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“Green Street Hooligans” sets a family drama and coming-of-age fable in the world of football (soccer) hooliganism. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) was a promising journalism student before he was expelled from Harvard University over his roommate’s cocaine stash. Suddenly aimless, Matt wanders to London to visit his sister Shannon (Claire Forlani) and her British husband Steve (Marc Warren) . When Matt tags along to a soccer game with Steve’s brother Pete (Charlie Hunnam), he finds that there is a lot more to soccer culture than the game on the field. Pete is a member of a football firm or gang called the Green Street Elite (GSE) . Firms are organizations of fanatic fans who battle other firms for reputation and dominance -by beating the crap out of each other. Matt is attracted to the high energy, anxiety, and physicality of the GSE and embraces the lifestyle. But eventually word gets around that he might be a journalist – and hooligans disapprove coppers and journalists.
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I couldn’t say how accurately “Green Street Hooligans” represents the dynamics of football firms or the relationships of their members. But the film does provide a window into a subculture that is favorite in the UK and South America, where soccer reigns supreme, but which Americans may never have heard of. Contrary to the American cocept of gangsters, soccer hooligans are neither Mafioso nor errant youth. They are grown, middle-class men who function perfectly well in normal jobs. But outside of work and domestic obligations, they are completely lawless. They happily adopt a brutality that could leave them dreary or maimed in the blink of an peek. “Green Street Hooligans” requires some suspension of disbelief to catch more mundane behavior. Would Steve really send his naïve Yank brother-in-law to a soccer game with his estranged hooligan brother? No. That kind of illogic is accepted in this film. But the culture of hooliganism, the allure of their violence, is at the same time monotonous and arresting.
The DVD (Warner 2006) : “The Making of Hooligans” (6 min) is not about making the movie. It is a series of interviews with actors Elijah Wood, Claire Forlani, Charlie Hunnam, director Lexi Alexander and producer Deborah Del Prete which discuss the characters and the phenomenon of football firms. There is a music video for the song “One Blood” by Terence Jay, which sounds uncannily like the Dire Straits’ song “Brother in Arms”. Terence Jay also acts in the movie. He plays Matt’s elite WASP Harvard roommate, the cokehead. Subtitles for the film are available in English, French, and Spanish.
Of everything written about this minute film starring Elijah Wood and Charlie Hunnam, the most intelligent is to gawk the lukewarm reactions from the UK side, which found the film is too violent, and dismissed it as implausible. And it must be admitted that they are complaining with some great reasons.
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For the film is really violent, and Elijah Wood may be the least plausible choice for making a film about the hooligans, almost fanatic supporters of football team in England. Elijah Wood plays Matt, a Harvard college undergraduate student wrongly expelled because of his irresponsible roommate. Matt flies to the home of his married sister (Clair Forlani), and there meets his brother-in-law Pete (Charlie Hannam), devoted leader of the Green Street Elite, bunch of the hooligans supporting West Ham United.
The set-up piece is contrived, but you should wait a while. Soon the film’s tale leads us to its gist, about how Matt (estranged from his father now in Kabul) finds his unique existence in this underworld of the `Firm’ and its hooliganism. The film does not fail to present the complexity of the characters. The members of the `Firm’ have jobs to do when there is not a game (hold me nor not, one of them is an airplane pilot by profession), and not exactly unpleasant guys at all, but when it comes to football games and the rivalry between the Firms, they turn fierce and unstoppable street fighters who have their hold rules to follow. You cannot say the script is an in-depth eye of hooligans, but aloof well-behaved enough to develop us care its characters.
Besides its violent scenes, the criticism we hear against `Green Street Hooligans’ is about its cast, Elijah Wood in particular. Yes, the star of blockbuster hit `Lord of the Rings.’ Throughout `GSH’ Elijah Wood never looks like a hooligan. For all Matt’s repeated bloody fights, he quiet looks a visitor or outsider in the Green Street Elite, but that is the point of the film because he is there to provide the viewpoint from an outsider. And some UK reviewers complained about the accent of Charlie Hunnam. I don’t know because I do not have considerable linguistic knowledge, but to me his acting as charismatic Pete looked very edifying (though Leo Gregory as discontented GSE member is more impressive, as you will spy) .
More serious dilemma with `Green Street Hooligans’ is its wonderful and too convenient coincidences in the epic, which makes the whole film too melodramatic. Matt happens to have done two (or more) things, which results in a titanic plight. The far-fetched set looks totally out of state among the gritty descriptions of hooliganism, and Claire Forlani’s character always remains a typical lady-in-distress image, which is another cliché in the filmmaking. German-born director Lexi Alexander sticks to the realistic arrive to the street fight sequences (with blood and dirty words), but she somehow is boom with the autopilot direction when showing several episodes that are not directly related to hooligans.
But I was intrigued with the main memoir about the friendship between males, or kind of combat camaraderie depicted in `Green Street Hooligans.’ I know this is not the only film about hooliganism – for example, `The Football Factory’ and `The Firm’ (starring Gary Oldman, not Tom Soar) – but `Green Street Hooligans’ is worth a see even though you don’t know football for its strong and compelling main record.
Thyromine
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