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Ethan Coen - Coen Brothers Refused To Watch Wayne's True Grit

Moviemaking duo JOEL and ETHAN COEN deliberately avoided watching JOHN WAYNE's iconic movie TRUE GRIT while making their own version of the story, to avoid copying the original.America's most famous cowboy won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of one-eyed U.S. Marshal Reuben 'Rooster' J. Cogburn in the 1969 adaptation of Charles Portis'...

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16:17 on December 23 2010

Ethan Coen - Coen Brothers Refused To Watch Wayne's True Grit

ContactMusic — Moviemaking duo JOEL and ETHAN COEN deliberately avoided watching JOHN WAYNE's iconic movie TRUE GRIT while making their own version of the story, to avoid copying the or... more info
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