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Originally from Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London and then Leeds, England, I now live in Toronto, Canada. Oh and now back again. Anyway, you can take the woman out of Ireland but, you know the rest. Basically the stuff on here will be the same no matter where I am. Ramblings and rantings about stuff, some from Canada.Some of them really do say 'eh' ~~~~~ "ascertaining the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed"

Monday, June 30, 2008

The World Cup of football film quizzes.

With Euro 08 finishing last night I thought I'd have football as the theme for this week's film quiz. In the true spirit of the beautiful game it will be full of cliches. Obviously clichés should be avoided like the plague. But it's football after all, and football is riddled with them. There are great wet lettuces, sick parrots and giving it 110%. I gave the idea of a quiz of two halves the red card (don't stop me now, I'm in the 6 yard box). Football's a funny old game, and at the end of the day, just when we think it's all over, I'll be gutted, obviously.



Shall we get on with the quiz? BTW, some strong language follows, you have been warned.

Updates:

1. This is the first film produced in Bhutan to be released internationally.
Based on a true story, with the tag line "Buddhism is their philosophy. Soccer is their religion."

Name the film.


2.

Name the film.












3.

Name the film.
cristin got- Bend it Like Beckham









4. [Paul's doorbell is buzzing during the last minute of Liverpool v. Arsenal]
Paul Ashworth: [out a window, not really seeing who it is] Will you please, please, please, please, please just fucking FUCK OFF? You have arrived during the worst sixty seconds of my life, and I really don't want to see you.
[the window slams shut. The visitor is revealed to be Sarah]
Paul Ashworth: [to Steve] Why ask? And what sort of berk would do that? You'd just about forgive an alien visitor from the planet Tharg, but even then, you'd have...
[Paul realizes what he's done and runs to the door]
Steve: Where're you going? You're mad. You might miss something.

Which 1997 film is this exchange from?
Aunty got - Fever Pitch

5. Name the 1981 movie about some inmates in a WW2 prison camp, who have a passion for football and which starred : Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Pelé, Bobby Moore and Osvaldo Ardiles.

6. Another old one, from 1979 a film based on the long running TV series of the same name, name the film these lines come from :
[ Fletcher finally gives in and reads Bunny's letter]
Fletcher: All right, I'll just give you the 'ighlights, all right? 'Dearest Bunny, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah...
[pause as he turns the page]
Fletcher: blah.
Bunny Warren: Blah blah blah what?
Fletcher: It's trivia, Bunny, it's just trivia, it's the weather, her mother's catarrh, she's retiled the lav, the canary's got haemorrhoids, she's met a welder at the Fiesta Club and she's thinking of movin' in with him. All right? Must rush. Can't hang about.
[exits]
Bunny Warren: But...
[pauses]
Bunny Warren: ...we 'aven't got a canary.

7.


Which 2001 Hong Kong film is this?
















8. And I suppose there has to a question about football's dark side. This 2005 film
is less about the football and more about the fighting, it starred Elijah Wood as Matt and had the following lines:

Matt Buckner: What are you guys like an organized political movement or something?
Pete Dunham: No mate, we're a firm. You never heard of a firm in the States?
Matt Buckner: No.
Pete Dunham: Every football team in Europe's got a firm. Some have two. Christ, I forgot how clueless you Yanks are. All you've seen of us the stadium lights on TV innit? Come on. See, West Ham football's medicore... but our firm is top notch and everyone knows it. GSE. Green Street Elite. Arsenal. Great football. Shit firm. The Goolies, Tottenham - shit football and a shit firm. The Yids, they're called. I actually put their main lad through a phonebox window the other day.
Matt Buckner: So basically, firms are gangs?
Pete Dunham: Kind of... but we're a far cry from all that Bloods and Crips bullshit. I mean shootin' a machine gun out of a movin' car at an 8 year old girl. That's just cowardly. See, we might be into fightin' an all that... but it's really about reputation. Humiliatin' another mob in a rumble, doin' somethin' the other firms get to hear and talk about - like a Yank in his first fight

and

Pete Dunham: Fuck it, I will take you with me. You might learn something...
Matt Buckner: About soccer?
Pete Dunham: No mate. Not about soccer, AND FOR FUCK SAKE, STOP SAYING SOCCER!
Aunty got- Green Street

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3 Comments:

At Mon Jun 30, 05:15:00 p.m., Blogger Ashwin Alexander said...

3. Bend it like Beckham
4. Mad about Mambo?

 
At Thu Jul 03, 02:53:00 p.m., Blogger Maire said...

1. Shaolin Soccer (didn't see it, but saw trailer, so I guess this is what you would call an educated guess)

4.Again didn't see it, but read the book, so I'm guessing here again but: Fever Pitch

8. Green Street - a film I have actually seen!

 
At Thu Jul 03, 08:49:00 p.m., Blogger Amanda said...

well done on one of your guesses.
sorry, 1. is not Shaolin Soccer. but that's not to say that I left that film out..(hint)

 

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