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The Damned United is a 2009 sports drama film directed by Tom Hooper and adapted by Peter Morgan from David Peace's bestselling 2006 novel The Damned Utd – a largely fictional book based on the author's interpretation of Brian Clough's ill-fated tenure as football manager of Leeds United in 1974.
Peace has vocabulary, syntax, punctuation, and the use of italics; Hooper has deeply-saturated teals and reds, bright purples, the rule of thirds, and the golden spiral. There’s more than a little of the National Portrait Gallery’s collection in this story of a footballing icon. Cloughie Perhaps even more individual than the book is its ...
Sep 3, 2009 · The Damned United is the film adaptation of David Peace‘s bestselling novel about football manager Brian Clough and his turbulent spell in charge of Leeds United during the 1970s. It stars Michael Sheen as Clough, Timothy Spall as Peter Taylor , Colm Meaney as Don Revie and Jim Broadbent as Sam Longson.
He now turns his attentions to The Damned United, the complicated story of Brian Clough’s 44-day management of Leeds United football club in the ‘70s, and talks to us about why it was so important to portray Clough as a rounded character, and not to judge from the benefit of hindsight.
In The Damned United he used a 10mm lens, notably in the scene where Clough stays inside during the Derby–Leeds match. Hooper operated the camera in this scene himself. In The King's Speech, Hooper used "typically 14mm, 18mm, 21mm, 25mm and 27mm" lenses and put the camera close to the actors' faces. Hooper said the use of this method in the ...
The Damned United is a 2009 sports drama film directed by Tom Hooper and adapted by Peter Morgan from David Peace's bestselling 2006 novel The Damned Utd – a largely fictional book based on the author's interpretation of Brian Clough's ill-fated tenure as football manager of Leeds United in 1974.
Sep 24, 2009 · Hooper follows his acclaimed miniseries John Adams (and its predecessors Elizabeth the First and Longford) with another compelling portrait of stubborn greatness: The Damned United, Peter Morgan’s adaptation of David Peace’s novel about the controversial football coach Brian Clough (Michael Sheen) who left behind his lifelong business ...
