RIP Robert Duvall

[MisterCreosote]

I’m not aware of any role Duvall “hated,” but it’s kind of funny that he turned down being Hannibal Lecter so he could shoot Days of Thunder.

As for Cusack, I always heard that he hated playing Lloyd Dobler.

 

[qtlaw]

I’m not aware of any role Duvall “hated,” but it’s kind of funny that he turned down being Hannibal Lecter so he could shoot Days of Thunder.

As for Cusack, I always heard that he hated playing Lloyd Dobler.

Movie as tough mentor with Tom Cruise just after Top Gun?? Oh yeah I'm picking that over being the villain in some serial killer film.

 

[MarkWatney]

Supposedly Duvall also turned down Godfather 3 for Days of Thunder.

Although you read a lot of weird and wildly divergent stories about GFIII:

Coppola said Duvall wanted to be paid the same as Pacino; Duvall said Pacino was getting paid as much as the rest of the cast put together.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I’m not aware of any role Duvall “hated,” but it’s kind of funny that he turned down being Hannibal Lecter so he could shoot Days of Thunder.

As for Cusack, I always heard that he hated playing Lloyd Dobler.

Movie as tough mentor with Tom Cruise just after Top Gun?? Oh yeah I'm picking that over being the villain in some serial killer film.

Well, not just “some serial killer film,” but yeah.

To his credit, Duvall didn’t much give a ****, as he was a made man at that point.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Supposedly Duvall also turned down Godfather 3 for Days of Thunder.

Although you read a lot of weird and wildly divergent stories about GFIII:

Coppola said Duvall wanted to be paid the same as Pacino; Duvall said Pacino was getting paid as much as the rest of the cast put together.

Duvall wanted more money, or at least wanted to be on the ballpark to shoot GF3. I don’t blame him.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannah...million-for-the-godfather-part-iii-heres-why/

 

[Neutral Corner]

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.

At least the athletes will always have the accomplishment, the records, the ring. Their bodies and skills may erode but the things they did remain in the record. Same for actors and musicians, they lay down a performance and either it was recorded or articles and memories of it remain behind them.

The ones I feel for are the beautiful women who are employed in TV and film mostly for their looks. For every Meryl Streep there are thousands of lovely women who don't make the grade and hundreds more who get cast but simply are not very good at the craft. They age, their bodies are no longer so fresh, and suddenly what little career they had is over. Some few of them pick up enough acting chops to hang around, but most are so much disposable meat and get treated as such.

Then they're in their 40's and 50's, looking back on that beer commercial or failed TV pilot that was their high water mark.

 

[Slacker]

And then there's Danny Bonaduce ...

 

[Bubbler]

At least the athletes will always have the accomplishment, the records, the ring. Their bodies and skills may erode but the things they did remain in the record. Same for actors and musicians, they lay down a performance and either it was recorded or articles and memories of it remain behind them.

The ones I feel for are the beautiful women who are employed in TV and film mostly for their looks. For every Meryl Streep there are thousands of lovely women who don't make the grade and hundreds more who get cast but simply are not very good at the craft. They age, their bodies are no longer so fresh, and suddenly what little career they had is over. Some few of them pick up enough acting chops to hang around, but most are so much disposable meat and get treated as such.

Then they're in their 40's and 50's, looking back on that beer commercial or failed TV pilot that was their high water mark.

Sniff! You just described my life!

 

[DanOregon]

I get these posts on Facebook from actors and actresses from the past, everyone from Claudia Wells to Anson Williams and Donny Most showing up at these fan conventions. It's kind of sad, but they still do have that.
I once went to a Halloween event in the Bay Area, where for a fee you could get your picture taken with the guy who played Eddie Munster or some chick from some horror movie I forgot about. We took the picture with Eddie. But I also couldn't fathom what that life must be like, your high-water mark was over by the time you were 12.

 

[Gym Beam]

Great actor, but Apocalypse Now was one of the two worst first date movies ever.

 

[MarkWatney]

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.

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That was a fun movie.

Sometimes I think it could be rebooted into a good teevee series. The worlds of urban Chicago and down home rural Arkansas -- how could they eventually get along? At the very end they jokingly talk about having to whip Earl's nephew into line.

Billy Bob Thornton (co-) wrote the original movie, so make him Earl Pilcher in the remake. See what Laurence Fishburne would do as Ray Murdoch, the cop, the JEJ role.

Heck, bring on Scott Glenn to play Earl's wizened old daddy, who started the whole mess all those decades ago.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Great actor, but Apocalypse Now was one of the two worst first date movies ever.

Well now I gotta know what the other is.

 

[DanOregon]

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.”

I'm thinking you are talking about Grizzly II, which features two Oscar winners and at least half a dozen nominations. Sheen wasn't in Ski School. But Dean Cameron, was.

 

[Bubbler]

Great actor, but Apocalypse Now was one of the two worst first date movies ever.

First movie I went to with my now-wife was “Geronimo: An American Legend”. It was at the campus two-plex. Can’t imagine what the other choice was to make me pick that as a date movie. It wasn’t even good as a historical movie. Boring as ****, but because it was boring as ****, we could focus on making out or whatever. So maybe it wasn’t such a bad choice!

As for Robert Duvall, he seemed to have that Michael Caine-like knack for playing roles in respected and crap movies equally by the 80s.

Who can forget HBO right-wing, war on drugs staple “Let’s Get Harry”, which was on every five minutes in the late 80s? Those ****ing (fill in the blank Central or South American nationality) are going to pay this time!

 

[DanOregon]

Yeah, the director took his name off it. I'm sure Duvall would have if he could. A poor man's Uncommon Valor, starring Gene Hackman with a similar concept.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Great actor, but Apocalypse Now was one of the two worst first date movies ever.

I saw it after smoking some Thai stick. I can still hear the helicopter in Dolby sound. One of my favorite movies.

 

[micropolitan guy]

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

If the check cashed and helped buy the mansion or the drugs, my guess is they don't really care.

 

[Gym Beam]

Well now I gotta know what the other is.

Terms of Endearment.
Man, was that ever a bad choice. Not even a handshake after.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Terms of Endearment.
Man, was that ever a bad choice. Not even a handshake after.

Holy moley, that'll do it.

My first movie with my future wife was Clerks. When she didn't hail a cab at HEY TRY NOT TO SUCK ANY **** ON YOUR WAY THRU THE PARKING LOT, I should have married her right there.

 

[BTExpress]

Mine was "Marley and Me," only because it was shot in our newsroom and I wanted to see how many of our regular newsroom people/extras were identifiable (hardly any).