Today’s movie is a western with a scene that happens on
August 15. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
TRUE GRIT (2010)
Frank Ross is murdered by his
hired man, Tom Cheney on a trip to Fort Smith, Arkansas when Ross tries to stop
Cheney from shooting the other players in a poker game after Cheney believed he
was cheated. Cheney stole two gold pieces off of Ross’s body and stole his
horse. Frank’s daughter 14 year old Mattie Ross comes to Fort Smith to get her
father’s body and find Cheney. When the sheriff says Cheney has fled with Lucky
Ned Pepper to the Indian Territory, where he has no jurisdiction, he names
three US Marshals who might find Cheney for a reward. She approaches Marshall
Rueben “Rooster” Cogburn, described as the’ meanest” marshal, but he rebuffs
her, because Mattie is a child and he does not believe she actually has the
reward money. In spite of her youth Mattie out-trades Col. Stonehill, who had
done business with her father and gets $320.00. Mattie meets a Texas Ranger
named Le Boeuf, who has been tracking
Cheney and wants to take him back to Texas to answer for a murder committed
there, but Mattie opposes this and will not partner with him. Mattie buys a
horse from Stonehill and hires Cogburn for $100.00. Cogburn heads out after
Cheney without her, but she swims the river and catches up to Cogburn, who has
partnered with LeBoeuf. LeBoeuf later goes off on his own, but Cogburn and
Mattie get directed to a dugout where they capture two members of Ned Pepper’s
gang. One kills the other, but not before they learn Pepper is coming to the
dugout. They set an ambush, but LeBoeuf shows up at the dugout just before
Pepper’s gang arrives. In a shoot-out some outlaws are killed, but Pepper
escapes. After an argument, LeBoeuf leaves again. One morning Mattie is going
to get water and finds Cheney. After he taunts her she (much to his surprise)
shoots him with her father’s pistol. Only wounded Cheney carries Mattie back to
Pepper’s camp. By threatening Mattie, Pepper forces Cogburn to ride off. The
gang leaves, but Cheney is forced to stay behind with Mattie, as he lost his
horse in the earlier fracas. Cheney tries to kill Mattie, but is knocked out by
LeBoeuf. Cogburn and Pepper’s gang charge each other, with Cogburn killing all
but Pepper himself, who is killed by an amazing rifle shot by LeBoeuf. Cheney
knocks out LeBoeuf. Mattie uses his rifle to kill Cheney, but the recoil knocks
her into a pit filled with rattlesnakes. She is bit and Cogburn has to ride
with her until the horse dies and then carries her to get help. Mattie had to
have most of her left arm amputated. Years later, she travels to Memphis to see
Cogburn at the Cole Younger Wild West Show on August 15, 1903 [1:41:00 to
1:43:12] but learns he died three days ago,
This film is a good western and
if we didn’t have to compare it to the 1969 version, might be considered a
great film. However, while this film is good, the performances in the 1969
version are great. However, this version was at least filmed using the correct
topography as background.
At 1:42:28 Cole Younger says
Cogburn died three days ago. At 1:43:31 his tombstone
shows he died August 12, 1903, so
three days later is the 15th.
Producer - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen,
Scott Rudin and Megan Ellison
Director - Joel Coen and Ethan
Coen
Screenplay - Joel Coen and Ethan
Coen
Narrator - Elizabeth Marvel
Awards – This movie was nominated
for the Best Actor(Bridges), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best
Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Sound
Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Supporting Actres(Steinfeld) at the 83rd
Academy Awards.
Runtime – 1 hour 51 minutes
Released – December 22, 2010
Starring -
Jeff Bridges as Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross
Matt Damon as LeBoeuf
Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney
Barry Pepper as "Lucky" Ned Pepper
Domhnall Gleeson as Moon
Ed Corbin as Bear Man (Dr. Forrester)
Roy Lee Jones as Yarnell Poindexter
Paul Rae as Emmett Quincy
Nicholas Sadler as Sullivan
Dakin Matthews as Colonel Stonehill
Elizabeth Marvel as 40-year-old Mattie
Leon Russom as Sheriff
Jake Walker as Judge Isaac Parker
Don Pirl as Cole Younger
Jarlath Conroy as The Undertaker
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.
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