RIP Robert Duvall

[DanOregon]

Roomed together - five Oscars between them. My goodness.

 

[Chef2]

“You know the doctor found nicotine in my urine again.”
“Then keep your **** out of my ashtray.”

 

[Bubbler]

“… after today, whether you're a goat or a hero, you're gonna make me a great story."

Told cynically in “The Natural”, but a ****load of truth to it. A truth you can embrace with the right blend of job commitment and human understanding.

RIP Robert Duvall.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Lonesome Dove. Playing cards with Diane Lane. “Cut you for a poke.”

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Shoot, between he and Hackman, they could do anything. So many great films, films he elevated. Let's not forget Lonesome Dove. Falling Down, Great Santini, MASH....

What a career. What a body of work. When he showed up on screen, you knew things were about to get real.

It's incomprehensible he only won 1 Oscar, or was only nominated 7 times. I'm not even sure the film he won for, Tender Mercies, was in his Top 10 performances.

Hackman was the comp I thought of too. Just classic actors who made every film in which they appeared better.

 

[Flip Wilson]

One of my favorite scenes from The Apostle.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

****, that sucks. I know he had better, more memorable roles, but always remember him for this scene in Colors, talking to Sean Penn ...

"There's two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: 'Hey pop, let's say we run down there and **** one of them cows.' The older one says: 'No son. Lets walk down and **** 'em all.' "

Oddly that is a line in the book The Great Santini as well. No idea if it made the movie.

 

[MileHigh]

Man, what a career. A true giant. RIP.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

The man could play anything. What a talent and what an amazing career.

His role in The Paper is of course one of my favorites. And The Natural.

But my goodness what a presence in some of the greatest films of all time.

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

"The people we cover, we move in their world, but it is THEIR world."

It's obviously under different circumstances, but I offer these words (or something similar) to younger people in this biz at least three or four times annually.

An amazing actor, and, since this is a forum for mostly current and former journalists, one of the great scenes in The Paper with Duvall and Glenn Close. RIP:

 

[Deskgrunt50]

A guilty pleasure of mine, which I know isn’t a great movie but relates to the time in my life and the people I saw it with, is Days of Thunder.

Duvall, of course, is outstanding.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Nobody's mentioning the great star-cross with James Earl Jones (1996). Duvall plays a Delta redneck who finds out he has a Black brother in Chicago. He returns home safe but with bullet holes in his pickup.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

 

[DanOregon]

I think about Duvall and the other greats of acting and sports and wonder what it is like to watch yourself when you were in your prime doing your greatest work. In some ways it has to be an out-of-body experience. Particularly for sports figures years after they competed, long after their skills diminished.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Similar thing I've always wondered - for an actor who has played several roles (immediately thought John Cusack, for some reason, maybe because he seems to be pretty well at self-reflecting), is there a role/movie/show where they think they absolutely nailed it, and it would be impossible for them or anyone else to do a better job? Like if they are flipping through channels and happen upon it, they will stop every single time and watch it for the 10,000th time?

And the adverse, is there a role/movie/show where they hate ever doing it or being associated with it, and wish it never existed?

 

[DanOregon]

Oh, I imagine that they always think they could have done a scene better or are still pissed the director used a take that they didn't think was the best. I also figure they don't think of their work in the context of the narrative of the story, it was a job, a day's work. Maybe a scene reminds them of a great restaurant they went to before that shot, or whatever was going on in their lives at the time.

 

[BTExpress]

And the adverse, is there a role/movie/show where they hate ever doing it or being associated with it, and wish it never existed?

I'd guess at least 95% of actors have a "Caddyshack 2" somewhere in their past they wish didn't exist.

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

Somewhat in this vein, it always pleased me that Paul Newman would point to "Slap Shot" and his work as Reggie Dunlop as the role that he loved the most. In a few interviews, he said it was the one time he felt as if he wasn't acting, that he was playing a character closest to his authentic self.

Similar thing I've always wondered - for an actor who has played several roles (immediately thought John Cusack, for some reason, maybe because he seems to be pretty well at self-reflecting), is there a role/movie/show where they think they absolutely nailed it, and it would be impossible for them or anyone else to do a better job? Like if they are flipping through channels and happen upon it, they will stop every single time and watch it for the 10,000th time?

And the adverse, is there a role/movie/show where they hate ever doing it or being associated with it, and wish it never existed?

 

[Jake from State Farm]

I'd guess at least 95% of actors have a "Caddyshack 2" somewhere in their past they wish didn't exist.

I remember a Siskel and Ebert where they said they were out in LA and ran into Charlie Sheen. They mentioned they saw him in something called Ski School and he said: “You SAW that? I didn’t think anybody saw it. I did it for the money.”

 

[Huggy]

In my junior hockey days one of our assistant coaches, who played several years in the NHL, was cast as one of the hockey players in The Love Guru. (Terrible bit of casting, he was playing a forward when he had been a defensive defenceman who scored like seven goals in the NHL.) He told us while they were filming that it was a dreadful movie. And he was right, he made us sit through it on the bus once on a road trip to Ottawa.