Anybody see it? I have a plot question...
I saw it, but it was when it was still in theaters, so I probably don't remember well enough to answer. I'll try, though!
Did they say anything about Cogburn riding with Quantrill?
No idea whatsoever. Sorry. I need to watch it again!
I need to find out. In the first one, he did. :( If he does in the 2nd one, I may not buy it. :(
bottom of quantrill's wikipedia article:
"In the novel True Grit by Charles Portis, and the 1969 and 2010 film versions thereof, Rooster Cogburn boasts of being a former member of Quantrill's Raiders, and LaBoeuf excoriates him for being part of the "border gang" that murdered men, women, and children alike during the raid on Lawrence, Kansas."
BOOO!
:(
This makes me sad. I have LOVED Rooster Cogburn since I was a child, and now I find out he's a border ruffian?
*sigh*
Taking ancient history a little personally are we?
Memory of Quantrill's Raid is alive and well in my neck of the woods. The building I used to work in was one of just a handful that actually survived the raid. Townies can point out the house that sat next to the ditch where one of the ruffian's bodies laid for days because nobody gave a crap that he was dead- they were too busy dealing with their own dead and wounded.
The town of Osceola, MO recently (like- a month and a half ago) condemned KU's use of the Jayhawk mascot, because it glorified a raid that eventually led to Quantrill's raid.
http://myscv.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/city-of-osceola-missouri-condemns-jayhawk-mascott/
Bleeding Kansas didn't end. It's just in intermission.