TRUE GRIT CAST 2011

true grit

True Grit is an upcoming 2010 Western film, written and directed by the Coen brothers and starring Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin and Matt Damon. The film is an adaptation of the 1968 novel by Charles Portis which was previously adapted for film in 1969.
True Grit is punk rock band Cock Sparrer’s third studio album, released in 1987. It is also their first studio album, in that it consists of the entire ‘Cock Sparrer’ LP (Decca, 1977) originally released in Spain only.
True Grit is the 14th album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music).

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the actors in a play
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2011

2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on a Saturday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2011th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 2nd of the 2010s decade.

true grit cast 2011 – True Grit

True Grit

Mattie Ross is just 14 years old when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, robbing him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Accompained by the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn — the meanest available US Marshall — Mattie leaves home to avenge her father’s death and to pursue his killer into Indian Territory.
The basis for the classic film of the same name featuring John Wayne in his only Academy Award winning performance and now a major motion picture directed by the Coen Brothers starring Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges.

TRUE GRIT

EXPLORED – FEB 11th 2011.

Just saw the new remake of True Grit and loved it. Jeff Bridges is the man!

I wanted this to have a gritty (excuse the pun) "western" feel to it.

True Grit

Mark Webber ‘True Grit’ F1 minimal movie poster designed by Russell Ford

true grit cast 2011

In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn’s employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced but enthusiastic Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell) joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary Western which features performances by Robert Duvall and Strother Martin.

A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line “Ride, boldly ride” being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into “Ride, baldy, ride.” Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining actor, and Hollywood finally gave him the Oscar they’d failed to nominate him for in Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, et al. But make no mistake: True Grit is a splendid movie, with lovingly textured storytelling and sturdy characters, Henry Hathaway’s finest high-country action set-pieces, intoxicatingly ornate frontier language, and a couple of formidable bad guys (Jeff Corey’s Tom Cheney and Robert Duvall’s “Lucky” Ned Pepper). It’s a compliment to say that, from a technical standpoint, the movie could have been made any time in Hathaway’s 40-year career, yet its feeling for the reality of violence ceded no ground to The Wild Bunch, released around the same time. Still, the film’s most sublime passage falls between bursts of gunplay: Rooster sitting on a hilltop at night recounting his life story, as John Wayne metamorphoses ineluctably into W.C. Fields. –Richard T. Jameson