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What is not always remembered is what a good movie it is apart from the chase scene. It featured a great early Gene Hackman performance that won an Academy Award, and it also won Oscars for best picture, direction, screenplay and editing. The movie is all surface, movement, violence and suspense.
- Zach Laws
- The French Connection (1971) Choosing the best film out of a career as long and rich as Hackman's can be a fool's errand, but if you had to pick one performance the actor will always be remembered for, it's that of Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection."
- The Conversation (1974) Released right before the Watergate scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign from office, Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation" brilliantly captures the paranoia and unease coursing through the 1970s American psyche.
- Unforgiven (1992) Hackman won his second Oscar for Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western, which implicates both heroes and villains in the violence of the Old West.
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) "Bonnie and Clyde" not only launched Hackman's career, but also completely rewrote the rules for Hollywood filmmaking. Influenced by the more mature, experimental storytelling coming out of European cinema (particularly the French New Wave), it recounts the legendary story of Depression-era bank robbers Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway).
1 day ago · The most moving quotes from Mississippi Burning capture the intense emotions and turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s US civil rights movement. Directed by Alan Parker and featuring a big-name cast including Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, and R. Lee Ermey, this 1988 crime thriller is based on the real-life ...
- Harper Brooks
Oct 5, 2021 · No easy ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ stereotypes. Gene Hackman’s ‘Popeye’ Doyle is portrayed as a rough around the edges, obsessed and mean-spirited cop, while Fernando Rey’s drug smuggler is a charming European sophisticate.
- Bill Mesce
Aug 18, 2024 · The best Gene Hackman movies include The Conversation, Unforgiven, and The French Connection.
- Liam Gaughan
Sep 26, 2024 · The French Connection is a 1971 film about a pair of New York City cops in the Narcotics Bureau who stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. Directed by William Friedkin. Written by Ernest Tidyman, based on the non-fiction book by Robin Moore.
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