Essentially, The Disaster Artist actor's cowboy had his fate sealed when he decided to rob the bank, and death was assured despite how he seemingly escaped being hanged by sheer luck. Near Algodones is the shortest and snappiest tale of the six and nicely proves The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' meaning about escalation in the Old West.

This time, nothing stopped the cowboy from being hanged in the ending of this The Ballad of Buster Scruggs chapter. The cowboy is finally saved by a cattle rustler (Jesse Drover) only to be set upon by lawmen and find himself in town with another noose around his neck. The cowboy awakens with a noose around his neck but the posse looking to string him up is attacked by Comanche. After chasing the cowboy outside, the teller, clad in tin armor, knocks the cowboy out. Despite the bank teller (Stephen Root) cheerfully telling the cowboy ( James Franco, Spider-Man) about how he violently foiled the previous two attempts by bandits to rob his bank, the cowboy takes his shot and finds the teller extremely well-armed. In Near Algodones, a cowboy tries to rob a bank, but the simple stick-em-up goes completely awry. Now the new top gun, the Kid walks away as Buster's spirit ascends to Heaven, sharing a final duet with the Kid in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' ending. Overconfident, Buster accepts and is immediately shot in the head before he even realized what happened. After leading the saloon in a hilarious song mocking Curly Joe and then besting Joe's brother in a duel, another singing cowboy called the Kid (Willie Watson) arrives to challenge Buster to a duel.

He arrives at the town of Frenchman's Gulch where he tries his hand at a card game in the saloon and is forced to kill the local rogue named Curly Joe in the Joel and Ethan Coen movie. The western film then follows Buster Scruggs as he continues on his way. Riding through the desert with his trusty horse Dan, Buster Scruggs stops at a cantina for some whiskey where he shoots down several outlaws who start trouble with him, displaying incredible skill and timing with a pistol. In the first short, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ending sees a duel that closes just as quickly as it begins. Tim Blake Nelson plays Buster Scruggs, the affable singing cowboy who prefers to be known as 'The San Saba Songbird'.

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