FeedThe Damned United
December 12 2009, 7:00pm
What's most remarkable about this movie -- apart from Michael Sheen's tour-de-force performance as Brian Clough -- is that so many people came together to make such a well-shot, well-acted movie about one man's inability to coach a soccer team for 6 weeks in 1974.
Obviously there's a lot more to it than that -- in one sense Clough's failed attempt at managing Leeds United is really just a framing device to explore his history, his ambition, and his relationship to his assistant Peter Taylor. But would any of those even be important or significant if he hadn't talked so much trash and then flamed out so remarkably?
Either way, regardless of how you feel about the topic at hand, the movie is riveting, as is Sheen. Definitely an Oscar-worthy performance.
Obviously there's a lot more to it than that -- in one sense Clough's failed attempt at managing Leeds United is really just a framing device to explore his history, his ambition, and his relationship to his assistant Peter Taylor. But would any of those even be important or significant if he hadn't talked so much trash and then flamed out so remarkably?
Either way, regardless of how you feel about the topic at hand, the movie is riveting, as is Sheen. Definitely an Oscar-worthy performance.
