True Grit (2010 film)

True Grit is a 2010 American Western film directed, written, produced, and edited by the Coen brothers and is the second adaptation of Charles Portis 1968 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed in 1969 starring John Wayne. This version stars Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. Rooster Cogburn, along with Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry Pepper. After an outlaw named Tom Chaney murders her father, feisty 14yearold farm girl Mattie Ross hires Cogburn, a boozy, triggerhappy lawman, to help her find Chaney Brolin and avenge her father. The bickering duo are accompanied on their quest by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf Damon, who has been tracking Chaney for killing a State Senator. As they embark on a dangerous adventure, each character has their grit tested in unprecedented ways.

Mattie Ross, the narrator, explains that her father was murdered by Tom Chaney when she wasyears old. While collecting her fathers body in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Mattie asks the local sheriff about the search for Chaney. After being told that Chaney has fled with Ned Lucky Pepper and his gang into Indian Territory, where the sheriff has no authority, she inquires about hiring a Deputy U.S. Marshal. The sheriff gives three recommendations, and Mattie chooses Rooster Cogburn Bridges, whom the sheriff had described as being the meanest. The taciturn, oneeyed Cogburn rebuffs her offer, not believing she has the reward money to hire him. She raises the money by aggressively horsetrading with Colonel Stonehill, who did business with her father.Texas Ranger LaBoeuf Damon arrives in town on the trail of Chaney for the murder of a Texas State Senator. LaBoeuf proposes to team up with Cogburn, who knows the Choctaw terrain where Chaney is hiding, but Mattie refuses his offer. She wishes Chaney to be hanged in Arkansas for her fathers murder, not in Texas for killing the senator. Mattie also insists on traveling with Cogburn to search for Chaney and secure her 50 payment, but Cogburn later leaves without her, having gone with LaBoeuf to apprehend Chaney. ........

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