Having grown up in a military family, I always found much of interest in that movie.
At the time, it was hard and the moving around ALL the time is tough (even if it does have its upside even then) but I wouldn’t trade it in for any other life.
And I am a huge Robert Duvall fan. Love his acting, hands down my favorite actor. The last movie I saw him in was an interesting one “The Apostle”. Funny, I can’t say for some reason if the movie was good or bad (because I am so biased) but I thought about it for a while after I saw it, so there was something to it for me.
[[[And I am a huge Robert Duvall fan. Love his acting, hands down my favorite actor. The last movie I saw him in was an interesting one “The Apostle”. Funny, I can’t say for some reason if the movie was good or bad (because I am so biased) but I thought about it for a while after I saw it, so there was something to it for me.]]]
“I laughed, I cried, It became a part of me”
Selma Diamond
Robert Duvall is the greatest American actor of the late twentieth century - better then DeNiro or Pacino.
By the way, he is the son of a career military man. His father made admiral in the USN.
I am also a military “brat”. Went to 11 different schools in 13 years. The main downside is not having any life-long friends.
My dad was in the U.S. Navy. We moved from Pensacola to Oak Harbor, WA, at the north end of Whidbey Island, between my Junior and Senior year of high school. Even though I only went to one year of school there, my widowed mom still lives there, I have always considered it to be my hometown.
Whidbey Island is beautiful. Deception Pass State Park is one of the most beautiful and visited state parks in the country.
Tender Mercies, Something to Talk About, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather 1& 2 and a beautiful film he wrote and directed, Get Low, are among my favorites, and also another one whose name escapes me that he also wrote, in which he plays a white southern bigot who discovers that he is part black, and James Earl Jones is his brother.
He adores this country and has long depicted the nuances of racial and ethnic relationships with unparalleled character development.