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True Grit
1969 · Film · 128 min
Directed by Henry Hathaway
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
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I recently did this! I fixed my phone habit and my TV habit, and I just read no, the family has silent reading parties instead of movie night.
Here’s what I did: 1. Install Jomo on the phone. There are other apps, but basically it makes me wait 5s before I can open a brainrot app, and then I can only use it for 5min, and every time I do this I have to wait an additional 5s. It resets at midnight. This introduces the necessary friction.
2. Paper books. The house is now full of paper books. Book seems interesting? Buy it. Books everywhere. Real books.
3. The actual habit. I stack habits. Right now I have a daily workout routine. First thing I leave the house and either run or go to the gym. I bring my book, and afterwards go to the cafe across the street for a coffee. At night, I read before going to bed. Once you finish a few books this way, you’re in. TV now is actually hard to pay attention to, and I feel kind of… dirty doomscrolling now (like eating junk food, it tastes good but you feel gross during the experience).
If you want something to start with: https://bookshop.org/p/books/true-grit-charles-portis/5ac45463b35e7b22
Overreaction to word fragments has become epidemic in closed captioning of American TV shows.
I've seen this on more than a dozen networks: captions will be masked with Xs if any substring matches any possibly offensive word or phrase, e.g.
XXXXtails for cocktails
XXXume for assume
XXXXX for spade (in the unmistakable context of a shovel, e.g. in "The African Queen")
XXXX for coon (in the unmistakable context of a raccoon, e.g. in "True Grit")
Doo-XXX for Doo-Wop (music)
gimXXXX for gimmick
sXXXpets for snippets
Those are all actual examples from MeTV, H&I, Movies!, GetTV, etc.
The original 1960s film "True Grit" (the John Wayne / Kim Darby / Glen Campbell classic) has several occurrences of the word "'coon" (short for raccoon), using it only in the context of the small game animals.
When the cable channel "Movies!" shows it, they edit out the term with asterisks in their closed captioning.
The Wild Bunch.
Nevada Smith.
3:10 To Yuma, the original with Glen Ford and the remake with Russel Crowe are both excellent. Original story written by Elmore Leonard.
The Magnificent Seven. Watch it with The Seven Samurai.
Once Upon A Time in the West.
True Grit, original and remake.
Blazing Saddles.
The Naked Prey. Movie takes place in Africa, but it's based on a true story of the American West. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Colter#Colter.27s_Run https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Prey
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=best+western+movies&t=canonical
funny thing is - trailers are today revealing much less than in the past.
If you have seen the movie True Grit - either the old or the new one - compare the trailer to the 1969 version, which essentially gives out all the plotpoints - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-j4GDqjv4 - and the trailer to the 2010 version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiCu-zuAgM .
> True Grit while good was such a pale movie compared to the original John Wayne version.
And in the reviews I read, it was better than the John Wayne movie, because it was more of an adult film.