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True Grit (2010)
Drama/Crime Thriller
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper
Critic’s Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer - Hailee Steinfeld, National Society of
Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography - Roger Deakins, BAFTA Award for Best
Cinematography - Roger Deakins
True Grit (2010) is a Western film directed by the Coen brothers, based on Charles
Portis’ novel, True Grit, written in 1968
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True Grit follows a fourteen year
old girl, Mattie Ross, determined to find and hang her father’s killer, Tom Chaney
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Fourteen year old Mattie Ross’ father was murdered by a man named Tom Chaney in the
late 1870s
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She ships the body back and stays in Fort Smith, asking the sheriff of
the town about the search for Tom Chaney
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Ross asks the sheriff about hiring a Deputy U
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Mattie hires Rooster Cogburn, a grouchy, rough man with an eyepatch
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A Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf also shows up in Arkansas
looking for Chaney for the murder of a late Texas State Senator
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LaBoeuf wants to hang Chaney in Texas, and
Mattie wants him hung for her father’s murder in Fort Smith
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​Mattie finds that Cogburn has already left and quickly catches up with Cogburn and
LaBoeuf, despite their attempts to keep her from travelling with them
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Mattie and
Cogburn travel on their own, and they run into a doctor who shows them a sheltered cabin
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One of them fears
for his life and ends up telling Cogburn what he knows, but his travelling partner stabs him, and
Cogburn shoots his partner
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Mattie and Cogburn later hide in a dugout and wait for Pepper and his gang to show up
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Cogburn, who is out of sight, shoots LaBoeuf on accident and a couple men in Pepper’s
gang, but Pepper gets away
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Mattie goes to a stream to get water, and she
sees Chaney across the bank
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He forces Cogburn to retreat by threatening to kill Mattie
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Despite this, Chaney
attempts to slit Mattie’s throat
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He tells
Mattie that he returned when he heard gunshots, and he ran into Cogburn and they came up with
a plan
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Cogburn’s leg is caught under Pepper’s horse, and Pepper is about to shoot him, but LaBoeuf
shoots Pepper from the cliff where he and Mattie are sitting
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The recoil of her gun sends her flying into a
large hole, and she is bitten by a snake before Cogburn can save her
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Twenty-five years later, Mattie confirms that her forearm was amputated because of the
snakebite
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She
gets a note from Cogburn inviting her to visit him in a travelling show that he performs in
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She moves his
body to the cemetery on her estate
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True Grit is a fictional story, but that doesn’t mean that the setting is
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Parker
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Judge Parker actually heard over 13,000 cases and sent more than
150 men to be hung
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Rooster Cogburn was also
based on ‘Little George’ Cogburn, a outlaw and bootlegger of the time, even though little is
known of him
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For instance, when Mattie horse-trades with Colonel Stonehill,
the typewriter shown in the movie is an Oliver #9
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The fact that Mattie also successfully traded with Colonel
Stonehill also is quite unrealistic, considering that she is only fourteen and Stonehill had no
obligation to trade with her, but that is also just speculation
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I thought that this movie was witty and well-written
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I did think that the movie ran a bit too long, but I do think that the
run time was necessary to tell the story
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Overall, I
thought that True Grit was a movie that was funny, engaging movie that is a must-see for anyone
interested in historical fiction

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