Review of True Grit (2010) by Shaky — 23 Dec 2010
The Coens' adaptation of True Grit left me well satisfied, but critically I was puzzled.
The film script remains nearly exactly true to the book, but the minor deviations made me wonder why those if those choices were necessary. The book was written almost as a screenplay, with plenty of quirky dialogue and humorous characters, so the Coens' slight additions and changes, although cleverly done, seemed irrelevant, and detracted from the overall effect. Nevertheless, the actors', filmmaker's, and make-up artists' excesses will be forgiven or simply overlooked.
As a whole, I feel that this film will be one of the Coens' most powerful mainstream success stories.
This review of True Grit (2010) was written by Shaky on 23 Dec 2010.
True Grit has generally received very positive reviews.
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