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Dear Movies,
5:14 AM
Bob: yo
James: hey buddy happy new year my friend
Bob: happy new year
5:15 AM
James: how was your night?
Bob: pretty mellow both nights. enjoyable
5:16 AM
James: me too
Bob: you?
James: not as mellow but just real nice
Bob: cool
James: saw true grit tonight
Bob: did you work?
niiice
James: serisouly
great film
that girl
oh boy
Bob: how about that movie?
A-dios
James: and jeff bridges voice
ha
5:17 AM
Bob: seen any other movies yet?
James: not yet
5:19 AM
James: josh brolin plays a very interesting character
like how he decided to depict him
and i love that actor who plays ned
5:21 AM
Bob: Check this out...
5:23 AM
Bob: http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/true-grit-teaser-poster-1.jpg
look where the bullethole is
5:24 AM
James: i thought he was shot on the left side. i could be wrong
5:25 AM
Bob: the shot is on the left side
even that it's only on his name is kinda cool
James: oh so that poster is like his back
5:26 AM
Bob: oh, his left?
I see
James: i like that there isnt a picture on that poster
Bob: rules of design prevent it from being that accurate I guess
me too
James: thats the first thing that struck me and what ive like most everytime i see it
5:27 AM
Bob: that girl is unbelievable
I love the scene where they are firing from cover
at the cabin
5:28 AM
James: and matt damons just getting dragged around
the end though i didnt like
Bob: the very end?
James: like the narrator at the beginning and then her as an older woman
Bob: I liked that
5:29 AM
Bob: I liked Cogburn as a sideshow traveller who dies an inglorious death
that rings true to me
James: i liked seeing her without an arm too but it felt like this tacked on thing
5:30 AM
Bob: some people said that about No Country, but I like how we see the cruel march of time ravaging its heroes
James: in that i loved that scene
Bob: and in Assassination of Jesse James
5:31 AM
James: but see once i saw her as an adult, i wanted to watch all of her life that we just skipped over
Bob: yeah, but we don't miss much
5:32 AM
Bob: she is a cruel shut-in who never marries or has another adventure
the events of the movie cripple her from being trusting or affectionate
5:33 AM
James: she was too bad ass to find out she just spent the rest of her life hidden away
it bummed me out
i wanted her to own
Bob: yeah, I get that
5:34 AM
Bob: but they won't allow you that
she isn't John McClane
those events crippled her
she saw some crazy shit and it totally destroyed her mind
she was tough until she got through it
then it was recovering from the trauma
5:35 AM
James: but really shes bad ass until she gets bit by the snake. then all of a sudden 5 min later shes a mess forever? it was too sudden a major shift
like running time wise
Bob: but after her mark was killed she didn't need to be bad ass
5:36 AM
Bob: she completed her task and then everything just caught up
she was only 14
James: i know
Bob: that's too much to handle
that scene in the cabin...it's a wonder she didn't just have a seizure and freeze up
5:37 AM
James: i do like the idea like she went into this trance or zone when she heard her dad died and locked into this bad ass way and then the second the mission was over the wave crashes and shes a little girl again
Bob: yeah
I like that too
James: i can see that
5:38 AM
Bob: but why doesn't that ring truer than her becoming a wild west gunslinger?
5:39 AM
Bob: her grit was a temporary trance, right?
not True Grit. not like Cogburn's
James: i didnt expect her to become a cop or anything. i just thought like the girl were seeing haggling over horses and money; that girl shouldve taken over the town and been super successful
Bob: you think?
5:40 AM
Bob: she was driven by vengeance
after she killed her mark, the vengeance- the motivation- is gone
James: i mean i thought thats the way she was, not that it was some temporary thing. but i see your points
5:41 AM
Bob: I think I want you to post this entire conversation on "Dear Movies,"
this is fuckin' discourse, man
5:42 AM
James: i guess i thought wrong about her cause we never had an early scene where shes not kicking ass
Bob: especially with the 5am timestamps haha
true
true
very true
James: so i think that mightve been a mistake not haiving that
Bob: we meet her and she is already a capable woman with agency in an uncertain Western world
not a helpless girl
James: i mean i totally see your points, but i honestly hadnt thought of that till you said it
5:43 AM
Bob: yeah, but you're right because when we meet her, she has already gone through a transformation
James: instead i was just disappointed that this amazing girl were introduced to suddenly holes up from age 15-40
Bob: yeah.
5:44 AM
Bob: and I think it's because she really wasn't ready to deal with the shit she gets herself into
James: but i really like your temporary vs. true grit idea
Bob: she's being led by vengeance
but you are right because she is never revealed to us as vulnerable at first
5:45 AM
Bob: she starts off hard
Matt Damon is like the middle ground between them
James: it just feels like the narrator and final final scene are like part of a much larger book and the movie was just a few chapters and theres all these other chapters missing
Bob: he has fake grit
5:46 AM
Bob: but then he earns it
yeah, true
James: yeah yeah im totally down with that way of veiwing it
5:47 AM
Bob: I wanna read the book now
5:48 AM
James: lets just agree that it was hilarious when jeff bridges kept kicking the kids off the porch
Bob: that first courtroom scene also hints at an entire lifetime of insane grit-based encounters
hahaha!
I loved that!
5:49 AM
Bob: and that bizarre scene where they discover the hangman and the "doctor" arrives
what the fuck was that about?
James: that dude had great delivery
i think that was all just atmosphere
5:50 AM
Bob: It kind of seems like this story could take place in the Star Wars universe
true
James: crazy things for the girl to learn are out there
Bob: the old weird America
James: cause we are following her
not jeff
Bob: her
Rooster already knows the terrain
he's ready for anything
5:51 AM
Bob: and the weirdness makes him a drunk
I feel that way about NYC sometimes
like seeing that dude's pecker the other day
5:52 AM
Bob: on the subway
did I tell you about this?
5:53 AM
James: ha no
go on
Bob: ok, so I was on my way to do stand-up in Greenpoint
and when I got there I said "I don't normally do this but...a funny thing happened to me on the way here."
5:54 AM
Bob: I hear the guy next to me-removed by the train door- saying "Miss! Miss! Miss!"
then I see this woman get up and walk to the other end of the train
then I smell tobacco smoke
5:55 AM
Bob: and I see this dude messing with his huge black cock
so I get off at the next stop and knock on the conducter's window
I say "Hey, you got a guy trying to expose himself at the back of this train car
and he says "Oh, man! Really?"
5:56 AM
Bob: Then, before I can get back on the train, he drives off.
And I have to wait for the next one
James: oh fuck
what an ass
Bob: yeah
huge bummer
James: huge boner
5:57 AM
Bob: If I didn't purge that shit at stand-up it would have fucking disturbed me.
oh, yeah. huuuuge boner
after she left he was laughing and saying, like "What are you scared of? ha ha ha."
5:58 AM
Bob: The old weird NYC is still alive and well
James: welcome to 2011
Bob: hahaha
shit, man
put this on Dear Movies
this is one of our best movie convos
5:59 AM
Bob: and I never have any ideas for posts
6:01 AM
James: way ahead of ya
Bob: nice
James: give me one second to format edit
Bob: cool
you gonna keep in the parts where I ask you to post it?
6:06 AM
James: of course
Bob: nice
make sure to include a SPOLIER ALERT
6:07 AM
James: ya
5 minutes
6:12 AM
James: http://dearmovies.blogspot.com/
6:15 AM
Bob: niiice
6:16 AM
Bob: good ending
6:17 AM
James: good conversation
Bob: haha
James: and i think also good night
Bob:
you got it
good night, brother
James: job well done sir
6:18 AM
Bob: work tomorrow?
James: nope
Bob: come by Williamsburg late night
I'll be at the Gibson around 2
James: word
6:19 AM
Bob: see Tron at the last showing then take the train
James: now theres an idea
i like where your head is at
Bob: haha
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