Be a person and stick to one's position

Maynard 2021-11-18 08:01:29

There are a lot of Stone Rose songs on the soundtrack. If you like the Premier League, if you are a passionate fan, if you like British rock, if you like British accent, if you have also played group fights, then this movie can still be watched.

The film itself has nothing to do with football, but the violence is full of passion. An American traveled far and wide to come to Britain to fight in groups! What kind of spirit is this? Although passionate and related to faith, these "true beliefs, purest trust" have a simple understanding, that is, a group of people who lack love and security get together to get warm, looking for a sense of security, even if it is an improper way. never mind. I believe that people with different experiences will feel different when watching this film.

I always don’t understand football hooligans, thinking that their fights are meaningless. Later, I discovered that the belief in football has gone beyond football itself. A club is a cultural group formed by a group of people who share common ideals. People or things that are unfavorable to this group cannot be tolerated. It seems that our culture does not understand this. Football can be second-rate, but the club must be first-rate. It's as if the country can be second-rate, but the people must be first-rate. It is conceivable that such a culture will definitely not be a second-rate football.

Of course, at the end of the film, we are told: to be a person, we must stand firm, but we must stop doing things in moderation.

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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.