The Apostle Robert Duvall

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Robert Duvall movie, “The Apostle” is about a preacher named Sonny, or later on in the movie E.F, bringing a small town a voice of god and building a church while trying to lay low from the cops. Sonny grew up in a town in Louisiana, and moved to Texas where he became one of the most known preachers. He had a wife and two kids, and everything was looking good until one night he discovered that his wife was cheating on him. Later on she tells him that she wants out of the marriage then right after, the church told him not to preach at the church no more. Sonny is outrage with all the events that happen and tries to take his family by force in his kids little league game, but somebody tries to break it up and Sonny hits him with the baseball bat killing him. Sonny runs away back to Louisiana. He starts a new life and brings a church to the town. He found another woman, while she was still married, and back to being a preacher. He notice …show more content…

He is a typical old guy. Balding a little bit while wearing a button up shirt tucked in his khaki pants, but when he is in church doing service then he is wearing a fancy suit, either white or gray. Sonny became charismatic because he grew in Louisiana, and the church he went to was filled with energy, excitement, and shouting. He took that charisma to Texas and became one of the best preachers because he is able to draw in a crowd. When he went back to Louisiana and somebody was trying to knock down his church, but he used his charisma in a charming way to convince the person not to. Sonny is a lovable guy and treats everybody with the same respect, but that does not mean he will not fight back. He even uses his charisma whenever he fights, and he even killed a person in the beginning of the movie. Throughout the movie he was able to become more sympathetic and able to control his charisma a little

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