Tommy is your typical twenty-something soccer fan; bored with life, in love with lager, and always looking for a little action from the ladies. Of course there's the fighting, too. When Tommy exchanges blows with a rival football fan and the situation quickly spins out of control, the thuggish sports fanatic is prompted to reconsider his brutal lifestyle and make a change for the better.
R for pervasive strong language, brutal violence, drug use and some sexuality.
Danny Dyer as Tommy Johnson. Frank Harper as Billy Bright. Dudley Sutton as Bill Farrell.
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December 13, Full Review…. May 29, Rating: View All Critic Reviews 7. Phil Hubbs Super Reviewer. Lady D'arbanville Super Reviewer. Tommy is severely beaten by Fred and a group of Millwall hooligans, and ends up in the hospital with Bill, who, in the meantime, has suffered a heart attack. A recurring sub-plot concerns a racist taxi driver Jamie Foreman , whom the characters encounter at various points throughout the film. At the end of the film, Tommy decides that his place is at the firm with his friends, Bill moves to Australia and Billy Bright is incarcerated for seven years after being arrested at the Millwall meet whilst saving Harris from being arrested.
Zeberdee is killed by a drug dealer whom he had previously mugged, fulfilling a recurring bad dream that tormented Tommy throughout the film.
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The Football Factory trilogy consists of three novels by John King: Though the film shares a title with the first novel in the trilogy, the film deviates significantly from the source material. The most significant differences are changes to characters appearing in both works and the omission of plots or characters in the novel.
Tommy Johnson is arguably the main character in the novel but is absent from many chapters. In the film he is undeniably the main character and the few scenes that he does not appear in or narrate all involve characters he is close with e. Billy Bright, the second-in-command of his firm or Rod, his "best mate". Bright and Rod are also examples of characters that have the same name in both the film and novels but are substantively different.
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Additionally, the film omits some characters and plot lines entirely only those plot lines actually appearing in the first novel are discussed below. In the novels, Billy Bright is not married, has a crippled arm, is overtly racist except in the presence of "Black Paul", a Chelsea hooligan of African descent , and is an orphan.
By contrast, in the film he is married with children, has no physical deformity of his arm, is xenophobic but not explicitly racist, and is portrayed in a flashback as a young boy chasing recent immigrants out of his neighborhood with his father. The film never mentions whether Bright is adopted and it is neither mentioned nor implied that this is not his birth father. In both the novels and film Rod is portrayed as a close friend of Tommy Johnson, but rather than being "best mates" as in the film the novel portrays them as part of a close-knit group of four or five members of the firm.
This group, including Johnson, commonly berate him for his bachelor party held several years before the events of the novel, where he had sex on stage with a stripper while heavily intoxicated. This incident is never discussed in the film because Rod is portrayed as single though a subplot involves him potentially settling down. Green Street Hooligans Rise of the Footsoldier Goodbye Charlie Bright Five friends spend one lost weekend in a mix of music, love and club culture.
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Green Street Hooligans 2 Video Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Tommy Johnson Frank Harper Billy Bright Tamer Hassan Bill Farrell Jamie Foreman Albert Moss Sophie Linfield Edit Storyline The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence; it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. What else you gonna do on a Saturday?
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Edit Details Official Sites: Edit Did You Know? Trivia During the encounter between Billy Bright and Millwall Fred at the junior game, Frank Harper ad-libbed most of his lines, including the "Kebab shop" racial slur. The anger shown by Tamer Hassan is genuine and Nick Love kept it in the film. But in the next shot, when he is walking through town, he does not have it.
Kicked half to death, florists, cabbies, nightmares and visions; one of the old soldiers gone forever; Bright gone for a seven; and bollocks so ruptured that the only thing I'll be pulling for months is a chain.
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After all that you really do have to ask yourself if it was all worth it Frequently Asked Questions Q: Which football teams are depicted is this film via a firm? Does this film have any nods to other films? Was this review helpful to you?