True Grit
People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood...
Celebrating True Grit and those who possess it. Mattie Ross, "Rooster" Cogburn and Texas Ranger LaBoeuf. 2010 Cohen brothers movie and Charles Portis book.
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Mattie Ross never expected that her sister would elope with a bounder, her brother would go off after them, and she'd be stuck at home. But then she never expected that LaBoeuf would return to Arkansas after a 5 year absence, either.
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A divergence story from True Grit, 2010. Told from the Texas Ranger's perspective, here is the story of how he met Mattie Ross, helped her chase down Chaney, and what happened in their lives therafter. Eventually Mattie/LaBoeuf.
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Five years after her adventure in the Choctaw Nation, Mattie Ross runs afoul of a fugitive. She soon finds herself in familiar company, if not familiar territory.
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15 Aug 2011
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Proverbs 16:18 - "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Mattie has one version of events. LaBoeuf has quite another.
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13 Aug 2011
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an absolute masterpiece