On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:51:19 -0800, tharp14@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>On Nov 3, 1:10 pm, arb <magic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >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
>But not the name!
Bana's character is named Huck Cheever, and is NOT
meant to be real-life player Huck Seed.
>BTW could you tell me who was at the final table at the 2003 WSOP?
1st Chris Moneymaker - $2,500,000
2nd Sam Farha - $1,300,000
3rd Dan Harrington - $650,000
4th Jason Lester - $440,000
5th Tomer Benvenisti - $320,000
6th Amir Vahedi - $250,000
7th Young Pak - $200,000
8th David Grey - $160,000
9th David Singer - $120,000
>PS, Jennifer Harmon,a world class poker player appears in the movie
>but they gave her another name, a Nom De Holdem as it were. There was
> an interesting peice osf schtick in which ,Huck,afterJennifer loses
> taps on the table and she taps back,the poker signal for check.
"While watching Doyle at the 'Big Game,' we also watched the other
players, and one of them who we noticed immediately, because she was
the only woman, was Jennifer Harman," explains Hanson. "Jennifer
actually plays a fictional character in the movie, and the actress
Jean Smart plays a character in the movie who is inspired by the real
Jennifer Harman."
CJ
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