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The Town with 'True Grit'. The most irritating to me were a pair of lapses that are interconnected and combine to make an important point about the characters. We never get to see Mattie tell Rooster that Chaney has linked up with Ned Pepper later Rooster does remark the fact, but how did he learn of it? These two incidents combine to let the audience know that Cogburn's hidden agenda on the Chaney hunt is really Ned Pepper, he and Pepper have something of a feud going on - which information fills out the background detail for their final shoot-out.

Except here we don't have that connection. Finally, the whole Mattie - Rooster issue: many critics are saying that Mattie is more at the center here than in the Hathaway picture, which focused attention on John Wayne's Cogburn.

Not true. When we add up screen time and lines of dialog, we discover that Mattie not only has as much time and dialog in the Hathaway film but it is in much the same proportion to Cogburn's as in this one. If most remember the Hathaway film as a 'John Wayne film,' that is due simply to Wayne's bravura performance. Well, enough of the comparisons. Does the Coens' version measure up as film worth seeing on its own accord? Yes; we are presented here with a beautiful, frightening, amusing piece of 'Americana.

Hailee Steinfeld is quite engaging, and Matt Damon develops an intriguing complexity that makes one wish he had more screen-time. Bridges' performance is the most problematic - Bridges plays Cogburn as a a kind of whimsical brute - as he rambles on with his life-story on the trail, we get the gnawing sense that, if we were not along for a dangerous manhunt and dependent on his abilities as a master man-hunter, Cogburn would be someone we would not like to know.

This develops a distance between the audience and Cogburn that is actually rather on par for the Coens - there are no 'heros' in the Coen universe. Perhaps that's a good thing here. Mattie in her experiences with the wild men of the old west has encountered something larger than her life on the farm could ever get her.

These are men who make their own laws and are not bound to statutory codes or biblical decrees, and adapt their own law to the wilds of the frontier that surrounds them.

Mattie is a confirmed church-goer with a good lawyer, and if she weren't so determined on her revenge, she would actually be impossibly small-minded and dull. This is a subtext to the novel that both films attempt to convey, but neither quite captures, because it's difficult for any film maker to admit that the central character of the story is the least interesting.

The age of such wild-men has passed. It is not that wild-men do not exist - wild-men show up quite frequently in Coen Brothers' films in contemporary settings - but now they are corrupted by moving outside the law and outside the commonplace, they grow sick and psychopathic. The killer in "Fargo" feeding the partner he's killed to a wood-chipper is as wild as one could get, but he is no longer larger than life, and evokes only the sickness at the heart of modernity, not any adaptation one would want to live with.

We look back at historical moments like those of the Old West because anything seemed possible to them, whereas very little is possible for us. But that might simply be a wishful delusion - and the Coens' clear suspicion that it is really determines the limits of what they accomplish here.

They don't present the West as 'it really was,' nor do they present what we want from it, rather they present a disappointment with it. Rooster Cogburn is indeed 'larger than life,' but we wouldn't want to spend any more time with him than we do. FAQ 7. Is "True Grit" based on a book? In what year is True Grit set? Rooster asks Mattie what she has in her "poke. The empty spaces and the brick-walled buildings became a perfect western location set. The rail terminus too became just the perfect fit for the makers of the film.

However, the makers did include a few additions to the set to make it more appealing. Several wood buildings made from raw lumber were erected to represent Fort Smith in the film. They do this as they try to track a certain person in the film, which is revealed in the movie. Buena Vista Ranch too was used as one of the main locations to shoot the film. But long before many of us were born, John Ford began to sculpture the actor and the star into the presence.

Today there is no actor in movies who is more an archetype. One of the glories of "True Grit" is that it recognizes Wayne's special presence. It was not directed by Ford who in any event probably couldn't have been objective enough about Wayne , but it was directed by another old Western hand, Hathaway, who has made the movie of his lifetime and given us a masterpiece.

This is the sort of film you call a movie, instead of the kind of movie you call a film. It is one of the most delightful, joyous scary movies of all time.

Instead, it is the Western you should see if you only see one Western every three years an act of denial I cannot quite comprehend in any case. One day her father rides off to the city and is murdered by a cowardly snake. Mattie played with the freshness of sweet cream by Kim Darby rides to town to hire somebody to go into the Indian Territory and capture the scoundrel. She strikes a bargain with U. Marshal Rooster Cogburn Wayne , who is a one-eyed, unwashed, sandpapered, roughshod, fat old rascal with a heart of gold well-covered by a hide of leather.

Then a Texas Ranger Glen Campbell gets into the act when he turns up and claims he has a reward for the killer who also, it appears, plugged a state senator in Texas. After two horse-trading scenes in which Mattie outtalks the horse trader and drives him to distraction, the three set out into Indian Territory. Rooster and the ranger can't get rid of Mattie so she comes along.