orson-welles:The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) dir. Joel and Ethan Coen[ID: six painted illustrati
orson-welles:The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) dir. Joel and Ethan Coen[ID: six painted illustrations, captioned as if from an old storybook with an excerpt from each story. 1: two men in cowboy hats face each other across a table. the one in the white neckerchief has just stood up, toppling the table, whiskey and his chair; he’s holding a hand of cards. the one in a red neckerchief points a gun up at him with a scowl. the caption is: ‘“You seen ‘em, you play ‘em,” sneered the hard man.’ 2: an old man with a determined expression, slung all over with metal pans, with a pot on his head like a helmet and a shotgun in his hands. he’s running full tilt on a parched grassy plain, a lone bank visible behind him. the caption is: ‘”Pan-shot!” cried the old man.’ 3: a young man with a poet’s hairstyle and a nicely-tied cravat looks upward, lit by stage lights. his head is framed by green stage curtains with yellow stars and moons on them. the caption is: ‘”The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.”’ 4: a white-haired man surveys a landscape of blue mountains and tall conifers from high up in a tree. the caption is: ‘And in all that mighty sweep of earth he saw no sign of man nor the handiwork of man.’ 5: sunset over a long caravan of people. in the foreground, a man with a gun over his shoulder and a small dog next to him walk forward to meet a man on horseback. the caption is: ‘Mr. Arthur had no idea what he would say to Billy Knapp.’ 6: a dramatic painting of a man in hat and riding coat sitting on the front of a coach, holding the reins and raising a whip. the moon is huge and full behind him, and tendrils of mist seep up from the bottom of the frame. the caption is: ‘Whether or not he heard, the coachman did not slow.’ end ID] -- source link
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