Diction in original vs remake of True Grit
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Two answers from Newsweek and Language Log
When asked why they chose to follow the diction of the book and lack of contractions Ethan Coen said
We’ve been told that the language and all that formality is faithful to how people talked in the period.
As to whether or not people actually talked like that Mark Liberman of the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Linguistics writes:
I know that that informal American speech in the 1870s was far from contractionless, and in fact I suspect that it had roughly the same proportion of contractions as it does today. Therefore, what Portis (and the Coens?) did was either false archaism or poetic truth — or both.
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Is the remake of True Grit better than original?
Which True Grit Movie Is Better? Without a doubt, the remake of True Grit bests the original True Grit is multiple areas. While John Wayne's portrayal of Rooster Cogburn is still so very memorable, the Coen Brothers' film remains the better of the two in almost every manner.Why do they talk so weird in True Grit?
You're probably referring to the fact that many of the characters don't use contractions in their speech. The movie's dialogue is pretty true to the language used by author Charles Portis in the novel, but people during the frontier period often used contractions, especially in informal speech.Are there two versions of True Grit?
The two versions of "True Grit" are like Athens, Greece, and Athens, Georgia: They've got the same name, but they're in totally different worlds. Yet for all their differences, both Westerns found plenty of fans and got plenty of Oscar attention.Which version of True Grit is closer to the book?
In terms of following the book scene by scene I'd say the John Wayne film was more faithful to the book. But the Jeff Bridges version follows the book's ending much closer. Both films used extensive amounts of dialog lifted directly from the novel.TRUE GRIT-IL GRINTA- Originale VS Remake
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