I finally got round to watching the Coen Brothers' True Grit (2010). You probably know there's a late '60s version with John Wayne starring as the anti-hero Rooster Cogburn. You probably also know it's based on a novel by Charles Portis (no I haven't read it). To be honest you've probably already seen it anyway.
Well it ticks all the appropriate Western boxes. It has "sepia tones". It has a grizzly boozy Marshal on the fringes of society, although I'm not really sure why he would so easily throw down his life to rescue the precocious and slightly weird Mattie Ross by the end of the film. This may have had something to do with my only being able to understand every fifth word Jeff Bridges said. I probably missed some important plot development there.
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