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up there with spielberg, scorsese, francis ford coppola, and i think his skill was really to treat what other people might have regarded as b—movies with the utmost seriousness. so something like the french connection, a cop movie, could have been a potboiler, but in his hands, it was something far more elevated than that, and he got an amazing performance out of gene hackman despite the fact that gene hackman felt that his character, popeye doyle, was morally referenceable and had to be pushed by friedkin to give —— his character, popeye doyle, was morally reprehensible and had to be pushed by friedkin to give his character its full weight. and the exorcist, he never regarded that as a horror movie, despite the spinning heads and the pea soup. he regarded it as a serious drama, a moral question. and when he felt the energy on—set was not quite as energetic as he would like, he punched one of the characters, one of his