Image Credit: Sam EmersonThe trailer for Get Low, which stars Robert Duvall as a recluse who comes out of 40 years of seclusion to ask a funeral home owner (Bill Murray) to plan him a living funeral, gets even more interesting when you find out it’s loosely based on a true story. I didn’t know about the real Felix “Bush” Breazeale until I read the Sony Picture Classics production notes:
“Born into a prominent Southern family, he was nevertheless renown for his wild and offbeat ways. For years, Felix famously dwelled completely alone, refusing all company save for his beloved mule, in the deep, deep woods. Then, suddenly, Felix decided that, before he died, he’d like to know in advance what people were going to say about him after he was gone. Thus was born his wild idea for a ‘living funeral,’ which would soon command national attention. To draw a crowd to this highly irregular memorial, Felix sold lottery tickets offering his valuable plot of land as the prize; and the ploy worked. In the end, it was said that as many as 12,000 ‘mourners’ from at least 14 different states showed up on June 26, 1938 — including a Life Magazine photographer and major newspaper reporters — to pay their respects to Felix…as he watched it all transpire.” For the film, writers Chris Provenzano (Mad Men) and C. Gaby Mitchell (Blood Diamond) imagined Felix’s motivation, the secret he had to share, as well as Murray’s character and a widow (Sissy Spacek) whose “undisclosed past with Felix leads to shocking revelations of an unsolved murder.”
It looks like a fun time for Duvall and Murray (a mustache!), but honestly, I’m most look forward to seeing Gerald McRaney, who plays the local reverend. He’s one of those actors you may not think about, but when you see him, you’re like, I love him! Am I right?
Sissy is supposed to be brilliant in this. Wish they had featured her more
in the trailer. But I am looking forward to the movie.
Whenever Robert Duvall’s in a good film (even the five minutes he was in Crazy Heart) I feel the need to stand up an cheer.
I can’t watch the trailer til I get home from work, when is this coming out? Sounds good!
This reminds me of the game show parody Duvall did for SNL. Was it Who’s more grizzled? Something like that.
From what I’m hearing, there’s Oscar buzz for Bill Murray’s performance in Get Low. The movie is getting great reviews from the film festivals where it has already been shown.
Okay I was just able to see the trailer…I’m really looking forward to this. Everyone looks good! I love Murray and Duvall and Spacek too? How can you go wrong?
I know it is a little thing, but I am so sick of people using “renown” incorrectly. It does not follow the same conventions as know and known. The sentence should read “renowned for his wild and offbeat ways.”
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This ticks me off almost as much as someone saying that aren’t “bias” against something when they mean they aren’t “biased” against something.
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Ugh. Grammarian rant over.
Can’t wait to see McRaney!!
Just love Robert Duvall. He is truly a great movie star and is in worthwhile rolls.
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