A Beside the Point Movie Spanking

How unusual to see a mainstream movie with a teenage girl who needs to be spanked -- and actually is! In this case, spanked by hand and switched, all too realistically for some.

No surprise: It is a scene in the current version of "True Grit," which is so brilliant it didn't even need the spanking scene to hold my interest. It is Jeff Bridges' annual drunken old man movie, and he's got the character down pat by now. The girl, played by Hailee Steinfeld  is a certain Oscar nominee, as she carries the story and acts as well as the professionals.

Unfortunately, I cannot find a public domain photo of the spanking scene, but it is just as well because there is nothing prurient about it and it more severe than the patty-cake Glenn Campbell-Kim Darby match-up a generation ago.

I don't recall seeing the original except on TV, and it as milquetoast compared to this one, written and directed by the Coen Brothers, anything of whose is worth the price of admission.