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
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Acting!
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and therefore what he's paid to do.)
I have to admit, I was quite impressed with Matt Damon, because this role was a bit farther from his usual than I've seen before. I liked it enormously, once I got past the scene in the boarding house where he makes a joke about kissing Mattie (because EW).
Matt Damon is surprisingly good at his job. Have you seen his Matthew McConaughey impression?
Steph, here's a thing on the langugage in True Grit: [link]
Cool t-shirt: TRON: Ancestry
Though I suppose he IS an actor, and doing stuff like that is Acting! and therefore what he's paid to do.
I read how he actually worked that out. He had them
apply something (like a bandage or some kind of device/makeup) to his tongue. He figured it was the only way he was going to be consistent with it.
Oh, I didn't mean I thought he was Acting! with
the tongue thing;
I assumed there was something
physical in his mouth
for those scenes.
I just meant dealing with that AND the extremely precise formal language.
Steph, here's a thing on the langugage in True Grit: [link]
That is awesome! [I tried to craft a reply without contractions, and I just sounded like I was from a different planet, trying to parse English. So I will not do that.]
[See what I did there?]
On Letterman, Damon said he used
one of his daughters' hair bands and wound it around his tongue. And he did it right there on stage with Letterman, too
. Very cute.
