Football hooligans: tell the story of the people themselves

Toni 2021-11-18 08:01:29

The British version of Young and Dangerous. If you are not a fan and have not lived in the UK, then this movie is not for you. But if both are hit, then it is impossible not to like this movie.
In fact, there are very few elements related to football, but the director portrays the lives of the British people too vividly. Well, it should not be said to be ordinary people, it should be one of the ordinary people and the scenes in their lives. I have also been in the UK for more than 6 years. I have watched too many games in the stadium and in the bar. Brick by brick in the movie, word by word in the lines, are so familiar and kind. The color and texture of the beer they drank in the bar was clearly the same as the one I had drunk in the bar before. Seeing the movie immediately reminded me of the taste at that time. The underground passage on the back of the street is obviously the one that I can smell the urinary sorrow every time I walk. Creating an atmosphere is often mentioned in the field of photography that I am familiar with. In this film, I don’t know if the director deliberately or accidentally made it. The atmosphere of the whole story is created great, especially the west ham vs millwall battle. The feeling on the eve, (if you happen to know the relationship between the two teams, then you will be able to blend in) completely immersed me in the story while watching the movie.

The storyline is a bit worse than the atmosphere, especially the ending. I didn’t want to give 5 stars because of this ending, (maybe because it has nothing to do with England and football, and it feels incompatible with the whole movie), but it’s pure and pure. Give him a perfect score for his London remix.

There are few pictures and plots about football, but all plots are developed around it. Without football, Matt is a dropout youth, pete is an ordinary PE teacher, that buddy (forgot his name) is an ordinary policeman, steve doesn't know what it is, Bovver is nothing. And when football connected them to GSE, each of them has become a youth with faith, character, story, and blood. Each is Chen Haonan.

There is another reason to like this movie because it has nothing to promote (perhaps because I didn’t feel it. Anyway, I don’t like movie plots with distinctive themes. For example, Avatar, there must be a world peace. theme). It’s not to encourage you to actively participate in violent sports, nor to persuade you to be jealous, but just stand your ground as written on the poster.



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Green Street Hooligans quotes

  • Pete Dunham: [Matt and Pete are sitting at a food vendor stall, reading a newspaper the morning after the Birmingham game/fight] Fuckin' journos. Look at this.

    [he slaps the paper]

    Pete Dunham: West Ham wins 3-nil in a blindin' performance, and our little scrap makes the headline. Bloody muckrakers.

    Matt Buckner: So, what is this?

    Pete Dunham: Bollocks journo bullshit.

    Matt Buckner: No, no, this, the GSE.

    Pete Dunham: [whispering] Shhh! Lower it, son!

    Matt Buckner: What are you guys, like, an organized political movement or something?

    Pete Dunham: No, mate. We're a firm. You never heard of a firm in the States?

    Matt Buckner: No.

    Pete Dunham: All right. Every football team in Europe's got a firm. Some have two.

    [Matt gives him a blank look]

    Pete Dunham: Christ, I forgot how clueless you Yanks are. All you've seen of us is the stadium riots on TV, innit? Come on.

    [they get up and walk away from the stall]

    Pete Dunham: See, West Ham football is mediocre. But our firm is top-notch, and everyone knows it. The GSE: Green Street Elite. Arsenal... great football, shit firm... the Gooners. Tottenham... shit football, and a shit firm... the Yids, they're called. I actually put their main lad through a phone box window the other day.

    Matt Buckner: [Matt looks down at the newspaper] What about Millwall?

    Pete Dunham: Ah, Millwall. Where to even fucking begin with Millwall. Millwall and West Ham firms hate each other, more than any other firms by far.

    Matt Buckner: Sorta like the Yankees and the Red Sox.

    Pete Dunham: More like the Israelis and the Palestinians.

    [Matt laughs]

    Pete Dunham: We haven't played Millwall in ten years. Their top boy's this geezer named Tommy Hatcher. 'Orrible ol' cunt. Back in the Major's day, Tommy's son was killed in a scrap. After that, he went completely mental. Lost the plot.

    Matt Buckner: Well, who's the Major?

    Pete Dunham: Ah, the Major. Quite a legend 'round here. He ran the GSE in the Nineties, when I was comin' up. Hardest bastard you ever saw. They say we kinda lost our way when he left. But believe me, my boys are bringin' the ol' GSE reputation right back.

  • Matt Buckner: So basically, firms are gangs?

    Pete Dunham: Kind of... but we're a far cry from all that Bloods and Crips bullshit. I mean shootin' a machine gun out of a movin' car at an 8 year old girl, that's just cowardly. See, we might be into fightin' an all that... but it's more about reputation. Humiliatin' another mob in a row, doin' somethin' the other firms get to hear and talk about - like a Yank in his first fight battering one of Birmingham's main lads.