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However, Jeff Bridges' take on the character is vastly different to Wayne's, breathing renewed life into Rooster Cogburn. Eula Goodnight: And if thy words stray from the truth for the good of God's own, if thy intent is pure, thou shall not then be judged sinful.Remaking a certified classic film decades after the original released? It's a near-impossible task for even the most venerated and talented filmmakers, which is a hard truth the Coen Brothers found to be the case when their remake of The Ladykillers flopped. The film won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer (Hailee Steinfeld) and received ten additional nominations in the following categories: Best Film, Best Actor (Jeff Bridges), Best Supporting Actress (Steinfeld), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, and Best Score. The ceremony took place on January 14, 2011. [35] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called the film a "slow and rattletrap" star vehicle for Wayne and Hepburn, whose pairing was "not so much a relationship as a very good-natured contest in scene larceny. Despite some of the most tongue-numbing dialogue in a long while, Hepburn wins every time with her sweetly devastating underplaying." [11] Yet even for its superiority, the True Grit remake won't ever be as well-remembered in cinema history as the original True Grit.

The screenplay was written by actress Martha Hyer, the producer Hal B. Wallis's spouse, under the nom de guerre Martin Julien. Director Stuart Millar, an old Hollywood producer, had directed just one film, 'When Legends Die,' from the classic novel by Hal Borland, before helming 'Rooster Cogburn'. Horse and rat pets were used during the filming of this movie. The horse, as well as rat pets, were trained perfectly so as to film them. True Grit Exclusive– Movies News at IGN". IGN. Archived from the original on October 16, 2011 . Retrieved February 16, 2010.In his family memoir, Rooster: The Life and Times of the Real Rooster Cogburn, the Man Who Inspired True Grit, shoot ‘em up Westerns writer, Brett Cogburn makes plausible arguments that his great-grandfather, John Franklin Cogburn (aka: ‘Rooster’) was the real life inspiration for Charles Portis’s fictional character, Deputy U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in his novel, True Grit. Whether or not you accept his basic premise, Cogburn’s memoir makes for very interesting, informative and entertaining reading about the old west. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Oscar nominees 2011". MSN Movies UK. January 25, 2011. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012 . Retrieved January 25, 2011.