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Iconic John Wayne Role Redone (True Grit remake)
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| August 18, 2010
| Jonathan Crow
Posted on 08/18/2010 7:17:49 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: Borges
Wayne’s performance to my mind was more a send up of Wallace Beery than any character the Duke ever played. Also Yahoo is wrong. The Duke played opposite Kate Hepburn in the sequel Rooster Cogburn. In True Grit he played opposite young actress Kim Darby.
To: GOPsterinMA
“Matt Damon - BARF!!!”
I just remembered something about Damon. Supposedly, about ten years ago, he and Ben Affleck were considering doing a remake of - I kid you not - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with themselves in the roles of Redford and Newman.
Auuuuuuughh!!!1!
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:19:46 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Are you sure we're not in a looney bin? Sometimes I think we're in a @#$! looney bin!)
To: DemforBush
I think his character in “The Searchers” was probably some of his best acting, if not the best.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:20:04 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(America: Why should a product be deemed a failure if you ignore assembly and operation instructions?)
To: DemforBush
I tend to like the Ford films for the scenery as they were shot in my favorite place on earth and it always makes me feel good to see the scenery and with The Duke it’s a twofer.
To: Arizona Carolyn
No kidding...self centered, arrogant, unfeeling...a general all around twit for the character. Fit like a glove!
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:21:46 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(America: Why should a product be deemed a failure if you ignore assembly and operation instructions?)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
"Can you imagine what PC Hollywood would do to The Searchers?"
Natalie Wood's part would be played by a Muslim woman in a hijab...
To: longhorn too
Took a trip this summer to SW Colorado where True Grit was filmed. Ate at the True Grit Cafe in Ridgeway. The cafe is across the street where they had the hanging scene. Also got to see the old house that was used for Mattie Ross home and the cemetery supposedly where her father was buried.If you ever get a chance, come to the Eastern High Sierra of California where they filmed some other scenes for True Grit. I can show you where they filmed the shootout at the dugout, where Wayne made the men with the wagon throw there rifles in the river and where they rode through the reeds on the way to the river crossing.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:22:47 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: xkaydet65
Sorry, should have read he article more carefully re Hepburn.
To: DemforBush
Two libs (Affleck and Damon) for two libs (Newman and Redford) - it’s a wash.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:23:46 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(Vote McCarthy (MA-4)/Bielat (MA-6). MA-6 is Bwaney's district.)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
You know, I finally saw “The Wild Bunch” for the first time about six months ago. Great cast, GREAT film. It was also my first taste of Peckinpah (I know, I know, I should hang my head in shame).
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:24:40 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Are you sure we're not in a looney bin? Sometimes I think we're in a @#$! looney bin!)
To: GOPsterinMA
What, Sam Elliott wasn't available?
-PJ
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:24:55 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
To: CaptainK
I loved the book but was disappointed by the movie. Nothing to do with Wayne's acting which was one of the movie's saving graces.I read the book back when the movie came out. The film was quite faithful, even replicating the somewhat unusual dialog style.
It was also directed by Henry Hathaway. In addition to the stars named in the article, it included Robert Duvall and Jeff "the Commie" Corey. It also featured yet another of Elmer Bernstein's great western music scores.
This remake frankly reeks of Hollyweird coming up empty in the originality department. It's OK to remake a film, but it is stupid to remake a classic one. I guess they are counting on today's young film goers not having seen a film made before 1980. They may as well remake To Kill a Mockingbird while they're at it.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:25:05 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: northwinds
How about a gay black?
I forgot about the Wild, Wild West remake - what a POS that was.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:25:11 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(Vote McCarthy (MA-4)/Bielat (MA-6). MA-6 is Bwaney's district.)
To: Jim from C-Town
‘the heavies in the film are barely passable actors.’
ROBERT DUVAL is a ‘barely passable actor’?
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:25:15 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: DemforBush
and who do you know that is more left than Redford? yet he was great in Butch Cassidy.
To: GOPsterinMA
Well,at least they’re not making a “Brokeback” version of it.Of course,I probably shouldn’t be giving them any ideas.....
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:30:15 PM PDT
by
massmike
(...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
To: Sans-Culotte
I know all this. I saw the movie several times.
Maybe it was Kim Darby and Glenn Campbell. Their acting left a lot to be desired. And she seemed kind of long in the tooth for the part.
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:30:35 PM PDT
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: DemforBush
"It was also my first taste of Peckinpah"
If you want some more, watch "Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia". A highly underrated film. The Wild Bunch was his best though. It doesn't get any better than the final scenes. I'm surprised Duke never did a picture with him.
To: wku man
"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man".
"Fill your hand you son-of-a-bitch".
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posted on
08/18/2010 8:31:23 PM PDT
by
Licensed-To-Carry
(Hey Obama! All you have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled us with a terrible resolve!!)
To: CaptainK
Kim Darby and Glenn Campbell could not act their way out of a paper sack, Wayne carried the movie... like he carried a lot of his movies... he was bigger than life.
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