In a retrospective piece for the 50th anniversary of "The French Connection," the New York Post interviewed Hackman and the movie's director, William Friedkin. In the film, Hackman plays Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, a flawed detective based on real-life New York City Police Detective Eddie Egan (via The New York Times). Roy Scheider also stars as Doyle's partner, Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, who was inspired by real-life detective Sonny Grosso. "The French Connection" finds the narcotics detectives on the tail of French heroin kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey), chronicling a real-life operation that took place 10 years earlier, the Post explained.
The publication reported that special screenings of "The French Connection" are happening to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary of its October 7, 1971, release date, but Hackman won't be participating in any of them. Apparently, seeing the film once was enough, and that was before it premiered for the general public. In addition, he still appears to downplay the massive success of "The French Connection," even though it earned five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Friedkin, and Best Actor for Hackman.
"[I] haven't seen the film since the first screening in a dark, tiny viewing room in a post-production company's facility 50 years ago," Hackman revealed to the Post. "If the film has a legacy, I am not sure what that would be. At the time, it seemed to me to be a reverent story of a cop who was simply able to solve and put a stop to a major crime family's attempt to infiltrate the New York drug scene."
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