O estilo do western dos irmãos Coen: uma análise da dualidade selvageria versus civilização em "A Balada de Buster Scruggs" (2018)

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the dichotomy 'Savagery versus Civilization', recognized as fundamental in the context of the Western cinematographic genre, from the perspective of the protagonists of the film 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' (2018), directed by filmmakers brothers Ethan and Joel Coen. Released by the Netflix platform, the work is an anthology, which brings together six narratives of different emblematic archetypes that characterize the universe of the American western. The stories, which range from a musical western to a more conventional western style, serve as a basis for thinking about the narrative form and narrative style of the Coen brothers, in relation to the primordial duality of the western genre. This duality was mapped from reflections by Cawelti (1999); Mattos (2004); Neale (2005) and Bordwell and Thompson (2013) and, in short, refers to the recurrence of the western genre in establishing its narrative conflicts in terms of opposition between a notion of Savagery 􀂱 which is related to the ideas of individual, freedom and honor , for example 􀂱 and Civilization 􀂱 connected with notions of community, restriction, institutions and illusion, to name a few oppositions that guide the present analysis. Methodologically, this work is in line with the proposed film analysis and style conceived by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (2013). To this proposal, we combine the analysis of the segments of the film in Beat Sheet format, according to technical assumptions established by Snyder (2005). As a result, from the characteristics mapped throughout the analysis, a framework was built with the elements that constitute the duality Savagery versus Civilization in the protagonists of the Coens' work.