Soccer and movies: The Damned United
Today I have a cinematographic recommendation to offer you. A few months ago I already published that a movie had been thrown on the mythical English trainer Brian Clough. Finally I could have seen the movie, available on line in V.O.S, and the truth is that I have liked enough. The weight of the movie relapses into the real history of this technician, who herself is already completely interesting.
History well supported by a few actors with a big similar one the real personages whom they interpret, and with a photo that heightens the sensation of being viewing something on horseback between a movie and a documentary, with many planes sequence and little camera movement, the starting point is the brevísimo period that Brian Clough spent like trainer of Leeds United. 44 days in which the team placed himself for the first time in ten years in the last positions of the classification. From this period, in flashback your previous brilliant stage is covered in the Derby County, where he managed to lead to the rams from the Second Division to being straight champions of England.
The action of the movie moves us between the sixties and seventies and demonstrates how it has changed the soccer since then: players gone on from weight, from age, who drink you and smoke in the wardrobe before the parties, showing the affectionate esthetics setentera of chandals and slovenly hair, of humid wardrobes and aged doors of wood of English Second Division.
Over all, one of the most legendary trainers of the English soccer with an extreme personality. The big Clough self-confidence extracted the best thing and the worst thing of him like trainer and like person, and one emphasizes the figure of your assistant Peter Taylor, a Sancho Panza soccer that centers a self-centered and idealistic quixotic Clough. As counterpoint to the Clough idealism by an honorable and nice game (“the soccer is a beautiful game and has been to play of beautiful form”) there appears Don Revie, your predecessor in the trainer’s charge of the Leeds and by the one that feels a big scorn like trainer and like person.
It is definitely the seriocomic history of a man of beginning, who knew the biggest success and the worst abort. Probably history of cinema will not go down in history, but I believe that you will like, friendly football supporters.
To view online The Damned United (V.O.S)
