True Grit remake

[dazie]

Anybody see it?  I have a plot question...

[Jessie]

I saw it, but it was when it was still in theaters, so I probably don't remember well enough to answer.  I'll try, though!

[dazie]

Did they say anything about Cogburn riding with Quantrill?

[Jessie]

No idea whatsoever.  Sorry.  I need to watch it again!

[dazie]

I need to find out.  In the first one, he did.    If he does in the 2nd one, I may not buy it. 

[meredith]

bottom of quantrill's wikipedia article:

"In the novel True Grit by Charles Portis, and the 1969 and 2010 film versions thereof, Rooster Cogburn boasts of being a former member of Quantrill's Raiders, and LaBoeuf excoriates him for being part of the "border gang" that murdered men, women, and children alike during the raid on Lawrence, Kansas."

[dazie]

BOOO!



This makes me sad.  I have LOVED Rooster Cogburn since I was a child, and now I find out he's a border ruffian? 

*sigh*

[BigDun]

Taking ancient history a little personally are we?

[dazie]

Memory of Quantrill's Raid is alive and well in my neck of the woods.  The building I used to work in was one of just a handful that actually survived the raid.  Townies can point out the house that sat next to the ditch where one of the ruffian's bodies laid for days because nobody gave a crap that he was dead- they were too busy dealing with their own dead and wounded. 

The town of Osceola, MO recently (like- a month and a half ago) condemned KU's use of the Jayhawk mascot, because it glorified a raid that eventually led to Quantrill's raid.

http://myscv.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/city-of-osceola-missouri-condemns-jayhawk-mascott/

Bleeding Kansas didn't end.  It's just in intermission.