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'''''True Grit''''' is a 2010 American ] written and directed by the ]. It is the second adaptation of ]' 1968 ], which was previously adapted for ] starring ]. The film stars ] as ] ] along with ] and ]. | |||
Filming began in March 2010, and was officially released on December 22, 2010, although advance screenings began earlier in December 2010.<ref></ref> The film is set to open the ] on February 10, 2011.<ref name="Berlinale True Grit">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_7060.html |title=Coen Brothers’ True Grit to Open the 61st Berlinale |accessdate=2010-12-15 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> | |||
==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
The film is narrated by 40-year old Mattie Ross who explains that her father was murdered by one of his hired hands, Tom Chaney, |
The film is narrated by 40-year old Mattie Ross (Elizabeth Marvel) who explains that her father was murdered by one of his hired hands, Tom Chaney (]), when she was 14 (]); Chaney made off with her father's horses and two of his California gold pieces. While collecting his body, Mattie inquires about a U.S. Marshall to hire to track down Chaney. She is given three recommendations, but chooses to hire ] (]), because he is described as the most merciless. He repeatedly rebuffs her attempts to hire him. | ||
Meanwhile, at the boarding house where she is staying, Texas Ranger La Boeuf arrives on the trail of Chaney. La Boeuf has been pursuing him for several months over a murder in Texas. He proposes to Mattie that he should team up with Cogburn, since the Marshall knows the Choctaw terrain where Chaney is hiding, while La Boeuf knows how the man is most likely to behave. Mattie rejects La Boeuf's offer, partially because he would take Chaney back to Texas to be hanged for the prior murder, instead of her father's. After finally securing Cogburn's services, he tells Mattie to meet him the following morning to begin the search for Chaney. Instead of meeting her, though, Cogburn leaves her a note telling her to go home, while he goes to apprehend Chaney. | Meanwhile, at the boarding house where she is staying, Texas Ranger La Boeuf (]) arrives on the trail of Chaney. La Boeuf has been pursuing him for several months over a murder in Texas. He proposes to Mattie that he should team up with Cogburn, since the Marshall knows the Choctaw terrain where Chaney is hiding, while La Boeuf knows how the man is most likely to behave. Mattie rejects La Boeuf's offer, partially because he would take Chaney back to Texas to be hanged for the prior murder, instead of her father's. After finally securing Cogburn's services, he tells Mattie to meet him the following morning to begin the search for Chaney. Instead of meeting her, though, Cogburn leaves her a note telling her to go home, while he goes to apprehend Chaney. | ||
Mattie catches up with Cogburn, after ferrying a river on her horse. He has teamed up with La Boeuf and agreed to split the Texas reward for Chaney. Accusing him of fraud, Mattie threatens to have Cogburn arrested for breaking their agreement, which specified that she must accompany him on the manhunt. Reluctantly, he allows Mattie to come along. After a disagreement, La Boeuf sets off on his own in search of Chaney. Eventually, Mattie and Rooster come across an isolated shack, where two outlaws are holed up. After they turn on each other, Rooster kills the older outlaw, and as the younger one is dying, he explains that Ned Pepper and his gang were planning on returning to the shack later that night. Believing Chaney to be riding with |
Mattie catches up with Cogburn, after ferrying a river on her horse. He has teamed up with La Boeuf and agreed to split the Texas reward for Chaney. Accusing him of fraud, Mattie threatens to have Cogburn arrested for breaking their agreement, which specified that she must accompany him on the manhunt. Reluctantly, he allows Mattie to come along. After a disagreement, La Boeuf sets off on his own in search of Chaney. Eventually, Mattie and Rooster come across an isolated shack, where two outlaws are holed up. After they turn on each other, Rooster kills the older outlaw, and as the younger one is dying, he explains that "Lucky" Ned Pepper (]) and his gang were planning on returning to the shack later that night. Believing Chaney to be riding with Pepper's gang, Rooster and Mattie lie in wait for the gang. | ||
Unfortunately, La Boeuf rides up to the shack ahead of the gang. When the gang arrives, they lasso La Boeuf and drag him behind a horse. Rooster opens fire from his hiding spot, and kills several members of the gang, wounding La Boeuf. During the night, Rooster drinks a great deal of whiskey and is severely drunk the next morning. The following night, he and La Boeuf argue again, and La Boeuf departs once more. The next morning, as Mattie draws water at the river, she encounters Chaney who is watering the gang's horses. She draws her father's pistol and shoots him. The pistol misfires as she tries to finish him off, and he drags her back to the gang. Ned uses Mattie as a hostage, to get Rooster to ride off. Ned leaves Mattie with Chaney, ordering him not to kill her. He plans to send a horse back for Chaney later in the day, once the gang have reached a new hideout. | Unfortunately, La Boeuf rides up to the shack ahead of the gang. When the gang arrives, they lasso La Boeuf and drag him behind a horse. Rooster opens fire from his hiding spot, and kills several members of the gang, wounding La Boeuf. During the night, Rooster drinks a great deal of whiskey and is severely drunk the next morning. The following night, he and La Boeuf argue again, and La Boeuf departs once more. The next morning, as Mattie draws water at the river, she encounters Chaney who is watering the gang's horses. She draws her father's pistol and shoots him. The pistol misfires as she tries to finish him off, and he drags her back to the gang. Ned uses Mattie as a hostage, to get Rooster to ride off. Ned leaves Mattie with Chaney, ordering him not to kill her. He plans to send a horse back for Chaney later in the day, once the gang have reached a new hideout. | ||
Once alone, Chaney attacks Mattie |
Once alone, Chaney attacks Mattie; La Boeuf knocks Chaney out with his rifle butt, and explains that when he heard the shots in the morning, he rode back and encountered Rooster, who hatched a plan. La Boeuf and Mattie watch from their perch as Rooster takes on the four surviving members of Ned's gang. He kills three of them and mortally wounds Ned before his horse is shot out from under him. As the dying Ned is about to kill Rooster, La Boeuf fires his rifle and kills Ned. Chaney comes to and attacks La Boeuf. Mattie grabs Chaney's rifle and kills him with it, but the recoil knocks her back into a chasm, which is filled with snakes. She is bitten before Rooster can rescue her. He rides all night to get her to a doctor, just making it in time. | ||
In present day, the 40-year old Mattie has just one arm, as the snake bit necessitated an amputation. Rooster invites her to meet up with him when a circus he is traveling with is near by. When she arrives at the circus, she is informed that he died three days earlier. She has Rooster's body moved into her family plot, and the film ends with her standing over his grave and pondering how time catches up with everyone. | In present day, the 40-year old Mattie has just one arm, as the snake bit necessitated an ]. Rooster invites her to meet up with him when a circus he is traveling with is near by. When she arrives at the circus, she is informed that he died three days earlier. She has Rooster's body moved into her family plot, and the film ends with her standing over his grave and pondering how time catches up with everyone. | ||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
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* Ed Corbin as Bear Grit | * Ed Corbin as Bear Grit | ||
* Roy Lee Jones as Yarnell | |||
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* Elizabeth Marvel as 40-year old Mattie Ross | ||
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* Jake Walker as Judge Parker | |||
* Peter Leung as Mr. Lee | |||
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==Adaptation |
==Adaptation and production== | ||
Ethan Coen said that the film will be a more faithful adaptation of the novel than the 1969 version. |
] said that the film will be a more faithful adaptation of the novel than the 1969 version. | ||
|It's partly a question of point-of-view. The book is entirely in the voice of the 14-year-old girl. That sort of tips the feeling of it over a certain way. I think much funnier than the movie was so I think, unfortunately, they lost a lot of humour in both the situations and in her voice. It also ends differently than the movie did. You see the main character—the little girl—25 years later when she's an adult. Another way in which it's a little bit different from the movie—and maybe this is just because of the time the movie was made—is that it's a lot tougher and more violent than the movie reflects. Which is part of what's interesting about it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/103/1039283p1.html|title=True Grit Exclusive – Movies News at IGN|publisher=IGN|accessdate=February 16, 2010}}</ref>}} | {{cquote|It's partly a question of point-of-view. The book is entirely in the voice of the 14-year-old girl. That sort of tips the feeling of it over a certain way. I think much funnier than the movie was so I think, unfortunately, they lost a lot of humour in both the situations and in her voice. It also ends differently than the movie did. You see the main character—the little girl—25 years later when she's an adult. Another way in which it's a little bit different from the movie—and maybe this is just because of the time the movie was made—is that it's a lot tougher and more violent than the movie reflects. Which is part of what's interesting about it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/103/1039283p1.html|title=True Grit Exclusive – Movies News at IGN|publisher=IGN|accessdate=February 16, 2010}}</ref>}} | ||
Open casting sessions were held in ] in November 2009 to find the part of the protagonist, Mattie Ross. The following month a website was created which appealed for audition tapes. The website stated that they were looking for a girl aged between 12 and 17 and that the character was "simple, tough as nails" and that "her unusually steely nerves and straightforward manner are often surprising".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.truegritcasting.com/|publisher=Truegritcasting.com|title=True Grit Film – casting Call|accessdate=February 16, 2010}}</ref> | Open casting sessions were held in ] in November 2009 to find the part of the protagonist, Mattie Ross. The following month a website was created which appealed for audition tapes. The website stated that they were looking for a girl aged between 12 and 17 and that the character was "simple, tough as nails" and that "her unusually steely nerves and straightforward manner are often surprising".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.truegritcasting.com/|publisher=Truegritcasting.com|title=True Grit Film – casting Call|accessdate=February 16, 2010}}</ref> | ||
The film was shot in the ] area in March and April 2010, as well as in ] and ], Texas.<ref name="bh">{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20100212coen_brothers_to_film_true_grit_remake_in_nm/srvc=home&position=recent|title=Coen Brothers to film 'True Grit' remake in NM|publisher=Boston Herald|accessdate=February 16, 2010}}</ref> | The film was shot in the ] area in March and April 2010, as well as in ] and ], Texas.<ref name="bh">{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20100212coen_brothers_to_film_true_grit_remake_in_nm/srvc=home&position=recent|title=Coen Brothers to film 'True Grit' remake in NM|publisher=Boston Herald|accessdate=February 16, 2010}}</ref> | ||
⚫ | The first trailer was released in September. A second trailer premiered with '']''. | ||
⚫ | The first ] was released in September. A second trailer premiered with '']''. | ||
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⚫ | ''True Grit'' is the first Coen brothers film to receive a ] since '']'' for "some intense sequences of western violence including disturbing images". | ||
==Soundtrack== | ==Soundtrack== | ||
''True Grit'' is the 15th Coen brothers film |
''True Grit'' is the 15th Coen brothers film ] by long-time collaborator ]. The Coens discussed the idea of using 19th-century church music, "something that was severe (sounding). It couldn't be soothing or uplifting, and at the same time it couldn't be outwardly depressing. I spent the summer going through hymn books," he says.<ref name="Burwell"/> | ||
The 1877 hymn '']'' is used as Mattie Ross's theme, and about a quarter of the score is based on it. Other hymns are also referenced in the score, including '']'' and '']''.<ref name="Burwell">{{Cite web|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118028850?refcatid=16|title=Burwell in tune with Coen brothers|publisher=Variety.com|date=2010-12-21}}</ref> Because of the use of hymns the score was deemed ineligible to be entered into the ] for ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118029326/|title=Academy nixes four score contenders|publisher=Variety.com|date=2010-12-21}}</ref> | The 1877 ] '']'' is used as Mattie Ross's theme, and about a quarter of the score is based on it. Other hymns are also referenced in the score, including '']'' and '']''.<ref name="Burwell">{{Cite web|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118028850?refcatid=16|title=Burwell in tune with Coen brothers|publisher=Variety.com|date=2010-12-21}}</ref> Because of the use of hymns the score was deemed ineligible to be entered into the ] for ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118029326/|title=Academy nixes four score contenders|publisher=Variety.com|date=2010-12-21}}</ref> | ||
==Reception== | ==Reception== | ||
''True Grit'' has received critical acclaim |
''True Grit'' has received critical acclaim; ] reports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 105 reviews, with only 4 negative reviews and an average score of 8.4/10.<ref>{{cite web | title=True Grit Movie Reviews, Pictures | url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/true-grit-2010/ | publisher=] | accessdate=2010-12-22}}</ref> ] gave the film an average score of 82/100 based on 23 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/true-grit|title=True Grit Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic|work=]|accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Directed by | Joel & Ethan Coen |
Screenplay by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
Produced by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen Scott Rudin Steven Spielberg |
Starring | Jeff Bridges Matt Damon Josh Brolin Hailee Steinfeld Barry Pepper |
Narrated by | Elizabeth Marvel |
Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
Edited by | Roderick Jaynes |
Music by | Carter Burwell |
Production companies | Scott Rudin Productions Skydance Productions Mike Zoss Productions |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | Template:Film US |
Language | English |
True Grit is a 2010 American Western film written and directed by the Coen brothers. It is the second adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name, which was previously adapted for film in 1969 starring John Wayne. The film stars Jeff Bridges as U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn along with Matt Damon and Josh Brolin.
Filming began in March 2010, and was officially released on December 22, 2010, although advance screenings began earlier in December 2010. The film is set to open the 61st Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2011.
Plot
The film is narrated by 40-year old Mattie Ross (Elizabeth Marvel) who explains that her father was murdered by one of his hired hands, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), when she was 14 (Hailee Stanfield); Chaney made off with her father's horses and two of his California gold pieces. While collecting his body, Mattie inquires about a U.S. Marshall to hire to track down Chaney. She is given three recommendations, but chooses to hire Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), because he is described as the most merciless. He repeatedly rebuffs her attempts to hire him.
Meanwhile, at the boarding house where she is staying, Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Matt Damon) arrives on the trail of Chaney. La Boeuf has been pursuing him for several months over a murder in Texas. He proposes to Mattie that he should team up with Cogburn, since the Marshall knows the Choctaw terrain where Chaney is hiding, while La Boeuf knows how the man is most likely to behave. Mattie rejects La Boeuf's offer, partially because he would take Chaney back to Texas to be hanged for the prior murder, instead of her father's. After finally securing Cogburn's services, he tells Mattie to meet him the following morning to begin the search for Chaney. Instead of meeting her, though, Cogburn leaves her a note telling her to go home, while he goes to apprehend Chaney.
Mattie catches up with Cogburn, after ferrying a river on her horse. He has teamed up with La Boeuf and agreed to split the Texas reward for Chaney. Accusing him of fraud, Mattie threatens to have Cogburn arrested for breaking their agreement, which specified that she must accompany him on the manhunt. Reluctantly, he allows Mattie to come along. After a disagreement, La Boeuf sets off on his own in search of Chaney. Eventually, Mattie and Rooster come across an isolated shack, where two outlaws are holed up. After they turn on each other, Rooster kills the older outlaw, and as the younger one is dying, he explains that "Lucky" Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) and his gang were planning on returning to the shack later that night. Believing Chaney to be riding with Pepper's gang, Rooster and Mattie lie in wait for the gang.
Unfortunately, La Boeuf rides up to the shack ahead of the gang. When the gang arrives, they lasso La Boeuf and drag him behind a horse. Rooster opens fire from his hiding spot, and kills several members of the gang, wounding La Boeuf. During the night, Rooster drinks a great deal of whiskey and is severely drunk the next morning. The following night, he and La Boeuf argue again, and La Boeuf departs once more. The next morning, as Mattie draws water at the river, she encounters Chaney who is watering the gang's horses. She draws her father's pistol and shoots him. The pistol misfires as she tries to finish him off, and he drags her back to the gang. Ned uses Mattie as a hostage, to get Rooster to ride off. Ned leaves Mattie with Chaney, ordering him not to kill her. He plans to send a horse back for Chaney later in the day, once the gang have reached a new hideout.
Once alone, Chaney attacks Mattie; La Boeuf knocks Chaney out with his rifle butt, and explains that when he heard the shots in the morning, he rode back and encountered Rooster, who hatched a plan. La Boeuf and Mattie watch from their perch as Rooster takes on the four surviving members of Ned's gang. He kills three of them and mortally wounds Ned before his horse is shot out from under him. As the dying Ned is about to kill Rooster, La Boeuf fires his rifle and kills Ned. Chaney comes to and attacks La Boeuf. Mattie grabs Chaney's rifle and kills him with it, but the recoil knocks her back into a chasm, which is filled with snakes. She is bitten before Rooster can rescue her. He rides all night to get her to a doctor, just making it in time.
In present day, the 40-year old Mattie has just one arm, as the snake bit necessitated an amputation. Rooster invites her to meet up with him when a circus he is traveling with is near by. When she arrives at the circus, she is informed that he died three days earlier. She has Rooster's body moved into her family plot, and the film ends with her standing over his grave and pondering how time catches up with everyone.
Cast
- Jeff Bridges as United States Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
- Matt Damon as Texas Ranger La Boeuf
- Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney
- Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross
- Barry Pepper as "Lucky" Ned Pepper
- Domhnall Gleeson as Moon
- Ed Corbin as Bear Grit
- Roy Lee Jones as Yarnell
- Paul Rae as Emmett Quincy
- Nicholas Sadler as Sullivan
- Bruce Green as Harold Parmalee
- Joe Stevens as Lawyer Goudy
- Dakin Matthews as Colonel Stonehill
- Elizabeth Marvel as 40-year old Mattie Ross
- Leon Russom as Sheriff
- Jake Walker as Judge Parker
- Peter Leung as Mr. Lee
- Don Pirl as Cole Younger
Adaptation and production
Ethan Coen said that the film will be a more faithful adaptation of the novel than the 1969 version.
It's partly a question of point-of-view. The book is entirely in the voice of the 14-year-old girl. That sort of tips the feeling of it over a certain way. I think much funnier than the movie was so I think, unfortunately, they lost a lot of humour in both the situations and in her voice. It also ends differently than the movie did. You see the main character—the little girl—25 years later when she's an adult. Another way in which it's a little bit different from the movie—and maybe this is just because of the time the movie was made—is that it's a lot tougher and more violent than the movie reflects. Which is part of what's interesting about it.
Open casting sessions were held in Texas in November 2009 to find the part of the protagonist, Mattie Ross. The following month a website was created which appealed for audition tapes. The website stated that they were looking for a girl aged between 12 and 17 and that the character was "simple, tough as nails" and that "her unusually steely nerves and straightforward manner are often surprising".
The film was shot in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area in March and April 2010, as well as in Granger and Austin, Texas.
The first trailer was released in September. A second trailer premiered with The Social Network.
True Grit is the first Coen brothers film to receive a PG-13 rating since Intolerable Cruelty for "some intense sequences of western violence including disturbing images".
Soundtrack
True Grit is the 15th Coen brothers film scored by long-time collaborator Carter Burwell. The Coens discussed the idea of using 19th-century church music, "something that was severe (sounding). It couldn't be soothing or uplifting, and at the same time it couldn't be outwardly depressing. I spent the summer going through hymn books," he says.
The 1877 hymn Leaning on the Everlasting Arms is used as Mattie Ross's theme, and about a quarter of the score is based on it. Other hymns are also referenced in the score, including The Glory-Land Way and What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Because of the use of hymns the score was deemed ineligible to be entered into the 2010 Academy Awards for best Original Score.
Reception
True Grit has received critical acclaim; Rotten Tomatoes reports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 105 reviews, with only 4 negative reviews and an average score of 8.4/10. Metacritic gave the film an average score of 82/100 based on 23 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
See also
References
- Washington, DC, Film Society website.
- "Coen Brothers' True Grit to Open the 61st Berlinale". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
- "True Grit Exclusive – Movies News at IGN". IGN. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- "True Grit Film – casting Call". Truegritcasting.com. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- "Coen Brothers to film 'True Grit' remake in NM". Boston Herald. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ^ "Burwell in tune with Coen brothers". Variety.com. 2010-12-21.
- "Academy nixes four score contenders". Variety.com. 2010-12-21.
- "True Grit Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
- "True Grit Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
External links
- Official website
- True Grit at IMDb
- True Grit at Rotten Tomatoes
- True Grit at Metacritic
- True Grit at Box Office Mojo
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