那些新版里沒有的無關緊要卻俏皮的對話

1.舊版對Cogburn的粗暴、酗酒的硬漢形象的刻畫是通過那些無關的對話循序漸進的。初現「和惡棍講理是沒有用的，槍才是硬道理」的立場是他邊反手頂著酒壺喝威士忌邊當著Mattie的面射殺一隻老鼠。殺老鼠前他說
Rooster Cogburn: Mr. Rat, I have a writ here says you're to stop eating Chin Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of the same. See, doesn't pay any attention to me.
[shoots the rat]
Chen Lee: [Runs into the room] Outside is place for shooting!
Rooster Cogburn: I'm servin' some papers!
Rooster Cogburn: Judge Parker. Old carpetbagger, but he knows his rats! We had a good court going on here 'til them pettifogging lawyers moved in!

2.而在Mattie身上展現的是一種磨人的強硬的不寬容，雖然有時她也會忽然俏皮地說"I have an idea"，然後blablabla講了個很幼稚的想法，但你基本可以在這個少女身上就看到一種老處女的讓人望而生畏的理智。
Mattie Ross: I hope you don't think I'm going to keep you in whiskey?
Rooster Cogburn: I don't buy that, I confiscate it. And a touch of it wouldn't do you any harm against the night air!
Mattie Ross: I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains!

Col. G. Stonehill（馬商）: I'll take it up with my attorney.
Mattie Ross: And I will take it up with mine - Lawyer Daggett. And he will make money and I will make money and your lawyer will make money... and you, Mr. Licensed Auctioneer, you will foot the bill.

Rooster Cogburn: [to LaBoeuf] Lawyer Daggett again.
LaBoeuf: She draws him like a gun.

3.Cogburn是老小孩，Mattie是小大人，但他們相似的地方在於他們的性格里都有致命的不討世人喜歡的東西，他們的生活完全隔離於他人，像頑石一樣顯露給彼此，這才能夠使他們惺惺相惜。
Rooster Cogburn: [watching Mattie ford the river hanging on the back of her horse] By God. She reminds me of me.

Mattie Ross: Do you know a Marshal Rooster Cogburn?
Col. G. Stonehill（馬商）: Most people around here have heard of Rooster Cogburn and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he's a relative of yours.


4.老版里沒有比賽槍術的那段，新版里靠視覺完成的那些競技在舊版里都是靠對話和搶白來展現的
Rooster Cogburn: When's the last time you saw Ned Pepper?
Emmett Quincy: I don't remember any Ned Pepper.
Rooster Cogburn: Short feisty fella, nervous and quick, got a messed-up lower lip.
Emmett Quincy: That don't bring nobody to mind. A funny lip?
Rooster Cogburn: Wasn't always like that, I shot him in it.
Emmett Quincy: In the lower lip? What was you aiming at?
Rooster Cogburn: His upper lip.

Rooster Cogburn: [checking Ned Pepper's dead horse] You're quite a horse-shooter.
LaBoeuf: I was trying for Ned Pepper.
Rooster Cogburn: Next time try for the horse, and maybe you'll hit Pepper!

Capt. Boots Finch（旅店老闆）: So this is the man shot Ned Pepper's horse from under him.
Rooster Cogburn: Yeah! This is the famous horse killer from El Paso. He believes in puttin' everybody afoot. Says there'll be less mischief that way.
LaBoeuf: Fewer horses - fewer horse thieves.

不同的結局是LaBoeuf最後死了，為了救Mattie，他們不得不把他的屍體留在荒郊野外。
Rooster Cogburn: Texican... saved my neck twice. Once after he was dead.

我不是說老版好於新版，新版的節奏性強，現代觀眾已經不需要那麼多對話來一點點堆砌人物的形象，直接get the point才不會讓人感到無聊到要在影院裡呼呼睡去。新版的對話戲劇性更強，原來那些關於德州人的譏諧，關於戰爭時哪裡服役的有一段沒一段的談話都變成了一觸即發的矛盾點，甚至導致了分道揚鑣。不能否認新版的可看性更強。

但就演員來說，Jeff Bridges和John Wayne的氣場絕對沒法比，一把鬍子加上眼罩一遮，我簡直看不清楚Bridges的表情，不能說不是硬漢，但和69版比起來，感覺更像是說話嘴裡老是含了一口痰的糟老頭。
女主角倒是平分秋色。Hailee Steinfeld雖不是老版中那種短髮俏皮磨人的范兒，但眉目之間自有一種沉靜的鐵骨柔情在。化到中國版的話，演射鵰裡的穆念慈再好不過。