Two films of the same novel forty one years apart, and the second is not a remake of the first.
Either film, and the distinction that matters is this: the 2010 Coen brothers version is not a remake of the 1969 John Wayne version. Both go back to Charles Portis's 1968 novel independently, and the later one follows the book much more closely, including its ending and its narrator. So they are two readings of the same text rather than an original and a copy, and watching one does not spoil the other the way a remake would.
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Henry Hathaway's version, and the one John Wayne won his only Oscar for. Warmer and funnier than the novel, with an ending the book does not have.
The Coen brothers, with Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld. Closer to Portis in language and much closer in how it ends.
Short, funny and narrated by Mattie as an old woman, which is the thing the 1969 film drops and the 2010 film keeps.
Then what? Two follow-ups exist and neither is essential. Rooster Cogburn from 1975 is a straight sequel to the 1969 film, pairing Wayne with Katharine Hepburn, and has nothing to do with the novel. True Grit: A Further Adventure is a 1978 television film with Warren Oates taking the part.
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