Coen bros. 'True Grit' remake

[Mesohorny]

filming at the Blanco courthouse starting in May with Jeff Bridges (Rooster), Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry Pepper.

it'll be interesting to see what the Coens do with it.

 

[WorsterMan]

I'm your Huckleberry... I like the sound of this!

I hope they find a better Mattie from Dardanelle County than Kim Darby.....

 

[Mesohorny]

Mattie is Hailee Steinfeld (?)

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agree on Kim Darby

Matt Damon has Glen Campbell's role.

Barry Pepper has Robert Duvall's role (Ned Pepper). Wish it was still Duvall; he was great.

"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fatman."

 

[uisge beatha]

Way out west there was this fella... fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Reuben J. Cogburn. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Cogburn, he called himself "Rooster". Now, "Rooster" - that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the Rooster that didn't make a whole lot of sense

 

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[RomaVicta]

Glen Campbell was awful, too, as the Texas Ranger.

 

[The Eyes of Texas]

No one should ever touch a John Wayne movie.

 

[Nuge]

The production offices have been in the red Austin Film Studios on 51st street for more than a month.

 

[71grad]

And Wayne's reply, "Fill your hand you son-of -a-....."

I thought Kim Darby made a pretty good little brat. Campbell didn't hold up to well working with Wayne.

 

[WorsterMan]

As a teen Glen Campbell seemed like he did a decent acting job in that role... later as an adult, it was clear how awful he was.

 

[BigWill]

as an actor, he was a really good guitar player.

 

[Das Mook]

When she was stuck in the pit with the rattlesnakes, that scared the **** out of me. (shudder)

John Wayne vs. those four dudes wasn't even fair.

 

[huisache]

A review at the time remarked that Glen Campbell had never acted in a film before and that his slate was still clean.

The book was interesting and not a lot like the movie as I recall. Wayne had a habit of hamming it up and realistically, a character like his would have gotten killed early on. Of course that was true of most of the characters he played.

His worst act of butchery was The Comancheros, which was a pretty good book about Texas in the republic period. In Wayne's World, it was still the 1840s but they were using post Civil War weapons, you got to Galveston from New Orleans by a paddle wheeled Riverboat and on the trip cross country back to Louisiana from Galveston you crossed a desert with nice mountains in the background. I guess the Houston real estate developers had them torn down by the time I passed through there.

There was also a character who had served some years in the Yuma territorial prison. This was some years before Yuma had a territorial prison and in fact was while Mexico still controlled all of Arizona.

John Wayne, American hero/bs artist.

 

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[RabidLonghorn]

His worst act of butchery was Green Berets.

 

[uisge beatha]

Sorry but he never really struck me as Davey Crockett either. But Ghengis Khan?

 

[huisache]

In Green Berets the sun went down in the east.

IN Gengis Khan, they filmed in the NEvada desert near the nuclear test site and the director, William Powell, liked the color of the red dirt so much he had a few train carloads hauled back to hollywood so they could use it in the studio shots indoors.

An incredible number of the crew and actors on that film died of cancer, including Powell.

The only thing ever tested in the area where they are filming the new version would be new bongs.