I love Gene Hackman, but the truest to the nature of Lex Luthor is Rosenbaum. Luthor is one of the greatest comic villains of all time, because he's not simply evil and power hungry...he is insanely jealous of Superman and wants to be mankind's savior himself. Rosenbaum only got to play the younger version, but you could already tell what his aspirations were even in his twenties.
Hackman just wanted Superman out of the way because his kooky real estate schemes.
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