We saw True Grit over the weekend, and holy cow, I loved it. Definitely one of those movies that just keeps improving the more you think about it. In particular, of course, I freaking loved Mattie Ross, and how confident and capable and just awesome she was. The scene where she crosses the river on Blackie just made my heart sing. And they didn't sexualize her character or make her fall in love with anyone! Hallelujah! Also, I loved how she just brushed it off whenever anyone called her ugly. It just didn't matter to her at all.

I also just enjoyed how well-made it was. Gorgeous scenery, interesting characters, good actors, beautiful score... I keep feeling like I want to light out for the territories myself. (And meet Mattie Ross.)

I haven't seen True Grit yet, but I recently read an interview wit the Coen brothers where they were asked about making it a PG-13 movie and their answer was basically "the main character is a 13-year-old girl, so 13-year-old girls should be able to see it. That's just logical." Love.

I've also seen them in interviews talking about how many girls they had to audition to find their Mattie. They'd almost given up. They needed somebody that could handle the language naturally.

Gorgeous scenery, yes, but still the wrong gorgeous scenery.

Heh, dcp, my Okie DH complained about the same thing. Didn't bother me, but I can see why it would bug.

They needed somebody that could handle the language naturally.

Yeah, she was amazing with the dialogue. How relieved they must have been to find her!

Yeah, she was amazing with the dialogue.

She blew me away with her ability to make it sound natural because you darn well know it wasn't. She was so cute last night at the Globes... Also? Taller than The Bieber who's got a couple of years on her! My son has quite the crush on her.

Aww!.. my bff was just telling me that the original Mattie was her sister's first crush.

Just watched The King's Speech. It was a nice antidote to yesterday's Black Swan. Speaking of which, I just went to add La Danse (the documentary about Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, where I first saw Swan Lake) to my Netflix queue. It then suggested Ballets Russes, Ballerina, Dancing Across Borders, Paquita Fame, documentaries on Roland Petit, Paul Taylor, and Margot Fonetyn. So far, so good. Then? Grizzly Man. !?!?

I'm totally in love with the idea of Hailee playing Katniss now!

They needed somebody that could handle the language naturally.

Yeah, she was amazing with the dialogue.

Again I ask: when DID the Old West get contractions? (I know it's how the book was written, blah blah precision-cakes, but it drove me a little batshit, to tell you the truth, though I was impressed that Matt Damon could do mangled tongue and still manage that oddly precise dialogue. Though I suppose he IS an actor, and doing stuff like that is t Lovitz Acting! t /Lovitz and therefore what he's paid to do.)