Favorite Robert Duvall movie

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Robert Duvall is my favorite actor of all time! We lost him this last week and I hope he knew the Lord but that is neither here nor there now.

I know the movie house is wicked and of the devil but no one said nothing if you went to Blockbuster and now that we have Netflix, you can stream to your hearts content so long as the deacon isn't pokng around or whatever!

So... What is your absolute favorite Robert Duvall movie? For me, I believe it is a tossup between "Secondhand Lions" and "The Lonseome Dove" series of which I have watched numerous times! I also liked "The Apostle" especially in the scene where he takes Billy Bob Thorton out back and they go a few rounds with the Church congregation watching (church discipline in action here!).

What are some absolute "Must Watch" Robert Duvall movies? What are some hidden gems that people tend to pass over? I'm thinking "Network" ought to be there as well as "The Great Santini. "Colors" was a good move as well as his role in "Falling Down." Everyone remembers him as Lt Col Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now" even if they cannot recall much of the actual plot line of the movie!

Robert Duvall was one of the Hollywood Greats and perhaps the last of them! He will be missed!
 
I think Open Range was his best.

Didn't like him in MASH, though the movie wasn't bad.

Liked practically every movie I saw him in.
 
apocalypse now... redux.. .. the full directors cut ... :cool:.. ..my favorite line in the movie is a toss up
between "i love the smell of napalm in the morning"... .. and.. "charlie don;t surf"... ... been hearing
re-worded variations of both of them now and then, out on the surf breaks - for as long as i can remember...

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Not technically a movie, but Lonesome Dove is my personal favorite.
 
Baptist Renegade said:
Robert Duvall is my favorite actor of all time! We lost him this last week and I hope he knew the Lord but that is neither here nor there now.

I know the movie house is wicked and of the devil but no one said nothing if you went to Blockbuster and now that we have Netflix, you can stream to your hearts content so long as the deacon isn't pokng around or whatever!

So... What is your absolute favorite Robert Duvall movie? For me, I believe it is a tossup between "Secondhand Lions" and "The Lonseome Dove" series of which I have watched numerous times! I also liked "The Apostle" especially in the scene where he takes Billy Bob Thorton out back and they go a few rounds with the Church congregation watching (church discipline in action here!).

What are some absolute "Must Watch" Robert Duvall movies? What are some hidden gems that people tend to pass over? I'm thinking "Network" ought to be there as well as "The Great Santini. "Colors" was a good move as well as his role in "Falling Down." Everyone remembers him as Lt Col Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now" even if they cannot recall much of the actual plot line of the movie!

Robert Duvall was one of the Hollywood Greats and perhaps the last of them! He will be missed!
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In the novel MASH, Frank Burns is a fairly one-dimensional character: a religious zealot, but an incompetent surgeon and a hypocrite who blames others for his own failures. When Robert Altman made the movie MASH, he conflated the Burns character with some of the other surgeons. So the character Duvall played in the movie was more complex than the literary Burns--less clownish, perhaps even a bit more sympathetic.

Then for the sitcom they reverted him to "Ferret Face"--a compete buffoon played for laughs.
 
aleshanee said:
apocalypse now... redux.. .. the full directors cut ... :cool:.. ..my favorite line in the movie is a toss up
between "i love the smell of napalm in the morning"... .. and.. "charlie don;t surf"... ... been hearing
re-worded variations of both of them now and then, out on the surf breaks - for as long as i can remember...

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He was a relatively small "Side Character" to the story (he does get more screen time in Redux though) but he is what everyone remembers! How many lines are you quoting from Capt. Willard or Col Kurtz (The.....Horror....)?
 
Baptist Renegade said:
He was a relatively small "Side Character" to the story (he does get more screen time in Redux though) but he is what everyone remembers! How many lines are you quoting from Capt. Willard or Col Kurtz (The.....Horror....)?
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definitely... "the horror... the horror...".. ...gotta say it twice for the right effect....;) .. .but that;s about it.... .. it;s hard sometimes to even remember martin sheens lines word for word . ..or the other lines of marlon brando either...... robert duvalls small part is what people remember most... ...

but what many people do not know is brandos famous line itself did not originate with the movie... .. . the movie was based on joseph conrads - heart of darkness... and ..just like in the movie.. it was the last words of the villain character kurtz - as he died..... the part of captain willard - played by martin sheen - was based on the book character charlie marlow who narrated the story like willard does.... he quotes the last words of the dying kurtz as being.. "the horror... the horror"... ..

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but what many people do not know is brandos famous line itself did not originate with the movie... .. . the movie was based on joseph conrads - heart of darkness...
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I read Heart of Darkness in high school and hated it. I thought perhaps my opinion might have changed so I read it again in my 30s. Nope. Still hated it.

A good example of a movie being better than the book, even allowing for the looseness of the adaptation.

Not Conrad's fault, though. I've read other books of his, and they were all right.
 
after barry pepper spoke the same lines in the 2010 remake of true grit.... a lot of people don;t remember it was robert duvall .. playing the outlaw ned pepper.. who first said .. "i call that big talk for a one eyed fat man!..". ..just before ned pepper and his gang charged on horseback against marshal rooster cogburn........
 
True Grit for me was Robert Duvall's most surprising appearance. It took me about three viewings before I recognized him.

Come to think of it, I didn't recognize Barry Pepper as Ned Pepper either. Clever.
 
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I read Heart of Darkness in high school and hated it. I thought perhaps my opinion might have changed so I read it again in my 30s. Nope. Still hated it.

A good example of a movie being better than the book, even allowing for the looseness of the adaptation.

Not Conrad's fault, though. I've read other books of his, and they were all right.
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true... . the movie apocalypse now is much better than the book heart of darkness...... ....i wonder if that;s due to the setting of the movie being the vietnam war.... ....and the fact it was still fresh in everyones mind when the movie came out... ........ people in 1899 didn;t know much about the congo or anything much about africa either when heart of darkness was first published.... .. ..
 
Ransom said:
True Grit for me was Robert Duvall's most surprising appearance. It took me about three viewings before I recognized him.

Come to think of it, I didn't recognize Barry Pepper as Ned Pepper either. Clever.
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they went a lot further with make up and props to make barry pepper look like a real outlaw living out of saddle bags - than they did robert duvall..... everything about that 2010 true grit was more true to realism than the john wayne version... ....looking at barry pepper in that movie i could almost imagine him smelling as bad as he looked.... .
 
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everything about that 2010 true grit was more true to realism than the john wayne version...
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More faithful to Charles Portis's novel, too. I enjoyed John Wayne's movie, but The Dude was a better fit for the Coen brothers, and you could almost believe the dialogue in the novel was made for the Coens, too. (Funny how for a duo arguably best known for dark comedies about crime, their two most successful films were Westerns: No Country for Old Men and True Grit.)
 
robert duvalls first movie was actually to kill a mockingbird... he plays the slow witted boo radley..... .. he ends up being the hero but he doesn;t have any lines.... .... .. he was also in bullit with steve mcqueen.... . he plays a cab driver and has a few lines... but i can;t remember what he said.... ... the most memorable part of that movie was the car chase... ..... :cool:
 
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