Living in the part of Oklahoma and having ancestors from Arkansas where True Grit took place I always had a problem with the first film. We don’t have snow on our mountains and the timber was wrong. Even though the second was made in Texas it at least looked closer to something like you might find where the story took place. You could take parts of both movies and have a pretty good film.
Film makers have been bowdlerizing and butchering literature from the beginning. I’m still waiting for true telling of Huckleberry Finn.
“I’m still waiting for true telling of Huckleberry Finn.”
Never happen, too many “N” words.
Of course, film makers have always taken liberty with actual settings in movies. For example, the Deer Hunter was set in a western PA steel town. They drove up into the mountains to go hunting. However, they filmed the mountain scenes in the Canadian Rockies. They look a lot pettier than Alleghany Mountains