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Remembering Gene Hackman, One Of The Greatest Actors Ever

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On the February 28, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Jeremy Smith to talk about some of our favorite Gene Hackman movies.

In Our Feature Presentation: Gene Hackman, One Of The Greatest Actors Of All Time, Is Dead At 95

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Friday, February 28, 2025. On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about some of our favorite Gene Hackman movies. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at Slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slash Film staff writer Jeremy.

0:15.8

Hi, Ben. Thanks for having me. Absolutely, Jeremy. Thank you so much for joining me. We are here to talk about the

0:22.4

legendary Gene Hackman, who died earlier this week at the age of 95, along with his wife and one of

0:29.0

his dogs. And last I heard, the deaths were classified by the authorities as quote-unquote

0:34.3

suspicious and an investigation is underway and they're not ruling out carbon

0:38.7

monoxide poisoning. The whole thing is just deeply sad and very upsetting and movie fans everywhere,

0:45.0

including us at Slashfilm, have been sharing our tributes and remembrances. And I thought

0:49.5

that we'd take some time to do that here today. So, Jeremy, before we really dig in, maybe for some of our

0:56.1

younger listeners who didn't grow up with new Gene Hackman movies every few years, because

1:01.9

we retired over 20 years ago now, can you put him into context for people? Like what, I guess,

1:08.5

how would you describe his career? I think he was the,

1:14.0

the quintessential movie star of the new Hollywood era, which began in the late 1960s and stretched

1:21.7

through the 70s. This is the era that gave us Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg,

1:30.3

you know, all of these amazing filmmakers who were making movies that looked and sounded different

1:39.3

than those of their predecessors.

1:43.3

They kind of were shaking off the back lot, that studio

1:46.6

backlot look, you know, the big musicals, the big epic, you know, costume epics and everything

1:52.3

and making movies, you know, taking the cameras to the street, kind of like the Italian

1:57.3

realists did back in the 40s and 50s.

2:07.9

And they were, it was just kind of a time where Hollywood was really shaken up.

2:10.1

Movies, they were grittier.

2:11.5

They just felt more real.

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