Thoughts on True Grit
-You know.
-I love the voice/accent Hailee Steinfeld has on.
-She, this girl, still a child, still somewhat naive, but, at the very least, the best negotiater ever committed to screens.
-I hope she plays Katniss in the Hunger Games movie. There.
-Barry Pepper gets a pretty good supporting role as leader of the gang Josh Brolin's Tom Chaney is currently with, a vicious outlaw who is nonetheless quite noble.
-Jeff Bridges growls out his lines in the sauciest manner possible. Matt Damon is a half noble, half bitchy Texas Ranger. Josh Brolin puts on a stupid act, but when nobody's around, he's a nasty fuck.
-In a way, this might be the first movie where the Coens leave out all the quirks and spin a straight Western. Not as epic as the trailers would have you believe, and the last act felt anticlimatic, or incomplete.
-Fuck the Oscars, this is the best soundtrack of the year. That isn't all the other ones. Top 10, anyway.
-Terribly sorry that my content as of late has been kind of shitty. There's no more inspiration, man.
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7 comments:
NEED. NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED.
I knew right from the trailer that girl would be good. You can usually tell within two lines whether a child actor will make you want to strangle them or not
I think the anti-climactic nature of the "Mission" is absolutely deliberate and right (as opposed to the 1969 version), and shows the selfish-obsessive nature of Mattie's quest—that ride on Little Blackie makes her review the losses suffered through her desire for revenge...right up to Cogburn's "Too old for this." I also love the constant emphasis of religion as a source of Mattie's strength and self-righteousness, throwing her into an interesting perspective, all of which is helped by Burwell's hymn-based score.
Good movie, this. And I'm glad it was the Coens who did it.
I hope she plays Katniss in the Hunger Games and not some stupid air-head girl! I want to see this movie.
Sugary: She's awesome, yes.
Yojimbo: You put it better than I ever could.
Lindsay Frost: See it! SEEEEEEEEE IIIIIIIT!
She paid a lot for a course of revenge that in the end didn't make that big of a difference.
I liked that scene with the dead trees... with the hanging man. It was pretty.
Fitz: Well, we got a decent movie out of it. And, hey, at least she gets to make fun of a funny little man named LaBeoeuf for years to come.
Franz: You'd like my sister.
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