True Grit

The entry that Dreamwidth ate.

Mattie Ross intends to see daddy's killer hanged and Marshal Cogburn can do nothing for you.

So--I think this movie is a love letter to my very soul. That is, if it delivers on everything the (linked above) trailers promise. Plucky young heroine, salty old killer with a heart of (killer) marshmallow, RETRIBUTION, the Coen brothers and a stellar cast.

True Grit is an adaptation of the novel of the same name. It was first adapted to film in 1969. I haven't seen the film but the bits on YouTube seem decidedly un-Coen, so I imagine this is a direct adaption, rather than an update of the '69 movie. Also, Ethan Coen had this to say about the film:

It's partly a question of point-of-view. The book is entirely in the voice of the 14-year-old girl. That sort of tips the feeling of it over a certain way. I think [the book is] much funnier than the movie was so I think, unfortunately, they lost a lot of humour in both the situations and in her voice. It also ends differently than the movie did. You see the main character — the little girl — 25 years later when she's an adult. Another way in which it's a little bit different from the movie — and maybe this is just because of the time the movie was made — is that it's a lot tougher and more violent than the movie reflects. Which is part of what's interesting about it.

I am going to watch the HELL out of this movie. I am going to watch it so hard it forgets its own name.