The Coen Brothers are going to remake "True Grit:"
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Script-Reaction-The-Coens-True-Grit-Remake-16379.html. From what this guy says, the Coen's aren't going to really change much--in fact, they're allegedly going to even keep most of the same dialogue. Some thoughts:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Script-Reaction-The-Coens-True-Grit-Remake-16379.html. From what this guy says, the Coen's aren't going to really change much--in fact, they're allegedly going to even keep most of the same dialogue. Some thoughts:
1. As borne out by his recent Oscar winning performance and a slew of other stuff, Bridges will be as good a choice as there is out there to play Rooster Cogburn; if you saw Bridges in "Wild Bill," you'll know he's got the demeanor to lock up any Western role. That said, this ain't any role, it's John Wayne's Oscar role. I watched True Grit again recently and it's remarkable how Wayne carried that entire enterprise from start to finish. Yeah, Duvall is in it, but everything centers around Wayne and he's dominant throughout. Just hoping that Bridges can pull it off.
2. The Mattie Ross role is apparently to be greatly expanded. My only hope is that the new young actress playing Mattie is better, or at least less overly obnoxious than was Kim Darby. Watching the original, there are many times when I wish that Mattie (Ms. Darby) could be hit with a stray bullet or stampeded or die quickly from the Yellow Jack or something only to just go away. Not as bad as Sophia Coppolla in GF III but there's a reason you didn't see more of her after her turn as young Mattie.
3. Obnoxious Red Sox fan (is there any other kind?) and political windbag Matt Damon is to play Texas Ranger, La Boeuf. Pretty much anyone will be better than Glen Campbell but it would have been a lot more fun to see another Matt, real life Texan Matthew McConnaghey (sp) in that role.
4. The Duvall role is apparently going to Josh Brolin. Fine, Josh. Do good and ask your old man how in the hell he can take waking up next to Babs every morning. She's pretty much arm gnawing material according to the National Enquirer photos I see at the HEB checkout.
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Rooster will now abide. LaBoeuf will like them apples.
Matty will be played by:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2794962/
I pray that Halie will not be as bad as Kim Darby.
Can you rank the following movies? Criteria: entertainment value, quality of script and acting, timelessness.
True Grit
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Rio Grande
Unforgiven
Are there any others you would rank ahead of these?
1. Searchers. Nothing else is even close.
2. Liberty Valence. Ford's company of actors with the addition of Lee Marvin was at the top of its game.
3. Unforgiven: maybe Eastwood's finest role.
4. True Grit: not Wayne's best role (see Searchers) but damn good.
5. Rio Grande--not as good as the other two films of Ford's cavalry trilogy (Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon). I would put Fort Apache at #3 or #4 on this list.
I probably agree with your list, although I personally like Liberty Valance more than the Searchers, blasphemous as that may sound.
LV and True Grit get a favorable nod because Strother Martin is in both.
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