Tracy Letts
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He was trying to position himself as not only just following orders, but he's trying to say, I was following the law.
What I was doing was just following the laws of my country.
And Arliss Howard, who has lost a relative in the Holocaust –
He's not even supposed to talk to him, but he's winds up engaging him in this discussion.
And the movie sort of plays with the line.
Is, is, does, is he just a, a, a civil servant or in fact, was he a virulent racist anti-Semite?
It's a compelling watch, and Duvall's great.
Where did you watch this?
It just doesn't even feel like an Altman movie.
I did hear on the special features here when I watched it, Altman saying that he had been trying to get Duvall back since they had made MASH.
But Duvall was just always booked.
He wanted him to be in Nashville, but Duvall was just always booked.