The best cowboy ever as Gus, in Lonesome Dove. And a damned fine Marine as Bull Durham!
TRUE GRIT - shootout
https://youtu.be/J8EbkzlOa5A?t=17
[Rooster confronts the four outlaws across the field]
Ned Pepper : What’s your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?
Rooster Cogburn : I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker’s convenience. Which’ll it be?
Ned Pepper : I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
Rooster Cogburn : Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!
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I have a writ here says you’re to stop eatin’ Chin Lee’s cornmeal forthwith! It’s a rat writ, writ’ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same!
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[Mattie comes to get Rooster and finds him talking with LaBoeuf]
Mattie Ross : This man wants to take Chaney back to Texas. That’s not what I want.
Rooster Cogburn : He wants him caught and punished - so do you.
Mattie Ross : I want Tom Chaney to hang for killing my father. It’s little to me how many dogs and senators he killed in Texas.
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Rooster Cogburn : Well, now, what do you drink?
Mattie Ross : I’m partial to cold buttermilk.
Rooster Cogburn : Well, we ain’t got none of that. We ain’t got no lemonade neither!
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Mattie Ross : Trust you to buy another tall horse.
Rooster Cogburn : Yeah. He’s not as game as Beau, but Stonehill says he can jump a four rail fence.
Mattie Ross : You are too old and fat to be jumping horses.
Rooster Cogburn : Well, come see a fat old man some time!
[jumps the fence and rides away]
Robert Duvall Is hard to remember in most of his roles. His acting is so good he blends into the story and becomes the character.
I was thinking of his film The Apostle a few days ago. Amazing movie. No studio would touch the project so Duvall financed, directed and starred in it himself.
OPEN RANGE
With Kevin Costner and Annette Bending!
A great western!
I see people bringing up their favorite Robert Duvall movie. The challenge should be when has he made a bad movie? I havenât found a bad one.
Fifty years since The Godfather? Oy!
He should've won an Oscar for both those films... But given his conservative views, he was lucky to get any award from that bunch of dysfunctional losers.
One of my favorite actors of all time, along with Anthony Hopkins and Jack Lemmon. They talk like regular ppl, not like theyâre reading lines from a script. Totally believable.
He seems like a good guy, for a Hollywood actor.
I suspect he is one of those “in-the-closet” conservatives, to have lasted this long.
A toast to your fine career, sir.
And of course Tom Hagen...classic role from two classic films (I have no use for III).
for may reason = for many reasons
What an actor and fine gentleman. Met him once in West Texas when he was getting some character information for one of his movies on the border.
Have enjoyed his movies over the years and hollywierd cannot make movies anymore because the characters cannot come to life like Duval.
One of the most exciting and fun days I ever spent was as an extra in the filming of a Robert Duvall movie, âGet Lowâ. He played Felix Breazeale, true story about a Tennessee recluse who planned and carried out his own funeral while he was still alive so he could enjoy it. Also starring Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek.
C’mon FReepers. 22 posts and no “Smell the Napalm” reference?
I’m going back to bed.
Second Hand Lions was awesome.
Probably the best American actor of the last half century. I only qualify him as American to prevent the usual squabbles over Daniel Day Lewis vs. Anthony Hopkins vs. Gary Oldman. That said, IMHO he’d still rank with or above those three as well. Dominates the screen in every scene.
Too bad they could work it out to have him play Tom Hagen in Godfather III.
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didnĂ¢ĂÂĂÂt find one of Ă¢ĂÂĂÂem, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like victory.”