True Grit
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Sep 26, 2026
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But that same year, 2010, gave us another survival story set in a very different American wilderness.
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The Coen brothers adapted Charles Portis' classic 1968 novel True Grit.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
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And their approach to this adaptation is a masterclass in basically ignoring precedent.
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She plays this formidable 14-year-old girl seeking vengeance for her murdered father.
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And this is where the mechanics of adaptation get deeply interesting.
speaker_1HOST
So in True Grit, Mattie hires Rooster Cogburn, played by Jeff Bridges, and they eventually team up with a Texas Ranger named Leboeuf, played by Matt Damon.
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Who famously pronounces it Lebif in the movie.
Justin LarcoGUEST
But anyway, there are a lot of good movies in 2010 that I quite like.
Jack DraperHOST
Yeah, like True Great is 2010.
Jack DraperHOST
True Great,
Justin LarcoGUEST
okay.
Justin LarcoGUEST
So 2016.
Samuel LigonGUEST
Yeah, and often with that trope, Greg, the man is not...
Samuel LigonGUEST
So in the case of True Grit or in the case of Paper Moon, the man is not... father material.
Samuel LigonGUEST
The man is usually a con man, or in the case of True Grit, the guy has worked for Bloody Bill Anderson, was a Confederate guerrilla.
Samuel LigonGUEST
Not really good guys.
Samuel LigonGUEST
And that's true of Miller, too, that he's doing things that are immoral, unethical, wrong.
Chad MetzHOST
I mean, I don't know if Warner Brothers was the first one, but I know that they were in that group, uh, But yeah, I'm looking at Skydance's filmography and it looks like after, like at around, oh, their second movie that they're a part of is actually a very good movie.
Chad MetzHOST
It's True Grit.
Chad MetzHOST
But it looks like once they hitched their wagon to Paramount, which I think True Grit is, yeah, True Grit is Paramount.
Chad MetzHOST
Once they started that with Paramount, and again, I don't know how much, I don't know what these production, how do you hitch a ride to it as a production company and how much you do.
Chad MetzHOST
But once it started in 2010, hooking up with, they just kind of worked with Paramount and were on pretty much all of Paramount's big movies from 2010 until now.
KenJacHOST
A Star Is Born.
Jeff D LoweHOST
Uh, True Grit, 16.
Jeff D LoweHOST
17, The Batman.
Jeff D LoweHOST
18, 3:10 to Yuma.
GabrielHOST
But then Social Network, Toy Story 3.
GabrielHOST
True Grit, which I've actually never seen either.
GabrielHOST
With,
DixonHOST
oh my God, what's her name? Incenders.
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Tropic Thunder.
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Number four, Hailee Steinfeld was just 14 years old when she earned an Oscar nomination for her theatrical film debut in what 2010 Western movie? The film that kicked off her career, it is True Grit.
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True Grit.
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Question number five, what 2007 science fiction action film based on a toy line grossed over $700 million at the worldwide box office? This Michael Bay film is Transformers.
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Transformers.
Tyler BowyerPANELIST
You know how long these people would be inside saloons?
Blake NeffPANELIST
True Grit.
Blake NeffPANELIST
Remember True Grit?
Tyler BowyerPANELIST
People would be in saloons-
Blake NeffPANELIST
True Grit's the best
Tyler BowyerPANELIST
... for hours-
Blake NeffPANELIST
Yeah
Andrew KolvetHOST
Have you not seen Tombstone? You know how long these people would be inside saloons? Remember
Tyler BowyerPANELIST
True Grit? People would be in saloons for hours all during the day.
Tyler BowyerPANELIST
And I'm sure a lot of those horses were not better for it.
Tyler BowyerPANELIST
And those horses, they would have troughs.
CarlHOST
IMDb top 250s all day.
OscarHOST
Sunset Boulevard, Rosemary's Baby, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Primal Fear, Pet Sematary, Days of Heaven, and then the True Grit remake.
CarlHOST
Yeah, good.
OscarHOST
I'm a
CarlHOST
big fan of True Grit remake.
CarlHOST
I'll say it.
OscarHOST
but um two of these bigger posters that are in there which i just thought was a choice considering he is like a 16 17 17 year old kid his biggest poster was the two jakes which is the chinatown uh sequel directed by jack nicholson
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OscarHOST
Brett Ratner is Paramount, yeah.
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