And a big hurray for subtitles! After The Godfather gave the world Brandoish, a wonderful but unfortunately completely unintelligible Italian American vernacular, True Grit exposed us for the first time to the equally incomprehensible Bridgese, the most beautiful authentic frontier gibberish since Gabby Johnson’s biscuit cutter was almost hornswoggled by some cracker croaker in Blazing Saddles … mumble, grumble, mutter, gripe … By the way, Charles Portis’s novel, on which both films are based, is really excellent, well worth reading.
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