The duo formed by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen is without any doubt, one of the safest securities in the current bulletin as well have been commissioned to demonstrate from the release of Blood Simple back in 1983. That is why, although I personally did not connect too much with their proposals limited to the field of comedy, the debut of a new film by the authors of Miller's Crossing is always an event to be considered . In this case, the Coen brothers We propose a new approach to the novella Charles Portis, True Grit , already filmed Henry Hathaway in 1969, and although a server is usually suspicious lot, and this is almost a euphemism, the remakes in general, the Coen brothers have earned some credit in principle to make the viewing of his latest proposal. 
True Grit (2010), although in very specific moments are sprinkled with some humor to relieve the dramatic, particularly I think in the appearance of the rider wearing a bearskin or in competition draft made by characters played by Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges firing on corn cakes, is primarily the story of revenge carried out by Mattie Ross, excellently played by Hailee Steinfeld, a 14 years has seen his father was murdered at the hands of Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin ), and from there proceed to the search for a bounty hunter to help it achieve its purpose. The Coen brothers' film tells the story from the point of view of Mattie Ross, who will serve as narrator of the facts developed on the screen. Since the start of the film the viewer can see Mattie perform various administrative tasks in the beginning showing his knack for accounting issues and negotiations, with final numbers in a visible demonstration of that on one hand, it is a character who has left behind early childhood, and secondly, that the manner of Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart ) of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , Mattie's character is handled in an environment of numbers, counting, numbers and percentages, where it was handled in the context of laws, rights and obligations. A habitat of numbers and letters, in short, far from the wilderness full of death and gunfire in which the law that prevailed was the strongest, or what the law is the same Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin ) or Rooster Cogburn ( Jeff Bridges), both two sides of the same coin. 
Undoubtedly the Coen brothers' film is light years away from the Fordist The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (98% of westerns is), but bears some relationship resemblance to it by telling the adventures of a character whose world and principles are far removed from reality that he lives, but while getting their values \u200b\u200bStoddard finished with the old regime bullets and strength, the character of Ross should use these, as symbolized by Cogburn character (brilliantly played by Jeff Bridges ) to avenge the death of his father. Mattie voyage made with Cogburn and Texas Ranger LaBeouf (an excellent Matt Damon) is largely a struggle to earn the respect of both the adult world and the world of weapons Bridges symbolize characters and Damon. In this regard it is significant that the sequence in Mattie crosses a river on horseback chasing the top two, who were trying to leave behind. It is a sequence of great strength that the Coen film front, from the point of view of Bridges and Damon, in which the viewer can see the face of desire and pride that exudes her face as it approaches the two adults.
As I mentioned earlier, and this is something that will not escape anyone who has read the account of Portis or has seen the original movie Henry Hathaway, Grit is primarily the story of revenge, so the Coen brothers choose to confer upon the story a dark tone that is enhanced by the excellent cinematography by Roger Deakins, full of sad, muted colors, totally appropriate to the dramatic tone that requires particular Odyssey of Mattie Ross, and distilled by the darkness that sequences like the final duel between Rooster Cogburn and outlaws, which has an air of medieval fair and a spectral atmosphere of justice and death, or the endless journey on horseback Cogburn and Mattie made an attempt to save the latter of a snake bite, in which the viewer can feel galloping on that horse, panting nervously alongside Jeff Bridges , when the horse exhales its last throes, and it must continue to run using their own legs absolutely desperate for the salvation of the girl in the middle of the night. Both are undoubtedly two of the best and most shocking film footage of the last Authors of Barton Fink .
Ultimately, True Grit (2010) is not one of the best exponents of the actual billboard, but also one of the most important westerns of recent years, and reveals, for if he did something wrong, that the Coen brothers are here to stay. Film lovers are fortunate.
Grit
Country: United States
Year: 2010
Original title: True Grit
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Dakin Matthews, Bruce Green, Paul Rae, Don Pirlo, Leon Russom.
Screenplay: Ethan and Joel Coen Based on the novel by Charles Portis.
Photography: Roger Deakins
Music: Carter Burwell
Producers: Scott Rudin, Ethan and Joel Coen.
Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen.
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