True
Grit
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[whilst getting water from the stream Mattie notices Chaney on the other side of the river]Tom Chaney: I know you. Your name is Mattie. Well, you're little Mattie the bookkeeper. Isn't that somethin'.
Mattie Ross: Yes, and I know you, Tom Chaney.
Tom Chaney: What are you doing out here?
Mattie Ross: I came to fetch some water.
[Mattie pulls the flour sack from her coat pocket]
Tom Chaney: Oh, no I mean what are you doing in these mountains here?
Mattie Ross: Well, I have not been formally deputized but I am acting as an agent for Marshal Reuben Cogburn and Judge Parker's court.
[Mattie gets the Colt's Dragoon out of the sack and points it at Chaney]
Mattie Ross: I have come to take you back to Fort Smith.
[Chaney just looks at the gun]
Tom Chaney: Well I will not go. How do you like that?
Mattie Ross: There is a posse of officers up there who will force you to go.
Tom Chaney: Well, that is interesting news. And how many is up there?
Mattie Ross: Right around fifty and they are all well armed and they mean business. What I want you to do now is come on across the creek and walk in front of me up that hill.
Tom Chaney: I think I will oblige the officers to come after me.
Mattie Ross: Well, If you refuse to go I will have to shoot you.
Tom Chaney: Oh? Well then you had better cock your piece.
[Mattie tries to pull the hammer back]
Tom Chaney: All the way back. Till it locks.
[she pulls the hammer back further until it locks]
Mattie Ross: I know how to do it. You will not go with me?
Tom Chaney: No. It's just the other way around. You're going with me. I will...
[Mattie fires, Chaney is shot in the chest and staggers a step back]
Tom Chaney: I did not think you would do it.
Mattie Ross: Well, what do you think now?
[Chaney is visibly in pain now]
Tom Chaney: Oh, one of my short ribs is broken.
Mattie Ross: You killed my father when he was trying to help you. I have one of the gold pieces you stole from him. Now give me the other.
Tom Chaney: It's gone right through.
[Cogburn shouts from the bushes]
Rooster Cogburn: Mattie!
Mattie Ross: I am down here!
Tom Chaney: Now I am shot by a child.
[Mattie shouts to Cogburn]
Mattie Ross: Chaney is taken into custody!
[Chaney walks towards Mattie she shoots the gun but it doesn't fire, Chaney grabs Mattie and slaps her]
Mattie Ross: Help me!
[Chaney is dragging Mattie alongside him]
Rooster Cogburn: Mattie!
[two men burst through the brush from Chaney's side of the river and start shooting]
Mattie Ross: Marshal!
Lucky Ned Pepper: Who all is down there?
Mattie Ross: Marshal Cogburn and fifty more officers.
[Ned throws Mattie to the ground, he puts his boot on her neck and points his gun at her]
Lucky Ned Pepper: You tell me another lie and I'll stove your head in!
Mattie Ross: Just the marshal.
Lucky Ned Pepper: Rooster!
[he shouts out]
Lucky Ned Pepper: Cogburn! Do you hear me?
[Cogburn doesn't answer]
Lucky Ned Pepper: You answer me, Rooster! I will kill this girl! You know I will do it!
[we hear Cogburn's voice]
Rooster Cogburn: The girl is nothin' to me! She's a runaway from Arkansas!
Lucky Ned Pepper: That is all very well! Do you advise that I kill her?
[we hear Cogburn's voice again]
Rooster Cogburn: Well, do what you think is best, Ned! She is nothin' to me but a
lost child!
[Ned continues to point his gun at Mattie]
Rooster Cogburn: Think it over first.
Lucky Ned Pepper: I have already thought it over! You get mounted double fast! If I see you ridin' over that bald ridge to the northwest I will spare the girl. You have five minutes!
Rooster Cogburn: There will be a party of marshals here soon, Ned! Let me have the girl and Chaney and I will mislead them for six hours!
Lucky Ned Pepper: Too thin, Rooster! Too thin! Your five minutes is runnin'! No more talk!
[he pulls Mattie to her feet]
[Ned leads Mattie to their camp]
Mattie Ross: Can I have some of that bacon?
Lucky Ned Pepper: You can help yourself. Have some of the coffee.
Mattie Ross: I do not drink coffee. I am fourteen.
Lucky Ned Pepper: Well, we do not have buttermilk. And we do not have bread. We
are poorly supplied.
[Chaney comes up behind Ned]
Tom Chaney: Where is she?
[to Mattie]
Lucky Ned Pepper: What are you doing here?
Tom Chaney: I will wring your scrawny neck!
[to Chaney]
Lucky Ned Pepper: You let that go!
Lucky Ned Pepper: What happened, huh?
Mattie Ross: I will tell you what when you will see that I am in the right. Tom Chaney there shot my father to death in Fort Smith and robbed him of two gold pieces and stole his mare. I was informed Mr. Cogburn had grit and I hired him to find the murderer. A few minutes ago I came upon Chaney watering the horses. He would not be taken in charge and I shot him. If I had killed him I would not be now in this fix. My revolver misfired.
Lucky Ned Pepper: That will do it. It will embarrass you every time. Most girls like to play pretties, but you like guns do you?
Mattie Ross: I do not care a thing in the world about guns. If I did I would have one that worked.
Tom Chaney: I was shot from ambush, Ned. Them horses was blowing and making noise. It was that officer that got me.
Mattie Ross: How can you sit there and tell such a big story?
Tom Chaney: That pit is a hundred feet deep and I will throw you in. And I will leave you to scream and rot! Huh, how do you like that?
Mattie Ross: No you won't. This man will not let you have your way. He is your boss and you have to do as he tells you.
[Ned looks through his spyglass and sees Cogburn on the ridge of the other side of river]
Lucky Ned Pepper: Was that Rooster waylaid us night before last?
Mattie Ross: It was Marshal Cogburn and myself.
Lucky Ned Pepper: You and Cogburn, quite the posse.
Lucky Ned Pepper: What happened to Quincy, and The Kid?
Mattie Ross: They are both dead. I was in the very middle of it. It was a terrible thing to see.
Mattie Ross: Do you need a good Lawyer?
Lucky Ned Pepper: I need a good judge. What about Coke Hayes, the old fellow shot off his horse?
Mattie Ross: Dead as well. His depredations have come to an end.
Lucky Ned Pepper: Your friend Rooster does not collect many prisoners.
Mattie Ross: He is not my friend. He has abandoned me to a congress of louts.
Lucky Ned Pepper: You do not varnish your opinion.
[as they get ready to leave their camp]
Tom Chaney: Let us cut up the winnings from the Katie Flyer.
Lucky Ned Pepper: They'll be time for that at The Old Place.
Tom Chaney: I will mount the grey.
Lucky Ned Pepper: I have other plans for you.
Doctor: No!
Lucky Ned Pepper: No, it'll be too chancy with two men up if it comes to a race. Tom, you wait here with the girl. When we reach Ma's house I'll send Carroll back with a fresh mount. You will be out by dark, we will meet you at The Old Place.
Tom Chaney: I do not like that. Let me ride with you, Ned, just out of here anyway.
Lucky Ned Pepper: We're short a horse.
Tom Chaney: Marshals will come swarming.
Lucky Ned Pepper: Hours, if they come here at all. They'll think that we've all gone.
Mattie Ross: I am not staying here by myself with Tom Chaney.
Lucky Ned Pepper: That's the way I will have it.
Mattie Ross: He will kill me. You heard him say it. He's killed my father and now you will let him kill me.
Lucky Ned Pepper: He will do no such thing. Tom, you know the crossing at Cypress Forks, near the log meetin' house? When you're mounted you take the girl and leave her there. Do you understand, Tom? If any harm comes to that child you do not get paid.
[after Ned and his men have left camp]
Tom Chaney: Everything is against me.
Mattie Ross: You have no reason to whine. If you act as the bandit chief instructed, and no harm comes to me, you will get your winnings at The Old Place.
Tom Chaney: Lucky Ned has left me, knowing I am sure to be caught when I leave on foot. I must think over my position and how I may improve it.
Mattie Ross: Where is the second California gold piece?
[Chaney stares silently into the camp fire]
Mattie Ross: What have you done with Papa's mare?
Tom Chaney: Keep still!
Mattie Ross: Are you thinking about The Old Place? Look here, if you will let me go, I will swear to it in an affidavit and once you are brought to justice it may go easier on you.
Tom Chaney: I tell you I can do better than that. I need no affidavit.
[he rises]
Tom Chaney: All I need is your silence.
[he suddenly grabs hold of Mattie by the throat, she tumbles backward, Chaney takes his knife and hold it against her throat]
Tom Chaney: Your father was a busybody like you. In honesty, I do not regret shooting him. He thought Tom Chaney was small. And you...you would give me an affidavit. You are all against me. Everything is...
[suddenly he gets whacked in the head by LeBoeuf]
[after he's knocked out Chaney]
LeBoeuf: So that is Chelmsford. Strange to be so close to him at last.
Mattie Ross: Mr. LeBoeuf, how is it that you are here?
LeBoeuf: I heard a shot and went down to the river.
[he helps Mattie get up]
LeBoeuf: Cogburn outlined a plan. Mind your footin', there's a pit there. His part, I fear is rash. He returns for Lucky Ned.
Lucky Ned Pepper: Well, Rooster, will you give us the road?
[LeBoeuf and Mattie watch from above as Cogburn advance on Ned and his gang]
Mattie Ross: One against four. It is ill advised!
LeBoeuf: He would not be dissuaded.
Rooster Cogburn: How many men is with the girl?
Lucky Ned Pepper: Just Chaney. Our agreement is in force. She was in excellent health when last I saw her.
Rooster Cogburn: Farrel, I want you and your brother to stand clear. You as well, Doctor. I have no interest in you today.
Lucky Ned Pepper: What is your intention, Rooster? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?
Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which will you have?
Lucky Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!
Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!
[he charges towards Ned and his gang]
[as they watch Lucky Ned and his gang charge upon Cogburn and start shooting]
Mattie Ross: Shoot them, Mr. LeBoeuf!
LeBoeuf: Too far, moving too fast.
[Cogburn has been shot of his horse and Lucky Ned has been shot but still sat on his horse]
Lucky Ned Pepper: Well Rooster, I'm shot to pieces. It seems neither of us is to see Judge Parker.
[Mattie whoops as LeBoeuf shoot and kills LeBoeuf]
Mattie Ross: Some bully shot! That was four hundred yards, at least!
LeBoeuf: Well, the he Sharp's carbine is a...
[just then a rock is brought down on his head by Chaney]
[Mattie gets hold of LeBoeuf's rifle and points it at Chaney]
Mattie Ross: Stand up, Tom Chaney!
[Chaney stands, Mattie fires the rifle catching Chaney in the chest, he's thrown back off the ledge]
[Mattie's fallen into the pit after shooting Chaney, she looks up and see a small hole of daylight]
Mattie Ross: Mr. LeBoeuf! Are you alive!
[no answer]
[whilst stuck in the pit Mattie hears Cogburn's voice]
Rooster Cogburn: Are you there?
Mattie Ross: I am here!
Rooster Cogburn: Can you clamber out?
Mattie Ross: I cannot! There are snakes!
Rooster Cogburn: They awake?
Mattie Ross: Yes!
[a small snake bits Mattie on her hand]
Mattie Ross: Ahh! I am bit!
[Cogburn shoot at the snake a few times and climbs down next to Mattie]
Mattie Ross: Does Mr. LeBoeuf survive?
Rooster Cogburn: He does. Even a blow to the head could silence him for only a few short minutes. Where are you bit?
[she shows her hand]
Rooster Cogburn: Look away now.
[he makes two slices in the flesh and sucks out the blood]
[after LeBoeuf has helped them up out of the pit, Cogburn hands Mattie to LeBoeuf]
[LeBoeuf puts Mattie on Cogburn's horse]
Mattie Ross: We are not leaving him!
[Cogburn mounts up behind to Mattie on the horse]
Rooster Cogburn: I must get you to a doc, sis, or you're not gonna to make it.
[to LeBoeuf]
Rooster Cogburn: I am in your debt for that shot, pard.
LeBoeuf: Never doubt the Texas Ranger.
[Cogburn rides off and LeBoeuf shouts after]
LeBoeuf: Ever stalwart!
[after they've been riding nonstop for several hours]
Mattie Ross: We must stop. Little Blackie is played out.
Rooster Cogburn: We have miles yet.
[to Little Blackie]
Rooster Cogburn: Come on, you!
Mattie Ross: No!
[the horse whines but keeps going]
Rooster Cogburn: That's it! Come on now!
Mattie Ross: No! Stop!
Mattie Ross: He is getting away.
Rooster Cogburn: Who's gettin' away, sis?
Mattie Ross: Chaney.
[Little Blackie suddenly stops and falls to the ground clearly no longer able to go on]
[after walking for several hours with Mattie in his arms, Cogburn stops in front of a house and takes out his gun and fires into the air]
Rooster Cogburn: I am grown old.
[pants heavily]
40-Year-Old Mattie: [voice over] A quarter of a century is a long time.
[we see a train stopping and a woman, older Mattie, steps down onto the station]
40-Year-Old Mattie: [voice over] By the time we reached Bagby's door my hand had turned black. I was not awake but I lost the arm. The marshal had stayed with me, I was told, till I was out of danger. But he departed before I came round. Once home, I wrote him
of an invitation to come by the next time
he found himself near Yell County and collect the fifty
dollars I still owed him. I did not hear back from Marshal Cogburn and
he did not appear. Then, one day I received a note from the marshal
with a flyer enclosed. He said he was traveling with The Wild West
Show, getting older and fatter, but I like to come and visit him when
the show came to Memphis and swap stories with an old trail mate.[we see older Mattie walking up to The Wild West Show banner]
40-Year-Old Mattie: [voice over] He would understand if the journey was too long. Brief though his note was, it was rife with misspellings.
[after older Mattie enters The tents of the The Wild West Show]
Cole Younger: Yes'm, I am Cole Younger. This is Mr. James. It grieves me to tell you that you have missed Rooster. He passed away, what, three days ago, when the show was in Jonesboro Arkansas. Buried him there in the confederate cemetery. Reuben had a complaint what he referred to as "night hoss" and I believe the warm weather was too much for him. We had some lively times. What was the nature of your acquaintance?
40-Year-Old Mattie: I knew the marshal long ago. We too had lively times. Thank you, Mr. Younger.
[as she turns to go she addresses Frank James who's been staring at her]
40-Year-Old Mattie: Keep your seat, trash.
[last lines]
40-Year-Old Mattie: [voice over] I had the body removed to our plot and I have visited it over the years.
[we see older Mattie at the cemetery looking at Cogburn's grave stone]
40-Year-Old Mattie: [voice over] No doubt people talk about that. They say, well she hardly knew the man. Isn't she a cranky old maid. It is true I have not married, I never had time to fool with it. I heard nothing more of the Texas officer, LeBoeuf. If he is yet alive I would be pleased to hear from him. I judge he would be in his seventies now and nearer eighty than seventy. I expect some of the starch has gone out of that cowlick. Time just gets away from us.
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Quotes: 91
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