I hated the 2010 version of True Grit. Nothing can compare to the John Wayne version.
In other words -- the movie is total crapola.
Hanks do this before or after he ran away to Greece?
I’m not a real expert on US 19th century history, but I think if you’re looking for examples of prejudice in that time frame, you could look at the Jim Crow south, controlled by Democrats, or else the industrial Northeast and it’s uncomfortable dealing with immigrants, Catholics and Jews.
The West, as I understand it, was a place for immigrants, blacks, and army veterans (North and South) could go and live as they wished. A hard life, but one in which people mostly looked out for each other.
Now, the relationship with Native Americans is a whole other story. But, in general, I mistrust any movie which shows the West as a great example of how prejudiced this country has always been. Just PC garbage.
It’s showing here in a $5 Pizza theater.................
Hanks is a lowlife scumbag.
Hanks is a lowlife scumbag.
I’ve been doing a lot of genealogical research and just finished reading a history of Red Deer, Alberta near where my ancestors homesteaded in the 1880s.
This movie sounded promising at first, but the Woke Meets the American West theme leaves me cold. I want to go to movies and read books to get AWAY from Woke crap.
I’m surprised they put Tom Hanks in the star role. It would have been even more Woke if they’d put a tough frontier woman in that role.
I’ll probably watch it, but be ready to hurl at every new Woke theme that gets put on display.
Photos like that always leave me cold, too, because of their lack of realism. Riding an open wagon on rutted dusty roads or cross-country and they have on just-laundered clothes with nary a spot of dust, dirt, or grime. People traveled extremely light and had, at best, one change of clothes. A couple of weeks on the trail through the desert and scrub and you’d be covered head to toe in dirt, filth, weed stickers, and brush bits.
Three to things to look for in Westerns — is the campfire fueled by propane and not real burning wood; are the clothes dirty and threadbare; and are the characters saying “Yo...wuss up dawg?...Nuttin’, just hangin’ bro.”
Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are starting to look like brothers. I guess all grumpy old men look alike.
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.