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 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 energy blades.The methods first developed by the Gougeon brothers using WEST SYSTEM® epoxy have become