“I said to myself, Now I can retire. I’ve done something. Let the English play Hamlet. I’ll play Augustus McCrae.” Robert Duvall, behind the scenes. 1980s.
“I said to myself, Now I can retire. I’ve done something. Let the English play Hamlet. I’ll play Augustus McCrae.” Robert Duvall, behind the scenes. 1980s.
Gus McCrae is one of my all-time favorite literary heroes. I can’t thank McMurtry enough for creating the character, and there aren’t nearly enough FU’s in the world for the way he got his ending… But Duvall was note-perfect, and he made it all go down smoother.
Arguably one of the best/truest portrayals of an American literary character onscreen. I’ll digress and tend to my biscuits.
I love the scene where Gus lassos Woodrow and drags him backwards off the Union Scout that Woodrow is beating to death in the middle of town. Gus holding his revolver by the barrel like a club and trying to calm Woodrow down.
“You ain’t never had fun in yer whole durn life. Fun is my department!”
“Any man who wants to rent a pig is hard to stop”
“Can’t be much against the law to whack a surly bartender.”
Best line, we’ll all be bear crap in a week.
Lonesome Dove was a great great great short series!!. It was perfectly cast and well written.
Robert Duvall’s portrayal of Augustus McCrae, is the finest acting performance by anyone, in anything, ever, bar none.
That’s a hill I’ll die on.
The character was a fantastic creation by McMurtry, and when I finished the book I thought “I hope they don’t make a movie out of this, they’ll only fuck it up.”
I didn’t think anyone could do a proper job of portraying either Gus or Call, but I was wrong. Duvall completely nailed it. So did Tommy Lee Jones as Call.
A helluva vision.
This was one of my dad’s favorites. I didn’t watch it myself until I was out of the house and then I finally understood why he always said “Well there y’are, Augustus”. Now I say it myself all the time xD
We just watched *Lonesome Dove* again for maybe the fourth time and Duvall is a main reason why. My husband’s been going around quoting “Better to say it right out front because a man who does like to rent pigs…**he’s hard to stop**.”
“Would you care to cut cards for a poke?”
Yes sir, you sure as fuck did. Thank you.
The best book I have ever read. It’s been 25 years so I’m going to buy a copy and do it again after seeing this.
Sorry Bob, you’ll always be Tom Hagen in my eyes. What a great actor.
“It’s better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it”. Think it’s Gus that says that to newt. Use that all the time. One of the great characters of all time
Watching Lonesome Dove on Amazon’s Prime…