Just got back from seeing this, thought it was a top film. Sheen was excellent, really captured Clough's mannerisms superbly. Didn't really show much of the Albion, just a bit of Brighton seafront and Clough and Taylor meeting Mike Bamber in a restaurant.
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In the film it comes across that Brian Clough was only at the Albion for a few weeks as him and Taylor are holidaying in the sun and then he is offered the Leeds job, so they basically skip a year out of his career.
Don't like the fact that he calls Brighton a "small club" either
Don't like the fact that he calls Brighton a "small club" either
the brighton bit not filmed in brighton and implied that clough was never here just went on hol to majorca then left for leeds.then left leeds reunited with taylor and forest success followed.think the itv documentary was more accurate as family involved in the programme, but shame they showed 8-2 bristol rvrs yet again!
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We are a small club.
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Have to agree, it pissed me off as inaccurate, as if he left Derby, agreed to join Albion, then went back on it and went to Leeds.
They even mentioned paying back the money. He did actually manage us for 32 games and Taylor stayed until 1976. The film hinted that he left Leeds and him and Taylor made up and went on their way. The film wasn't about Albion so even if they had only said that he didn't like it down in Brighton and at least made out that the guy had actually done some work down here rather than doing one before a game had been played, that would have satisfied me, and not detracted from the film.
If only Revie had not got the England Job, we could have done a Forest as I think he would have stayed.
They even mentioned paying back the money. He did actually manage us for 32 games and Taylor stayed until 1976. The film hinted that he left Leeds and him and Taylor made up and went on their way. The film wasn't about Albion so even if they had only said that he didn't like it down in Brighton and at least made out that the guy had actually done some work down here rather than doing one before a game had been played, that would have satisfied me, and not detracted from the film.
If only Revie had not got the England Job, we could have done a Forest as I think he would have stayed.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Important to remember that this film is based on a NOVEL - it never set out to be a factually correct biopic of the time. I'm looking forward to seeing it.
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In the context of 1973, we were a small club.
Until then, we only spent five seasons higher than the Third Division (albeit only two in the Fourth Division), and never finished higher than mid-table.
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Duke of Yorks has got it on all next week.
1. It's a better cinema that serves good beer that you can drink in the theatre
2. I hate the Odeon and the one at the Marina
3. It's no far from my house
4. Someone told me your Gold Membership Card at the Albion gets you some kind of discount. I'm going to investigate that to see if it's true.
Clough always talked about Albion being a small club, but in terms of crowd size, we really weren't that much smaller than Derby or Forest in those days. It's just that we didn't ever have any success - bumbling along in div 3 south / div 3 and div 4 for years and years (until the 70s).
Although for the past 15 years, we've been smaller than at any other time in our history I suspect.
The novel is completely different apparantly. My mate read it a year ago and tells me it is really very dark whereas the film is quite light hearted.
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Oooh, ta for the heads up.
Even without the discount, I might still go there to watch it. Can you drink beer in ANY of the seats during the film, or is it just the posh ones on the balcony ?
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Didn't Cloughies family threaten legal action over the novel ? I know they've all refused to go and see the film. Something about Clough being portrayed as being a pisshead back then, when in fact his drink problem didn't kick in till his latter years at Forest.
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It's true, although the gap isn't that great bearing in mind that the novel is an account of Clough's thoughts during some difficult times, whereas the film is an excellent depiction of a very funny extrovert: people were laughing a lot in the cinema when I went; the book is much angrier. If anything the film plays down just how menacing and dour that whole Leeds/Revie axis must have seemed at the time - which is what interests Peace.
As for fellow Brighton fans feeling precious about how we're depicted - purlease, it's not a film or story about us; we're a little sidebar to the main tale and rightly get depicted as such.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
*excited*
I went and saw The Dark Knight there last year (freebie VIP tickets for the sofas upstairs) and that was QUALLA - only thing was I was driving, so I couldn't take advantage of the beerage that night. I'll fill me boots next week though.
HUZZAH !
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Take the train. It's five minutes from London Road Station...
An NSC Cinemafest is in order, methinks.
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Went to see this last night at the Odeon, with a certain other nscr. It was a good film. Really gave an insight into football at the time. Especially Cloughs rivalry with Don Revie. I wasnt particularly happy with the way in which we were portriad though, although I suppse it was accurate at the time. The scene where he met Mike Bamber in the seafront cafe an demanded a holliday was funny.
I read somewhere that the brighton scenes wernt actually filmed here, It was done in Scarbrough apparently.
I read somewhere that the brighton scenes wernt actually filmed here, It was done in Scarbrough apparently.
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Seemingly so, because apparently Scarborough now looks reminiscent of Brighton 35 years ago.
Well you may not like it but it sounds pretty accurate. In 1973 we WERE a small club (although bigger than we are now) and he DID, relatively speaking, only stay a few weeks. We are only a footnote in the Clough story, and the only real reason to mention us at all is because the Clough/Taylor partnership split up for a while when Taylor stayed with us. If it wasn't for that, i.e. if they'd both gone to Leeds, then the whole episode could be dismissed in a few words: "They even managed Brighton for a few games!"
I'm looking forward to seeing it. I shall be going to the Duke of Yorks as well. Is it on this Friday?