Gene Hackman

[luka]

admittedly the above is not a portait of superhuman vitality but he was born in 1904

 

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When he was like 40 he found out his sister was actually his mum.

 

[luka]

he had a thing with one of the twin peaks babes. think it was donna.

 

[luka]

When he was like 40 he found out his sister was actually his mum.

that would do my head in specially cos my sister is 3 years younger

 

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he had a thing with one of the twin peaks babes. think it was donna.

Yeah, Lara Flynn Boyle.

 

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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.

 

[IdleRich]

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

Damn, seens we are entirely in agreement re Hackman... the ones that soring to mind for me are Night Moves, The Unforgiven and maybe to a lesser extent The Conversation.

There was another film where he and maybe another guy were kinda drifters. I can't remember much about it beyond a certain 70s bleakness.

Hackman seems to be one of the few surviving remnants of that time when not all actors had to be good locoking but they could all act. A few years later that switched round.

The Royal Tenembauns is a terrible crime against cinema. Why oh why did so many people pretend it was good and pervert the course of cinema for the next few years.

 

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There was another film where he and maybe another guy were kinda drifters. I can't remember much about it beyond a certain 70s bleakness.

Scarecrow. It's him and Pacino. @louxqq's always telling me to watch it.

Scarecrow (1973)

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

letterboxd.com

 

[Corpsey]

When he was like 40 he found out his sister was actually his mum.

Pretty sure this happened to ted Bundy

 

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[jenks]

Pretty sure this happened to ted Bundy

Eric Clapton too

 

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That's pretty much what I look like these days

 

[Corpsey]

Wes Anderson on the difficulty of working with Gene Hackman

Despite Gene Hackman's incredible performance in 'The Royal Tenenbaums', he actually clashed with director Wes Anderson.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

It has been reported that Hackman frequently insulted the young director on set, going as far as allegedly calling him a c*nt, leading Bill Murray to come to set on his days off to supervise and ‘shield’ Anderson from the actor. Hackman’s co-star Houston even claimed that she heard him tell Anderson to “pull up your pants and act like a man”.

 

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[Corpsey]

I instinctively feel I love gene hackman but when I try to think about what films I've seen with him in it's not a long list

The best film he was in was the masterful "the firm (1979, Coppola)'

 

[Corpsey]

Damn that lawyers cool

 

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I instinctively feel I love gene hackman but when I try to think about what films I've seen with him in it's not a long list

French Connection, Night Moves, Bonnie & Clyde, The Conversation, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Young Frankenstein. He did loads of good ones. I still need to see Scarecrow, The Birdcage, Eureka, Unforgiven and Cisco Pike too.

 

[Corpsey]

Savage beatings of women aside, is it fair to say that all the really cool movie guys are old and moribund now?

Maybe that shows that our notion of masculine 'cool' equates to shagging and beating women by the truckload.

Is Timothy Chalamet our Al Pacino?

 

[Corpsey]

French Connection, Night Moves, Bonnie & Clyde, The Conversation, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Young Frankenstein. He did loads of good ones. I still need to see Scarecrow, The Birdcage, Eureka, Unforgiven and Cisco Pike too.

You missed out The Firm (1979)