Robert Duvall film

Robert Duvall's 4th wife is a beautiful woman who is exactly 41 years his junior. He lived with her for years before making this film together. They met when she was in her late 20's and the story is that she asked him out without knowing who he was. Although she grew up in a small Argentine city, he was the one who taught her to Tango.

I am somewhat conflicted about his movie with her where he plays a Brooklyn hit man that goes to Argentina to kill a general and falls in love. The movie is beautiful and the dance scenes are wonderful, and the movie was clearly made to give his wife a starring role, and to feature his love of the Tango. The actors are good, but the story seemed a little weak.

You do have to admire the man. Over 75 movies since to Kill a Mockingbird, and he still looks great. He is over 80 now and Luciana Pedraza is not quite 40.

Assasination Tango trailer



Has anyone seen it?

Never saw it.
Didn't know he liked to dance, particularly the Tango.

Often movies are indeed made as showcases for a particular star. If the producer has enough funds he doesn't need a good script. The trick is to get a good script and then feature your favorite actress in it.

I hope the movie makes cable tv soon.

I actually have a dvd of this movie. Saw it for sale at a movie rental store where they put extra items. I'd rate it as pretty average. I really like Duvall so naturally I picked it up.

didn't know the story about the two of them.

My guess is the movie has run its course as far as being promoted.

Moe Greene must be spinning in his grave........

This is an old story. Big Hollywood guy talks a producer into starring his younger gf if he shows up and acts as well. To use a Vegas theme, remember "The Gauntlet?"

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Moe Greene must be spinning in his grave........

This is an old story. Big Hollywood guy talks a producer into starring his younger gf if he shows up and acts as well. To use a Vegas theme, remember "The Gauntlet?"

Reminds me of another movie. About a gangster telling a press agent to make his new girlfriend a star. Thanks for the memories.
Speaking of looking good, Little Richard is 79

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RylzPrS3WpE&NR=1

David Duchovny made a small art house film about growing up in New York called "House of D" that was only released in a maximum 300 theaters for two weeks. Box office revenue was much less than $1 million. But it's a decent film. The cast is pretty impressive, starring his then wife, Tea Leoni, Robin Williams, Frank Langella, and Anton Yelchin ( an excellent young actor who springboarded from this film to Star Trek).

But unlike the gangster who was just interested in his girlfriend, Duvall loves Argentina and the Tango. Can you think of an English language film that showcase the city (besides Evita)?

For Spanish language films there is Motorcycle Diaries about Che Guevera's consciousness raising trip as a young man. The lead actor is Mexican who learned to speak Argentine Spanish for the role. But the motorcycle trip starts in Argentina, then goes through Chile and on to several other countries.

There is also Carlos Saura's Tango.

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For Spanish language films there is Motorcycle Diaries about Che Guevera's consciousness raising trip as a young man. The lead actor is Mexican who learned to speak Argentine Spanish for the role. But the motorcycle trip starts in Argentina, then goes through Chile and on to several other countries.

There is also Carlos Saura's Tango.

The Motorcycle diaries is a truly fantastic film not just for the story, but the way it was filmed.

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Can you think of an English language film that showcase the city (besides Evita)?

Starship Troopers :P

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Starship Troopers :P

Yes, it is true that Buenos Aires is destroyed in both the 1959 book and the 1997 movie. But there is nothing but flames in the movie.

Argentina enjoyed the world's fourth highest per capita GDP in 1929, on par with America at the time. Buenos Aires may have been the richest city in the world (on a per capita purchasing power parity basis), and it was certainly a magnet. Over a roughly two decade period the population went from 1 million to 2 million, and it considered itself to be a deep southern European capital. Massive immigration on the same scale as the USA from Spain, Italy and France meant that the country and the language were very different than the other Spanish speaking countries in the hemisphere.

I was in a bar in Guadalajara Mexico and a bunch of cubans were laughing at the stiff dancing of an Argentine. They are the Spanish speaking white people of Latin America.

Eva Peron went to Buenos Aires in 1934 at the age of 15 at the height of the cities wealth and power when they were building the obelisk in the center of the city. She met Juan Peron in 1944 and oversaw the collapse of the economy.

Today Buenos Aires is known for their per capita concentration of cosmetic surgeons and psychiatrists. They are a little like Austrians in that they are surrounded by the remnants of a glorious past that is unlikely to come again.

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Yes, it is true that Buenos Aires is destroyed in both the 1959 book and the 1997 movie. But there is nothing but flames in the movie.

In the movie Johnny Rico's from BA. In the book Heinlein never says, but he inicates Johnny's Filipino.

The Bonarenses get struck by an asteroid in both book and movie.