Gene Hackman's Greatest Performance Was In This UNDERRATED GEM

[@thedudeabides3138]

I'm a big Gene Hackman fan, but I'd no idea that this movie existed, thank you for both a great essay and for bringing this to my attention.

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

a great movie......played on TCM....ONCE in a while.......

[@thedudeabides3138]

@@anthonydileonardo8156 tyvm for the heads up 😉!

[@williamweb9782]

I was fortunate enough to watch Eureka at the Glasgow Film Theatre with Nicolas Roeg himself. He answered questions at the end. This must have been around 1983. Roeg came over well and explained that Gene Hackman had a natural intensity as he had played Popeye Doyle twice! It is a brilliant, disjointed film to see on the big screen. It was tragic that the film was never distributed properly.

[@Imjustsaying1966]

I was there too, don’t remember you being there.

[@williamweb9782]

​@@Imjustsaying1966 We know eachother do we?

[@kevinwhelan9607]

You said it. Roeg and Hackman together. Who on the modern scene can compare with them? Kevin Costner said Hackman was the best actor he'd ever worked with. Nuff said🎉

[@Imjustsaying1966]

@@williamweb9782 nope…..you lie

[@williamweb9782]

​@@Imjustsaying1966 Do you seriously think I give a monkeys what you think about anything?

[@thegrievancegordieshow9882]

Love this film

[@curiositytax9360]

Eureka is a masterpiece. Sex and death. Ecstasy and suicide. This film is full of reflections too that echo back and forth. It’s a visual masterpiece. There’s so much retained in the images.

[@kevinpaiuk2835]

Hackmans the best

[@Imjustsaying1966]

Gene has looked 60 years old his whole life.

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

A GREAT MOVIE!

[@stephenmullan8322]

It's a masterpiece of a film. . . I do have to laugh at the AI narration mispronouncing Roeg LOL

[@lukess.s]

Huh? That's how you pronounce Roeg - like Rogue.

[@stephenmullan8322]

@@lukess.s Yes. That is how he pronounced it when I met him at a Q&A. How his producer and friend Jeremy Thomas pronounced it.

[@DrAgan_tortojed]

OK, but his roles in "The conversation" and "Mississippi burning" are unforgettable.

[@curiositytax9360]

And so is his role here. He he murdered in this film 30 minutes before the end. This kills the film for many people but you can’t deny that his presence is still felt even though he’s vanished from the film.

[@scottmandu8316]

He was great in Night Moves

[@scottmandu8316]

Row Egg 😮

[@ninfilms]

Great film from master filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and a great cast Gene Hackman and legend Rutger Hauer and also Theresa Russell whom I thought was underrated actress whom took risk in playing complex intelligent women. I feel its Roegs version of Citizen Kane but better. It is also Danny Boyles favourite film.

[@williamweb9782]

It is amazing to think you can throw in people like Mickey Rourke and Joe Pesci into the supporting cast.

[@curiositytax9360]

It’s an amazing film. One of its kind. Sex and death. Ecstasy and suicide. The whole opening 25 minutes is shot like it’s taking place inside a snow globe. The opening montage is like some kind of inverse refection of Carl Sagans Cosmos. Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man also gets a visual nod when Mcann is freezing to death under what is basically the tree of life. You could actually link this to Malick’s film Tree of Life. Fascinating the difference in outlooks and point of views from each director.

[@elnick1000]

Saw this on Video tape I believe before 1985, or very little bit later. Why I say this, I can't remember if my mother was still alive when I rented the video tape. The film just came across as being very vague.

[@walkerstark4564]

I saw this in the theater and wanted to heckle it, maybe I did. Hackman emerged virtually unscathed but I remember that Mrs. Roeg Theresa Russell and Rutger Hauer were not so lucky. Roeg can be the most pretentious, ineffectual of filmmakers though Performance which he co-directed with Donal Cammell is a classic. And I did eventually come around to the strong drink that is Bad Timing. I could give Eureka another go, it’s been decades.

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

those two girls in the back of the car that looked like they'd gone through hell-pretty much did....

[@winstonsmith8240]

I hate AI vouces. Just saying.

[@slammajamma5435]

Never heard of it.

[@Imjustsaying1966]

I would love to die from too much wealth.

[@curiositytax9360]

That’s not the point of the film. It’s about suicide. It links ecstasy with suicide the way Yeats linked sex with death.

[@TheVid54]

One thing's for sure: roe and eggs have a lot in common. Roe Egg's EUREKA is an interesting film, but far from his best, and quickly goes downhill after the first act. Hackman's performance was fine, but nowhere near as good as his work in NIGHT MOVES, I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER, BONNIE AND CLYDE or SCARECROW among others. Back to the drawing room baby.

[@curiositytax9360]

The films supposed to go downhill. That’s it’s trajectory. The first 25 minutes can never be matched. That’s the point. The film still has its great moments all the way through. I’d argue the final 10 minutes are it’s best. I’d agree with the video and say this is Gene Hackmans best ever performance. He is the character. It’s amazing. I don’t even like Night Moves. The Arthur Penn films never really did anything for me. The others you chose are just obvious and that’s actor bait. This role is something else. He is the myth of the prospector.

[@mambaregime]

Came in expecting Heist or The Quick and the Dead.

[@redadamearth]

His best acting was in the 70's and 80's, with the exception of "Unforgiven", which he was brilliant in as well. Most of the work he did as an older actor (again, with the exception of "Unforgiven" and maybe a couple of others) was paycheck work.

[@bdso9593]

@@redadamearth The Royal Tenenbaums was some of his finest work in later years as well. The scene between he and Angelica Houston on the sidewalk is some of the finest acting to be found.

[@Imjustsaying1966]

are you dumb?

[@williamweb9782]

​@@bdso9593 I loved it when his "cancer" pills turned out to be green tic tacs!

[@williamweb9782]

​@@redadamearth One of his earliest performances was in Bonnie and Clyde. It is an amazing piece of work with a relatively small part.

[@dinkmartini3236]

Ya know...when your AI narrator butchers a pronunciation it's okay to go into your script and spell things out phonetically so they get it right. Okay?