gph 12:42 Mon Jun 20
Actors and football
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Are they all shit at it?
Any drama where a game is played, and for some reason they don't use actual footage of a proper game, it is completely obvious that they aren't real footballers.
It's not even good amateur standard.
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Takashi Miike
1:06 Mon Jun 20
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one of the few series that got it right (though I haven't watched it for a while) was the manageress. granted, it was made long before blair, the lunatic left and all this cancerous woke shit and may well have been social engineering, but I loved cherie lunghi so enjoyed every minute
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Alfs
1:30 Mon Jun 20
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I know a few actors who are very good at football, but the difference between being very good and top level is massive.
It's also a notoriously difficult game to 'fake' on screen, as it's so fluid.
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chevy chase
7:06 Mon Jun 20
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That keeper in Escape to Victory
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Coffee
8:14 Mon Jun 20
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Plenty of footballers who are great actors.
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BRANDED
8:27 Mon Jun 20
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Bender like Beckham
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Side of Ham
9:23 Mon Jun 20
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Someone watched Porridge last night……
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cholo
9:53 Mon Jun 20
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The 80s children's programme Murphy's Mob used actual footage of matches at the Baseball Ground, Derby on the rare occasions they actually seen by to matches.
Of course anyone old enough will remember Alf Garnett sneaking into the Boleyn.
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cholo
9:54 Mon Jun 20
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* went to*
Not *seen by*
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cholo
10:03 Mon Jun 20
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I remember vaguely a film or TV programme being filmed at the Boleyn in the 90s, can anyone jog my memory?
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mallard
12:45 Mon Jun 20
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Vinny Jones in Mean Machine
Not sure what was worse, his acting or football skills!
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legrandefromage
12:51 Mon Jun 20
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Final Score was filmed at Upton Park - but in 2016
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ludo21
1:00 Mon Jun 20
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Not seen it for a long time but there was a good film with the late, great Dennis Waterman in it and based on a true story about West Auckland FC winning the first 'World Cup' in the early 1900s.
Probably 30-40 years old now and WA were supposed to be a team of 'cloggers' in any case but that seemed quite authentic. WA were invited to join the international competition when they were mistaken for Woolwich Arsenal.
Can't actually remember the title of the film but worth catching if you can.
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
1:03 Mon Jun 20
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ludo21 1:00
The World Cup - A Captains Tale.
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Mad Dog
1:05 Mon Jun 20
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Side of ham. I did and that was my first thought when I saw this thread.
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Burnhammeronsea
1:21 Mon Jun 20
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Apologies to everyone for mentioning Escape to Victory again but to portray the lead character Michael Caine as a West Ham player showed that we were massive then. No other London team mentioned. Not a lot of people know that.
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El Scorchio
1:23 Mon Jun 20
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It also doesn't help that most of the time they are in an empty stadium so they have to use weird camera angles and shots which are alien to us as viewers, and that really detracts from the reality.
And as for shit like Ted Lasso, they do stupid unrealistic things anyway which insult the viewers intelligence like that 'NFL' formation which laughably led to a goal in the show when clearly in reality they'd have conceded one, or the idea of someone scoring from a free kick from the halfway line or whatever.
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Far Cough
1:25 Mon Jun 20
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Michael Caine, born in Rotherhithe brought up in Southwark, should have been 'Wall
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Sven Roeder
1:34 Mon Jun 20
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Expecting an actor to perform like a professional footballer is a bit like expecting Harry Kane to get up on stage as Hamlet
In most cases they are better off using real film of games from a distance.
Stephen Graham was very good as Billy Bremner in The Damned United and although he was 36 so not too far from the right age he didnt look like a professional footballer. Even allowing for the body shapes of SOME 70's footballers
I guess most films dont have the time for actors to follow De Niros example in Raging Bull.
Believe he trained for a year with Jake LaMotta and won some actual fights. Read once that he was possibly in the top 20 middleweights in the USA by the end of it.
Then he went to Italy and ate himself from 145lbs to 215 for the later scenes.
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zico
1:52 Mon Jun 20
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Sean Connery wasn't too bad - The 007 actor was once offered a trial with semi-professional football club East Fife in Scotland. When he was 23 he was also offered a £25 a week contract by the then Manchester United manager Matt Busby, which he turned down to pursue his acting career.
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stewey
2:02 Mon Jun 20
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Dee Hepburn, Gregory’s girl .
She had it all.
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