker 5: go back to it and watch.
Speaker 3: It regularly like you do a Colm Butters movie.
Speaker 5: I go, how new time you've seen Raising Amazonagy and
Speaker 5: fifteen times, I'm like, exactly, cinemas, were you adjusted it again?
Speaker 3: You study it, you watch it over and over, and
Speaker 3: you discover new things in it. That's what I learned
Speaker 3: about the Coen Butters someone. We are so insanely rewatchable. Oh,
Speaker 3: you learn so much every single time you watch with
Speaker 3: something new, every time you see it. All tend of
Speaker 3: new stuff in this movie. The first time I watched it,
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that it was a creatus arm out.
Speaker 2: That's because it's like I was fucking breezy as a
Speaker 2: movie like it is a remarkable kind of shiny nihilism
Speaker 2: that up with like where there is no happy ending,
Speaker 2: but somehow that's a happy ending.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on my favorite piece. It's sure's everybody's favorite piece.
Speaker 5: But the Scark is one with the guy's name whose
Speaker 5: name he mispronounced, because his name is actually the great.
Speaker 2: Tim Blake Nelson.
Speaker 3: Not just too great.
Speaker 5: I think he might be the finest or the worst
Speaker 5: anchor gaining character actor there, and I just love him
Speaker 5: so very very much. How do you steal a movie
Speaker 5: from both George Corney, I am John Depouro and John
Speaker 5: Goodman and everyone light forget it.
Speaker 3: That is just him and it'll roll out.
Speaker 5: Thousands of the greatest of all time. I'd hear he
Speaker 5: should have got it on different spark for Buster Scark.
Speaker 5: What just amazing delivery From the first time he says
Speaker 5: that was it my dranger. The first note he belts out,
Speaker 5: wall just ah, I know it all to to I
Speaker 5: don't really like where Rogers movies and the way it
Speaker 5: ends to hugs Bunny and touch every.
Speaker 2: Cartoons definitely texts Avery. There's a moment where there's a
Speaker 2: moment where a buster claps his chest and a puff
Speaker 2: of dust comes off behind him, shaped exactly like him
Speaker 2: that he steps away from. It is straight from text Avery,
Speaker 2: and and it's just.
Speaker 5: Every play with this ya this, This was just a
Speaker 5: short film on its own, like the greatest short film ever.
Speaker 3: I just I adore every second of it. But I
Speaker 3: wonder how long they the Cohens.
Speaker 5: Have been hanging onto that that then done on the
Speaker 5: table where he takes the table and the shoes clansy
Speaker 5: wear on.
Speaker 3: Old the pistol, hold on the limit, holding onto that gag.
Speaker 5: I feel like they came over with that guy where
Speaker 5: they were a kid and we're just wonder to day
Speaker 5: we're gonna make a Western and we're gonna do this
Speaker 5: because ah it's so good and again Template just kill
Speaker 5: me what that's and his monologue was so delightful, and
Speaker 5: it's just he's such a love skirt and yeah, those
Speaker 5: same guy and.
Speaker 3: He's just so charming and adorable. Ah, it's a great
Speaker 3: piece of movie.
Speaker 2: Naked evidently in an interview I read with Tim Blake Nelson.
Speaker 2: He was given this piece whole cloth in two thousand
Speaker 2: and two and was told, but we've got to come
Speaker 2: up with more.
Speaker 3: Wow, they start on it for that long story him.
Speaker 2: They spent the next two decades basically coming up with
Speaker 2: other stories worthy of that opening for a movie. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about the opening. It is an ode to Roy Rogers.
Speaker 2: It starts with buster scrugs, ballad, buster script. We know
Speaker 2: he's this legendary character, they've told us in the fucking
Speaker 2: title of the movie. And so he comes in singing
Speaker 2: a song, and we get him going to a he's
Speaker 2: fourth wall breaking, narrating, talking directly to the camera. Takes
Speaker 2: us to a canteena where he goes in and faces
Speaker 2: what is your typical sort of bad guy group in
Speaker 2: an old West Western film, which he then dispatches a
Speaker 2: little brutally, molably, a little efficiently, but still this is
Speaker 2: Ry Rogers. We've got here right. So now he's never
Speaker 2: not polite about it, that's right, and he never draws first.
Speaker 2: It's a fair fight. Nevertheless, it's anyway. He goes onto
Speaker 2: a town where he joins a poker game where everyone
Speaker 2: is unarmed. But unfortunately, as you mentioned, Clancy Brown across
Speaker 2: the table from him does have his pistols on him.
Speaker 2: What has been squeaky clean up until this point turns
Speaker 2: into a fucking blood bath here. I was shocked at this,
Speaker 2: At this, I was shocked that it was the Coen
Speaker 2: Brothers doing it. Honestly, I didn't expect the level of
Speaker 2: gore that that we were about to get.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think they'd ever really shied away the
Speaker 3: first couple of big brillers crossing the gangster movies.
Speaker 2: No, not violence. I expect violence from him since blood simple,
Speaker 2: I've expected the violence, but the gore, yeah, the over
Speaker 2: the top up like going for it, like I did
Speaker 2: not expect the Peter Jackson version of the Cohen Brothers. Well, Sam,
Speaker 2: I think you're right. The Sam Raimi version that's more perfect.
Speaker 5: Because because there is that cartoon level of violence in it.
Speaker 5: But again, I yes, it's a boy Rodgers, but I
Speaker 5: again see Junck Savery and Chuck Jones in here, took
Speaker 5: along with Daffy and the one went bugs buddy and
Speaker 5: can ask them Nasty can Aska whatever his name was,
Speaker 5: and then of course TEDx Adan too is various ones,
Speaker 5: But there's definitely a cartoon element to it, and that's
Speaker 5: what I think.
Speaker 3: The violence was definitely like a cartoon violence. Seventy.
Speaker 5: Sam Level even put that thing where he's just kicking
Speaker 5: at the table and he's doing it.
Speaker 3: With that's elite. But I'm just it's a great gag.
Speaker 3: It is a great he is a fan of violent
Speaker 3: movie gangs. That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's something to be sent for enthusiasm, right.
Speaker 2: It's why we love ed Wood as much as we
Speaker 2: do now because of how much gusto he goes with
Speaker 2: everything he does. The fact that Buster Scruggs is effectively
Speaker 2: just a sociopath out there amongst the wilderness, that he
Speaker 2: does it with such Elaan makes up for it, right,
Speaker 2: Like we forgive him a lot though the characters in
Speaker 2: the film aren't buying any of his renown.
Speaker 3: Are the the one he.
Speaker 5: Takes him out to step outside for a draw and
Speaker 5: it's a here for lawnch and that guy because he's
Speaker 5: like kissing his heads the entire side and he just
Speaker 5: shoots off his hand like anywhere he noticed he does
Speaker 5: the bugs, but anything with the mirror and he's like
Speaker 5: shureing back looking a mirror.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be too going through his ear, but.
Speaker 2: It's just good bad And then the other gun yeah,
Speaker 2: right up until the trope of the new Gunslinger coming
Speaker 2: to look for the take came out and I love that.
Speaker 3: Is you ready?
Speaker 2: You need a you need a minute?
Speaker 3: Nope?
Speaker 2: Okay, bang and basically he outbusters him and.
Speaker 3: The pointing isn't that's called the kid is forty.
Speaker 2: And just like, yeah, just to put the cherry on
Speaker 2: the comic the comic book cartoon aspect of it, buster
Speaker 2: floats off to heaven with animated wings, singing a song
Speaker 2: with a fucking liar.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but not only thinking a lot of seeing a duet,
Speaker 5: but the other the guy who shot them man with
Speaker 5: the guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's just an incredible aerial shot, honestly, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you never we see that in town.
Speaker 2: The next town that we go into that they Yeah,
Speaker 2: the aerial shot of the town made me think that
Speaker 2: we never really get aerial shots in westerns too much.
Speaker 3: No, I'm wondering where that town settings.
Speaker 5: That's like, where the that's like it looks like the
Speaker 5: New Mexico set and see it, there's nothing.
Speaker 3: It was a New Mexico set that gets used to it.
Speaker 3: I think that might be it, and that feel like
Speaker 3: they ray every used parts of the town over too.
Speaker 2: I believe they shunt most of it in utah O
Speaker 2: Wo Sawo.
Speaker 3: I wear finding where that town is, because that's a
Speaker 3: great location.
Speaker 2: It is, indeed. But speaking of the let's head on
Speaker 2: over to near Algadones. This is our first proper story
Speaker 2: because buster is kind of a prologue, just to wet
Speaker 2: our appetite at what kind of fucking bizarre bullshit is
Speaker 2: about to come for the rest of this twisted take
Speaker 2: on American Western folklore. What would you call this one?
Speaker 2: The most unlucky man in the West, something like that,
Speaker 2: but the world's worst criminals?
Speaker 5: We had the world's worst criminal, just another likable idiot
Speaker 5: in the long line of likable idiots in over their
Speaker 5: head man like. His problem was that he didn't turn
Speaker 5: around and leave once Stephen when we realized Stephen who
Speaker 5: was behind of the counter the here If you don't
Speaker 5: know anything about guys, and Stephen lays were owner the
Speaker 5: guy who wre not to be trip.
Speaker 3: They are not that they barked with. They will set
Speaker 3: the paper clip company on hire. They will go all
Speaker 3: hell and Destroy You Man. I love that Active the great.
Speaker 3: He's always another Cliver down on one of the great
Speaker 3: character actors working with.
Speaker 2: He's always playing a meek guy who could explode in
Speaker 2: Kill You. But I would urge everyone to check him
Speaker 2: out on news Radio, the TV series he did during
Speaker 2: the early nineteen nineties where he played the station owner
Speaker 2: Jimmy James.
Speaker 3: Only Mac Crow, I forgot about this rate, that's right.
Speaker 3: I also recommend him on Barring HBO's barried by my god,
Speaker 3: what's his name now, Bill Hayter Biel Hater. Yeah, my
Speaker 3: favorite senter and I last.
Speaker 2: Twenties three years, best since actually yeah, best Iss Hartman,
Speaker 2: best since Hartman, wos best in Zach Ray. It's always
Speaker 2: this utility player who shines in my eyes as far
Speaker 2: as yeah, he goes.
Speaker 3: Well, they all can't be, they all can't be.
Speaker 5: Eddie Murphy, No, whoever is Eddie k Eddie Murphy was
Speaker 5: my hero and I was like hate or Eddie Murvey's
Speaker 5: like who is doing in the world?
Speaker 3: And he was and he was so here. I'd like
Speaker 3: to see Mabbie Murky and I'm calling brothers. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: feel like he get delivered that dialogue really Well, he
Speaker 3: doesn't get enough good juicy character parts, and he should
Speaker 3: because he's.
Speaker 2: Well he guy recently and dolament is my name. He
Speaker 2: needs writers like Scott Alexander and the Larry Karazheuski back
Speaker 2: in the mouth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but so is this like James Fining Cole's last
Speaker 3: legitimate big parter? Did he do anything wor that?
Speaker 2: Or this is the last thing I can think of
Speaker 2: him in And even when it came out, it was
Speaker 2: already he was already embroiled in the problem. So it
Speaker 2: felt like the movie was a little bit tainted with
Speaker 2: his with his appearance in it.
Speaker 3: Well, that's too bad.
Speaker 5: He's a good actor and was a good movie star,
Speaker 5: and that's too bad. He was just so bag like
Speaker 5: you gent on an acting school and then teenage girls.
Speaker 3: That's just not cool.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's whatever. His situation is unfortunate, and I do
Speaker 2: agree because I too really love him as an actor.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a bad performance from him, and he
Speaker 2: can go easily between drama and in comedy, and he's
Speaker 2: really funny.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One hundred and twenty seven hours? Is that was that
Speaker 3: the title?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where he cuts his own arm off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great rue man said, he carried that
Speaker 5: entire picture just by himself.
Speaker 3: Man, that's impressed the stuff.
Speaker 2: That's Did you watch The Deuce, the series he headlined
Speaker 2: on HBO where he played twin.
Speaker 3: Brothers. That show was great. It was one of those
Speaker 3: HBO shows that just didn't get enough time. Man, but
Speaker 3: it was really good.
Speaker 2: Oh that No, they told the whole story on that show.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they said. Yeah, they set out with a
Speaker 2: definite beginning and end and they fucking nailed it. But anyway,
Speaker 2: and so near al Goadona's James Franco's character is simply
Speaker 2: named Cowboy. Is is a bank Robert? This is the
Speaker 2: I mentioned the illustrated frame of the illustrated panels we
Speaker 2: get in the book at the beginning. This is the
Speaker 2: one one of them. Here the pans shot reads the inscription,
Speaker 2: which is when Stephen Root the signs he's not going
Speaker 2: to be robbed by this particular cowboy covers himself in
Speaker 2: pots and pans and then uses that as a primitive
Speaker 2: form of bulletproof. Vest I now can't get the image
Speaker 2: out of my mind, reinforced by the original illustration, but
Speaker 2: him yelling panshot over and over again while he's being
Speaker 2: shot at by It's I don't know, it's gonna stick
Speaker 2: with me for a while.
Speaker 5: It's like it's almost a locative of his photo dollars
Speaker 5: more or he's drunker played underneath the pawnshell.
Speaker 3: But it's just just bat out of hell with that ship.
Speaker 1: Oh man.
Speaker 3: But yeah again, I know that galactus.
Speaker 2: Yeah you soon, Ralph Innocent Ralphson.
Speaker 5: And then he's somewhat helpful in a tribal folks coming
Speaker 5: in there. It's ever was the natives as a as
Speaker 5: the duck in the window and here's the pot came
Speaker 5: to change up the story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, just like in the way they've been portrayed
Speaker 2: in all those classic American westerns, Native Americans remain a
Speaker 2: chaotic element in here, but never a Oh they're just
Speaker 2: a bunch of sad savage is kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: Although they are pretty Although they are pretty savage. Now,
Speaker 2: another thing I've appreciated about the Coen Brothers movies is
Speaker 2: they're not willing to make a character of specific gender
Speaker 2: or race or whatever, worrying about how people are going
Speaker 2: to perceive that.
Speaker 3: No, they just a new thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you get through their thing.
Speaker 3: But they're good at it and they're not.
Speaker 8: It's funny because they can make almost cartoon like characters
Speaker 8: wearing wacky wild characters, but they're never cartage. Every character
Speaker 8: they create is breath image, even whether whether it be
Speaker 8: you know High is a scumbagh a petty criminal to
Speaker 8: to to the cab driver and big Lebowski who who
Speaker 8: gets mad and him for not.
Speaker 5: Liking the Eagles, there's so much not every little character
Speaker 5: they have could have their own soil, I guess, is
Speaker 5: what I'm trying to get at. I just their they're
Speaker 5: so rich that I don't em they do any bookmoon
Speaker 5: Shi or anything like that, and they're all equally y. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'd like to see them trying different kinds of more
Speaker 5: deposed kind of characters, just because I'd like to see
Speaker 5: them five different kinds of matters of speech, damaster and
Speaker 5: see what kind of poetry.
Speaker 3: Then come up with Liz. I think their best dialogue
Speaker 3: is He's Hard, even picked down on the movie has
Speaker 3: the best dialogue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's so specific to whatever genre that they've
Speaker 2: decided to dip their toe into. The nineteen forties dialogue
Speaker 2: of Barton Fink is In is on part with everything
Speaker 2: going on, in Miller's Crossing in nineteen thirties Probation in Chicago.
Speaker 5: But their dialogue I have oh brother, we're out there,
Speaker 5: that's pretty magical. That's a pretty magical piece of movie making.
Speaker 2: Damn, we're in a bad fix to beat this place
Speaker 2: a geographical oddity. Three weeks from everywhere, A right, not Ronie.
Speaker 3: I'm a comprehanda And it's just like the movies are
Speaker 3: admittedly quotable.
Speaker 5: I love the way they do with really well Big
Speaker 5: Labasket too, but near they picked their line and then
Speaker 5: they pepper that line throughout the bill like I'm a
Speaker 5: dapper dand man, it's some months throughout throughout the picture
Speaker 5: of men.
Speaker 3: Your lives was in her line, was in your hands?
Speaker 3: Now the other characters repeat that, carry's over.
Speaker 2: Lebowski is great for that. Every line Lebowski hears he
Speaker 2: will repeat in that film. If you watch it from
Speaker 2: the beginning, listen to what everyone says to him, you'll
Speaker 2: hear him repeat that at some point.
Speaker 3: Yees hey, you're right. And The Big Sleep baby, like
Speaker 3: I saw it. I was thinking the.
Speaker 5: Noir cast class in school, so I'd see The Big Sleep,
Speaker 5: and I'm watching.
Speaker 3: The Big Lebowski whead they were melting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you Red Harvest is the name of
Speaker 2: the dashal Hammett book, but or they made it as
Speaker 2: the Glass Key, I think, or basically Miller's Crossing is
Speaker 2: a riff on the dashal Hammett novel Red Harvest. But
Speaker 2: as I also said, it's better than any adaptation of
Speaker 2: a straight adaptation of a dashal Hammett novel. It captures
Speaker 2: the spirit of him so fucking just like the Raymond
Speaker 2: Chandler thing, like the sort of laid back private eye
Speaker 2: who effectively just stumbles through cases, as opposed to the
Speaker 2: dashal Hammett one, who is the one really pulling the
Speaker 2: strings and nobody realizes.
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of that alten one.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, The Long good Bye, the Longer Bye, fantastically
Speaker 2: it was to make good companion pieces.
Speaker 5: Actually basketball, Yeah, Long of Bye is total laid back
Speaker 5: in life.
Speaker 3: So California and just watch that, don't watch that, that
Speaker 3: pt Anderson movie with his waking.
Speaker 2: Inherent vice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's trying so hard to be the big Goodbye,
Speaker 3: are you? It's long fiery Butler the movies, and it's
Speaker 3: just failed minderable.
Speaker 5: Yet the Longer By is like one of these things
Speaker 5: that I saw accidentally TCTM at two o'clock in the
Speaker 5: morning in high school analys.
Speaker 3: So God, and again I think a prototype COVID bro
Speaker 3: this movie for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh definitely. Yeah. That they're great book ends to the
Speaker 2: sort of the California Detective, the Los Angeles Detective that
Speaker 2: that Raymond.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely if you were seeing Marlow, the one with
Speaker 5: with the rock Crisiles, James Garner, James Garner from the.
Speaker 3: Sixties to Marlow, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, while and it's
Speaker 3: not bad, but it's you want It's like Marlow and
Speaker 3: then DeLong died by it. I can't believe these movies
Speaker 3: all have two years apart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but might as well be one hundred.
Speaker 3: Like the movie making is so striking.
Speaker 2: I'll get down, all right, let's move on. It's basically
Speaker 2: a one note story. But I really like the joke,
Speaker 2: which is that he manages to get out of being
Speaker 2: killed for the crime that he committed and ends up
Speaker 2: being killed for the crime he did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's and it's memorable, like it's I'm very
Speaker 5: famous me now the first time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The only thing that maybe I might have would have
Speaker 5: been interesting that he had avoided that three times just
Speaker 5: because he watched it all about the Buddy cartoon or
Speaker 5: so semester tweedy cartoon, And the guy repeats three times,
Speaker 5: really they but that's a great pit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love how it ends looking at the girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sweet. That's the thing. It's like, as depressing
Speaker 2: as these all should be, none of them really feel it.
Speaker 2: It all feels it jubilant in a weird way.
Speaker 3: What's the magic of what we make? Okay, not all of.
Speaker 2: Them feel jubilant. The next story, Meal Ticket, starring William
Speaker 2: Neeson and Harry Melling is not so jubilant. It is
Speaker 2: the bleakest story here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, and comically bleaks too, because they get
Speaker 5: replaced with a tic tac toe chick in this.
Speaker 2: Progress a bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that dude looks like a ranted boss.
Speaker 2: You're talking about Harry Melling.
Speaker 3: Harry Relling.
Speaker 5: He's got that kind of triangle face with little curly
Speaker 5: hair and the big ears.
Speaker 2: I believe he was Harry Potter's prick of a cousin.
Speaker 3: Oh my not that sures.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Wow, it's a great like it looks really disturbing, but
Speaker 5: that's a really simple special effect on him, making him
Speaker 5: the quarter polegic, like the cameras never moving where he's
Speaker 5: doing it, Like I have to pull that off in
Speaker 5: probably a couple of hours and after place, it's not.
Speaker 9: That not an hard at tould do it, and they
Speaker 9: do it so effectively and it's so disturbing and it's
Speaker 9: just hard because you're watching the whole movie he's you
Speaker 9: know what I mean, like they really like, oh, it's
Speaker 9: a lot and the whole time that lid I seen
Speaker 9: the chip and you know, estate like.
Speaker 3: He couldn't leave over in a down like for Fox.
Speaker 2: Thanks we're talking about Okay. The setup of the story
Speaker 2: is it's like a traveling side show. In this case,
Speaker 2: it's a that's being traveling thespian who's going to perform
Speaker 2: orations from famous Shakespearean plays and and speeches and such.
Speaker 2: The deal being that he has no arms in lengths,
Speaker 2: so he is entirely dependent upon his caretaker, played by
Speaker 2: Liam Neeson, who is at best completely bored and at
Speaker 2: worst deeply deeply resentful at the fact that he is
Speaker 2: this person's caretaker. It is his meal ticket, as it says,
Speaker 2: but good god, he doesn't want the responsibility anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this one's hard.
Speaker 2: I don't it's a hard one to rewatch knowing where
Speaker 2: we're going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just super brutal. And the edit at
Speaker 3: the end were just because market and the way he
Speaker 3: walks from.
Speaker 5: The cliffs and puts his arms behind his back and
Speaker 5: t hearts is over a little bit and then give
Speaker 5: us that kind of half smile as we get that,
Speaker 5: not to a quick plade like a quick fade out.
Speaker 3: It's a very deliberate editing choice.
Speaker 5: I'm a part of the Roderick James to make by
Speaker 5: out is that it lets you, it lets you live
Speaker 5: with that drig just the second and an insistance cut
Speaker 5: chicken and Lea Eesen is ugly as fuck do in this.
Speaker 2: Oh he's scruffy man And yeah, a great example of
Speaker 2: the costumes on display here, all lived in, all feel real,
Speaker 2: as real as everything else. I know we shout out
Speaker 2: the production, shouting out the cinematography here, but their production
Speaker 2: designer and costume designers as good as it gets and
Speaker 2: absolutely definitely adding to the scrubby, gruffy grossness of Liam
Speaker 2: Neeson in this particular segment. Uh, this segment is, as
Speaker 2: I said, challenging to rewatch challenging to like in any
Speaker 2: way other than the brutal nature of the Old West
Speaker 2: and show business and just life in general. But the
Speaker 2: one thing I do like about this is an underseen
Speaker 2: aspect of the Old West, which is the wooded and
Speaker 2: or snowy aspect of it. The mining time, we've seen
Speaker 2: a little bit of the town of Deadwood in the series.
Speaker 2: Deadwood was set against this sort of setting, and we
Speaker 2: had Jeremiah Johnson a million years ago, the milliest film
Speaker 2: with Robert Redford. But very rarely when you think American West,
Speaker 2: do you think about pine trees? It's mostly the Monument Valley.
Speaker 3: Now, hey, Khalait's another one that gives you.
Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, but jeez, how did that slip
Speaker 2: out of my mind?
Speaker 3: Cleaning and red Dead reduction too. The video game has
Speaker 3: a lot of takes inspiration from the settlements like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the other movie I would recommend is Ravenous
Speaker 2: with Guy Pierce and oh what's his name? Robert Carlisle?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, how about the Daughter Party?
Speaker 2: Yes, the Cannibals and the Windy Go. That one's a wooded,
Speaker 2: snowy a Western. So ultimately, the only thing I took
Speaker 2: away from this one of meaning to myself is how
Speaker 2: brutally cold everything looked and how grubby everything was. Because
Speaker 2: I don't like spending time with these characters. I just
Speaker 2: feel bad the entire time. This is the one with
Speaker 2: there is near redemption.
Speaker 3: And the one, but it doesn't lead us into our
Speaker 3: next one though, All Gold Canyon, All Gold is perfect.
Speaker 2: My god, we're gonna get a character piece. You can't
Speaker 2: do better if it's a single character thing than follow
Speaker 2: Tom Wright's around for any amount of time doing basically anything.
Speaker 2: Never mind the most hopeful aspect of the Old West,
Speaker 2: the gold Rush. The idea that you could just go
Speaker 2: out on your own, find a plot of land it,
Speaker 2: dig a little bit, and become rich beyond your wildest dreams,
Speaker 2: drove this entire nation for many years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's almost enough to cheat that he dumps it
Speaker 5: back in the water there for more and Tony hits
Speaker 5: that mother alone. But is it's also I'll talk without
Speaker 5: it's an argan type of Western character. So Walter Houston
Speaker 5: obviously being the most famous in the Treasure of Sierra Madra,
Speaker 5: which have you notice.
Speaker 3: Pa Oh, golleygue, what a great movie.
Speaker 5: But it's so it's definitely a very's an archetype, going
Speaker 5: back from Walter Houston all the way up to Chelsea
Speaker 5: Grammar his Whost Story movie as the prospector there too,
Speaker 5: a very important Western architect, so we got to spend
Speaker 5: time with him.
Speaker 3: And Tom Waits is just so crusty and cranky and
Speaker 3: and really fun to watch.
Speaker 2: And it's an archetype we see usually as just that
Speaker 2: the crusty, angry, lunatic person. It's rare a movie will
Speaker 2: focus on the prospector give that character the time of day,
Speaker 2: not to mention, give it this kind of time of
Speaker 2: day where his struggle becomes ours. I'm rooting for this
Speaker 2: guy like I've rooted for no one in any Cohen
Speaker 2: Brothers movie.
Speaker 7: To mister Pompkins, because normally he jump to the character
Speaker 7: as old Coot's see and it's the or the weird
Speaker 7: guy by the side of the road that the hero
Speaker 7: might meet and get some information from.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I really like it. And and where he
Speaker 3: gets shot, Oh if your heart ah much, And that
Speaker 3: little clik just sitting there looking like Will Poeter, Well
Speaker 3: I thought it wasn't first.
Speaker 2: I did too. Yeah, it's such a well, it's a
Speaker 2: It's a shot in the back, isn't it. It's really dreadful.
Speaker 2: But at least, if we haven't mentioned we're spoiling all
Speaker 2: of these, at least he's not dead man. At least
Speaker 2: it was it went right through. At least he's gonna
Speaker 2: pull through. And he's got that fucking gold. Now, these
Speaker 2: are hard things to have to overcome a man of
Speaker 2: his advanced stage out in the wilderness without any antiseptic.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, ye ye prie us gone.
Speaker 5: Oh mom, though, when they guy leaves down on the
Speaker 5: glade of motherfucker's just ups oft a lot, but the jaws.
Speaker 3: Of death or reclaim what it is. Man, it's just
Speaker 3: what a great triumph And it's like, yeah, everywhere he dies.
Speaker 2: At the last Anthologies attack. We talked about inside Leewin
Speaker 2: Davis and that movie. We talked about the importance of
Speaker 2: music in the Coen Brothers movies, and they tend to
Speaker 2: pick a theme and run with it, whether it's folk
Speaker 2: music or bluegrass or church music. In the case of
Speaker 2: the The Lady Killers, here we're getting, of course, classic
Speaker 2: American songs. In the case of this particular one, we
Speaker 2: get Tom Waits singing a classic do you recognize it's
Speaker 2: mother McCree. Do you recognize it from any other movie
Speaker 2: Antonio from Clockwork or Rich Yeah, I believe it is
Speaker 2: the bum sticking about at the beginning of clock Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of songs like that, a couple of
Speaker 2: standards that I recognized.
Speaker 3: Also music or in the case of No Country's role
Speaker 3: meant the Latin.
Speaker 2: That is a musicless movie, right, it's just the end Krebs.
Speaker 2: And even then it was only commissioned as that we
Speaker 2: need something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then James Milanko doesn't have it. It starts
Speaker 3: with all it starts with just all really sound effects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in each of the segments effectively will have
Speaker 2: a song in it, even though Liam Neesen sings in
Speaker 2: the last one, okay, yeah, Ensured does Yeah. And then
Speaker 2: so we get Tom Waits here and we've pretty much
Speaker 2: covered that particular story. But our next one, oh boy,
Speaker 2: the gal who got rattled, Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's this is I think it's one I think plays
Speaker 3: a little too.
Speaker 2: Long, slightly too law Yeah. We never get you never
Speaker 2: really get romances anymore in in Western pictures as sweet
Speaker 2: as this romance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and subtle and he's useless.
Speaker 2: Oh, Yeah, certainly, but uh, it's okay if they're playing
Speaker 2: on tropes in all of these different stories that this
Speaker 2: is our wagon train story. Yeah, this is our this
Speaker 2: is our land rush homesteaders tail and and the perils
Speaker 2: that they face out there, and some perils that we
Speaker 2: might not have considered in this case, like an arranged marriage,
Speaker 2: and what do you do if you suddenly find yourself
Speaker 2: out in the wilderness all alone, with nothing at all
Speaker 2: and you don't even know where the fuck you're going.
Speaker 2: Really anchored, But with the Foreman's by Zoe Kazan, who
Speaker 2: is fucking great man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's all right.
Speaker 2: I like her a lot, you really, Yeah, I've seen
Speaker 2: her some of her her the pieces she's written, the
Speaker 2: film she's written, I've liked it quite a bit. So anyway,
Speaker 2: I just think she's a fresh face. And she does
Speaker 2: have a period face. That's another thing that Comen Brothers
Speaker 2: do so much.
Speaker 1: She does.
Speaker 2: Everyone looks so period specifically perfect here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, they do a really good job of the
Speaker 3: same that starts the sequence is in the boarding house.
Speaker 3: Everything is from that, and that Getter table is magnificent,
Speaker 3: especially the bat guy with the mustache is just outstanding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they cast locals, and they cast them well man.
Speaker 3: In every pay. Yeah, they did a really good job.
Speaker 3: But it's a little long. It's like it's not a
Speaker 3: half hour or more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the scenter piece. It's the crate of this
Speaker 2: movie or creep show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, that's a good that's a good assessment. And
Speaker 5: it just ends tragically. It's just put a sad editing.
Speaker 5: Although President Pierce is the best character.
Speaker 2: The dog, the dog. Yeah, they this one. I don't know, man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: this one tears my heart up. It's it's not fair, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 3: It just ends like is your brother? They gotta look
Speaker 3: like he was sixty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I will say this as far as the
Speaker 2: bitterness goes, not the bitterness, but the sort of melancholy
Speaker 2: this one represents. It gets worse when the story ends
Speaker 2: and we're peeling back the pages where we get the
Speaker 2: final page of it and it says that this man
Speaker 2: is not he's wondering how he's going to explain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what happens. Yeah, it's a bummer.
Speaker 2: In case you weren't pondering it, you should ponder it
Speaker 2: some more because the characters still our even after the
Speaker 2: story is over, like what a fuck you to the Cohens.
Speaker 3: But that's what makes your stuf memorable though they know
Speaker 3: they get yet, but it's weird and wacky and he's
Speaker 3: smoking that your emotions, that's I think why they resonate.
Speaker 2: That leads us. Now you mentioned your favorite story. Here
Speaker 2: is the buster scrug segment that begins they My favorite
Speaker 2: segment is the ending the Mortal remain. This one is
Speaker 2: no exit. Yeah, it's right, Yeah, it's fucking It's fascinating
Speaker 2: to me that I love this one as much as
Speaker 2: I do. The fact that it's for the first time
Speaker 2: in this on location film. We're on a sound stage.
Speaker 2: This is all artifice, and as well it should be,
Speaker 2: because these are speaking of death here. These characters are
Speaker 2: already dead. They're being very they just don't realize it yet.
Speaker 2: Three characters cram together on one side of a carriage.
Speaker 2: Two characters cram together on the other side. The most
Speaker 2: claustrophobic of potential Western stories, and for me, it's the
Speaker 2: most expansive and I just adore it.
Speaker 3: I like the of the coach. The coachman Uri remarketive
Speaker 3: of Dacula.
Speaker 5: That's when he's driving the coach and it's every version
Speaker 5: of Dracula, like they all do it. So it's very
Speaker 5: stan Edie looks great with the whip and just the
Speaker 5: pape and here was the face and sandwiches.
Speaker 3: Everybody here there.
Speaker 5: It's exacular funny. So what's the guy with David Bruhols. Yes,
Speaker 5: the chubby Joyce New York guy with a must bag
Speaker 5: playing a Frenchman. And then here we have this other dude,
Speaker 5: I am the Joxy part.
Speaker 2: Did you not notice that the Saul Ruben that character, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 2: that might have been that character at the end of
Speaker 2: his life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they were very similar than the actual matterisms
Speaker 5: and everything, but they related.
Speaker 3: It was the same character. They might be the same.
Speaker 2: Character very well could be. And everyone's cast perfectly again
Speaker 2: playing off of sort of Western stereotypes with this sort
Speaker 2: of dandified fella and the spinster and the old trapper,
Speaker 2: the crazy the old trapper character who smells terrible tyn
Speaker 2: daily keeps giving us cues just how bad he smelled,
Speaker 2: over and over again.
Speaker 3: It's a fascinating piece of Yes, very very very costan poker.
Speaker 3: And when you hear every willing.
Speaker 5: Story, she's like, all my husband's been gone for three
Speaker 5: years I'm going to join him, and did she kill her?
Speaker 2: He could be sounds like it might be the trapper
Speaker 2: with his maiden girl. They couldn't speak spoke the international language.
Speaker 2: And this professor character. But the other two occupants in
Speaker 2: the carriage, as I said, Brendan Gleeson and John Joe
Speaker 2: O'Neil as thig Pen and Clarence, who offered themselves as
Speaker 2: bounty hunters, or at least let the other occupants allow
Speaker 2: themselves to come up with the idea that they're bounty hunters.
Speaker 2: So what they say is they're reapers and collectors of sould.
Speaker 5: But and it's funny because that comes across as being
Speaker 5: so hind him too, and he's the guy that beats
Speaker 5: him over the hedge.
Speaker 3: Well the other guy watches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And when I love a this one is that
Speaker 2: this is another aspect of the Old West, the storytelling,
Speaker 2: the around the campfire tale, and generally those are supernatural
Speaker 2: in nature. This one is as supernatural as this movie
Speaker 2: is going to get. And this makes me, this segment
Speaker 2: makes me want the fucking Coen brothers to get back
Speaker 2: together right now and give us a horror movie, because
Speaker 2: they have one in them and They've bounced around in
Speaker 2: every goddamn genre. They're best friends with Sam Raimi, They're
Speaker 2: instrumental in those goddamn Devil Dead movies. And if they
Speaker 2: can give us half of what they're giving us here
Speaker 2: on a basic ghost story level, I'm dying to see
Speaker 2: what they do at a feature length.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they get back together. I'm sure they wanted
Speaker 3: to see what they were going to do, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's too long working together. I'm sure they miss each other,
Speaker 3: but they always, they always more.
Speaker 2: Damn music plays a part here. We get two songs
Speaker 2: in this very limited segment, Big Penn and Clarence both
Speaker 2: sing us a song, and weirdly, the one that Brendan
Speaker 2: Gleason sings. I had on a cassette tape of Irish
Speaker 2: folk songs Oh Wow, that I bought at some like
Speaker 2: Sam Goodie a million fucking years ago in the nineteen
Speaker 2: eighties that I used to listen to on a loop.
Speaker 2: So it was a little weird to suddenly hear that
Speaker 2: pomping out of this character's mouth. Nonetheless, yeah, this one
Speaker 2: is my favorite, if for only the kind of delightful
Speaker 2: resignation that Saul Rubink gives us at the very very
Speaker 2: the Johnny he drops that hat on like, well, another adventure.
Speaker 2: Off we go.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: On the door there's the clin door. There's up like
Speaker 5: an image engraving of an angel, and then our the
Speaker 5: other's eye or the other door, there's a goat they
Speaker 5: walk out there.
Speaker 3: That was interesting.
Speaker 2: On the double door, right so the door, Aaron, Well,
Speaker 2: what's interesting to me is as they enter that one
Speaker 2: splendid room, it's all staircase. Effectively, it all heads to
Speaker 2: that staircase leading up the stairs to a glowing white light.
Speaker 2: Right now, the implication here is that we've reached the afterlife.
Speaker 2: And the fact is that thick Pen and Clarence mentioned
Speaker 2: that the guy that they've come for it he was
Speaker 2: well wanted, meaning this was a sinner that they've come for,
Speaker 2: a murderer. Perhaps are we in hell? It does that
Speaker 2: staircase that leads up go to hell?
Speaker 3: But they're carrying them up the stairs. Maybe he's innocent
Speaker 3: and they're murderers.
Speaker 2: There are so many questions going, brothers, I love you
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah then, but that's what they do for you, man.
Speaker 3: They can give me these ambiguous kind of endings, and
Speaker 3: it's all right, man, it's cool.
Speaker 2: Right like and even they yes and always feel like
Speaker 2: a cheat. But for some reason, their ambiguous endings never
Speaker 2: do well.
Speaker 3: They don't.
Speaker 2: They feel like inevitability, which is the hallmark of any
Speaker 2: great movie.
Speaker 3: Even the Big Lebowski that really has no resolution. Well,
Speaker 3: much like the.
Speaker 2: Raising Arizona without children. Again, that last bit is a dream.
Speaker 2: Maybe it happened, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: The ending is nice, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. I like no country of old men,
Speaker 3: just that fucking ending out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's nothing bigger, even chaos is is at a
Speaker 2: whim to chaos.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They're good stuff man that We're lucky to have them
Speaker 5: as filmmakers. I hope you know the rest of the
Speaker 5: world does.
Speaker 3: They're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy virtually no awards at all. Speaking of music,
Speaker 2: a guy who never gets really mentioned. Whenever the Coen
Speaker 2: Brothers do a big sort of music centric film, everyone
Speaker 2: starts shouting about t Bone Burnett. And I'm not denigrating
Speaker 2: t Bone Burnette. I love him. I think he's phenomenally
Speaker 2: talented as a musician and an arranger of music. But
Speaker 2: their composer is a fellow by the name of Carter
Speaker 2: Burwell and hiss are always innovative and always interesting, always
Speaker 2: stand alone and yet complimentary to the piece. And that
Speaker 2: guy name never gets mentioned enough, and I just want
Speaker 2: to shout him out here. Carter Burwell is one of
Speaker 2: the most innovative composers in music today or any day.
Speaker 3: Oh I agree with one hundred percent. One hundred percent.
Speaker 5: They find someone that does your voice, and they get
Speaker 5: your voice through music.
Speaker 3: That's an important saying that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tem Olbert gets a lot of crier, but yeah,
Speaker 5: he just find he buys tracks to put him.
Speaker 3: With this other guys, right stuff. Yeah, absolutely do. I agree.
Speaker 2: And as well as they adapt to different genres, he
Speaker 2: adapts to their adaptation with the music and raised in Arizona,
Speaker 2: it's fucking yodeling man. And not only is there's a
Speaker 2: sequence that the famous sequence, the chase sequence, where High
Speaker 2: is being chased by dogs and police and everybody where.
Speaker 2: At one point he runs through a grocery store and
Speaker 2: the soundtrack suddenly switches to the musac, so we get
Speaker 2: a musac version of that yodeling playing in the I
Speaker 2: don't know, it's just no God blessed TiVo Burnette, but
Speaker 2: everybody really reappraised car Or very.
Speaker 5: Well, I agree one man, great stuff all around. And
Speaker 5: then Colort Brothers. They their genre of flipping is maddening.
Speaker 3: They go all over and they all they haven't done
Speaker 3: is a horror film, and they haven't done a science
Speaker 3: fiction film. But other than that, they've hit it.
Speaker 2: That's your assignment, Cohen's We're counting on you. Don't let
Speaker 2: us down. We know you have a two thousand and
Speaker 2: one and f shining in you. That shining right. I
Speaker 2: don't want to. I don't want a gory, slashery type
Speaker 2: movie from them. I want a ghostly, spooky type movie them.
Speaker 2: I want them to make That's scary again, because there's
Speaker 2: ways to do it. And I think they could.
Speaker 3: Oh, they absolutely could. They absolutely could. I wouldn't be
Speaker 3: surprised if they do come.
Speaker 2: Up with something please and now. Absolutely And I enjoy
Speaker 2: drugs huh and anything else about Buster Scruggs and you are.
Speaker 5: I think it's a neat film, man. I think it's
Speaker 5: a really as a special little film. I think it's
Speaker 5: a great example of.
Speaker 3: The show as one really shows you a lot of
Speaker 3: what they're capable of and what type of movies they make.
Speaker 3: But you have something they can touch you they can
Speaker 3: wacky characters. Here's some music, like all the different things
Speaker 3: that they're good at shows up in this movie. So
Speaker 3: I think that's as one of their films is a
Speaker 3: really nice e bucketed piece.
Speaker 2: And as purveyors of anthologies, there's no clunker here. No,
Speaker 2: they're all good, all good. Some of them are bummers,
Speaker 2: but what the fuck are you gonna do? There's entertainment
Speaker 2: in that as well, everybody.
Speaker 3: And it's in the Old West. The Old West is
Speaker 3: a bummer.
Speaker 2: I think we'll leave it on that, all right, A
Speaker 2: hout and Sony. And when people are looking for you
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Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna throw in a Coen Brothers musical cue here,
Speaker 2: because why wouldn't I?
Speaker 3: Of course, Early Joe the Gambler, he will gamble never more.
Speaker 3: His days of stirding holder may are done. It was
Speaker 3: long about last April.
Speaker 10: He stepped into this alone, but he never really took
Speaker 10: do any one.
Speaker 3: Surly Joe, Surly Joe wherever.
Speaker 1: He's gambling now? I don't know.
Speaker 3: He was slick, but I was slicker.
Speaker 6: He drew quick, but I was quicker, and the table
Speaker 6: stopped his ticker.
Speaker 3: Surly Joe, Curley Joe, Surrey.
Speaker 6: Joe won't be missed by anyone. With Surrey Joe human kind.
Speaker 6: He frowned the pond, but not now his face is gone.
Speaker 6: Guess your frowning days are done, oh Surly Joe. Surdy
Speaker 6: Joe Surdy Joe. I said beyond to see a Curdie Joe.
Speaker 3: He was mean in days of yore.
Speaker 10: Now they're mopping up the floor.
Speaker 3: One more sight to making sorrow.
Speaker 10: Surrey Joe, Say Joe, Surrey Joe.
Speaker 3: Where the heck's face has got to?
Speaker 1: We don't know.
Speaker 6: He was never any fun now his trunky races round,
Speaker 6: kiss or blown the kingdom.
Speaker 10: Come o, Surdy Joe, Sis.
Speaker 1: Sis, Sis
Speaker 7: No no