![]() ![]() In the still somewhat Wild West, a certain abrasive quality (see also: grit) can work to one’s benefit.Ĭol. Jakes A term for an outhouse that dates back to Shakespeare-though jakes don’t carry with them any guarantee of privacy from relentless teenage would-be employers. Here’s a short vocabulary guide to accompany the film’s release on VOD, DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday 7. Then again, True Grit’s dialogue, much of it drawn from Charles Portis’s 1968 novel, is a language all its own, a combination of vintage slang, frontier terms and the odd bit of Latin that can seem opaque even with accurate closed captioning. ![]() The joke was inevitable as the drawling, often drunk marshal Rooster Cogburn, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination, Bridges speaks a dialect that’s almost, but not quite, entirely unlike English. ![]() Not long after the Coen brothers’ True Grit arrived in theaters, CollegeHumor rolled out a minute-long video that phonetically subtitled some of Jeff Bridges’s lines. ![]()
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