The Coen brothers are back on the scene with another contribution to the Western genre. Their series-turned-anthology-movie, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, is set to drop on Netflix on November 16 and they’ve just released the first trailer for the huge ensemble production.
There are a whole lot of characters in this Western, but judging by the trailer, all of them are men. We hear a lot of different voices, but none of them are women, and women are given about 0% screen time.
It’s just heaps and heaps of dudes. White dudes. For two minutes. Right on.
The movie is broken up into six different stories and reportedly Zoe Kazan and Tyne Daley have roles in the final two, but the film’s two female characters just didn’t make the cut for the trailer.
Oh wait! I eat my words. I’m 99% sure that this is Tyne Daley’s character that appears in almost complete darkness and says nothing in two clips so brief that if you blink you might miss them.
Gender diversity on point!
Such representation!
And for a fleeting moment, there is Zoe Kazan being shocked. Probably because she’s just watched this trailer and realised she looks like an extra.
Guys???
But other than that, it’s just James Franco and an army of dudes as far as the eye can see.
Who
needs
women
characters
anyway
when
you
have
men?
It’s really disappointing to see a project by such widely beloved filmmakers get a trailer that dismisses both its female stars and audience in one fell swoop. I hope the movie can make up for the terrible edit of this trailer.