Colour of Grit
I've went to see True Grit yesterday. I've been to see movies every week in past 3 weeks. Each week something completely different but they all basically the kind of movies I like: SF full of special effects, British movie and a Coen brothers movie. Although I liked True Grit it didn't really blow me away. Maybe because it was a remake and it lacked a lot of Coen brothers weird humour. Maybe it's because I saw King's Speech lately and that was incredibly good movie. Maybe because King's Speech was about a man with speech problem he spoke more clearly then Jeff Bridges in this.
This is a film with basically three characters. All of them, at least theoretically, on the same side. Of those three, two are grown man played by Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon but Hailee Steinfeld, for whom this is a first movie and who really is just 14 as her character, steals the show. I think I just kept watching that movie for her. Her getting her father affairs sorted. The way she dealt with the men much older then her who didn't treat her seriously because her age and gender. This was the greatest part. She was smart, dedicated, stubborn, sometimes to the point of obnoxiousness. She didn't give up and didn't let others decide what she should do. This is usually something reserved for boys only so it was fun. Unfortunately the rest of the movie was pretty forgettable. Somehow of the two Jeff Bridges movies I saw lately I think I'd rather see Tron again.
This is probably just me as the other people in the cinema enjoyed it much more.
And one more thing. Coen brothers were one of the first to use the digital colouring in O Brother, Where Art Thou? It was new technique and the tint gave a certain mood to the movie. However it became misused and overused in one way as orange/teal and in other for setting mood of the movies by giving them tint. You know like the different CSI versions. True Grit is so dark sepia It's almost like there was no other colour. Not even the sky. I understand it made it all more gritty but wouldn't true be enough?
This is a film with basically three characters. All of them, at least theoretically, on the same side. Of those three, two are grown man played by Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon but Hailee Steinfeld, for whom this is a first movie and who really is just 14 as her character, steals the show. I think I just kept watching that movie for her. Her getting her father affairs sorted. The way she dealt with the men much older then her who didn't treat her seriously because her age and gender. This was the greatest part. She was smart, dedicated, stubborn, sometimes to the point of obnoxiousness. She didn't give up and didn't let others decide what she should do. This is usually something reserved for boys only so it was fun. Unfortunately the rest of the movie was pretty forgettable. Somehow of the two Jeff Bridges movies I saw lately I think I'd rather see Tron again.
This is probably just me as the other people in the cinema enjoyed it much more.
And one more thing. Coen brothers were one of the first to use the digital colouring in O Brother, Where Art Thou? It was new technique and the tint gave a certain mood to the movie. However it became misused and overused in one way as orange/teal and in other for setting mood of the movies by giving them tint. You know like the different CSI versions. True Grit is so dark sepia It's almost like there was no other colour. Not even the sky. I understand it made it all more gritty but wouldn't true be enough?