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(2004)Title The Football Factory
Year 2004
Director Nick Love
Genre Drama, Crime, Sport
Year 2004
Director Nick Love
Genre Drama, Crime, Sport
Plot – The movie is based on the cult novel by John King, ex-hooligan now writer. It tells the story of a turbulent Chelsea’s fan who, every Saturday, fights with violence the opposing factions. Away games, scuffles and binges are the protagonists, along with the cockney-punk soundtrack featuring Sham 69 and the Libertines. The escalation of the violence is bewildering: there’s no place for feelings or hot air, but only for fists and hatred.
All actors – Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Tamer Hassan, Roland Manookian, Neil Maskell, Dudley Sutton, Jamie Foreman, Tony Denham, Calum MacNab, John Junkin, Sophie Linfield, Kara Tointon
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“What else are you gonna do on a Saturday? Sit in your fuckin' armchair wankin' off to Pop Idols? Then try and avoid your wife's gaze as you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage?”
Problem was, he'd taken so many beatings on the terraces that he weren't scared of anyone. And the correct medical term for that is a "total fuckin' psycho".
“I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job, who lives for the weekend. Casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily cut drugs. And occasionally kicking fuck out of someone.”
“Kicked half to death, florists, cabbies, nightmares and visions. One of the old soldiers gone forever. Bright gone for a seven and bollocks so ruptured that the only thing I'll be pulling for months is a chain. After all that you really do have to ask yourself if it was all worth it? Course it fucking was!”
“- Tamara: Don't tell me you'd rather go to football.
- Rod: Well, I am male.”My granddad, old Bill Farrell, drove us to drink with his stories about the war and how he fought to put the "Great" into Britain. He said fighting at football was nothing compared to fighting with the Germans... Although, he was right. We're an island race. It's what we do best. It's not about color or race, it's just the buzz of being in the... (continue)(continue reading)
“Don't fuck about, ping him!”
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