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Hollywood football: the dirty dozen. we highlight the greatest movies ever made about America's passion.
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Football Digest
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November 1, 2005
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HOLLYWOOD AND FOOTBALL. They've made a winning team for nearly a century.
More than 200 motion pictures have been made using the gridiron as a backdrop. What makes the sport so conducive to the silver screen?
"Football lends itself to the audio-visual medium because it's driven by a great physicality," says A1 Ruddy, the creator and producer of The Longest Yard.
Frank Yablans, producer of North Dallas Forty, concurs. "It is a canvas where you have these gladiators lining up constantly together," he says.
"Football has a basic dramatic element of built-in conflict," adds Michael Chapman, who directed Tom Cruise in All the Right Moves. "There's readymade ...
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