Robert Duvall

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q171736: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Judge, which Judging The Judge credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962); M*A*S*H (1970); The Godfather (1972); Killer Elite (1975); Network (1976); Apocalypse Now (1979); Tender Mercies (1983); The Natural (1984); Days of Thunder (1990); The Apostle (1997); A Civil Action (1998); The Gingerbread Man (1998); Open Range (2003); Lucky You (2007); Get Low (2009); Jack Reacher (2012); The Judge (2014); Wild Horses (Duvall/Franco).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Top Gun (1986): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Days of Thunder (1990), which they acted in: Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read). Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars.
    “it's essentially just Top Gun with cars”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (retread) · through Days of Thunder (1990), which they acted in: Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read). Days of Thunder is tapping the same vein as Top Gun in its afterburner.
    “we're still like in the vapor trail, the afterburner of Top Gun here”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:00:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Babe Ruth: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Babe Ruth ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The Whammer is a stand-in for Babe Ruth; real names and fictional creations blend.
    “I like the whammer as a cover.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:32:24 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)

Bama Rowell: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Bama Rowell ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The scoreboard-clock home run was inspired by Bama Rowell breaking a clock at Ebbets Field in 1946.
    “inspired by Bammer Roell of the Boston Braves doing it to Ebbitt's Field.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:06:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Bernard Malamud: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Bernard Malamud ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The film is adapted from his 1952 novel, but its ending is very different.
    “Written in 1952 by Bernard Malamud.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:13:28 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Eddie Waitkus: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Eddie Waitkus ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The novel borrowed from the 1949 shooting of Eddie Waitkus of the Phillies.
    “Borrowed from this bizarre shooting of Eddie Waitkiss in 1949 in the Phillies”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:13:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Man of Steel (2013): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Judge (2014), which they acted in: Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read). The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film.
    “an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Mario Puzo: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Godfather (1972), which they acted in: Mario Puzo ⇒ The Godfather (the host's read). Coppola cut huge sections of Puzo's novel, as Gray cut Grann's book.
    “even there, Francis took out huge sections of the book and made very interesting decisions.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:23:12 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)

Roy Campanella: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Roy Campanella ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). Roy's line about a lot of little boy in you was actually a Campanella quote.
    “It was actually a quote by Ray Campanella.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:07:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Ruth Ann Steinhagen: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Ruth Ann Steinhagen ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). A real person, Ruth Ann Steinhagen, inspired Harriet.
    “a real person, Ruth Ann Steinhagen inspired Harriet”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Shoeless Joe Jackson: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Shoeless Joe Jackson ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The book's ending, with a boy saying it ain't true, Roy, is a clear Shoeless Joe Jackson rip-off.
    “which is a clear shoeless Joe Jackson, rip off thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:14:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Ted Williams: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Ted Williams ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). Hobbs was loosely modeled after Ted Williams.
    “Hobbs was loosely modeled after Ted Williams, lefty number nine”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:11:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Odyssey (Homer): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: The Odyssey (Homer) ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The movie maps onto Homer: Roy is Odysseus, Harriet and Memo play siren/Calypso figures, Iris is Penelope.
    “So basically it's Roy Hobbs is Odysseus.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Tombstone (1993): 2 lines

  1. craft (craft) · through The Godfather (1972), which they acted in: The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the maker said so: Russell, in his True West magazine interview). Russell's intended tone was a Western Godfather; Jarre's version was more elegant.
    “Well, Russell says it, it was basically the godfather of Westerns.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through The Godfather (1972), which they acted in: The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read). The Oriental faro takeover shows the Godfather-like business side Russell wanted.
    “You could see the godfather thing that Russell's talking about when he moves into Tombstone and immediately takes over the Faro game at the Oriental.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:33:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Bret Hart: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: The Natural ⇒ Bret Hart (the host's read). Bret Hart took his catchphrase from this movie.
    “Took his catchphrase from this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:11:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Crazy Heart (2009): 1 line

  1. lineage (remake feel) · through Tender Mercies (1983), which they acted in: Tender Mercies ⇒ Crazy Heart (the host's read). Crazy Heart is Bridges doing Tender Mercies, only worse.
    “Oh, Crazy Hearts also kind of just him doing tender mercies, though.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:48:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Dead Presidents (1995): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they acted in: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots.
    “The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Kurt Russell: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), which they acted in: To Kill a Mockingbird ⇒ Kurt Russell (the host's read). Kurt Russell's character is written to evoke Atticus Finch.
    “you're a character who's supposed to be evocative of Atticus Finch, of Gregory Peck, into Kill a Mockingbird.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:47:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they acted in: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting.
    “He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Apocalypse Now (1979), which they acted in: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read). Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary.
    “By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parody target) · through Days of Thunder (1990), which they acted in: Days of Thunder ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The film is not a direct parody but spoofs movies like Days of Thunder; Reilly was in both.
    “I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:05:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (22) everyone in acting

Other (4) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career-comparison): Robert Duvall → Robert De Niro. Duvall phoning it in beats De Niro sleepwalking or Pacino just yelling.
    “De Niro, when he's phoning it in, really is sleepwalking. Chino, when he's phoning it in, is just yelling.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:18:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career-comparison): Robert Duvall → Jack Reacher. If he deserves a nomination for The Judge he deserves one for every film of the last 20 years, since he is no better than in Jack Reacher.
    “he is no better or worse in the judge than he is in Jack Reacher.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:19:23 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (awards-rival): Robert Duvall → Birdman. Duvall's Supporting Actor nomination sat beside stronger work from Norton in Birdman, Hawke in Boyhood, Ruffalo in Foxcatcher and Simmons in Whiplash.
    “he's nominated with Edward Norton for Birdman. one of his finest performances in a movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:16:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (great-performance): Robert Duvall → Open Range. Cited as better recent Duvall work than The Judge.
    “You know what he's fantastic in his open range?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:17:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (actor-director): Robert Duvall → The Apostle. Duvall directed The Apostle, a terrific film he is superb in that nobody talks about now.
    “He directed that film. That's a terrific film.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:17:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (great-performance): Robert Duvall → The Godfather. Duvall's restrained Tom Hagen is held up as proof Oscars do not simply nominate him for everything.
    “Oh, Tom Hagen is one of my favorite characters ever.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:18:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (performance comparison): George C. Scott → Robert Duvall. Scott is likened to Duvall in Network for walking a line of overacting with a foot in reality.
    “He's kind of the Deval of this movie where he's like, he's towing a really fine line of like overacting, but with like a foot in reality”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:33:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Misery → Robert Duvall. Duvall at about the age of Sheldon, around when he turned down Godfather 3.
    “It was right around when he turned down Godfather 3”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:36:29 · Brian Koppelman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Robert Duvall → Seven. Duvall and Hackman both reportedly turned down Somerset.
    “Duval and Gene Hackman both turned down the part of Somerset, apparently, allegedly.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Robert Duvall: Duvall is such a classic Duvall that the hosts would rather see a movie of him as a Judge Judy-style town judge, even a reality show.
    “I would go show up to watch him, dude. I would watch the reality show.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:55:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)