Gene Hackman's Greatest Role?

[YellowSnow]

 

[Doog_de_Jour]

MISS TESCHMACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[YellowSnow]

MISS TESCHMACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[chuck]

Good pole. I could have gone with several. Little Bill was just perfect though.

 

[YellowSnow]

Good pole. I could have gone with several. Little Bill was just perfect though.

I struggled mightily on this one. 3 way tie for me between Little Bill, @SECDAWG burning and Royal Tenenbaums. Ask me tomorrow and I probably go with Royal Tenenbaums.

 

[creepycoug]

I would say "and it's not even close," but it is close because Hackman is so great.

But that seen where he goes up the club, and he's all alone and just fucking with those rednecks and grabs the real mean one by balls sitting on the chair?

Let me put it this way: when men sit around fantasizing about a tough guy scene from the movies, I go back and forth between about 20 Josey Wales scenes and that one in Mississippi Burning.

You get this straight, shitkicker. Don't you go mistakin' me for some whole other body.[/i]

 

[creepycoug]

Good pole. I could have gone with several. Little Bill was just perfect though.

I was thinking Little Bill, but one of my criteria for ultimate tough guy is that he's the toughest guy in the movie. So, like, in Josey Wales, there's nobody tougher than Wales. The man lives by the feud after all.

In Unforgiven, William Munny is tuffer than Little Bill.

In Mississippi Burning, nobody is tuffer Rupert Anderson.

 

[dnc]

I would say "and it's not even close," but it is close because Hackman is so great.

But that seen where he goes up the club, and he's all alone and just fucking with those rednecks and grabs the real mean one by balls sitting on the chair?

Let me put it this way: when men sit around fantasizing about a tough guy scene from the movies, I go back and forth between about 20 Josey Wales scenes and that one in Mississippi Burning.

You get this straight, shitkicker. Don't you go mistakin' me for some whole other body.[/i]

Hackman was so unhinged in Mississippi Burning he made crazy ass Willem Defoe settle for playing the straight man.

 

[creepycoug]

I would say "and it's not even close," but it is close because Hackman is so great.

But that seen where he goes up the club, and he's all alone and just fucking with those rednecks and grabs the real mean one by balls sitting on the chair?

Let me put it this way: when men sit around fantasizing about a tough guy scene from the movies, I go back and forth between about 20 Josey Wales scenes and that one in Mississippi Burning.

You get this straight, shitkicker. Don't you go mistakin' me for some whole other body.[/i]

Hackman was so unhinged in Mississippi Burning he made crazy ass Willem Defoe settle for playing the straight man.

So true. I was just thinking that very thing as I typed out my poast.

 

[YellowSnow]

Good pole. I could have gone with several. Little Bill was just perfect though.

I was thinking Little Bill, but one of my criteria for ultimate tough guy is that he's the toughest guy in the movie. So, like, in Josey Wales, there's nobody tougher than Wales. The man lives by the feud after all.

In Unforgiven, William Munny is tuffer than Little Bill.

In Mississippi Burning, nobody is tuffer Rupert Anderson.

Not even R Lee Ermey

 

[chuck]

Good pole. I could have gone with several. Little Bill was just perfect though.

I was thinking Little Bill, but one of my criteria for ultimate tough guy is that he's the toughest guy in the movie. So, like, in Josey Wales, there's nobody tougher than Wales. The man lives by the feud after all.

In Unforgiven, William Munny is tuffer than Little Bill.

In Mississippi Burning, nobody is tuffer Rupert Anderson.

Great points. Munny is meant and scarier underneath the surface, but Little Bill is quite a bit more of an arrogant, wicked motherfucker, at least at that stage of their lives. He really was easy to hate.

Rupert Anderson had some unbeatable moments. Few actors can get pissed off like Hackman. The barbershop scene with the deputy and the club scene with Merle from Walking Dead were a couple of his best scenes ever. There were moments of dialogue earlier in the film, and scattered throughout, where I wasn't that sold on him. Maybe the noncommittal attempts at a Southern drawl were too distracting for me.

 

[dflea]

So you guys don't pick your feet in Poughkeepsie, huh?

 

[creepycoug]

Christ. I typed scene as seen. I’ve been spending too much tim in the Tudg.

 

[creepycoug]

Good pole. I could have gone with several. Little Bill was just perfect though.

I was thinking Little Bill, but one of my criteria for ultimate tough guy is that he's the toughest guy in the movie. So, like, in Josey Wales, there's nobody tougher than Wales. The man lives by the feud after all.

In Unforgiven, William Munny is tuffer than Little Bill.

In Mississippi Burning, nobody is tuffer Rupert Anderson.

Not even R Lee Ermey

He he! Love that sheriff. “Rest of America don’t mean sheeut. You’re in Mississippi nah.”

Is there a more classic southern redneck line?

 

[creepycoug]

Good pole. I could have gone with several. Little Bill was just perfect though.

I was thinking Little Bill, but one of my criteria for ultimate tough guy is that he's the toughest guy in the movie. So, like, in Josey Wales, there's nobody tougher than Wales. The man lives by the feud after all.

In Unforgiven, William Munny is tuffer than Little Bill.

In Mississippi Burning, nobody is tuffer Rupert Anderson.

Great points. Munny is meant and scarier underneath the surface, but Little Bill is quite a bit more of an arrogant, wicked motherfucker, at least at that stage of their lives. He really was easy to hate.

Rupert Anderson had some unbeatable moments. Few actors can get pissed off like Hackman. The barbershop scene with the deputy and the club scene with Merle from Walking Dead were a couple of his best scenes ever. There were moments of dialogue earlier in the film, and scattered throughout, where I wasn't that sold on him. Maybe the noncommittal attempts at a Southern drawl were too distracting for me.

Yeah he was almost ... almost ... like Costner trying an accent. A real guy from Miss. is going to sound more southern.

The deputy was played perfectly. Who didn’t hate that motherfucker?

 

[El_K]

I have always liked him in The Conversation

 

[Swaye]

The Quick and the Dead. Mostly because that was peak Sharon Stone.

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

I've seen this movie so it gets my vote.

I read "Gene" and immediately my brain assumed this was a Gene Wilder post.

 

[YellowSnow]

So you guys don't pick your feet in Poughkeepsie, huh?

Poughkeepsie is holy river water for Peter puffers.

 

[AtomicDawg]

Love Mississippi burning. Great character.