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Gene Hackman's Greatest Role?

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Gene Hackman's Greatest Role? 27 votes

Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning
22%
AtomicDawgdnccreepycougspudenYellowSnowNoWarningJustDawg 6 votes
Norman Dale - Hoosiers
25%
CFetters_Nacho_LoverYouKnowItGladstoneTequillahuskyhooligangodawgstBleachedAnusDawg 7 votes
Little Bill - Unforgiven
11%
RoadDawg55chuckGrundleStiltzkin 3 votes
Lex Luther - Superman
3%
Doog_de_Jour 1 vote
Royal Tenenbaum
0%
Popeye Doyle - The French Connection
22%
DerekJohnsonSoutherndawgalumni94dfleaBad_MotherDuckerFishpo31 6 votes
Capt. Ramsey - Crimson Tide
7%
biak1Neighbor2972 2 votes
Frank Scott - The Poseidon Adventur
0%
Buck Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde
0%
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
7%
SwayeEl_K 2 votes

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  • Doog_de_JourDoog_de_Jour Member Posts: 7,955
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    Lex Luther - Superman
    MISS TESCHMACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
  • chuckchuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 10,587
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    Little Bill - Unforgiven
    Good pole. I could have gone with several. Little Bill was just perfect though.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,796
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    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.
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 22,706
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    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.
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 22,706
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    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.
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    dnc 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.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,796
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    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
  • chuckchuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 10,587
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    Little Bill - Unforgiven

    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.
  • dfleadflea Member Posts: 7,220
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    So you guys don't pick your feet in Poughkeepsie, huh?
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 22,706
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    Christ. I typed scene as seen. I’ve been spending too much tim in the Tudg.
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    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?
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 22,706
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    chuck 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_KEl_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,085
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    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    I have always liked him in The Conversation
  • SwayeSwaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,045
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    The Quick and the Dead. Mostly because that was peak Sharon Stone.


  • BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 10,397
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    I've seen this movie so it gets my vote.

    I read "Gene" and immediately my brain assumed this was a Gene Wilder post.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,796
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    dflea said:

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

    Poughkeepsie is holy river water for Peter puffers.
  • AtomicDawgAtomicDawg Member Posts: 6,958
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    Rupert Anderson - Mississippi Burning
    Love Mississippi burning. Great character.
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