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And then all the stories are about mortality, so it's a beautiful piece of work.Īll the more astonishing because it is six different movies. From the Brendan Gleeson character, which is death. When he speaks about why we like stories and how they're a distraction from our mortality, so that we're paying attention to the story when the thump comes. That ends up getting summed up in that speech in the end by the Reaper. I think it's a meditation on storytelling itself, and perhaps one of the most mordant and poignant one that I've ever encountered.

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Since you've seen the movie three times, what have you taken away from watching it that many times? This was very expensive to make because it's period, it's not one distant location, but three, for them to have done it right, so I'm not sure they ever would have gotten this made with a studio. So, that wasn't a period piece, and that was done on something of a budget. One of her two performances, cause the other one is Godfather three.

He wrote it with her and then she's the lead of it. And I think he wrote it with his daughter, I believe. And then the Coppola one is just his daughter at the Carlisle, I think.

I think Buscemi has a sort of cameo in that. And then Buscemi I think is in the Scorsese one, which is, the Scorsese one is Buscemi, and Nick Nolte and Rosanna Arquette. There's Nick Nolte and Rosanna Arquette, I guess in the Scorsese one, and, the Woody Allen one, it's Woody Allen and, I don't know who else. So you have one by, I hope I get this right, one by Woody Allen, one by Copolla, and one by Scorsese in New York Stories, so it's Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Coppola. You can think of a few, New York Stories would be one, then you have variations on that like Paris Je T'aime, but I really can't think of any more, and usually those bring in, with New York Stories as an example, a group of the leading directors. I'm not sure that Buster Scruggs would ever have been made by a studio, because anthology films are not really that much of a feature in the American cinema landscape, and they never have been. Yeah, I think that still gets made because it's a comedy. what it would exactly be, probably around 35, 37, today, in today's dollars. It was a 30-million dollar budget, and so if you called that 40 today, maybe, let's say, 37, I don't know what the inflation rate. They also made O Brother for a pretty good price for what it was. I think you could get O Brother made today because they would have George or somebody like George, and it's a comedy. I did wonder while rewatching O Brother, Where Art Thou? if it would get made today.

So there's the inevitable trade-off here. I think in the end, Joel and Ethan and the rest of us who are in the movie, are on the right side of the ledger here because in addition to everything I just said, without Netflix the movie never would have been made. Simply because of Netflix's reach all over the world, including to places that don't have movie theaters. That said, this movie wouldn't have been made without Netflix, and more people will see the movie, because of Netflix, that might have seen it, had it had a traditional theatrical release with one of the studios. And though I'd seen Buster Scruggs three times, I stayed around to watch at least the first half an hour of it at Mann's Chinese, so I could see it on that screen. I'm a 54 year old guy and I prefer my movies in movie theaters.

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