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The literary film "The Ballad of Buster Struges" comes from the Coen brothers, an American director I love.
The Coen brothers are best at American Westerns, the kind of American Western cowboys who cross the prancing horse, but their Westerns are different from the traditional genre of Westerns - the genre of Westerns is very rough, almost a routine, cowboy, revenge, gunfight, bounty hunter, heroism.
The Coen brothers' Westerns have a lot of "intellectual" perspectives, such as "Old Nobody", the story takes place in the west, but the thinking is "human nature"; for example, "The Earth Thunders", the story also takes place in the west, those western materials are not lacking, after reading it, I understand that it is about "kindness and commitment" in human nature.
At first glance at "The Ballad of Buster Struges", I was stunned, in today's commercial film, will there still be such a literary film?
Well, at this year's Oscars, sure enough, an award was not won.
The story of the film takes place in the West, but not one story, but six stories:
A small cowboy old man, wearing a white hat and a white casual suit, riding a white horse, smiling, holding a guitar and singing, but with five stars in combat, accurate and fast marksmanship, blood-washed tavern, five guns breaking other people's five fingers, no gun but the enemy headshot, but encountered a gunner who was even more powerful than him, was shot in the head, and was still singing when he ascended to heaven.
Frank wants to get rich overnight, and then he finds the bank that stands between the deserts, and the robbery fails, and he is sentenced to hanging, but he is saved by a cowboy passing by, and he drives the cows with the cowboy, but he is mistaken by the local government as a thief and eventually hanged.
The owner of a grass platform team took in a disabled person without limbs and led him to perform everywhere to make money, and when a rooster that could count appeared, he found that the disabled person had no value, so he pushed the disabled artist down the mountain and continued to perform with the rooster.
An elderly gold prospector came to a beautiful river valley, found a gold mine, ecstatic, and in the process of digging, was attacked by a cowboy who followed him, but the resourceful man seized the opportunity to achieve a counter-kill, guarded the gold mine, and took the gold.
A girl who was already engaged, went to her fiancé's village, her brother fell ill and died, she headed for her destination under the protection of the two leaders of the horse team, one of the cowboys fell in love with her and proposed, one day, she and the old cowboy were attacked by the Indians, the old cowboy defeated the Indians by himself, and turned back to find that the girl was afraid of humiliation and had ended her life with a pistol, facing the young cowboy who came, the old cowboy did not know how to tell him the news.
Five strangers of different identities, riding in the same stagecoach, went to a hotel, opposite them was a pair of bounty hunters, responsible for helping death transport the corpse, and there were real corpses on the roof, and the three of them shuddered, knowing that the time of death was near.
My first instinct was, could this be a small book that the Coen brothers had accidentally obtained, similar to Aesop's Fables, circulating in the American West? Later, I learned: these six stories were written by the Coen brothers themselves... It's just too good.
Each story begins with the form of turning a storybook and ends with the last page, especially like the feeling of reading a book.
Each story revolves around the theme of "death", and the last story is like a summary of death: no matter what kind of person you are before you die, you will be in the same carriage after death, going to the same place, time will not stop for you, even if you stay in the world, you can't escape the fate of going to the palace of the god of death.
In this movie, there is a lot of good country music, I thought that these are also folk songs circulating in the west, but I didn't expect... The songs were also written and composed by the Coen brothers.
The country music you are invited to enjoy today is from the Ballad of Buster Struges.
When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings
At the end of the first "Cowboy's Tale", Lao Ba is headshot by a faster gunman and continues to sing when his soul is out of his mind... A meal operation is as fierce as a tiger, loading X to overtake the street.
At noon on the day after watching this movie, take 2 pounds of prawns, cut the head and tail of the shrimp body, pull open the flour and fry until browned, the shrimp head and shrimp tail are fried and crispy; a number of homemade sauce beef, sliced after cooling; tofu skin cut into strips, Sichuan flavor sausage slices on the top, steamed for 40 minutes, sausage oil immersed in tofu shreds... A bottle of beer, drink until slightly drunk, write this article.
Music is like wine, not a meal or a dish, no matter how full it is.
But what? Drink a few sips once in a while, it's cool, and life really can't do without it.