This review of the film True Grit is by Hailee Steinfield and Jeff Bridges of the New York Times. Their title is "Wearing Braids, Seeking Revenge". This is the ideal title because it describes Mattie. She wore braids everyday and every scene of the movie. As a mentioned in my last post Mattie was seeking revenge from a man named Tom Chaney because he killed her father.
The first thing that caught my eye about this review is that it said that Rooster will win an award for the fat one eyed man. I may not have liked the film as much as I thought I would, but I think that is definitely an accurate statement to make because not only did he keep to his drunken habits but he did it while be extremely hilarious.
The reviewers comment that everything revolves around money. Everything does revolve around money because first of all that is the reason that Mr. LaBeef is after Chaney, he is expecting a huge reward. The same for Rooster. The reason that he is looking for Chaney is because he is being paid by a fourteen year old girl. In the beginning of the story Mattie has problems with boarding because she does not have enough money, so she has to sleep in a room filled with dead bodies.
The reviews mention that this story is not about only a fourteen year old girl but also her elder self. This is true because at the beginning of the the film we hear the voice of an older women telling or reflecting on a story. Then comes the woman's childhood. Then we see the woman's present life as she concludes her story. This means that this story was told in dual narrative. I can assure you that it was not as great a dual narrative as To Kill a Mocking Bird, but still the same.
Hailee and Jeff claim that the film follows the same story as the novel, but I'll be the judge of that. I'll keep you posted.
To read this review please click on the following website: http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/movies/22true.html?pagewanted=1
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The Film
Reaction
Keeping in mind the I had to take the SATs last Saturday, I watched the film True Grit at Loews theater. I got home around 10: 30 pm. If one were to ask me whether it was worth the loss of sleep I would have to tell them no. the movie did not seem like the commercials. The commercials make it seem like it is a hard core revenge film, but that is not the case. In fact this film seemed like a pure comedy.
This story line begins with the old man on trial for the murder of another men. Everyone in theater laughed when they saw this one eyed man unable to articulate, or even recollect these murders that he is being accused of.
The young girl travels to Arkansas, where the old man was, because she had to deliver her fathers body back home to her mother and younger siblings. However, this girl wants to stay to avenge her father. She is angered when she finds out that another ranger is hunting down her fathers murderer, Chaney. She wants the murder to die because he killed her father not because he committed a crime in another country, and she wanted Chaney to know that.
They travel into Indian Territory in order to track down Chaney, with the sorry excuse for a Texas ranger, Mr. La beef. They tried to ditch Mattie in the beginning of the journey but she is a very persistent young lady who knows what she wants.
Waking up in the morning, Mattie went down to a river to retrieve some water. Low and behold, there was Chaney right across the river. Now I would expect that this was supposed to be the most emotional scene in the whole film but it was an extremely funny one. There was Mattie unable to carry a gun, and there was Chaney saying that he remember her like an old babysitter would.
These film movement were outrages. By outrages I mean that there were specific angles the camera was positioned in during certain scenes. for example during the scenes were they rode on their horses together, it was an over the shoulder shot. Shots were the it seemed the viewer was right over the persons shoulder, listening in. During the scenes there was shootings they were high angle shots. Shots were the camera pointed down. I liked these shots the most because they were also long shots. The people hide on hillsides to try to catch the enemy by surprise. Now that I think about it these shot were also point of view because it seemed like people in the theater were trying to aim too shoot the enemy.
Keeping in mind the I had to take the SATs last Saturday, I watched the film True Grit at Loews theater. I got home around 10: 30 pm. If one were to ask me whether it was worth the loss of sleep I would have to tell them no. the movie did not seem like the commercials. The commercials make it seem like it is a hard core revenge film, but that is not the case. In fact this film seemed like a pure comedy.
This story line begins with the old man on trial for the murder of another men. Everyone in theater laughed when they saw this one eyed man unable to articulate, or even recollect these murders that he is being accused of.
The young girl travels to Arkansas, where the old man was, because she had to deliver her fathers body back home to her mother and younger siblings. However, this girl wants to stay to avenge her father. She is angered when she finds out that another ranger is hunting down her fathers murderer, Chaney. She wants the murder to die because he killed her father not because he committed a crime in another country, and she wanted Chaney to know that.
They travel into Indian Territory in order to track down Chaney, with the sorry excuse for a Texas ranger, Mr. La beef. They tried to ditch Mattie in the beginning of the journey but she is a very persistent young lady who knows what she wants.
Waking up in the morning, Mattie went down to a river to retrieve some water. Low and behold, there was Chaney right across the river. Now I would expect that this was supposed to be the most emotional scene in the whole film but it was an extremely funny one. There was Mattie unable to carry a gun, and there was Chaney saying that he remember her like an old babysitter would.
These film movement were outrages. By outrages I mean that there were specific angles the camera was positioned in during certain scenes. for example during the scenes were they rode on their horses together, it was an over the shoulder shot. Shots were the it seemed the viewer was right over the persons shoulder, listening in. During the scenes there was shootings they were high angle shots. Shots were the camera pointed down. I liked these shots the most because they were also long shots. The people hide on hillsides to try to catch the enemy by surprise. Now that I think about it these shot were also point of view because it seemed like people in the theater were trying to aim too shoot the enemy.
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