You ain’t kidding! :eek:
No, but when he was helping the Artist relieve himself, I did imagine him saying, “I have a particular set of skills…”
IMDB noted these links to the Coen Bros.'s True Grit:
*In the segment “Meal Ticket” a sign can be seen in the background for an establishment called “Greaser Bob’s.” This seems to be a reference to the Coens’ True Grit (2010), in which the establishment is mentioned by a passing trader but not shown.
In the segment “The Gal Who Got Rattled”, an old woman named Grandma Turner shares the same name and character traits with a character from another Coen Brothers film, True Grit (2010).
In the segment “Mortal Remains”, Thigpen begins to tell the story of The Midnight Caller. In True Grit (2010), Mattie asks if LaBoeuf and Cogburn would like to hear a story with the same name, but the story itself is not heard.*
Me, too.
I assumed it was just a prosaic observation - not at all memorable or significant “last words.” About what we should expect from a not-too-bright bank robber. Just before that was my favorite line of the entire movie: “First time?”
So what kind of a wound was it, exactly?
LOL. And I loved him turning the Artist around so the man wouldn’t see Neeson and the whore disporting themselves.
“Pan shot!”
I read a review of this movie on the Roger Ebert website (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs movie review (2018) | Roger Ebert) and there’s a line I don’t understand. The reviewer refers to the “punchline” in the Pan Shot episode- what is the punchline? Is it that “pan shot” is a cinematic term? But that line occurs earlier in the segment, and the last line of the segment doesn’t seem (to me) to be an in-joke of any kind. I’m sort of missing the significance of this one.
But I really liked, and occasionally loved, most of the other segments.
The punch line was the time he was in a noose the second time. He turns to the guy wimpering next to him and says, “first time”.
To answer for QtM, the bullet was deflected by a scapula or rib to tunnel around the thorax just under the skin and exit in front, leaving a bloody mess but, “Nuthin’ important was hit!”
Whoosh!
Yes. See the fifth item here: Cinematic Terms - A FilmMaking Glossary
It’s also a pun in TBOBS, because the bank robber’s bullets ricochet off the teller’s homemade cookware armor as he charges, and he says, er, cackles the phrase several times. As noted above, the movie was made by Pan Shot Productions.
Apologies for mis-parsing it. It was a “bloody superficial” superficial wound, of course.
I’m familiar with the filmmaking term and I knew it was the same term, with a different meaning, that the teller was yelling as the cookware was deflecting the gunshots. I just don’t understand what the reviewer was referring to as being so funny at the end of the segment.
Post #105
Just heard these lines in the song “The criminal cried as he dropped him down” in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado (1885):
…When a man’s afraid
A beautiful maid
Is a cheering sight to see;
And oh, I’m glad
That moment sad
Was soothed by sight of me!
Also about a condemned prisoner admiring a beauty in the crowd just moments before his death.
Cutting off your arms and legs for a role shows incomparable dedication to the art of acting. But also helps you lose weight!
I am extremely late to the game, here, but I had a bit of a sleepless night, so I snuck downstairs and watched that. I am a Coen Brothers fan in general, but this was really, really well done.
Also wanted to thank all of you, because reading this thread has helped me confirm a few observations, and has mostly opened my eyes to things I hadn’t noticed. This thread has been one of my most enjoyable reads here in a while.
I’m in full agreement with this. I enjoyed all of them, but this was my favorite. I found I was really moved by the tragedy, as I saw it, of the Orator being too brilliant for the people to whom he was being marketed, and what his expressions told me were his horrified-but-almost resigned realizations of being in competition with, and ultimately replaced by, the chicken.
All of the stories caught me off-guard in various ways, which was part of the fun for me. I laughed quite a bit at the first two, and will likely have “Pan shot!” stuck in my head as a catch phrase for weeks to come. My rankings:
- Meal Ticket
- The Girl Who Got Rattled
- Mortal Remains
- Buster Scruggs
- Near Algodones
- All Gold Canyon
But the ranking is not a knock in any of them; I think they were all brilliant (and admit that my appreciation for Mortal Remains and All Gold Canyon were improved by reading this thread).
At any rate, here’s hoping that bumping this thread causes even more folks to take a look at this film.
My initial reaction was that “Pan Shot!” was a pun on “pot-shot.” Has anybody mentioned this yet?
Not that I remember.
That’s what Lt. Dan said, too!
Maybe I should have kept watching. I watched the first two episodes, got half way through the third one, and I decided I didn’t want to see any more of that.
Eh. If you didn’t care for the mixture of comedy and cartoon violence in the first two stories, or the slow and dark atmosphere in Meal Ticket, you might like the two stories adapted from other writers: All Gold Canyon and The Girl Who Got Rattled.
Tis just a flesh wound
I enjoyed this. It is in the style of the original Western tales, which tended to be tall ones, indeed. They involved ghostly things, supremely difficult (if not impossible) deeds and one-of-a-kind characters as a rule. Then, Hollywood never really got into that sort of thing when the Westerns people know about today were being produced. This is probably because they were pushing a particular star; Tom Mix, John Wayne, Clint (talkin’ to the chair now) Eastwood. I was gratified to find an homage to how the tales were originally spun.
Just watched this. Must think on it.