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How did ‘True Grit’](True Grit (2010) - Movie | Moviefone) become the most financially successful movie of the Coen Brothers’ career? “We just outwaited everybody,” Ethan Coen told The New York Times.
So far, ‘True Grit’ has earned $89 million at the box office (U.S. only), surpassing their previous high-water mark of $74 million for the Academy Award-winning ‘No Country for Old Men.’](No Country for Old Men (2007) - Movie | Moviefone) Their immediate follow-up to that film, ‘Burn After Reading,’](Burn After Reading (2008) - Movie | Moviefone) made $60 million, probably boosted by the presence of Brad Pitt and its promise of madcap comedy, while ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’](O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001) - Movie | Moviefone) grossed $45 million about 10 years ago. The latter picture, which re-cast ‘The Odyssey’ with escaped convicts in the 1930s accompanied by a jaunty musical score, connected the Coens with a broader audience than ever before, even more than the devoted fans who had previously made ‘Fargo’ ($24 million), ‘Raising Arizona’ (nearly $23 million) and ‘Blood Simple’ ($3.8 million for their 1985 debut, with limited distribution and a tiny budget) modest success stories. The Coens also did pretty well with ‘The Ladykillers’ ($39 million) and ‘Intolerable Cruelty’ ($35 million).
What, exactly, makes ‘True Grit’ so much more popular than their other films?