Film Review - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a harrowing look into the future of professional football. In a bid to make more and more money, an unnamed satellite TV station devises a league where the competing teams consist of - for want of a better word - 'freaks'. Knowing that this would be leapt upon by critics, the channel rebrand their product as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
So we have Darryl Hannah playing a man who looks like a woman. She's the centre forward for Circus FC. Marlon Dingle, from Emmerdale, appears under a ton of prosthetics as a man who looks like a biscuit. He's a goalie. We get John McCririck as The Mammoth Man - perhaps a nod to The Elephant Man, John Merrick.
Much of the film focuses on the media furore surrounding the league, with many questions posed about the crass voyeuristic nature of the venture. It all finally comes to a head when Tractor Man is revealed as being merely a tractor and not a man in any way.
So we have Darryl Hannah playing a man who looks like a woman. She's the centre forward for Circus FC. Marlon Dingle, from Emmerdale, appears under a ton of prosthetics as a man who looks like a biscuit. He's a goalie. We get John McCririck as The Mammoth Man - perhaps a nod to The Elephant Man, John Merrick.
Much of the film focuses on the media furore surrounding the league, with many questions posed about the crass voyeuristic nature of the venture. It all finally comes to a head when Tractor Man is revealed as being merely a tractor and not a man in any way.
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