True Grit
As a foreigner, True Grit hit all the key points of the stereotypical American 'wild west' we here. Shooting, killing, adventures with horses, and the greed and stubbornness have their place too.
The book was surprisingly told from a very young girl's perspective. However, I personally never saw her as a 14-year-old. She had way more greed, desire, grit as the book calls it.
The characters Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf all had their differences, which made very interesting combinations. Rooster is a character that has little left to live or care for. In the book and both movies it plays out a little bit different, but Rooster has more or less nobody left around him. He became someone important to Mattie in the end when she requests his grave to be placed on her farmland. That topped it all off for me as one of the best moments in the film. The revival of someone caring for him. You can, however, see at select moments throughout, that Rooster does care about Mattie. As much as Mattie was driven, she does have a slight touch of childishness. I wonder if she was as driven by things in life before her father's death.
I saw LaBoeuf as a more mysterious (background wise) and story hindering character for the majority of the book. He also created some sort of chaos in the 2010 movie, by leaving and coming back at the wrong time.
Old western movies do tend to end on a happy romantic ending. True Grit ended with Mattie being unmarried and having a dead old man buried in her farm. I felt as if the setting, characters, events, and themes were all American old/wild west. But the author twisted important things such as the reader's point of view from a young girl's perspective. I really enjoyed this experience.
The book was surprisingly told from a very young girl's perspective. However, I personally never saw her as a 14-year-old. She had way more greed, desire, grit as the book calls it.
The characters Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf all had their differences, which made very interesting combinations. Rooster is a character that has little left to live or care for. In the book and both movies it plays out a little bit different, but Rooster has more or less nobody left around him. He became someone important to Mattie in the end when she requests his grave to be placed on her farmland. That topped it all off for me as one of the best moments in the film. The revival of someone caring for him. You can, however, see at select moments throughout, that Rooster does care about Mattie. As much as Mattie was driven, she does have a slight touch of childishness. I wonder if she was as driven by things in life before her father's death.
I saw LaBoeuf as a more mysterious (background wise) and story hindering character for the majority of the book. He also created some sort of chaos in the 2010 movie, by leaving and coming back at the wrong time.
Old western movies do tend to end on a happy romantic ending. True Grit ended with Mattie being unmarried and having a dead old man buried in her farm. I felt as if the setting, characters, events, and themes were all American old/wild west. But the author twisted important things such as the reader's point of view from a young girl's perspective. I really enjoyed this experience.
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