Saturday, 6 September 2014

True Grit

I had seen the original but not the remake. I loved the original and I wanted to see how Jeff Bridges undertook the role that he won awards for.
I've just said that he won awards so I don't need to say how good it is.
I really enjoyed the film. It seemed unlikely that a girl of fourteen would be able to do as many business deals as she manages but you never know, you can always be surprised.
I've watched some films with Jeff Bridges in as part of this challenge and it's easy to see that he is a versatile actor and not one that plays the same character every time.
He suits having an eye patch very much and i find he is similar to Geoffrey Rush (Imagine the eye patch) in his mannerisms.

I can see why this film won so many awards. This was another year when Jeff was against Colin Firth for the awards. The King's speech won a lot of awards and what it didn't win True Grit won. I think that Jeff Bridges won the award for best actor again (a rematch from when Colin Firth was in a single man and Jeff Bridges was in Tron Legacy).
Joel and Ethan Cohen do make good films. I'm told that Fargo is a good film although I haven't yet managed to watch it. No Country for old men was a bit weird but still good and i've already posted about that so feel free to check it out. The big Lebowski is on the list and I need to find a way of watching it but empire has it on its 301 greatest films so i'm assuming that it's a good film.
O brother where art thou is not so great. It's similar to Homer's the Odyssey and I have to admit that I saw it in a classics lesson when I was studying Homer. It was ok but not that great and burn after reading just shouldn't've been made... ever.

Anyways- back to the film in question.
Matt Damon was great and very much helped by Bridges. The film really does make you believe that it was being filmed several decades ago and that they just had really good technology. I found it really easy to watch, not complicated and not too provoking which I liked.
I would suggest to anyone that hasn't seen it that they should get hold of a copy and check out this film!

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