Posted on 08/18/2010 7:17:49 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA
In 1969, John Wayne played Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit" -- a grizzled, drunken U.S. Marshal hired by a 14-year-old girl to track down her father's killer. The role ended up winning the aging Western star his first and only Oscar, prompting him to make a rare sequel -- "Rooster Cogburn" -- opposite Katherine Hepburn in 1975. The image of Wayne's craggy, eye-patched visage from "True Grit" has become a cinematic icon.
So film mavens everywhere were taken aback when it was announced last year that Joel and Ethan Coen would been making their own version of "True Grit." But don't expect a straight remake; this movie is based more closely on the Charles Portis novel. And Jeff Bridges, fresh off his Oscar win, was tapped to play Cogburn; that's right, the Duke has been replaced by the Dude.
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The character Damon plays lives in the book and the Coen Bros movie is supposed to be more true to the book than the original version, so...
That is all.
The character Damon plays lives in the book and the Coen Bros movie is supposed to be more true to the book than the original movie, so...
>>Shootist was good. But IMO his best westerns are the Calvary triology with John Ford. He was at his best. I have to rank The Searchers up there also.<<
Hands down: “The Quiet Man.” Not only Duke’s best flick, but one of the best flicks ever.
Jeff is a hella of actor... Don’t know his politics. That may be a good thing..I like Jeff Bridges.
I disagree. I loved John Wayne, but Jeff Bridges was awsome in the roll that won him his best actor nod last year and I can picture him in this roll just fine.
Man, I am with you guys!
I saw that movie at the Officers Club in Yokosuka, Japan as a kid...we used to go over for dinner once a week, they had a big roast beef they sliced from or Mongolian Barbecue...all you could eat! (good for six kids)
Around 8 PM, they would put out the lights and begin showing a movie while you ate your dinner. It was frikking great!
I saw The Green Berets, The Hellfighters and True Grit over there in that club!
Nope, no and never. NOBODY will EVER, EVER do Rooster Cogburn like Wayne...:)
Never!
Is that Matt Damon with the pigtails?
I almost didn’t recognize him. ;-)
It is my contention that the Coen Brothers movies are morally conservative.
Bridges is excellent at old and grizzled, as in Crazy Heart. Josh Brolin was outstanding in No Country for Old Men.
I am looking forward to this remake.
Damn and I was about to see the movie, best part of “The Departed” was watching Mark Wahlberg put an end to Damon’s
character, watched that part more than once.
Jeff is a hella of actor... Don’t know his politics. That may be a good thing..I like Jeff Bridges.
Sure. I could see Jeff Bridges it too, he was good in that severely depressing “Crazy Heart”, but...yeah. Good actor. If anyone could pull it today, he could. I agree about Nolte if he wasn’t ruined by alcohol but he couldn’t do it now.
Then again, if it’s like the original he gets shot near the end. See, there’s always a bright side.
“Some movies should never be remade.”
“Very few can be remade successfully.”
I am a huge Audrey Hepburn fan and was uneasy about the remake of “Sabrina” with Julia Ormond in the title role. But I actually was surprised at how good the movie was. Harrison Ford was a better Linus Larrabee than Bogart.
If Mrs. BwanaNdege ever carries out her threats to run away and join the circus, then Julia Ormond has the edge over Audrey....she’s still alive, for starters.
Wayne movies and performances better than Grit?
The Quiet Man
The Searchers
Rio Grande
Yellow Ribbon
Wake of the Red Witch
and a couple of the Mesquiteers flicks.
Well they could remake “Being There” this time they can cast a Biracial actor with that type of real life experience to play the part, he will not be doing much after 2012.
I’m with you. The original was typical Hal Wallis western of the era and not Wayne’s best, even if he did win an award for it, and I’ve seen everyone of his movies dozens of times... I wasn’t a huge Bridges fan until Crazy Heart and think he is made for this movie I generally like the Cohen brothers work. Can’t stand Damon, but long ago I learned to separate my viewing pleasure from the actor — case in point my favorite movie so far this year next to Blind side and Crazy Heart was with Merle Streep and Alex Baldwin — It’s Complicated — and I along with the entire audience laughed through the entire movie.
>>And Arthur is another, but unfortunately, they have remade it with a queer Authur and a female butler. <<
Without Sir John Gielgud saying “I’ll alert the media” that movie is meaningless.
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