{"id":701,"date":"2010-12-28T03:44:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T21:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2010-12-28T03:44:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T21:44:41","slug":"true-grit-in-the-true-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/28\/true-grit-in-the-true-west\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;True Grit&quot; in the True West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/True_Grit_Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-705\" title=\"True_Grit_Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/True_Grit_Poster-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>So last night I saw the Coen Brothers&#8217; <em>True Grit<\/em> in the mountain town of Canon City, Colorado, which was at one point in the 1880s the stagecoach stop east of Bighorn Canyon. A Western in a town of the New (Old) West. Jeff Bridges outdoes John Wayne easily, as the crusty Rooster Cogburn, his voice extra-gravelly and rough, saying lines like, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in fairy tales nor sermons about money, Baby Sister, but I do appreciate the cigarette.&#8221; The actress who plays Maddie Ross steals the show. Like <em>Miller&#8217;s Crossing<\/em>, which pays homage to other gangster and film noir directors\/writers, <em>True Grit<\/em> seems to allude to other great westerns, especially Jim Jarmusch&#8217;s <em>Dead Man<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Cat Ballou\u2014<\/em>which, by the way, was filmed in Custer County, Colorado, where I am now. I liked the courtroom scene in particular, and the moment when Maddie Ross jumps into the river and swims it on her horse is thrilling. I still like <em>A Serious Man<\/em> better, but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll watch <em>True Grit<\/em> over and over again.<br \/>\nIt was dusk when we left the theater and we headed west toward home, into a sunset silhouetting the Sangre de Cristo mountains, and it was like we were headed into <em>True Grit<\/em> country, armed only with a halfbag full of popcorn and the black bones of Junior Mints rattling around in a waxy white paper box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last night I saw the Coen Brothers&#8217; True Grit in the mountain town of Canon City, Colorado, which was at one point in the 1880s the stagecoach stop east of Bighorn Canyon. A Western in a town of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/28\/true-grit-in-the-true-west\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}