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True Grit - Trailer (Coen Brothers Version)
Variety ^ | November 2010 | unknown

Posted on 11/13/2010 9:12:57 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike

Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon star in the Coen Brothers' remake of Westerner 'True Grit'.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid32525967001?bclid=713046265&bctid=645298826001

(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: coenbrothers; jeffbridges; mattdamon; truegrit
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Like the Johnny Cash music...
1 posted on 11/13/2010 9:12:59 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Matt Damon?

No thanks.


2 posted on 11/13/2010 9:14:08 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Just watched the John Wayne version again after many, many years. Still a great movie.


3 posted on 11/13/2010 9:17:18 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Hotlanta Mike


4 posted on 11/13/2010 9:24:11 AM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Looks like it could be entertaining. Probably not as good as the original though.

Couldn’t get that other link to work.

watched on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8QLMWN0yNs


5 posted on 11/13/2010 9:26:27 AM PST by smokingfrog (Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Maybe the Coen brothers will be able to extract a decent performance out of him.


6 posted on 11/13/2010 9:27:24 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Hotlanta Mike

The original True Grit was honestly not a good movie at all. Wayne had had much better performances in his career. And let’s not forget Glen Campbell’s acting...or maybe we should.

I trust the Coen brothers. I’m sure this will be a better version.


7 posted on 11/13/2010 9:27:28 AM PST by Artemis Webb (I support Nancy Pelosi for Minority Leader!!!)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Yeah...Matt Damon is a huge liberal. No doubt about it. But the Jason Bourne movies were still pretty great.


8 posted on 11/13/2010 9:28:57 AM PST by Artemis Webb (I support Nancy Pelosi for Minority Leader!!!)
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To: Artemis Webb
The original True Grit was honestly not a good movie at all. Wayne had had much better performances in his career. And let’s not forget Glen Campbell’s acting...or maybe we should.

I trust the Coen brothers. I’m sure this will be a better version.


That right there says a lot about your posting history!
9 posted on 11/13/2010 9:30:00 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: smokingfrog

It looks great from the trailer. I love Jeff Bridges....he is one of the few that I think is truly a great actor, old school acting.


10 posted on 11/13/2010 9:31:15 AM PST by porter_knorr (John Adams would be arrested for his thoughts on tyrants today!)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

The two things that made me slightly interested in seeing this movie were “Jeff Bridges” and “The Coen Brothers”. That trailer clinched it, it looks like it has the potential to be a great movie. We have’t had a good old style western since Unforgiven.


11 posted on 11/13/2010 9:32:15 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Not a “”One Eyed Fat Man” and Cogburn is outright dumpy.

The hat is stupid instead of helping him look imposing.

The smoking? LOL Good guys don’t smoke on film anymore.

Completely unkemp and looks he doesn’t bathe.

Clothes are to dark and obfuscates the good guy image of Cogburn. The film also takes the dark tone with Cogburn in the shot. It’s as if to say he is a Jekyl and Hyde.

Cogburn also doesn’t hold his guns straight true but rather waives them or holds out only 2/3rds with a bent elbow. Makes him look lucky for shooting and haphazardly lazy for a man who should be confident in the one thing he is good at.

Still it has Jeff Bridges(The Dude abides) and I will probably watch it...when it’s available at Red Box.


12 posted on 11/13/2010 9:32:26 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: smokingfrog

Jeff Bridges as Cogburn, looks good to me! I’ll go see him in Tron too.


13 posted on 11/13/2010 9:32:53 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Maybe new, but hard to improve :


14 posted on 11/13/2010 9:34:28 AM PST by labette ( Humble student of Thinkology)
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To: Artemis Webb; Borges; DollyCali

Also, this version supposedly follows the book more closely than the Wayne version.


15 posted on 11/13/2010 9:34:41 AM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: smokingfrog

It looks good.


16 posted on 11/13/2010 9:34:53 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Mr. Bridge, I knew John Wayne and YOU are no John Wayne.


17 posted on 11/13/2010 9:35:57 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Mr. Bridges, I knew John Wayne and YOU are no John Wayne.


18 posted on 11/13/2010 9:36:02 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: SoConPubbie; Artemis Webb
That right there says a lot about your posting history!

What are you talking about, SCP?

19 posted on 11/13/2010 9:37:42 AM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

I was really disgusted that there was going to be a re-make of True Grit... until I found out it was the Coen brothers. They might just pull this off.

Trailer looks good.


20 posted on 11/13/2010 9:37:47 AM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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