It may not be as good as the original but it's great news that the new True Grit is doing excellent business at the box office and is approaching blockbuster status - (From The Baltimore Sun) The box-office news this week is that the Coen Bros.' deliciously literate "True Grit" is acquiring blockbuster status. It's an amazing victory for a Western that is centered not just on character but on language -- on personality and values as expressed through formal period diction (courtesy of original novelist Charles Portis). The movie brings you into a world in which a young heroine can achieve power partly because of her manner of speech. 14-year-old Mattie Ross expresses rectitude and strength with a verbal intensity that's sometimes funny and sometimes even scary. Hailee Steinfeld is a wonderment in the role (she was thirteen when she played it) -- and apparently, young men as well as young women can identify with her.
This is great news for the western genre - of course we've known it all along but westerns are cool again.
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2 comments:
Hi Gary,
I'm thrilled that this movie is doing so well; the film is a gem. Like you, I watched a downloaded screener copy, a fact of which I'm not proud. As a huge Western fan I will def. pay to see this film at the cinema when it arrives here, but I wish it had been released in the UK at the same time as the US, so we could have seen it over Xmas.
I think this is a big problem that the movie industry should address; it's too much temptation for somebody who has been waiting ages to see a movie not to seek it out elsewhere if it's not available at the cinema. I of course want to encourage this type of movie.
You are an actor I believe, so have a vested interest in this - what do you think?
Davieboy
Couldn't agree more. These day having staggered release dates in utterly stupid. I mean if someone, like myself and you by the sound of it, have been waiting months to see this the temptation of watching a screener of via the bad old web is too great to resist. I however will be there on opening day in the UK and will be taking my little ones along. I thought the film was excellent even if I do prefer the original.
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