I’ve the past couple of days, there have been quite a few different featurette’s released on other movie sites for True Grit. You can see the costume featurette on Clothes on Film here, the featurette looking at the cinematography here, a look at the story here on Sky and now Paramount have chosen us to debut our very own featurette giving us a look at the score from the movie.
The score for True Grit was composed by veteran movie composer, Carter Burwell. He has a long relationship wokring with the Coen Brothers and has now scored a multitude of movies including The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Fargo and has more recently worked on The Blind Side, The Twilight Saga to name but a few!
In this featurette, he talks about how he decided to use church music in the score, as well as talking us through how his music tells it’s own story but works seamlessly with the movie’s visuals. He also talks about how he learns from his musicians when they come to record. This featurette really is fascinating if you’re a fan of movie scores like I am and I think you’ll like this one.
True Grit stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld and have a read of the synopsis below for more info. We’ve had one trailer for the movie so far which you can see here and it’s scheduled foe release in the UK 11th February.
Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross’s (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him — over his objections — to hunt down Chaney. Her father’s blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
