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You’re going to take that football and you’re going to run to the other side. And if the other guys try to stop you, you don’t let them. That’s the famous speech from the Gene Hackman movie, right? Look, we never said we knew all of Gene’s filmography or watched it. We are aware a lot of people put Hoosiers on the top of that list. We figure it must be related to football because we don’t really watch sports movies.
With that, we do have a Hackman movie we’d not seen before with The Package(1989). Gene plays a Sergeant who is helping guard nuclear disarmament talks between the US and the USSR. A general gets killed and Gene gets put on punishment detail to fly Tommy Lee Jones back to the US. Which turns out to be part of a larger plot to keep the cold war going. Naturally Gene has to hunt down Tommy before he assassinates someone.
Tim then has I Never Sang for My Father(1970). One of Gene’s earlier roles that got him an Oscar nomination. It’s based on a play about a son that is planning on leaving New York. As the favored son, his parents don’t want him to leave. His mother dies and his dad is overbearing and emotionally distant. You can very much tell it’s a play via the dialogue and staging.
Weltall then has The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil[2019]. Because he didn’t have time to find another Hackman movie. This is a Korean film where a gangster and a detective end up hunting a serial killer. It has Ma Dong-seok as the gangster who you probably remember as the big guy from Train to Busan. It’s a race to see whether the law-abiding or the criminal underground can stop the murderer. Also, they end up killing someone with the serial killer’s weapon and need to kill him before anyone else catches him.
