True Grit
 

Can anyone remember the name of the character played by Robert Duvall in "True Grit" ?

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lets see
 

Lucky Ned Pepper if memory serves correctly.

Heres a link that might help if you forget something in a movie, like a character name.

http://www.allmovie.com/

This website has come in handy many a time.

yep he's the one that got shot in the lip



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Re: lets see
 

This was the point where you should have linked IMDB.

Duval wasn't even scary, now Bruce Dern in the Cowboys he was scary.

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Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but All Movie Guide is a hundred times better than IMDB.

allmovie.com vs. imdb.com
 

That's the first time I've ever been to allmovie.com and it's a really cool site. I would recommend it, but I've been visiting imdb.com for years, and it has everything you would want to know about movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=522r5E_I3DI&feature=player_embedded#!

absolutely disagree. All Movie Guide is nowhere near as detailed as IMDB

Re: True Grit
 

This is a remake that I am actually looking forward to. The cast looks great and the trailer was excellent.

Bruce Dern is always scary, even when playing a good guy, because he always gives the impression that there's a whole lot of crazy just under the skin waiting to be set free.

Duval, on the other hand, does determined and crafty--he doesn't bother with being scary because he's figuring out how to get around you to get what he wants. Thus in True Grit, when the young man pauses under gunfire to give Ned/Duval the chance to mount the horse behind him and escape, Ned pulls him off the horse and makes his escape alone. Not scarey but very determined, crafty and efficient.

As far as that goes, Billy the Kid was fun-loving and laughed alot and still killed several men, including one he set up beforehand by turning the chamber on the man's own revolver so that his first trigger-pull would fall on an empty chamber, after which Billy cheerfully blew him away.

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I don't think Duvall was supposed to be scary in that role, I could be wrong.

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I never thouht of Duall's role of Ned was scary, but Maddie Ross (played by Kim Darby) would've scared the hell out of me!

Re: True Grit
 

Glen Campbrll's acting was pretty scary. And his character was a perv. Trying to hit on an underage girl.

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Yeah, but I think that she could've taken care of him with that gun she had, provided she had something to lean in on of course.

I've done that many times. Of course, I was also underage at the time. :)

I think the original True Grit was a stinkburger. Maybe the remake will be better . . . .

I wouldn't keep any hope.. Most might like the new one more, If people can over-praise something average like No Country For Old Men.. They might like the updated version of a classic.

But lets not forget Coens' directed The Ladykillers remake, the mother of all stinks.

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I don't normally get too excited for remakes but I trust this film in the hands of the Coen brothers. Matt Damon seems a little awkward and out of place but Jeff Bridges looks like he is quite comfortable in the Duke's shoes - eye patch and all. I'll banish the memory of their Ladykillers update for now and just go on looking forward to this one.