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World Cup coaches that look like they belong in a poliziotteschi movie

post #1 of 16
6/24/10 at 10:04am
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Portuguese trainer Carlos Queirós used to be a good cop, but lapsing into a drug habit means he's now in the mob's pocket.



In this french-italian co-production, Raymond Domenech plays the grizzled police comissioner who tries to control a young hotshot loose cannon (played by Luc Merenda.)



I DON'T CARE! GET MY FUCKING MONEY, YOU RAT!
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post #2 of 16
6/24/10 at 10:14am
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Of course, at this age these guys are all pretty much limited to playing kingpins and comissioners, but if you look at their younger days:



"We couldn't get Franco Nero, this guy will have to do".



^^^^pistol-whipped by Tomas Millian in the second scene of the movie.



"My favourite part of the movie?" quips Lippi in this March 1973 edition of Ragazza magazine "probably the love scene with Barbara Bouchet!"
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post #3 of 16
6/24/10 at 10:44am
No Maradona? Cmon.
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post #4 of 16
6/24/10 at 10:59am
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I wanted this thread to be a collaborative effort, thus I only chose three to get us started
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post #5 of 16
6/24/10 at 11:51am
Well I could contribute with the right spelling, which is "polizieschi"
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post #6 of 16
6/24/10 at 12:15pm
Forgive my ignorance, but what is a poliziotteschi movie? Is it an Italian cop movie?
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post #7 of 16
6/24/10 at 12:34pm
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Originally Posted by danko View Post
Well I could contribute with the right spelling, which is "polizieschi"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliziotteschi
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post #8 of 16
6/24/10 at 1:26pm
Thanks for the link Phil.
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post #9 of 16
6/24/10 at 3:22pm
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Originally Posted by Devildoubt View Post
Thanks for the link Phil.
Oh, that link is for Johnny Spelling Bee up there. This link is what you want:

http://dxb-lon-dmewww.chud.com/forum...d.php?t=119821
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post #10 of 16
6/24/10 at 3:52pm
I can assure you that no one in Italy uses that word, not even as a mockery, and it's not on the dictionary (I did check out of curiosity).

Maybe "poliziottesco" was created, as a term, outside our borders
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post #11 of 16
6/24/10 at 4:02pm
Current Uruguayan coach...

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post #12 of 16
6/25/10 at 8:03am
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I can assure you that no one in Italy uses that word, not even as a mockery, and it's not on the dictionary (I did check out of curiosity).
Well, what that wiki page tells you is that polizieschi is a generic term for crime movies (akin perhaps to the german "krimi"?), meaning it can be used for everything from The Maltese Falcon to Alain Delon movies to Murder, She Wrote specials. "Poliziotteschi" is more specific, relating only to 70's Italian cop movies - as such, I don't think you'd find it in an italian dictionary any more than you would find an entry for Chillwave in an english dictionary. You may be right that the term was born outside Italy (so was the term "spaghetti western", after all!), but it seems to have been embraced by italian genre nuts; I found the actual term used on these italian sites:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_poliziottesco
http://web.tiscali.it/polizieschi/film/film.htm
http://forum.politicainrete.net/il-s...eferite-2.html
http://www.milanonera.com/?p=297
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post #13 of 16
6/25/10 at 11:58am
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I can assure you that no one in Italy uses that word, not even as a mockery
Why would it be a mockery, though? I've heard both terms but I don't know what the perceived difference is in your language.
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post #14 of 16
6/25/10 at 12:40pm
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Current Uruguayan coach...
The hapless mayor who hears nothing and sees nothing.
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post #15 of 16
6/25/10 at 5:35pm
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Why would it be a mockery, though? I've heard both terms but I don't know what the perceived difference is in your language.
I'd make an example in English but I'm afraid I'm not knowledgeable enough to find a suitable one...

so well, -esco is a desinence you can legitimately use to "build" composite terms, but the thing is, if the composite term hasn't got already a dignity of it's own (that is, is commonly used) it comes across as "purposedly non serious".
(I don't know how to explain it better than this, it's really a subtlety).

Which after all, would fit well to that specific subset of movies.
My generation was overexposed to them of course, but nobody really credited them of having some kind of artistic value... not in that timeframe, anyway
So I can definitely see someone coming up with that term in a sort of mild mockery of those movies
It's just surprising to me that the term appears to actually *be* commonly used, only not here..
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post #16 of 16
6/28/10 at 10:00am
Funny thread!

How about Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque? Guy has an awesome hangdog/dishevelled but still undeniably commanding look. Would be perfect casting as the police inspector in any kind of crime movie really. Love how just after that first goal during Spain V Chile (when Bravo came too far out of the goalie box), every single person in the Spain area erupted with joy, while VDB just stood there unchanged, staring and thinking, grim as fuck. The man has SEEN THINGS.
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