( What do the West Ham Fans Sing? )
Finally got to see ’Green Street Hooligans’ this evening. J
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I almost missed though; dozed off with the laptop in my lap. Woke up about half an hour before the movie started, so I freshened up a bit and ran out the door. The traffic was horrible, so I decided to walk down, actually made it down with a little time to spare. J
Got my ticket, and went in to the theatre… I was all alone! I was the only person in the room. I found a seat, and watched the commercials. After a while a guy came in, and even though it would have been kind of cool to have the whole room to myself I was kind of happy about it. A while later another guy came in, so then we were three.
This was about the time it dawned on me that I was kind of expecting to hate the movie and/or be bored out of my mind. I don’t like football, and therefore I don’t really get the hooligan thing.
So the lights go dark and the movie begins with a fight, which looked pretty damn bad. Not in a bad way, but in a ‘ouch, that has to hurt like hell’ way. Some moments later Elijah enters the screen and I do my best to hold in my fan girl squee.
Oh, a little bit of trivia! The guy who plays Jeremy Van Holden is Terence Jay who sings ‘One Blood’ on the score.
The starting credits come on the screen, and a bunch of hooligan looking guys come in to the theatre and sit down in the rows behind me. So I’m the only girl watching the hooligan movie, heh. If they we’re betting I was only there for the eye candy they were half right. J
But now for the movie; I really liked it. I’m not going all gaga over it, but it’s definitely ending up in my DVD collection. I think what I loved the most about it was the fact that a woman made this film. She took a serious subject and brought it to a media that would make the public have a think about it.
It’s raw and that just helps it along, there’s a lot of use of the hand-held camera, which might annoy some people, but I think it really worked. It gave the film kind of a documentary feel, and made it look more ‘real’.
It’s a brutal film, and it shows some pretty disturbing human behaviour. I did however kind of ‘get’ the hooligan thing after I saw it though. It’s about being part of something, a group, knowing that they’ll watch your back. I still wouldn’t recommend anybody to join up though.
I do however recommend that you go see the film!
I’m trying to be objective, but I think Elijah Wood did a great job as the outsider who’s welcomed in to this ‘new world’. There were also some good moment between him and Charlie Hunnam in the beginning where Charlie points out some English slang words and such, was a nice scene. Anyways, Elijah fit in, I never really thought much about it, and even though head-butting people isn’t what he usually does in his movies, he didn’t seem at all awkward during the fighting scenes. In fact, the moment when he decides to hit back is great! Just the look in his eye told me the other guy was going to be sorry.
Charlie Hunnam did a good job as well, I haven’t seen him in much, but this is the first hard ass I’ve seen him play. He’s torn between loyalty to his family and the hooligan gang, though he is first and foremost a hooligan.
It was a very good film, and I really hope you get a chance to see it.
( Now for the fan girl bit of my review. )
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