They routinely subvert genre convention while still managing to stay within the model's malleable walls. The filmmaking pair have almost never made a straightforward genre picture. How dare Joel and Ethan Coen seek to remake such a movie classic, right?īut the Coens never questioned their motives after all, they live in revisionist movie territory. When he took on the role of the cantankerous, morally questionable Cogburn, the juxtaposition of persona helped to earn the Duke his only Academy Award. John Wayne was the quintessential American movie Western protagonist. There are no classic Western protagonists there is no higher moral ground where heroes wear white cowboy hats and villains are draped in black. True Grit changes the rules of the genre. These True Grit behind-the-scenes stories depict how both the original Henry Hathaway adaptation and the Coen Brothers' 2010 installment went about breaking the rules to become the perfect revisionist model of the classic Western.
By the time the film came out in 1969, the American Western as a genre had already run its course. She hires the old, drunken US Marshal Rooster Cogburn to help her. True Grit is a story of a tough-talking teenage girl seeking revenge for the slaying of her beloved father.
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