Matt Damon enjoys being 'a true nincompoop' in 'True Grit'
The actor has wanted to work with the Coen brothers for years and got his chance as the
verbose Texas Ranger LaBoeuf in the western remake.
On a clear New Mexico morning this year, Matt Damon sat and watched the Coen brothers and the crew of "True Grit" as they prepared horses, six-shooters and the camera for the next scene. With more than three dozen feature films under his belt, it could have been just another mundane moment between close-ups, but instead Damon holds on to the snapshot memory with scrapbook affection.
"We were halfway through the movie and I was sitting on the set, we were doing this corn dodger scene — the characters are throwing these little cornbread cakes up in the air and shooting at them, it's ridiculous — and it really hit me," Damon recalled. "I turned to [cinematographer] Roger Deakins — he and I go back, we worked on 'Courage Under Fire' in the 1990s — and I said to him, 'Roger, this is really special, right?,' and he smiled and he said, 'Yeah, it really is.'"
"True Grit" has just arrived in theaters as an idiosyncratic gun-smoke adventure with characters who talk like prophets as they ride through rivers, snow and ravines in search of revenge and reward. It's the first visit to the Old West by the Coens — the Oscar-winning filmmakers best known for "No Country for Old Men" and "Fargo" — and their cast is led by a grizzled Jeff Bridges, the young newcomer Hailee Steinfeld and Damon, who plays a Texas Ranger who may be more windbag than Winchester
"I am," Damon declared with mock pride, "a true nincompoop in this movie."
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The actor has wanted to work with the Coen brothers for years and got his chance as the
verbose Texas Ranger LaBoeuf in the western remake.
On a clear New Mexico morning this year, Matt Damon sat and watched the Coen brothers and the crew of "True Grit" as they prepared horses, six-shooters and the camera for the next scene. With more than three dozen feature films under his belt, it could have been just another mundane moment between close-ups, but instead Damon holds on to the snapshot memory with scrapbook affection.
"We were halfway through the movie and I was sitting on the set, we were doing this corn dodger scene — the characters are throwing these little cornbread cakes up in the air and shooting at them, it's ridiculous — and it really hit me," Damon recalled. "I turned to [cinematographer] Roger Deakins — he and I go back, we worked on 'Courage Under Fire' in the 1990s — and I said to him, 'Roger, this is really special, right?,' and he smiled and he said, 'Yeah, it really is.'"
"True Grit" has just arrived in theaters as an idiosyncratic gun-smoke adventure with characters who talk like prophets as they ride through rivers, snow and ravines in search of revenge and reward. It's the first visit to the Old West by the Coens — the Oscar-winning filmmakers best known for "No Country for Old Men" and "Fargo" — and their cast is led by a grizzled Jeff Bridges, the young newcomer Hailee Steinfeld and Damon, who plays a Texas Ranger who may be more windbag than Winchester
"I am," Damon declared with mock pride, "a true nincompoop in this movie."
Read More
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-matt-damon-20101226,0,6384690.story
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