Charles Portis's famous novel True Grit, published in 1968, was the basis for both the 1969 film and the 2010 film. The Coen brothers' 2010 film covers many things from the book, but I think they made Mattie's character very different from the book. In the book Mattie was a 14-year-old teenager who was afraid of nothing and was not afraid of taking revenge on her father's killer, Tom Chaney. Some events in the film made her seem tough, but the actor was too kind and nice to play Mattie. They also made it more emotional than in the book. Even though they covered most of the events of the book, I don't like the way they made the movie. Mattie is a main character in the book, so I thought she would stay the same in both the book and the movie. I had imagined Mattie as a headstrong, headstrong fourteen-year-old with real grit. But when I saw the movie I think Mattie changed, she made her character softer and not the same as the one in the book. She was also told she was ugly a couple of times throughout the book, so I had a clear image in my head of what Mattie was like. I liked the Mattie from the book better than the Mattie from the movie, but in motion I think it makes her look soft. Hailee Steinfeld is the person who plays Mattie in the movie and if you look at a picture of her in my opinion she was too pretty to play Mattie. In the book there is no romantic connection between Mattie and La Boeuf. However in the film, when La Boeuf leaves them for the second time, Mattie and La Boeuf are talking and Mattie doesn't want him to leave. You can see the connection between them and the anger between them disappears. In the book Mattie is always high on La Boeuf and they fight a lot and she thinks he's a stupid Texan and doesn't trust him... half of the paper... the one from the better book. In the film he falls into a pit and gets his leg stuck in the roots of the pit. In the book it was more intense and she was stuck in a hole and she was falling and her arm was broken and she needed something to stop her from falling into the hole. This scene added even more to how brave Mattie was and how determined she was to show them that she could do it. In the end I liked the book much more than the movie. I like how there was something more to describing the character. I liked all the events in the book and how they showed Mattie's determination to catch her father's killer. I didn't like the movie because of how they changed some of the main events and how they changed some of the characters from the book. If the movie had just been a movie, it would have been a good movie, but it was created from a book, so I think it should be just like the book.