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Shawn
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PostPosted: 12/8/2007, 8:56 pm    Post subject: Lonesome Dove Reply to topic Reply with quote

Channell 17 is playing this again, Gawd it's a great piece of work!
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PostPosted: 12/9/2007, 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

It's truly awesome. One of my all-time favorites. I have it on videocassette. I haven't watched it in a long while, because I can never stand to see Gus die all over again. No question in my mind it's Duvall's greatest role. Casting was perfect, screenplay great, photography wonderful, etc. etc. And being a mini-series, rather than a regular movie, it has time to do things a regular movie doesn't have time for. A person can get really immersed in it, for sure.

Have you read the book? If you haven't: McMurtry's original ending is a bit darker and less optimistic than the movie's. Typical of McMurtry. But it's a really good book. Plus, there is a whole series with the same characters, I think about 5 books. I've read them all--some I liked better than others. Can't remember specifics any more, though, other than some are set before Lonesome Dove and some afterwards, but I believe he actually wrote Lonesome Dove first.
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PostPosted: 12/9/2007, 6:15 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Duvall said once that Lonesome Dove was his favorite role. Pretty amazing since he's been in so many great movies like The Godfather, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bullit, True Grit...

Truly great movie/mini-series...
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