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Next you are going to tell me this wasn't filmed in Central Pennsylvania
Posted on 12/28/2020 7:40:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Can’t remember the movie but it was supposedly set in Iowa.
In the background were mountains. Iowa has some very flat areas and some very very hilly areas. But nothing approaching mountainous.
People in the theater (in Iowa) laughed out loud when the supposed location was revealed.
“little girls”...Shouldn’t they have given the role to Slo Joe, then?
The costumer did a good job of rumpling the hat, huh? One quick fold.
The neatly trimmed beard line on the neck is another giveaway. Those guys trekking through the desert catching a shave every couple months had to have that crisp line every day.
I especially like war movies where the guys are freshly shaved every day. I just watched “The Big Red One” and it took those WW II combat veterans about two years to begin to show some scruff.
Campbell was bad in the original for sure. Katherine Hepburn is one of my least favorite actresses, so that’s a second strike against the original version for me. By the time True Grit was filmed her voice was like fingernails on a blackboard. On the bright side, Bettie Page gave Hepburn’s skills in the bedroom a very positive review.
I loved Raising Arizona and O Brother, Where Art Thou? They were hysterical.
[The neatly trimmed beard line on the neck is another giveaway. Those guys trekking through the desert catching a shave every couple months had to have that crisp line every day.]
I too love the Cohen brothers movies.
I still love the characters in the original “True Grit”.
Maybe just because John Wayne was so much bigger than life.
He was a great American. It is kind of like remaking an Elvis movie(without Elvis) or “The Godfather” and replacing Marlon Brando.
FYI, I just watched “A Serious Man” for the first time this past weekend. Talk about a black comedy. I might have to watch it again.
I have not watched “Miller’s Crossing” in 10+ years. Time to watch that again.
Yep. Oh brother was great.....in spite of Psycotic liberal George LOONEY.
He did have a great line though...
“Damn, we’re in a tight spot!”
To this day I still use that.
I think you are confusing “True Grit” with the follow up movie “Rooster Cogburn”. RC had Hepburn in it. TG did not.
The mountain hunting scenes in “The Deer Hunter” were filmed in British Columbia not the mountains of Pennsylvania where the movie took place.
Not to mention that the particular species of deer in the hunting scenes does not live anywhere near the Alleghany mountains. It certainly was not a Whitetail Deer.
Directors take liberties for dramatic effect. At least the Vietnam war scenes were filmed in Thailand.
As for True Grit, the later version was by far the best IMO and I'm a huge John Wayne fan.
Can think of no westerns better than The Searchers and Red River.
Yeah the closest thing to seeing mountains in IA would have to be viewing the Miss river bluff in spots between Dubuque and the MN border.
“...patriarch of Duck Dynasty”
“...fully paid-up member of the Taliban”
LOL...great imagery, Zhang!
You are no doubt right. Same goes for the costumes. Who wants to see filthy, mud-caked, and very smelly people?
I too loved the 2010 True Grit.
The dialog and action was tremendous.
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Next you are going to tell me this wasn't filmed in Central Pennsylvania
Saw the movie back when it came out. I remember thinking, during the russian rulette scene in the jungle huts: “the enemy is so drunk that they are giving a gun to prisoners, and then loading two bullets in it as per a prisoner’s request? Seriously??” I almost got up and walked out.
Try “Blood Simple” their first one. I thought it was amazing when I saw it back when.
Man, there hasn’t been a real Western movie in ages. You know, the kind of “Cowboys And Indians’’ pictures of our youth.
Correction. It’s been a looong time; had to refresh my memory by viewing the scene. I remember quietly mocking the absurdity of the scene to my horrified young wife; of Deniro’s character stealing the extra bullet(s) from the enemy soldier, and during the yelling, putting them in the gun without looking. After he empties it into a couple of dudes, he take an ak and blows everybody away.
I went to that movie, looking to take it seriously (a close friend of my mother lost her only son to that war. A fine young man); and i do remember thinking of walking out. It wasn’t supposed to be like a spaghetti western.
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