Zusammenfassung der Ressource
True Grit
- Characters
- Mattie
- hero
- Is a girl, not a typical hero
- Sexism was a major problem in
the 19th century
- Not conveyed in the same way
which girls are normally are in
westerns
- Usual to have a female
protagonist
- Stubborn
- Isn't easily
made to change
her mind
- Reckless
- Rooster Cogburn
- the helper
- only helps
out because
he wants
"lucky" Ned
Pepper and
by helping
he can get
him
- Played by
John Wayne,
- Became type
cast for the
western films
- Secondary hero
- Secondary protagonist
- alcoholic
- La Beouf
- The false hero, his death
stops him from being a hero
- doesn't want Mattie to
be a part of the trip
- Wants to be the lone hero
- Typical in westerns
- "Lucky" Ned Pepper
- Secondary villian
- Defeated by the hero
- is wanted by the
secondary protagnise
- Tom Chaney
- villian
- Defeated by the hero
- although he is one of the
major characters we do
not know a lot about him
until the end of the film as
until then we're only told
what to think about him
- Killed Matties' father
- Goes on the run with "lucky"
Ned Pepper
- themes
- revenge
- Mattie wants revenge for her
fathers death
- gets her revenge at the
end of the film
- Rooster wants to capture
"lucky" New Pepper for his
wrong doings
- Greed
- Tom Chaney takes
Mattie's fathers money
after he kills him
- La Beouf wants all the
credit
- Rooster only goes as he knows it will help him,
doesn't really want to help Mattie
- Underdogs of
society
- Mattie would be
considered an
underdog as she is
female and male
were not equal
- this may be why La
Beouf does not want her
to come on the trip
- Mattie is not the typical
female through the way
in which she acts
- scenes
- when Chaney shoots Matties father
- very dark lighting
- negative connotations
- saloon setting
- connotations of drinking
and prostitution
- when Mattie shoots Chaney
- very bright lighting
- positive connotations
- much more country location