True Grit Essay

This media analysis is on the Western movie True Grit that was released in 2010. The time frame of this movie is between November 1875 to approximately 1923, and it takes place in Arkansas, and in the heart of Indian country. This movie is about a fourteen year old girl, Mattie Ross who is seeking revenge on her father’s, murderer Tom Chaney. She hires a U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn on her journey accompanied by a Texas Ranger LaBoeuf who was also after killer. At first the two men refused to work together, and to take Mattie with them. However they all aliened and ended up, going together. This film does not fit in with the material presented in the lecture, and in the textbook because it skips through a lot of events that happened during that time period, where the movie takes place. The main character of the movie Mattie Ross doesn't discuss the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which is the reason the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations are notwithstanding living in Indian Territory in any case as …show more content…
She doesn't let us know that she's living in a period of huge social, political, and mechanical change. In additional to the development of the new technologies like lights, typewriters, security fencing, and duplicate machines (Pursell). This movie is defiantly not a historical film, and certainly not historically accurate because it does not contain any historical events, it is more about misfortune and retribution and penance. This movie focuses on the journey of Mattie Ross not so much about the events in that time frame. It gave some geographical setting at that time, but not enough that the audience could conclude, or remember any historical events. This movie is more of drama than history, due to the emotions, and feelings that were communicated all throughout the