They strike a wide gamut of genres, that’s for damn sure. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a movie about death. The Coen brothers’ latest, ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,’ is a Western anthology film backed by Netflix and starring James Franco, Zoe Kazan and Liam Neeson. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was originally conceived of and shot as a six-part series, each episode a self-contained story from the American Wild West. Think Barton Fink, or A Serious Man. The other five were penned randomly over the years, and are presented in order of creation, the first, “Buster Scruggs,” being the broadest. Diese Segmente tragen die Titel The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Near Algodones, Meal Ticket, All Gold Canyon, The Gal Who Got Rattled und The Mortal Remains. Back to back, even! All Gold Canyon >= The Ballads of Buster Scruggs > Near Algodones >= The Gal Who Got Rattled > The Mortal Remains > Meal Ticket. But if “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” was there comedy piece, and “Meal Ticket” was their tragedy, and “All Gold Canyon” there slow-paced thriller, than “The Mortal Remains” is their strange, disconcerting drama. Die Handlung des Teils All Gold Canyon entspricht der Kurzgeschichte All Gold Canyon von Jack London, die 1906 in dessen Werk Moon-Face & Other Stories erschien. “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” is one of the darkest movies by Joel and Ethan Coen, and also among the silliest. With that I said I really liked/loved all of them, I felt really bad to even make this comparison because they’re all so good in their own right. Conversation with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Pt. The short scripts were written over a period of over 20 years, and only the last, “The Mortal Remains,” was written after the film deal with Netflix was made.