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Robert Duvall?s cinematic take on faith

By Alliance Alert

NPR: "Duvall pioneered this more understated approach to faith in his 1983 film Tender Mercies. His performance earned him an Oscar and the enthusiasm of Christian moviegoers. ... That realistic ? and complex ? approach to faith appears most vividly in a character of Duvall's creation ? a Pentecostal preacher named Sonny Dewey in The Apostle. Duvall wrote the script, directed the film and starred in it. In scene after scene, Duvall captured Sonny's passion and intimacy with God ? not mocking it, but letting it tremble or explode, as when Sonny confronts God after he learns his wife is having an affair. ... Duvall tried to sell the script to Hollywood for 13 years, but found no takers. So he put up $5 million of his own money and made the movie he wanted. Duvall says the big studios would have insisted on their stereotype of a Christian white male: a judgmental hypocrite."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).