Posted on 08/18/2010 7:17:49 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA
In 1969, John Wayne played Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit" -- a grizzled, drunken U.S. Marshal hired by a 14-year-old girl to track down her father's killer. The role ended up winning the aging Western star his first and only Oscar, prompting him to make a rare sequel -- "Rooster Cogburn" -- opposite Katherine Hepburn in 1975. The image of Wayne's craggy, eye-patched visage from "True Grit" has become a cinematic icon.
So film mavens everywhere were taken aback when it was announced last year that Joel and Ethan Coen would been making their own version of "True Grit." But don't expect a straight remake; this movie is based more closely on the Charles Portis novel. And Jeff Bridges, fresh off his Oscar win, was tapped to play Cogburn; that's right, the Duke has been replaced by the Dude.
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They’ll have a transgendered Rooster that’s uncertain whether he wants fish or fowl. What kind of hens to have sex with tonight? Yup, the quirky ol’ Marshall will probably be all-in for sex with the livestock, Sonny Boy!
Instead of Julia Ormond, I imagine that you're thinking of Juliette Binoche in that film.
LOL...of course. But then, I admit it. I am out of touch with some of this. My wife always looks at me askance when I walk by the television and say “Who the heck is that?”
She rolls her eyes at me...
they just don’t make movie stars like that anymore, do they. john wayne, robert mitchum, maureen o’hara, audrey hepburn, katherine hepburn, humphrey bogart. those were stars with style, class and modesty. of course the press and gossip rags weren’t as in your face, dig up the dirt horrible as they are now either.
it was just a more respectful time wasn’t it?
What is with these Hollyweird types anyway, that they have to have the cartoon violence? And everybody but the main character totally evil and depraved?
I think it's pretty bad when you can skip half of the footage in the movie and still get the plot - and still think it's good.
But Denzel was outstanding, and the ending had that patented Coen Brothers twist.
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