Grit
- Firmness of character; indomitable courage, toughness, or resolution.
You’ll notice True Grit isn’t on the list below. That’s on purpose. (What??) Rooster Cogburn was relentless tough to be sure, but that was his nature ~ not a fierce internal determination to prevail despite likely overwhelming odds. That’s “true grit.” Admirable grit. Grit worth modeling. Following are excellent illustrations of people drawing deep within themselves to face what faces them without flinching.
Examples of Grit in Film
- A History of Violence
- Alien
- Aliens
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Bound
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Contact
- Deep Impact
- Deliverance
- Dolores Claiborne
- Erin Brockovich
- Fair Game
- Far and Away
- Four Days in September
- G.I. Jane
- Gladiator
- Killer Elite
- Made in Dagenham
- Not Without My Daughter
- Platoon
- Predator
- Puncture
- Rocky III
- Rudy
- Runaway Train
- Straw Dogs (2011)
- The Edge
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- The Green Mile
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Matrix
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Turn the River
“grit.” Dictionary.com Unabridged. 18 Dec. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grit>.
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