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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 5, 2020 19:47:22 GMT
89 today.......one of the best American actors and versatile in leads and support/ensembles - for me personally, I would rank him in the class below the best Americans film actors - Brando, the big 70s 4 guys .......... then Newman, Lemmon, etc. which is a very elite class. For actors who do all 3 mediums only Lemmon, Scott, Pacino and Robards are his real American peers. Favorite performances?
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Post by stephen on Feb 5, 2020 19:54:23 GMT
Along with Hackman, the top man of the '70s generation. Happy birthday, Bobby boy!
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 5, 2020 23:14:15 GMT
Fav perfs, wouldn't add anything else I've seen though I haven't seen a whole bunch.... Lonesome Dove The Apostle Tomorrow Tender Mercies The Godfather The Rain People Apocalypse Now A Civil Action Colors Never been a real fan - only recently saw Dove which I think is his best, full of lingering charm and leftover toughness - made me rethink whether I should dive into exactly what I haven't seen. I wouldn't put him remotely near Hackman, personally, and I'd rank TLJ higher and even someone outside his generation like Billy Bob Thornton over him. Still, I like him, I know I got more to see, and it's amazing he's 89, thought he was early 80s!
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 5, 2020 23:25:04 GMT
Never been a real fan - only recently saw Dove which I think is his best, full of lingering charm and leftover toughness - made me rethink whether I should dive into exactly what I haven't seen. I wouldn't put him remotely near Hackman, personally, and I'd rank TLJ higher and even someone out of his generation like Billy Bob Thornton over him. Still, I like him, I know I got more to see, and it's amazing he's 89, I was he was early 80s! Yeah - there's a definite side of Duvall where you can admire him and not really like him at all - I personally have always felt he was a jerk irl as a person and it crept into his acting - he IS The Great Santini etc. - but he had sides to him as an actor that always made me rethink where he belongs relative to the greats. His TV work allowed him to tap into a more actorly side of himself more than film and he stopped doing stage after American Buffalo ......the TV stuff is particularly crucial and his bio work on TV : Eisenhower, Stalin, Eichmann (!) is quite interesting in that "three mediums" way..........
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Post by futuretrunks on Feb 6, 2020 0:52:18 GMT
One of the more amusing roundtables:
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 6, 2020 17:15:37 GMT
Many happy returns to the man!! May he live to be a hundred! Or not? My top-5 of his performances would be something like that: 1. GF II 2. Apocalypse Now 3. GF I 4. The Apostle 5. Tender Mercies HM to the Judge and of course Network. He was electrifying in this!!
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 6, 2020 17:39:33 GMT
I will never, ever forgive the Apocalypse Now Redux for ruining what was one of the BEST send-off lines for a character ever.
"Some day this war's gonna end..."
Spoken with such disdain and disappointment and then he walks off screen. My favorite ever supporting performance.
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Post by wallsofjericho on Feb 6, 2020 19:37:41 GMT
One of the more amusing roundtables: Duvall was the gift that kept on giving in this. Love him.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 4, 2021 21:15:12 GMT
His 90th ....an actor I said last year is one of the very greatest Americans across all 3 mediums (Stage/TV/Film) with only a few true rivals there at all.......and in film to me he's in that crazy deep "second tier" for Americans just outside the top 10......some would rank him higher than that even.....and he's still active - he's shooting a movie now. In the original American Buffalo in the 70s with John Savage and Kenneth McMillan:
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 4, 2021 21:38:11 GMT
I didn't realize he was in the new Sandler hoops movie.... after Pacino, Nicholson, Hoffman, Walken etc he's another one of the older Greats who Sandler has cast - still no De Niro! Since last year I've seen a few more Duvalls and especially liked loved A Family Thing that Pacinoyes rec'd and is on HBO for anyone who wants to see a wonderfully interesting movie and one of Duvalls best perfs - he adds a great boyishness to the part. Idk if I'd make that Tommy Lee Jones claim as I did earlier, I'd have to reevaluate them. 90 is a milestone and cinematically anything after 80 from an actor is rare as is but after 90, that's practically uncharted territory. Hope he can give us a few more perfs.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 4, 2021 22:26:11 GMT
Happy birthday, Consigliere!!
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Post by stephen on Jan 5, 2021 16:44:26 GMT
Along with Hackman, the top man of the '70s generation. Happy birthday, Bobby boy! More and more this remains the case. Keep it up, Bob! I know you got one last big performance in ya!
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Post by Longtallsally on Jan 5, 2021 20:49:14 GMT
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Post by ibbi on Jan 6, 2021 11:23:46 GMT
Happy belated to an absolute gawd. What incredible longevity.
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Post by jakesully on Jan 10, 2021 1:18:42 GMT
His performance in The Road really hit me hard. While it wasn't a big role at all, I thought it was quite powerful and Duvall knocked it out of the park. Recently gave that film a re watch and was blown away by it.
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Post by stephen on Jan 10, 2021 2:06:48 GMT
His performance in The Road really hit me hard. While it wasn't a big role at all, I thought it was quite powerful and Duvall knocked it out of the park. Recently gave that film a re watch and was blown away by it. Genuinely one of the greatest performances of his career. The thing I love so much about his role as the Old Man is that Duvall was allowed to improvise. The stuff about his son isn't in the book, and Duvall apparently (from what I read) came up with that on the fly while filming the scene and Hillcoat left it in. Improvising in the world of Cormac McCarthy would feel almost sacrilegious, but Duvall not only had the confidence to do it, he did it in such a bare, minimalistic way -- in that one line, he packed a lifetime's worth of grief and regret. He would've made a very worthy nominee, and I wish that had been his late-career nomination instead of The Judge (even though I think he's very underrated in that film).
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 4, 2022 21:14:03 GMT
........and he theoretically has 4 movies that could all come out in 2021 too.........including The Ploughman which could be a perfect career capper for him......a little early but it's the 5th somewhere already.......
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Post by stephen on Jan 4, 2022 21:15:20 GMT
Still the king.
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Post by jimmalone on Jan 5, 2022 15:30:59 GMT
Happy Birthday Mr. Duvall!
To me he is one of the most versatile actors of all and he can really do and say so much about his character without doing much while in other roles he could be over the top, but still be amazing. The Godfather is a prime example for the first thing, Apocalypse Now one for the second variation (and he is by a wide margin my win for both roles).
He is just outside of my Top 10 actors of all time.
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Post by quetee on Jan 5, 2022 19:11:26 GMT
Happy B-Day. Okay so Adam McKay needs to cast him in "Bad Blood", there's a part for him.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jan 6, 2022 2:56:23 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 5, 2023 9:41:21 GMT
Celebrating over 60 years in the movies ........... an unforgettable debut too...........Happy Birthday Boo Radley
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Post by stephen on Jan 5, 2023 15:25:18 GMT
Still gnashing my teeth we aren't gonna get The Ploughmen -- that was a helluva role on paper.
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