True Grit (2010 film) in which it's a little bit different from the movie – and maybe this is just because of the time the movie was made – is that it's a lot tougher and more violent than the movie reflects. Which is part of what's interesting about it. Mattie Ross "is a pill", said Ethan Coen in a December 2010 interview, "but there is something deeply admirable about her in the book that we were drawn to", including the Presbyterian-Protestant ethic so strongly imbued in a 14-year-old girl. Joel Coen said that the brothers did not want to "mess around with what
Joel Gougeon also a member of the American Legion, the Elks, and the Vietnam Veterans of America. Joel Gougeon Joel Gougeon (born January 13, 1943) was a Republican member of the Michigan Senate from 1993-2002 representing Ogemaw, Arenac, Bay, Tuscola, and Huron counties. He previously served as a member of the Bay County Board of Commissioners. Gougeon received a mechanical engineering degree in 1966 from what was then the General Motors Institute by co-oping at the Saginaw Malleable Iron Foundry. After five years in the Air Force, Gougeon and his brothers formed Gougeon Brothers, Inc., which manufactured sailboats, epoxy adhesives, and wind