TRUE GRIT
Film Genre
9/29/2013
The film I choose to dissect was True Grit .Besides many irregularities with the classic Western films, True Grit can nearly be considered a classic Western. Like Stagecoach, the film has clearly defined roles of moral and immoral, and in the end, like in all classic Western's, the bad guy gets it and the good guy's ride off into the sunset. The leading female role makes it more of a revisionist. In True Grit I believe that it has a little of both a classic Western and a Revisionist Western. True Grit includes many of these classic ideas, but distances itself just enough not to be enough to be a Classic Western. Although True Grit takes a more graphic approach to violence, it fails to lambaste violence like Unforgiven. Although the ending to True Grit isn't as perfect as most classic Western's, the film can be considered the Coen Brother's first classic Western.
1.In the film True Grit there are many generic formulas in this film which make up a certain plot that you can predict what is going to happen because it happens in every movie in the same genre. In the movie True Grit when the little girl suggests that she should go with the old man before he leaves. Even though the old man doesn’t want her Mattie to go he agrees to take her in the morning. As we all predicted he did not wake her up the next morning leaving her to sleep and began his journey by himself. Just as any other movie would go, Mattie wakes up and instantly states she is going to go no matter what. This is an example of generic situation in most films because this happens in a lot of movies. In many films when someone does not want help they act like they do and then they never show.
2.There is a character by the name of Thomas Cheney. Tom is a character with many traits, almost all negative. Amongst them, the three best ways to describe the character Tom Chaney are as a heartless, miserable and hypocritical man. From the beginning of the film, Chaney is
9/29/2013
The film I choose to dissect was True Grit .Besides many irregularities with the classic Western films, True Grit can nearly be considered a classic Western. Like Stagecoach, the film has clearly defined roles of moral and immoral, and in the end, like in all classic Western's, the bad guy gets it and the good guy's ride off into the sunset. The leading female role makes it more of a revisionist. In True Grit I believe that it has a little of both a classic Western and a Revisionist Western. True Grit includes many of these classic ideas, but distances itself just enough not to be enough to be a Classic Western. Although True Grit takes a more graphic approach to violence, it fails to lambaste violence like Unforgiven. Although the ending to True Grit isn't as perfect as most classic Western's, the film can be considered the Coen Brother's first classic Western.
1.In the film True Grit there are many generic formulas in this film which make up a certain plot that you can predict what is going to happen because it happens in every movie in the same genre. In the movie True Grit when the little girl suggests that she should go with the old man before he leaves. Even though the old man doesn’t want her Mattie to go he agrees to take her in the morning. As we all predicted he did not wake her up the next morning leaving her to sleep and began his journey by himself. Just as any other movie would go, Mattie wakes up and instantly states she is going to go no matter what. This is an example of generic situation in most films because this happens in a lot of movies. In many films when someone does not want help they act like they do and then they never show.
2.There is a character by the name of Thomas Cheney. Tom is a character with many traits, almost all negative. Amongst them, the three best ways to describe the character Tom Chaney are as a heartless, miserable and hypocritical man. From the beginning of the film, Chaney is