March 2, 2011

  • True Grit

    Recommended, for real movies.

    true_grit

    本格冒險少女


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    "The tense verbal comedy of Mattie's early negotiation with a Fort Smith merchant should win you over to this movie's high linguistic wit. If not, you may as well slip out of the theater and into Little Fockers."

    Richard Croliss: Trading the Dude for the Duke, Time Magazine, 25-12-2010

    "If there's one big difference between this version and the old, it's in the attitude toward violence. The new version may be more graphic, but it doesn't present violence as inevitable or necessary, just ugly. What a far cry from the '69 version, with director Henry Hathaway blasting triumphant Western music every time Wayne was about to kill somebody ...  Hathaway respected even the bad guys, while the Coens see even the good guys as messy, deluded and faintly pathetic."

    Mick LaSalle: Coens' gritty take on Old West, San Francisco Chronicle, 22-12-2010