![]() ![]() ![]() Zahn delivers an uncanny reading of what the young Gus must have been like as he introduce the mannerisms and tight-lipped dry humour which Duvall brought, Urban is less successful in creating the younger Jones, largely because Jones' character gave nothing away in the original. It starred Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover and others who brought star power and charisma to a narrative which encompassed frontier life, cattle drives, Native Americans being ground out of their land, restless and rootless men in the wake of the Civil War and much more.Ĭomanche Moon, is the last in the Lonesome Dove series but is actually the prequel which establishes the central characters of Gus (Duvall in series, here played by Steve Zahn more recently seen in Treme) and Woodrow Call (Jones, here Karl Urban). He also wrote the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain and his Pulitzer-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a slow-moving but quietly engrossing television mini-series. Although his star as one of the great historical novelists of lives played out on the American frontiers (the West, that world between the lawless old and increasingly modernity) has been eclipsed by the darker works of Cormac McCarthy ( The Road, No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses), the great Larry McMurtry has written some remarkable novels - and is an essayist well worth reading.Īmong other novels he wrote The Last Picture Show and its sequel Texasville, and Terms of Endearment. ![]()
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