anticipate TRUE GRIT by the Coen brothers

Wow, that's what someone said to me on the Woody Allen thread the other day...for someone who doesn't do a great deal of serious thinking, you folks sure do think I do a lot of thinking!

quantity/quality

let go

Now, don't get me mad--I'm pretty good at nasty if the right button's pushed.

Coen Brothers and Roger Deakins are making a movie so who cares what it's based on or remaking or adapted from.

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Big cartoon hand as metaphor for "Sorry for saying something so silly" noted.

yeah thats how i always note that

Anyway, take a step back, Yojimbo. I began by expressing skepticism that this project was a good idea, always making my assumptions clear along the way; conceded what I thought was a very good point by Number None; then tried to honestly explain why I've never seen the original. At what magical point did I begin "over-thinking"? That seems to be a very fluid line around here.

thats just cr?my bein cr?my bro, dont take it personal

its a v fuiud line

lol i read it that way too, at first

Ah, acronyms...could it be at all possible that you might under-thinking a little?

unpossible

Okay--we make the peace over a well-placed Ralph Wiggum quote. Touche.

There's some precedent I'm trying to remember, where somebody got it right the second time, but I can't come up with the title.

Huston-Bogart was the THIRD version of The Maltese Falcon.

That fits for sure, but it wasn't the one I was thinking of...I don't know. I love Michael Radford's 1984, but I haven't seen the '50s version and can't compare them. I know that Radford stayed fairly true to the novel, and I'm assuming (more assumptions) that he stayed truer than the earlier film.

kind of amazed that anyone is anticipating this when the trailer strongly indicates that jeff bridges' character may be grumpy in some scenes

You're coming perilously close to over-thinking there--be careful.

Reviews are coming in.

Also, NYT talking about Wayne vs. Bridges and points this out:

But other film devotees were less charmed, particularly when they viewed “True Grit” through the filter of Vietnam-era politics and Wayne’s conservative principles — which he had said were illustrated by a scene in which Cogburn shoots a rat after demonstrating the futility of trying to treat it under due process of law. (The new film has no such moment.)

The rat scene was in the book, so who knows yet which one is more faithful.

Wau, first ed of book had aws cover:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/True_Grit.jpg/418px-True_Grit.jpg

Thats the edition i have! Bought it at a library sale <3

This is perfectly fine. Bridges is a hoot whenever he's yakking, and ultimately touching (but then i gasp "I've grown old" about 5 times a week).

An attendee who watched the 1969 version yesterday reports it's 90% like the Wayne film. I'm glad they filmed the book's epilogue, though, as not liking Mattie much pays off.

Borderline spoiler --- there's a character that lives in the book, but dies in the 1969 movie. What happens to that character in the 2010 version?

zombie

you'll hafta see, wontcha

kinda skimmed the thread but key takeaways i took from a joel (?) coen interview was that the original lacked the humor and darkness of the book, as well as the narrative POV was not very faithful to the source.

that said, i saw the trailer and am very stoked. i'm planning on taking my mom to see it around xmas.

I'm honestly shocked the book is so popular. Is it that good?

Are you shocked because the characters wear chaps instead of the petticoats required by fine literature?

Ok so admittedly I am probably not going to love this in the first place, but I gave it a chance. Pretty good performances all round, particularly surprised by Matt Damon. Shot beautifully. Nice score. Just really...kinda boring?

Keep in mind I do like SOME westerns, but not many, and I mostly like the Coen brothers.

it's a really beautifully photographed Disney western w/ nastier violence, that reveals in the epilogue that yes, that annoying girl grew up to be a c**t.

Oh can we not say cunt on ilx now?

Haha iPhone tried to change "cunt" to "cynthia"

i feel sorry ms plaster caster

Girl was ok I guess. I mean she had to be fairly competent for movie to work, and it did. It was just unremarkable

hey, I quite liked the performance. I also liked the drops of racism, as opposed to 'let's all pretend our 19th-century western characters are enlightened.'

Aside from some of the dialogue, this has to be the must un-coen bros coen bros movie I have thus far seen.

I don't know how much of the dialogue is NOT from the book, but the Old West and its literature was absurdist long before they got to it.

Although it’s hard not to notice Mr. Bridges’s turn as the Dude playing the Duke with a dash of Bad Blake, much of the film rests on the diminutive shoulders of Ms. Steinfeld, a 13-year-old who was plucked from 15,000 girls who turned up at casting calls or sent taped auditions.

“It was, as you can probably imagine, the source of a lot of anxiety,” Ethan said. “We were aware if the kid doesn’t work, there’s no movie.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/movies/12grit.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all

“We all enjoyed ourselves. Except Joel. I don’t think that’s his specialty."

Hey, Ethan stole my quote! Hi if you're reading, Coen Bros

no country for old men was pretty un-coens

i'm only marginally interested in seeing this film

this really kind of feels like a wonderful world of disney special

oh, looks like morbs beat me to it.

this really kind of feels like a wonderful world of disney special

^^^ I haven't seen it yet, but apparently "Coen Bros" and "Jeff Bridges" are enough for some of my friends to forget how redundant it all looks.

it's not a BAD wonderful world of disney special! it actually plays like a pretty good, unflinchy family movie. which i think is kinda cool!

if i had a kid i would totally show that kid this and "me and orson welles"

Although it's an Old Movie, the original still gets shown often on cable. I prefer Bridges in grizzled mode to John Wayne but c'mon.

I'm with you on Me and Orson Welles.

oh, you mean redundant cuz of the earlier one. gotcha.