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Duvall chewing the scenery


I like Robert Duvall as much as the next guy but he has increasingly relied on this "mumbling, chuckling, hunched over, bowl legged" act. Constantly licking his lips or looking around with strange faces etc.

The height of this stuff was during Lonesome Dove but next to the relatively low key Thomas Hayden Church it really stood out.

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I agree - during Lonesome Dove, I thought he was the best cowboy actor to that point, and I included John Wayne and Clint Eastwood in that comparison. However, he does seem to rely much more on facial expressions, lip sucking and blurting statements.

He's just old for it now - but he was the best at one time.

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He thought of the film as kind of a third part of a kind of trilogy so that may be why he wanted to have some continuity between the characters.

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