Movies Today

Well, it finally happened. I was discussing movies with some of my younger co-workers earlier this week and one of them mentioned that he had seen the Coen Brother’s adaptation of True Grit over the weekend starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin. He gave it a pretty good review and then commented that he now wants to see “the original” to which another co-worker replied “I didn’t know there was an original.” There it was and it landed with a thud. The fact that this young co-worker (who is bright and culturally aware) didn’t realize there was an “original” version of the movie kind of left me feeling like I had been lapped at the latest NASCAR race and what knowledge had come before me mattered naught. It made me wonder how many other things might be missed with the passage of time and generations, like the fact that the two movies were actually based on a brilliant novel written by Charles Portis and published in 1968; and more so, how (with this same passage of time) the big screen might be (more…)