Post by wmcclain on Mar 25, 2021 11:34:15 GMT
The assertiveness, feistiness, and indignant nature of the Darby character in True Grit may seem like an ode toward the burgeoning feminist revival of the time, but I feel that it actually represents retro-girlish spunk, the kind of prairie spirit that could be found in an earlier generation of films and that would prove palatable to 1969's more traditional audiences.
That's well put. I'll try to revise the review on my own site an incorporate that dimension.
Even the 60s counterculture wanted to run time backwards. Back to the land folks wanted to be pioneers again and you see it their fashions, art and music.
So a film could appeal to both youngster and oldster nostalgia.