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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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To: miss marmelstein

Wayne was playing that part with toungue firmly in cheek. Watch the great films he made for John Ford and Howard Hawks and then compare them to True Grit. It’s not a great film by any means. Fun but that’s about it. The only segment in “How the West Was Won” that wasn’t expendable was the John Ford one.


61 posted on 11/13/2010 8:11:55 PM PST by Borges
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To: DollyCali

I’m surprised they’re remaking this movie.


62 posted on 11/13/2010 8:45:38 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Borges

Still wrong, I’m afraid. You’re confusing self-parody with great good humor - and the Duke has it in spades in this one. It is not a perfect movie. It has two bad performances. Glen Campbell was cast in the old-fashioned notion that he would bring in the teenagers - just like Wayne westerns featured Ricky Nelson and other teen idols. I don’t know how Kim Darby fell into it. But it has the Duke, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin (brilliant!), Jeff Corey and even Dennis Hopper as an unwashed villian who made it soar. The Duke deserved his Oscar.

How the West Was Won is a classic. I was lucky enough to see it in Cinerama as a kid and later on was surprised how good it was on the small screen. Good story, good script, good actors, good directors and brilliant cinematography and a magnificent score by Ken Darby, I believe (not Kim!).


63 posted on 11/14/2010 3:46:33 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Artemis Webb

Yes, that is a great series.

And I used to be able to ignore the big mouths of these leftist actors. But I can’t do it any more. With people like Julia Louis Dreyfus (Elaine from Seinfeld who acts so sweet) cutting checks for $28,000 dollars to Obammie the Commie, I can’t support them any more. It just turns my stomach to see these phonies being paid to pretend to be something they are not — being paid far more than those who they denounce for being obscenely wealthy — then turning around and using their money and position to push communists.

Can’t do it.

I don’t put down anyone who does. I used to be able to. But I can’t anymore.


64 posted on 11/14/2010 5:44:15 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: miss marmelstein

The music of HTWWW was by Alfred Newman. John Ford is the only ‘great director’ who worked on it. Hathaway and George Marshall have little standing in film studies. TG is passable entertainment but it’s not a classic American western. The competition is too great.


65 posted on 11/14/2010 9:46:54 AM PST by Borges
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To: retrokitten; Anitius Severinus Boethius
SJ- I know it take 6 years for video to load for you

LOL, and that's on a good day ;)

The trailer looks very good--even though it has Matt Damon in it. At least the Coen's didn't put Clooney in this one.

I'd also like to see "Get Low" with Robert Duvall and Bill Murray, which I thought was a Coen Bros. film too at first.

66 posted on 11/14/2010 11:59:14 AM PST by silent_jonny ("Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing." - 1 Thess. 5:11)
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To: Hulka
For me, The Shootist was the best movie the Duke ever made. . .IMHO.

It was the perfect way for him to say goodbye. Great movie.

67 posted on 11/14/2010 12:06:19 PM PST by silent_jonny ("Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing." - 1 Thess. 5:11)
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To: labette

“Fill your hands you son of a bitch!” - The Duke


68 posted on 11/14/2010 12:09:08 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Hulka

Yea, I’ll agree with that.

Talk about bringing your life into your character....


69 posted on 11/14/2010 12:12:04 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; Anitius Severinus Boethius
Burt Lancaster’s or Clint Eastwood’s UNFORGIVEN? There is a difference.

There's only one Unforgiven.

Lancasters's movie was called The Unforgiven, and no one would ever confuse it with Eastwood's film.

70 posted on 11/14/2010 12:31:46 PM PST by silent_jonny ("Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing." - 1 Thess. 5:11)
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To: Borges

Well, I just spoke to my husband who teaches film at the New York Film Academy and he assures me that all the directors who worked on How The West Was Won were very fine directors - Ford, of course, was in a class by himself.

I never said True Grit was a classic - it’s not.

And Ken Darby did create the music for How the West Was Won as did Alfred Newman. Both were nominated for an Academy Award for their work. I always have the cd in my car for long travels. Beautiful.


71 posted on 11/14/2010 12:58:19 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

“Very fine” is a relative term. Henry Hathaway did nothing unexpected with his many films and occasionally turned out a passable genre film like ‘Kiss of Death’. The other HTWWW director, George Marshall, was a cheerful vulgarian best remembered for the rowdy and unchallenging Jimmy Stewart-Marlene Dietrich vehicle ‘Destry Rides Again’ and the amusingly tasteless “Murder, He Says”. That’s about it.


72 posted on 11/14/2010 1:36:24 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

Oh, please, don’t be so snobbish. Anyone who has directed Laurel & Hardy, W.C. Fields, Bob Hope & Jerry Lewis is pretty damned good - as well as very successful.

And Murder, He Says is plenty funny despite being
oh-so-tasteless.


73 posted on 11/14/2010 2:57:25 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Mr. Bridges, I knew John Wayne and YOU are no John Wayne.

He sure isn't. He is a much better actor for one.
74 posted on 11/14/2010 5:34:05 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: smokingfrog

In the trailer, Bridges sounds to me like he is channeling Tommy Lee Jones’ Captain Call from “Lonesome Dove”.


75 posted on 11/15/2010 4:08:12 AM PST by day10 (Integrity has no need of rules.)
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To: miss marmelstein

He was certainly at the right place at the right time. Fields’ films were notorious for being badly crafted and Marshall didn’t even direct the best of them. Fields did much better work at Universal in later films. His Lewis films are also fairly obscure. The Ghost Breakers is fun though. And the story was later revived for Martin and Lewis’ ‘Scared Stiff’.


76 posted on 11/15/2010 8:29:37 AM PST by Borges
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To: Artemis Webb

True Grit was amongst John Waynes 4-5 best. (along with ‘The Searchers’, ‘The Shootist’, and a few others )

“....fill your hands, you sonofabitch”

it does not get any better than that.

yes Glenn Campbell stunk, but the Duke, Bob Duvall and Dennis Hopper were spot on.


77 posted on 11/26/2010 1:31:25 PM PST by Vaquero (Dont pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero
True Grit was amongst John Waynes 4-5 best. (along with ‘The Searchers’, ‘The Shootist’, and a few others )

Not even close. Off the top of my head, besides the two you mention, there's Stagecoach, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache, Red River, The Quiet Man, They Were Expendable, The Cowboys, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Three Godfathers.

78 posted on 11/28/2010 1:15:11 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

some good choices none up to my 3. Liberty Valance and The Cowboys being the best of your lot

a few lame clunkers in there too Bubba.. sorry just opinions and we all not what they are like.


79 posted on 11/28/2010 1:30:03 PM PST by Vaquero (Dont pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

“Toy Story” meets “True Grit”

http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/toy_story_meets_true_grit


80 posted on 11/28/2010 1:44:22 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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