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bazooka
02 Aug 2002, 01:07 PM
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1574286
pething101
02 Aug 2002, 02:30 PM
This is a movie I would like to see. Look forward to its release.
csc7
02 Aug 2002, 03:19 PM
sounds great, i'd definitely watch. just scared this will give ty keough more opportunity to discuss his father playing on the "1950 team that beat England." my god--let it go, we all know!
Yankee_Blue
02 Aug 2002, 03:30 PM
Originally posted by csc7
sounds great, i'd definitely watch. just scared this will give ty keough more opportunity to discuss his father playing on the "1950 team that beat England." my god--let it go, we all know!
If it were my dad, I'd mention it every chance I got...
jmeissen0
02 Aug 2002, 05:45 PM
movie sounds like they got the right guys doing it
this sounds cool, i hope it happens and does well at the big screens... i'd come out to see it and wear my colors
actually that would be kind of cool... getting the american soccer scene going out to see this wearing red, supporter scarves and draped in flags
Preston North End
02 Aug 2002, 07:12 PM
Crusader Entertainment, the production company making the movie, is owned by none other than AEG.
Maczebus
02 Aug 2002, 08:20 PM
Originally posted by Yankee_Blue
If it were my dad, I'd mention it every chance I got...
And you'd be just as irritating.
pething101
02 Aug 2002, 08:29 PM
Originally posted by Preston North End
Crusader Entertainment, the production company making the movie, is owned by none other than AEG.
Uncle Phil is da man.
TeamUSA
03 Aug 2002, 12:56 AM
Yeah uncle Phil is possibly going to loose his arse if he can't convince everyone that the bookeeping at Qwest Communications is on the level.
But yes it does look as if they have the right people making the movie. I liked both Hoosiers and Rudy. Just sucks about the timing of it all. If it were to be released next year it would capitalize on this past World Cup performance and keep people tuned in to football.
flanoverseas
03 Aug 2002, 12:41 PM
Originally posted by maczebus
And you'd be just as irritating. no he wouldn't
SoccerMavn
03 Aug 2002, 02:22 PM
Christ...the 1950 team was NOT "chiefly made up of working class immigrants." It was a mostly native-born team...Gaetjens, Maca, and another guy I forget were the only "foreigners."
Working class? Certainly.
If they have Walt Bahr or Harry Keough's characters talking with accents I will burn down the theatre.
superdave
03 Aug 2002, 10:57 PM
Originally posted by maczebus
And you'd be just as irritating.
Hey, English...
WooOOOoooOOOooo...I am the Ghost of Joe Gaetjans.
SoccerMavn
04 Aug 2002, 12:49 PM
Originally posted by superdave
Hey, English...
WooOOOoooOOOooo...I am the Ghost of Joe Gaetjans.
LOL ;)
I should point out that that would be funnier if it wasn't for the fact that Gaetjens was murdered by Papa Doc Duvalier's boys in Haiti, though. And this was after a long imprisonment for no reason; you know, typical banana republic stuff.
Yankee_Blue
05 Aug 2002, 09:02 AM
Originally posted by maczebus
And you'd be just as irritating.
Though not as irritating as the English who speak ad nauseum about 1966.
ratfacejt
05 Aug 2002, 07:40 PM
btw the book "Game of their Lives" is a must read -- short but among my favorites.
Maczebus
08 Aug 2002, 09:17 PM
Originally posted by Yankee_Blue
Though not as irritating as the English who speak ad nauseum about 1966.
Of which I am one?
Grow a thicker skin guys.
And anyway, No I'd say Ty is definitely more irritating than those people.
SeismicShift
11 Aug 2002, 12:46 PM
Originally posted by SoccerMavn
Christ...the 1950 team was NOT "chiefly made up of working class immigrants." It was a mostly native-born team...Gaetjens, Maca, and another guy I forget were the only "foreigners."
Working class? Certainly.
If they have Walt Bahr or Harry Keough's characters talking with accents I will burn down the theatre.
You should apply to be the film's continuity expert/historical consultant, etc.,...seriously.
it would suck if they were all portrayed as foreigners. i think we had more "foreigners" on the 2002 team than the 50 team, iirc?
usa1950
11 Aug 2002, 01:31 PM
Suddenly my username is trendy...
The Game of Their Lives is a great read, by Geoffrey Douglas.
And the lads were definitely from the immigrant neighborhoods (at least the 5 players from St. Louis were), but also definitely Americans. Names like Gaetjens, Borghi, and Keough, are not quite Jones, are they?
Only a few players were born outside the US, I think. Captain Ed McIlhenny (sp?) was a Scot, and played one season for Manchester United after the 1950 Cup. IIRC, he did not play much.
And Gaetjens was kidnapped by the Hatian secret police and never heard from again. It's safe to say they did not set him up with a nice villa on the beach, more like a hole in the ground.
SeismicShift
11 Aug 2002, 01:42 PM
Originally posted by usa1950
Only a few players were born outside the US, I think. Captain Ed McIlhenny (sp?) was a Scot, and played one season for Manchester United after the 1950 Cup. IIRC, he did not play much.
a role for vinnie jones if there ever was one...if McIhenny was captain, why didn't he play? maybe he diddled Wynalda's wife...
Maczebus
11 Aug 2002, 03:40 PM
Originally posted by SeismicShift
You should apply to be the film's continuity expert/historical consultant, etc.,...seriously.
it would suck if they were all portrayed as foreigners. i think we had more "foreigners" on the 2002 team than the 50 team, iirc?
What??
The Americans getting a taste of their own 'history adapting' medicine?
Quite funny really.