On Nov 7, 5:29 pm, arb <magic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:51:19 -0800, thar...@[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- Hide quoted text -
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And,one more thing of no small im****t,should be added:
The Poker pros,had a nondelusional opinion of their acting abilities
so ,with the exception of a couple of lines by Chico Barnes, Jason
Lester,and to a much,much lesser extent,Sammy Farha,were the only ones
who actually emoted. The great Barry Greenstein,for example,was in
several scenes,but as a mute particpent.
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