Iconic John Wayne Role Redone....
Hollywood is bound and determined to ruin all the old movies i grew up on,...don't get me wrong,..i like Jeff Bridges (the 1976 version of King Kong is still the best one in my opinion...and he is "The Dude")...but i have been disappointed by the remakes of good movies far too often to believe that "The Dude" will ever stack up to "The Duke" in this classic John Wayne Film.
I sincerely hope that they don't butcher this film,..not only was it in bad taste was when they put John Wayne in beer commercials (see bottom of post), it pissed me right off and ive never had another Coors or Coors product since.
I grew up watching John Wayne Movies ,...in my opinion there are just certain things you don't do...one of which is ...you don't fuck with The Duke
In 1969, John Wayne played Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit" -- a grizzled, drunken U.S. Marshal hired by a 14-year-old girl to track down her father's killer. The role ended up winning the aging Western star his first and only Oscar, prompting him to make a rare sequel -- "Rooster Cogburn" -- opposite Katherine Hepburn in 1975. The image of Wayne's craggy, eye-patched visage from "True Grit" has become a cinematic icon.
So film mavens everywhere were taken aback when it was announced last year that Joel and Ethan Coen would been making their own version of "True Grit". But don't expect a straight remake; this movie is based more closely on the Charles Portis novel. And Jeff Bridges, fresh off his Oscar win, was tapped to play Cogburn; that's right, the Duke has been replaced by the Dude.
The movie will also star another Coens alum, Josh Broli, along wit Barry Pepper and Matt Damon.
"I've never even seen the original John Wayne movie" Matt Damon, who plays Glen Campbell's old role of LaBeouf in this new version, told Entertainment Weekly. Unlike the old flick, this LaBeouf reportedly doesn't sing. "Our movie is totally different."
This week, the first photo of the Coen Brothers' effort (see below) was released, hinting at other differences. The most obvious being is that Mattie Ross, who is a fourteen year-old girl in the book, is actually being played by a fourteen year-old girl -- newcomer Haile Steinfeld. In the original,Kim Darby was 21.
But what fans of the original are all wondering is how the Dude's Cogburn going to stack up next to the Duke's. The photo shows Bridges, looking ornery and weathered, sporting a beard and that famous eye patch. Wayne, a staunch Republican during the height of the '60s, was resolutely clean-shaven.
A quick comparison reveals that Wayne and Bridges sport their patches on opposite eyes. The Duke covered his left eye as a nod to his longtime collaborator John Ford, who lost vision in that eye when he removed bandages too soon after a cataract operation. No word on why Bridges decided to cover the other side.
When he was making his "True Grit," John Wayne was 61 years old. He was too unhealthy to perform his own stunts and, thanks to having an entire lung removed years prior, could barely walk more than 30 feet before heavy breathing. You might be forgiven, when looking at side-by-side photos, for assuming that Bridges is five or ten years younger that Wayne when he shot his version. In fact, Jeff Bridges turns 61 in December.
"True Grit" opens December 25, 2010.
this is pure sacrilege
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BupDoxw8r-8&feature=related
Hollywood is bound and determined to ruin all the old movies i grew up on,...don't get me wrong,..i like Jeff Bridges (the 1976 version of King Kong is still the best one in my opinion...and he is "The Dude")...but i have been disappointed by the remakes of good movies far too often to believe that "The Dude" will ever stack up to "The Duke" in this classic John Wayne Film.
I sincerely hope that they don't butcher this film,..not only was it in bad taste was when they put John Wayne in beer commercials (see bottom of post), it pissed me right off and ive never had another Coors or Coors product since.
I grew up watching John Wayne Movies ,...in my opinion there are just certain things you don't do...one of which is ...you don't fuck with The Duke
In 1969, John Wayne played Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit" -- a grizzled, drunken U.S. Marshal hired by a 14-year-old girl to track down her father's killer. The role ended up winning the aging Western star his first and only Oscar, prompting him to make a rare sequel -- "Rooster Cogburn" -- opposite Katherine Hepburn in 1975. The image of Wayne's craggy, eye-patched visage from "True Grit" has become a cinematic icon.
So film mavens everywhere were taken aback when it was announced last year that Joel and Ethan Coen would been making their own version of "True Grit". But don't expect a straight remake; this movie is based more closely on the Charles Portis novel. And Jeff Bridges, fresh off his Oscar win, was tapped to play Cogburn; that's right, the Duke has been replaced by the Dude.
The movie will also star another Coens alum, Josh Broli, along wit Barry Pepper and Matt Damon.
"I've never even seen the original John Wayne movie" Matt Damon, who plays Glen Campbell's old role of LaBeouf in this new version, told Entertainment Weekly. Unlike the old flick, this LaBeouf reportedly doesn't sing. "Our movie is totally different."
This week, the first photo of the Coen Brothers' effort (see below) was released, hinting at other differences. The most obvious being is that Mattie Ross, who is a fourteen year-old girl in the book, is actually being played by a fourteen year-old girl -- newcomer Haile Steinfeld. In the original,Kim Darby was 21.
But what fans of the original are all wondering is how the Dude's Cogburn going to stack up next to the Duke's. The photo shows Bridges, looking ornery and weathered, sporting a beard and that famous eye patch. Wayne, a staunch Republican during the height of the '60s, was resolutely clean-shaven.
A quick comparison reveals that Wayne and Bridges sport their patches on opposite eyes. The Duke covered his left eye as a nod to his longtime collaborator John Ford, who lost vision in that eye when he removed bandages too soon after a cataract operation. No word on why Bridges decided to cover the other side.
When he was making his "True Grit," John Wayne was 61 years old. He was too unhealthy to perform his own stunts and, thanks to having an entire lung removed years prior, could barely walk more than 30 feet before heavy breathing. You might be forgiven, when looking at side-by-side photos, for assuming that Bridges is five or ten years younger that Wayne when he shot his version. In fact, Jeff Bridges turns 61 in December.
"True Grit" opens December 25, 2010.
this is pure sacrilege
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BupDoxw8r-8&feature=related
