Might as well try to remake Casablanca. There is no point to it.
My wife came home a few days ago and said one of her employees saw it and said “Don’t bother”.
I’ll not bother. I wouldn’t have, anyway. Nothing will ever replace Wayne’s marvelous role in that film.
As the critics say, that book has a bull’s-eye opening sentence. If you haven’t read it, folks, buy a used one on Amazon in paperback - with the original primitive-art cover. You won’t regret it.
I kinda liked the new version, too.
In an ideal world, we could do a remix with John Wayne, the new Mattie and new LaBoef.
...the last line of the book is one of my favorites in all of American literature....it is spoken by Mattie as an old lady.
“This ends my true account of how I avenged Frank Ross’s blood over in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground.
/johnny
And I like the John Wayne version of True Grit, as well, which contains a surprising amount of Portis' dialogue, unchanged, but I had always hoped that someday someone would do a more faithful translation of the novel. Haven't seen the new version yet (it's on the list), but when I heard that the Coen boys were working on it, I was cheered by the idea that, if anybody could handle it, they could.
My brother, who is a lover of John Wayne movies, says this remake is well worth seeing. I don’t have much chance to go to the movies these days but I will see this one, either now or later.
I’ an ole great granny - going to see it tomorrow with family
(some of my grandkids have seen it too - really liked it.
I’ll bet I could have done a better job than Jeff Bridges. And I already got my own colt and winchester! Sheesh, what were they thinkin?
Good except the ending - did not care for it. They should have done the same ending as the original movie.
I love John Wayne—True Grit and most of his other movies.
I also love the Coen Brothers. I expect this movie will be very different from the Wayne movie, but also worth seeing.
...but the Coens, from what I hear, have put 'the novel' out there on the screen...and not the Hollywood evisceration of a novel...as I hear the original movie was...(though I love the original immensely)
I loved Wayne as Rooster...he earned his oscar. and I do not like the politics of Mr. Bridges.
so I will wait for the Bluray, watch it on my own ‘big screen’ and probably enjoy it as the trailer looks great...and I love most things ‘Western’
It’s good. Go see it.
Hollywood is totally bankrupt of ideas.
The main thing I liked about the original (besides the Duke himself, of course) was the affection that developed between Rooster and Mattie. I didn’t get that same sense from the new one. And the commercials and previews before the movie were horrible!
Being a John Wayne fanatic, I was upset when I first learned of this remake. With great trepidation I interrupted our Hawaii vacation and took my 20 yr old son to see it Wednesday. I left with only four words in my brain:
1-BestMovieOfTheYearOscar
2-BestActorOscar
3-BestSupportingActressOscar
4-BestScriptEver
(Of course I’m not holding my breath for Hollywood to give it any awards.)
The new True Grit is sufficiently different (and “updated”) that the original True Grit is not diminished in any way. Its just that they are both exxxxxcellent movies.
I find this “Old Codgers” statement highly insulting. I am 56 and can still do whatever I did when I was 21... most of it better. Jeff Bridges is a good actor... he is neither great nor is he an icon such as John Wayne. Bridges can no more fill the Duke's shoes as Rooster Cogburn, than Angelina Jolie could fill the shoes of Vivian Leigh (in her reprised role as Scarlett O'Hara). The Big Lebowski does the Duke... not in any reality on this plane.
LLS