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Robert Duvall's latest project THE CUP
Hey folks, Harry here. Here's a bit of a cool report from the set of Robert Duvall's latest movie, THE CUP which is shooting in Scotland apparently. Any serious filmlovers just love Duvall's work on account of the fact that he just about rules the screen every second that he is upon it. But... that's a whole other story to get into. But for now, let's let ol Hibby fill us on in on the project and his day on set....
HI Harry call me Hibby
Robert Duvall has caused a stir in Scotland recently with "The Cup" a tale of a small football (soccer)team called Kilnockie(Fictional
team).
The Scottish press have had a wide coverage of this film as it stars a celebrity footballer by the name of Ally Mcoist.
Ally has more or less finished his football career which he played for Glasgow Rangers(striker) and Scotland and what a
career(popular guy won loads of medals and accolades).
Well Yesterday i got a chance of tickets to be extra!!!!
well i arrived at Hampden Scotlands national ground were Cup Finals are played(The ground has been closed for about 3 or years for
redevelopement ).So its strange to see Hampden completed and the first game is for duvall 's project The Cup the match final
Kilnockie vs Glasgow Rangers.The other strange thing was the tickets as they was sponsered by Beer makers Tennents and
Telecom giants British Telecom.
23,000 thousand people turned up for entertaining day.
The game started and so did the filming process.
First notable thing was the cap wearing duvall (kilnockie team manager) shouting directions to players.
i also noticed that the Glasgow rangers team were not rangers players and tha kilnockie had 3 professional playing for them .
Spoilers..........
The first halve rangers scored 6 goals which only lasted 15 minutes this was oblivously part of the natural filming process as the
team swopped around for the second half the score board read 1-0 to rangers.
as the second half begone Ally mcoist came on as a subistute.The second half lasted 30 minutes as the plot demands that ally
moist(our hero saves the day stuff) scores the equaliser so it ended up a choreographed setup goal(third time) that was put in the
can.
so at the score at 1-1 the game go's into penalties
big spoiler
Well about 20 penatly kicks were taken.
This was a good day out as i expalined to my son who robert duvall was(i finally got through when i told him he was in Deep Impact)
This was funny for me as it mixed my favourite things football and films as my biggest hate is soccer movies ass they have all
sucked.
i got the feeling this film is Rocky for the football world.
here is some more info on the film.
Duvall, whose acting credits include films such as ``The Godfather'' and ``Apocalypse Now,'' now wants to fill Scotland's Hampden
national stadium to recreate an authentic atmosphere for filming on September 5.
Fans won't see an actual match, just a few well-rehearsed shots and tackles captured on film.
The movie tracks the fortunes of Kilnockie, a fictitious small-town team managed by Duvall that somehow makes it to the final of the
Scottish Cup.
While films about soccer have rarely scored at the box office, Duvall is hoping a star-studded line-up and genuine action by players
like McCoist, along with a slew of real footballers from small Scottish teams, can deliver.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the Scottish manager of England's highly successful side, and Glasgow-born
comedian Billy Connolly have both agreed to play cameo roles.
McCoist, an ex-Glasgow Rangers star who still plays Scottish soccer with Kilmarnock, portrays Duvall's estranged son-in-law Jackie
McQuillan, a washed-up former star for Glasgow Celtic(so funny as he used to play for rangers who absolutey hate celtic like canada
and usa!) who sings on to Kilnockie to rescue a flagging career.
Baldwin, star of ``The Hunt for Red October,'' plays a U.S. millionaire who buys the ailing Scottish club as his latest toy.
``This is one of the most exciting projects in my experience. It's a great challenge,'' Duvall, who won the 1983 best actor Oscar
award for ``Tender Mercies,'' told the Glasgow Herald.
Duvall said he has wanted to play the role for the past six years and had been working on his Scottish accent.
He has already filmed several smaller crowd scenes with up to 8,000 fans in different grounds across Scotland.
As for McCoist, Duvall said his talent on the pitch was matched by his presence on the screen.
``We hired McCoist on the blind instinct that he was right for the part, and he's going great,'' Duvall said.
Duvall has set up a telephone hotline in Britain for fans to call to get tickets for the filming (sold out in 30 minutes)
Hibby
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Its about time they made a good movie with soccer as the main sport... i mean the only other movies i know of were both stupid ass kids movies (The Big Green and Ladybugs) both about underdog teams that somehow beat the best team in the finals of the league tourny and get all the glory... woohoo... nothing interesting...
Now this sounds like it might be cool. We will beable to see pro players doing their thing with a real plot behind them! I hope this movie turns out good, cause i would really enjoy a good soccer movie with an origonal plot =) -
SPOILER: well if the spy i s correct, then why in a footballs name do You talk about the plot as original. There is thousands and thousands movies out there that feeture the excact same story. Underdog go through hell( maybe somebody miss threat them?)ends up in the Gran Finaly to compete with a much better team who by the way allways turns out to be totally obnoxious bunch of men. So to make it just a little bit believebal we let them win with a bit of luck- Then everybody is happy. Hey maybe we will let the better team shake their hands and finally understand that it is a fantastic team whom they respect!!!!!
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Yeah Fairlane
It's called a sports movie. Most of 'em are always about beating the odds (human spirit triumphing against the odds). There have been some real stinkers about soccer. remember Escape to Victory. Sly Stallone in goal! (gimmie a break!) and Michael Caine in midfield. Problem is that although soccer is the most popular sport in the world, Americans are indifferent about the beautiful game. -
Fairlane, this movie is kinda original cos in the end, the Kilnockie team lose the final 5-4 on penalties, so the underdog doesnt win this time around...
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If that is the case- i guess my point is lost. Or is it just a variety of the same story, except this time we make it "realistic"?.
By the way I do like sports-movies but isn't there another way to tell the tale than the underdog angle?. In this respect i'm looking forward to Another given Sunday. -
Because you don't have to be a genetic freak to be great at it. Normal sized athletes are soooo early 20th century.
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Are you a big fat guy who sits on your couch all day long, drinks bear and eat chips. What the hell is wrong with normal sized athletes ? Soccer is the most exiting sport on this planet.
When it comes to the great "yanksports". Hockey is ok, Baseball is for kids, football is just weird and basketball is a bloody circus ! -
I think MonkeyFish was being just a wee bit sarcastic, but then I wouldn't expect anyone who thinks baseball is for children to appreciate anything more subtle than a free kick to the mommy-daddy area from Spice Boy.
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...is hockey a 'yanksport'? I wouldn't let any Canucks hear you say that, you big Tottenham Pouf.
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Personally, I love soccer, I played the game between the ages of 5 and 17... I was pretty good too...
But the problem for the sport in America is that all American sports are driven by marketing. Lets take the NFL:
The NFL plays games on two nights a week (sometimes 3 if there is a thursdaynight game). During these games you can stop for a commercial break after almost every 5 plays, after every score, and during every timeout! not to mention halftime... THATS A LOT OF COMMERCIALS AND A LOT OF MONEY
Now if you look at soccer, the game is constant action for 90 min! with only a short break for halftime. There is no time for station breaks and commercials. So they have a little box in the corner with a score board and a small advertisment. Well, companies won't pay as much for that little box that will only show a logo, i mean people are drawn to companies who have funny frogs and lizards talking to eachother, not just the company name!
The other "problem" with the game would be that there isn't enough scoring for Americans. The public is used to games with a big score, it makes them feel like there was some real tough action going on! Football, 7 points for touchdown (w/xtra pnt), 3 pnts for fieldgoal, 2 for safty... so many ways to score! Basketball: err scores like 89-65... thats a lot of scoring! even though after you have seen a game you have probably witnessed every possible way to score in that game... nothing comes as a surprise! no room for creative goal scoring like in soccer.
So it comes down to this: Soccer is a wonderful sport, filled with such potential to dazel fans with unique ways to score, physical play (though not quite like football or rugby), and constant action. Not only that, but if you really watch the game, you can almost see each team as one entity, and you can watch each color move almost as one... but im rambling... basically i love the game, and i hope this movie will show americans that you don't need to have a high scoring, commercial filled game for it to be entertaining! Watch the game for its action, and finess... you might only see one or two goals, but hell, enjoy and apreciate the work that goes into each goal scored! -
More or less finished my ARSE!!!! C'MON THE KILLIE!!!!
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You're right in that the press here having been talking about nothing else, it's cos they've nothing else to talk about. Most of the "showbiz" writers for (especially) the local Glasgow tabloid have got ego's so big that their heads are permanently stuck up their arses. Gill Anderson was here recently but got very little attention when she was shooting her movie, mainly because they weren't allowed to rub shoulders in the same way they are on Duvall's picture. Anyway, I don't know about this Alec Baldwin story. Him and Michelle Pfeiffer were supposed to be in it but no lesser a mortal than Michael Keaton was filming his scenes as the team owner, ex FBI man Ray Nicolette, in Glasgow last week. Looks like a great movie though. Duvall was saying that he wanted real footballers that can act rather than actors who can play football. He's certainly got a few real footballers...
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Ok. I should have explained it better. By "yanksport" I mean, the biggest and most popular sports in the US. I do have the impression of hockey that it's a bunch of angry canadians with no teeth. I do believe that baseball is also the nationalsport of Cuba but I don't call it a Cuban sport.
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Robert Duvall is the supreme storyteller of his generation...
It doesn't matter whether the plot is an old one...whether a million other people have told the story before.. Robert Duvall will spin the tale in a fresh, dynamic and moving way.
Bring on THE CUP...can i get an AMEN? -
Duvall didnt choose days of thunder over godfather 3, he had no interest in doing another one and didnt see the point,also he didnt feel he was offered as much as everyone else in the film. He's one of the best actors. Anyone see "The Apostle?" He was incredible in it. He was robbed of the oscar. The guy is money in the bank.
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Since when the hell is hockey a "Yanksport" . Canada created and rules hockey.
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Um...well, if you want to get technical...baseball has been played and been popular in Japan almost as long as in the States. Also, Canadians may have made hockey what it is, but they don't rule it anymore thanks to skyrocketed salaries (did somebody say Gretsky?) and U.S. coporations/moguls buying the teams and moving them from Canada to the States. The only ones left in Canada (and correct me if I'm wrong) are the Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks.
Sorry, had to spout the newly learned knowledge. I'm dating a Canadian, so hockey is kind of like math...don't understand it, but have to know it because it's practical in some way. What were we talking about now...oh, yeah...this movie looks ok, but not my thing. -
Never a truer word has been posted.
They filmed the Semi final on Rugby Park's hallowed turf, and an earlier round was shot at Boghead.
As for great footy films, how can this thread go on without mentioning the superb 'Escape to Victory' and Stallone's skill between the sticks ?
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Canadians STILL rule hockey. 65% of players in the NHL are born in canada. It just doesnt have the population to have alot of NHL teams. And Gretzky isnt the reason slaries are so high, the guy constantly took less money than he was worth, he never held out or complained. Where's Slapshot 2?
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I stand corrected. Forgive me...I'm just an American trying to figure out all this hockey stuff. I told my boyfriend about what I wrote and he proceeded to correct me as well on the Canadian born stuff. Somebody turn on a baseball game before my head explodes!
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