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== Round 1 - Best Mattie == <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Something you’re gonna hear me say a lot in this review is they’re both really good, and both these performances are no exception. But they are different. The original was played by Kim Darby. She offers a determination and a great need to overcome her fears to get justice for the death of her father. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mattie (1969 version): When we locate Chaney, we can jump him in the same way, hit him on the head with sticks and knock him insensible. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): In the remake, it’s Hailee Steinfeld. She’s also determined as hell, but maybe to an extreme level. I mean…really extreme. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mattie (2010 version): When Chaney is taken, he’s coming back to Fort Smith to hang </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mattie (2010): I am to get Chaney, and if you’re not game, I will find somebody who is. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mattie (2010): I’m afraid nothing’s going to be done about Chaney except I do it. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">The Dude (from “The Big Lebowski”): …Jesus. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): To the point where she doesn’t even seem human. She’s like an unstoppable vengeance machine! </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mattie (2010): When I go back, not without Chaney dead or alive. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So this creates an interesting split. You have one performance that’s determined, but also realistic, and even slightly frightened by the dangers she’s going into. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mattie (1969): His name is Tom Chaney. He’s a whiskey drinker like you, and it led to killing in the end. Now if you’ll just ask the marshal’s questions, he’ll help you. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): And then you have the almost crazily obsessed little girl version of The Terminator. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mattie (2010): If I had killed Cheney, I would not be in this fix; but my gun misfired. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Which one is better? </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Well, the original version seems more realistic. We know that women, especially girls back then, were not often trained to go on man hunts, so her reactions to a lot of these grisly situations seems more believable. She overcomes her fear, but she shows that there is fear to overcome. The remake shows her almost as bitter and cold, and her lust for vengeance blinds her to anything else. She doesn’t care what’s in the way; she just wants to find the bastard who killed her daddy and see him hang. Nothing else can scare her, and nothing else seems of any importance. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: And to be honest…that’s what makes her more interesting. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): While the other version seems more realistic, this version has much more drive. No time for distractions and is extremely fixated on nothing else but getting her killer. It’s kind of fascinating to see a child this intelligent and hungry for blood. I mean, have you ever counted how often she smiles in this movie? It’s close to never. Because she is so different from our perception of what a girl in that time period would be like, that’s all the more reason to find her more engaging to follow, and that makes us all the more interested in what’s gonna happen in the end. While both performances are very good, it’s the remake that gives us the character that we’re simply more interested in following. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Point goes to the new. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mattie (1969): I hope you go to jail. </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Round 1 Winner: 2011 Version </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: And now we go from cowgirl to cowboy. Who’s better: the Duke, or…the Dude? </p>
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