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True Grit: The Last Word by R Felini
For those of you who never read Westerns you may like to try True Grit by Charles Portis. It is an interesting way of presenting a story narrated by a girl who goes searching for the killer of her father in the West after the Civil War with the help of a broken down but not out, US Marshal.
True Grit
Now they made two movies based on the book. The first is 1969 starring John Wayne and it is missing a lot of things that made the book enjoyable. It totally changed the Portis ending for a sappy one. It also has been disneyed up in other areas also. It is an enjoyable flick but I believe the remake by the Coen Brothers in 2010 was much better and truer to the book.
It starred Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Hailee Steinfeld as the young girl. Seldom is a remake better than the original but this time it is and it does not screw up good parts of the book either.
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True Grit
Now they made two movies based on the book. The first is 1969 starring John Wayne and it is missing a lot of things that made the book enjoyable. It totally changed the Portis ending for a sappy one. It also has been disneyed up in other areas also. It is an enjoyable flick but I believe the remake by the Coen Brothers in 2010 was much better and truer to the book.
It starred Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Hailee Steinfeld as the young girl. Seldom is a remake better than the original but this time it is and it does not screw up good parts of the book either.
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