http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/01/14/oscarbation-true-grit-minus-the-truth-and-the-grit Comments On: Oscarbation: <i>True Grit</i>, Minus the Truth. And the Grit. by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart en-us Copyright 2013 The L Magazine. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The L Magazine readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The L Magazine. editor@thelmagazine.com (The L Magazine Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by BR]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:41:28 -0400 The L Magazine Posted by jesse]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:36:46 -0500 The L Magazine
And I feel like explaining why or why not something is funny (or unfunny) is probably the hardest single task for any critical writer.
Posted by Jonny Diamond]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:54:13 -0500 The L Magazine Posted by jesse]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:22:42 -0500 The L Magazine Naw, c'mon. Let's have a saloon-style brawl where everybody fights everybody, without even knowing why.
Posted by Jonny Diamond]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:40:00 -0500 The L Magazine villagevoice.com where it belongs.

I really like Rowin's review of the film--"passive" seemed exactly the right word to me, for the way the movie, as Ben and Henry grapple with, reverts as if by default, or necessity, to classic Western tropes.
Posted by Mark Asch]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:17:09 -0500 The L Magazine
[as adj.
Posted by Henry Stewart]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:12:04 -0500 The L Magazine
> Brashly sketching broad types with an exaggerated sense of humor might have worked for 60s-era suburban Jews or contemporary DC bureaucrats—because then and now were strange and anxious times, and Jews and the political classes are so inherently wacky—but it doesn't for Old West archetypes.

How are Old West archetypes not inherently wacky?
Posted by jayruy]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:11:05 -0500 The L Magazine
Would've been quicker.
Posted by Jonny Diamond]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:42:26 -0500 The L Magazine Posted by jesse]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:21:10 -0500 The L Magazine