BBCNEWS Newsday June 4, 2024 23:21:00
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 pu...