De Buster Scruggs Verified - La Balada
The darkest entry. Liam Neeson plays an impresario traveling with a limbless orator (Harry Melling).
James Franco stars as a cowboy who tries to rob a bank. He fails. He is hanged. Except the noose breaks. He escapes, feels lucky, and is immediately caught again. The second hanging goes through. This segment is only fifteen minutes long, but it captures the futility of greed. The cowboy’s final line—"First time?"—to a terrified First Nations man awaiting the noose is a masterpiece of gallows humor. La Balada de Buster Scruggs
A singing cowboy (Tim Blake Nelson) breaks the fourth wall in a hyper-violent, cartoonish musical. The darkest entry