Gene Hackman's Greatest Role?

YellowSnow

Doog_de_Jour

Lex Luther - Superman

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

YellowSnow

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

Doog_de_Jour said:

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

chuck

Little Bill - Unforgiven

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

YellowSnow

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

chuck said:

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

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

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.

creepycoug

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

chuck said:

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

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

creepycoug said:

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.

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

creepycoug

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

dnc said:

creepycoug said:

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.

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

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

creepycoug said:

chuck said:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03bFB0vmFA

chuck

Little Bill - Unforgiven

creepycoug said:

chuck said:

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

Popeye Doyle - The French Connection

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

creepycoug

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

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

creepycoug

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

YellowSnow said:

creepycoug said:

chuck said:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03bFB0vmFA

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

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

chuck said:

creepycoug said:

chuck said:

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

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

I have always liked him in The Conversation

Swaye

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

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

BleachedAnusDawg

Norman Dale - Hoosiers

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

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

dflea said:

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

Poughkeepsie is holy river water for Peter puffers.

AtomicDawg

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning

Love Mississippi burning. Great character.