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"Movies like Mississippi Burning, where he plays one of two federal agents along William Defold, investigating the 1964 murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi. And a great, great performance in that. Now, many people in my generation of my age group first probably came to know Gene Hackman from Superman where he played the greatest criminal mastermind in the world, Lex Luthor. And he was, his brilliance in that was his ability to switch back and forth between humor and menace so brilliantly."