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THE GRINTA

THE GRINTA
J. and E. The Coen

fourteen Mattie Ross (H. Steinfeld) hires the sheriff Cogburn (J. Bridges) to capture Tom Chaney (J. Brolin) who has killed his father.
the manhunt, took refuge in Indian territory, will join the Texas Ranger La Boeuf (M. Damon).
In 1969 he fell on the screen and the innovative revisionist Wild Bunch of Sam Peckinpah.
Between 1964 and 1966 with his Sergio Leone 'Dollar Trilogy " had overturned the canons of classic westerns.
's why when he arrived in 1969 in the Salt Grit starring John Wayne and directed by Harry Hathaway, turned out to be a film came out of time, a movie or maybe old-fashioned and old enough.
For this reason it is essential for the Coen Brothers, would not make sense to set up a remake of Hathaway.
In fact, the brothers of Minnesota, where possible, try to stay away from the film that brought Oscar Duke and we offer a personal reading of the story (published in installments the Saturday Evening Post in 1968) by Charles Portis. Joel and Ethan Coen
insinuate themselves in the pages of the novel, rereading it and giving their personal vision of the story, which leads to a reduction in the role of the ranger Boeuf and above all makes it much more fierce and warlike, the fourteen year-old Mattie Ross. Aesthetically
decision before they turn with the truculent, the scene of the shed, and then brush the lysergic acid is materialized when the Indian who takes away the corpse of the hanged man is exhausting ride during the night.
The director of photography Roger Deakins, also takes its transforming night encounter between La Boeuf and the band of Lucky Ned (B. Pepper) in a baseball game played with la luce artificiale.
Praticamente perfetto l'imponente J. Bridges nei panni dello sceriffo alcolizzato, dai modi rudi e sbrigativi.
Film sul distacco, la separazione, la perdita.
Ennesima sfida dei fratelli Coen, che per la prima volta sono riusciti ad abbattere il muro dei cento milioni di dollari di incasso negli Stati Uniti, cosa non riuscita neanche a capolavori come Il grande Lebowsky (1998) e Non è un paese per vecchi (2007).
Curiosità: nel Grinta del 1969 la benda del protagonista era sull'occhio sinistro, in questa versione è posizionata su quello destro.