Posted on 02/11/2012 7:35:30 PM PST by WilliamIII
The two versions of "True Grit" are like Athens, Greece, and Athens, Georgia: They've got the same name, but they're in totally different worlds. Yet for all their differences, both Westerns found plenty of fans and got plenty of Oscar attention. John Wayne was named Best Actor for the 1969 original, and the 2010 remake, directed by the Coen brothers, competes for 10 Oscars on Feb. 27, including Best Picture and Best Director. So which movie is better? Take a look at these comparisons and decide which version you think is the truest … and the grittiest.
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I would say of course “True Grit” was about the girl. And Kim Darby’s verbal wrangling with both Martin and Cambell was great. But Duke and the rat scene was the best. Recent version good, first one better.
One of my favorites is John Ford’s The Searchers. Wayne was great in the movie along with Red River and Rio Grande... but the True Grit best of the two goes to the Coen Brothers, sorry Duke.
Bridges movie held the book close to the vest as evidenced in the girl’s later life....John Wayne was born to play Rooster Cogburn
Much as I like the Coen Bros, there isn’t any doubt. Anyone who says otherwise, well, that’s just mighty bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!
Best line
Mattie Ross: Do you need a good lawyer?
Lucky Ned Pepper: I need a good judge.
no, just too busy to proofread.
I agree; including Glenn Campbell’s character. His speech sounded like he thought he might be in a Shakespeare play. But because of The Duke, the original was better.
He and Kate Hepburn were great in Rooster Cogburn, too. In fact, I’d put Grit and Rooster side-by-side.
“I like true grits, but only have time for instant in the morning...”
“No true southerner would eat instant grits.”
“It takes the entire grit-eating world twenty minutes to cook their grits...”
I agree. The dialogue was much closer to the way people talked then. The girl who played Mattie is much better.
Do you mean the writ, wrote for a rat, that he served, forthwith? To quit eating Chin-Lee's corn?
Drunk as a skunk in elderberries, he was.
Can't say I see a problem with that.
/johnny
Kim was too old for the part, by about five years.
As far as I know, I am the only human on earth who has accomplished that. I deserved to be on Letterman but he never called.
Pity.
These two youts...
I prefer the new one. It was a far superior movie.
Umm, yeah, that was February 2011. The results are in. :-)
How is a 2010 movie eligible for the current Oscars? Can they keep going until they win?
I have a friend who was born in Elizabethtown, Illinois. After he got out of the Army, he lived in Elizabethtown, Kentucky for a few years before moving to Louisville, Kentucky. This past fall he retired out west and settled in the town of Louisville, Colorado.
“Now, look here, rat. This here’s a rat writ, writ for a rat, ordering you to cease eating Chin-Lee’s corn, and this is lawful service of same.” *BLAM*
From what I understand, the “formal” language seen in the Coen movie was put in because it is closer to the novel...in reality, it is truer to how people would have spoken at the time...a look at the letters from that time period shows that even the least educated (by today’s standards; they didn’t go beyond 8th grade usually) spoke and wrote MUCH better than most students today.
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