Gene Hackman

[Murphy]

What a trooper, filling your own petrol/gas up in your 90’s but ... what a filmography too

Where does Dissensus rate his work? Personally, The Conversation because he’s quiet, nerdy, introspective and tense while the sound editing is next level, Version posted the theme credits to Night Moves, Eureka partially because of the opportunity to work with Roeg and maybe The Unforgiven too

Widely varied 70’s roles, 80’s he’s moving up the studio food chain playing real patriarchal malevolence rather than just ‘bad’. Btw I loathe shit like the Royal Tenembaums or however you spell it, can’t have Gene riding kiddy karts ffs

 

[version]

A great comic actor.

 

[Murphy]

The Duck of Death, pap but righteous pap

 

[version]

Him, his wife and his dog have all just been found dead in their home. RIP.

 

[version]

 

[Murphy]

French Connection weekender

 

[version]

Criterion are doing a Night Moves Blu-ray soon, although I've already got another edition.

https://www.criterion.com/films/29466-night-moves

 

[luka]

Suicde pact or ritual slaying?

 

[version]

Suicode pact or ritual slaying?

Perhaps a gas leak?

 

[version]

Reading Easy Riders, Raging Bulls atm and there's a bit where Biskind mentions people like Hackman being cast in Bonnie and Clyde as a point at which people who looked like 'real people' started to make their way into Hollywood.

 

[version]

Just reading the New York Post obituary and found out he co-wrote some adventure novels. This one's got decent reviews, but the rest are apparently shit.

Wake of the Perdido Star

Forced by tragedy to join the crew of the Perdido Star,…

www.goodreads.com

 

[Corpsey]

Nicholson next?

A lot of the big boys are going to be going soon.

 

[version]

Nicholson next?

A lot of the big boys are going to be going soon.

He was recently out in public for the first time in a while.

 

[Corpsey]

Oh wow really I thought he was shuffling around his mansion, his mind disintegrating

 

[Corpsey]

Typical internet experience of feeling sentimental about him and sad and then somebody popping up to point out that he'd severely beaten a sex worker once and was a staunch defender of pedo polanski

 

[version]

Oh wow really I thought he was shuffling around his mansion, his mind disintegrating

Yeah, I'd heard that then he suddenly popped up again. He was at a Lakers game a year or two ago and looked pretty rough.

 

[Corpsey]

That's pretty much what I look like these days

 

[version]

Typical internet experience of feeling sentimental about him and sad and then somebody popping up to point out that he'd severely beaten a sex worker once and was a staunch defender of pedo polanski

He allegedly beat that sex worker so badly she was left with permanent brain damage. He was also accused of rupturing another woman's breast implant. There's loads of fucked stories about him. The Polanski thing happened in one of his houses.

 

[version]

That's pretty much what I look like these days

 

[luka]

hes one of those people that seem like theyve made an accomodation with their id that gives them superhuman vitality by banishing any resistence and neurosis. i guess the downside of that is you keep doing acts of unspeakable evil.