Is Nick Love Capable Of Making A Film Not Aimed At Chavs
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Posted on: September 20, 2009 - 2:57pm
There are a multitude of talented British film directors who could produce a wealth of intelligent films if only they could get the financing.
But rather then financing intelligent scripts, great performers & intelligent directors, the British film industry finances Nick Love to make endless films about football hooliganism usually starring the ultimate Chav Danny Dryer.
Yep Nick Love has a new film out which is a remake of Alan Clark's The Firm. But when Clark made such films as Scum, Made In England & The Firm it was as means of illustrating the realities of Thatcher's Britain as means of criticism, Nick Love makes films such as The Football Factory which sensationalize & revel in the Chavy lad culture of hooliganism.
Okay not all Love's films have been about football hooliganism but due to the success of the Football Factory in 2004 it helped give rise to the success of other films which glamorised hooliganism such as Green Street & Cass.
As for Love's other two major releases which don't revolve around hooliganism (The Business, Outlaw) they do revel as all his films do in geezers, gangsters & violence oh & star the ultimate Chav Danny Dryer. I'd not be expecting Love to be making any intelligent thrillers or sweeping epics anytime soon.
I'm not saying films shouldn't be made about football hooliganism shouldn't be made; ID is in fact a pretty decent film about football hooliganism especially as its rumoured to be based on true accounts of police who went undercover in the 1980s as hooligans. But I'm just challenging out loud why it is that somebody such as Nick Love who has no breath or depth to the materiel he pumps out gets funding whilst many who have far greater talent aren't.
Ah yes the reason that Love gets funding despite being a chav with little talent is that his films make money. Yeah well ain't that somewhat of a tragic indictment that of all the wealth of subjects which films could be made about, people want to watch films about football hooliganism.
There are a multitude of talented British film directors who could produce a wealth of intelligent films if only they could get the financing.
But rather then financing intelligent scripts, great performers & intelligent directors, the British film industry finances Nick Love to make endless films about football hooliganism usually starring the ultimate Chav Danny Dryer.
Yep Nick Love has a new film out which is a remake of Alan Clark's The Firm. But when Clark made such films as Scum, Made In England & The Firm it was as means of illustrating the realities of Thatcher's Britain as means of criticism, Nick Love makes films such as The Football Factory which sensationalize & revel in the Chavy lad culture of hooliganism.
Okay not all Love's films have been about football hooliganism but due to the success of the Football Factory in 2004 it helped give rise to the success of other films which glamorised hooliganism such as Green Street & Cass.
As for Love's other two major releases which don't revolve around hooliganism (The Business, Outlaw) they do revel as all his films do in geezers, gangsters & violence oh & star the ultimate Chav Danny Dryer. I'd not be expecting Love to be making any intelligent thrillers or sweeping epics anytime soon.
I'm not saying films shouldn't be made about football hooliganism shouldn't be made; ID is in fact a pretty decent film about football hooliganism especially as its rumoured to be based on true accounts of police who went undercover in the 1980s as hooligans. But I'm just challenging out loud why it is that somebody such as Nick Love who has no breath or depth to the materiel he pumps out gets funding whilst many who have far greater talent aren't.
Ah yes the reason that Love gets funding despite being a chav with little talent is that his films make money. Yeah well ain't that somewhat of a tragic indictment that of all the wealth of subjects which films could be made about, people want to watch films about football hooliganism.