>tharpo wrote:
>I purchased "Lucky You"... and found out that there was indeed
>a Huck Seed ,WSOP winner.
Ah, a poker question. (World Series of Poker, in case anyone
other than us actually reads this stuff.)
>Now we all know that Hollywood takes liberties with the truth
>but I'd like to know where,in this case at lease, the two part company...
>The movie is set at the 2003 World series of Poker, however, this of
>course overlooks his 1996 WSOP bracelet. My main two contentions
>was his father also a poker pro whoom he had a conflicted relation****p
>with and did Huck ever romance a lounge singer as ****trayed min the
>Movie?
The film was co-written and directed by Curtis Hanson. Actor Eric
Bana, who played Huck, said in an interview, "Hanson is brilliant at
having a consistency in his films that kind of creeps up on you. The
characters are interesting, but there?s something about them that
grabs hold of you. The themes are usually very much about people
trying to find connections with each other."
And Hanson said, "I had always wanted to tell a story - a relation****p
story - set against the world of poker because the skills that every
poker player tries to develop, namely the ability to hide your
emotions, to bluff, to lie, to be aggressive, to play without sympathy
and without regard for whether your opponent can afford to lose or
not, would be hateful away from the table. The skills that we all try
to develop to have successful human relation****ps are almost the
opposite."
In other words, he made it all up.
CJ
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