True Grit

Who's Man Enough for Mattie Ross?

  • John Wayne

    Votes: 15 60.0%
  • Jeff Bridges

    Votes: 10 40.0%

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John Wayne or Jeff Bridges?


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I hate to even suggest that Bridges outdid the Duke.
So I’ll just go ahead and say it:

Jeff Bridges played it better!

I also like new Mattie.
 
I tried to play...really. But they are so different and each so good it's almost like different characters.
The Bridges movie was much closer to the book. More about Mattie.
 
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Bridges, more because the supporting actors/actress are better. The girl in the Wayne movie was rather annoying.
 
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I would love to have had the new girl and John Wayne...Marian will always be Rooster to me. But the old Mattie Ross was the most irritating actress I had ever seen.
 
They are what they are, products of their time. I prefer the newer version. The verisimilitude was superior IMO and that is why I prefer it.
 
I like 'em both, and they are both top notch classics. True Grit 2010 is true to the book because that's what the directors intended. It's a good book, too. I like the ending of 2010 better. Might watch 'em both again, back to back, real soon now!
 
Wayne got my vote, but I also dug Bridges in the remake.

Kim Darby was indeed annoying! And I don't think it was entirely because the character was supposed to be...
 
Hahaha, I thought this thread was about something else.
 
I like the original and the remake equally....I usually can't say that about too many movies.

Bridges made the character his own...he didn't attempt to be the Duke.

Hailee Steinfeld did a helluva lot better job portraying Mattie than Kim Darby.
 
The 1969 film I will always recall fondly as aside from John Wayne my family was still all living at home at that time and we saw it together. So reminds me of that time and place and home.

The remake was a lot more true to Portis's book, but to me is just a film.
 
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