True Grit: Story verse

Before reading True Grit, I had my preconceived ideas about how the story was laid out, and how the characters interact with each other. With True Grit, and it's two movie adaptations, one could question what the true version is, myself included. The story verse was not altered in either adaptation of the book, but, for some reason, the byproducts were complete opposites. When it comes to story verse, I believe the author can only make the story, at one point they have to hand it off to the community, which is why there are clear differences in the two films. Neither is wrong, and there being such differences only celebrates how Charles Portis crafted a fine story verse which doesn't collapse upon itself when the characters are portrayed in drastically different ways.