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@BarksRG8 ай бұрын
There's a Football factory sequel in production called MARCHING POWDER i belive lol
@AtZero1388 ай бұрын
Jimmy what I've been impressed with, your from a place,, never have I heard you sound or speak with ego or trying,, I grew up in Orange County California... Huntington Beach/Westminster.. I'm 50, I was My music life, had to earn it here, until they knew you would fight every time questioned or challenged, violent everywhere, my other life was BMX my local shop was one of the 1st to sell GT bikes, your feature on This culture and evolution.. like you were here Brother.. Always entertaining and worth watching.. Oi Oi Oi @∅
@skilletpan56747 ай бұрын
Sherlock Homes was a hardman. If you look into some of the history of his character then you know that he was a bare knuckle boxer/stick cain fighter and drug fiend. The more modern portrayal of him by robert downey junior is fairly accurate.
@JimmyTheGiant7 ай бұрын
@@AtZero138 Thanks man! appreciate the comment
@matham6257 ай бұрын
dont forget "Brighton Rock" 1948.. watch it if you have not, pinky
@WeyounSix7 ай бұрын
Danny Dyer naming his daughter Dani Dyer is the funniest shit
@pestotron82917 ай бұрын
Truly
@RobotronSage7 ай бұрын
Oh no he din't omfg
@TheCrewdy7 ай бұрын
I'm pretty confident he wrote his name in the wrong box (spelled incorrectly of course) and didn't notice until it was too late
@HydiestFaith7 ай бұрын
Dani Dyer named her son Danny Dyer.
@raychambers36467 ай бұрын
The professional cockney ,
@tehhotline42257 ай бұрын
Ross Kemp asking that guy with an AK-47 if he's going to kill him while grabbing off him and finishing off with a "Nobody's going to kill me" was probably the hardest thing in this whole genre
@interesting24917 ай бұрын
Was probably fake though…just give them a tenner and create a scenario
@CallumDoyleDarling7 ай бұрын
Im 50/50 on that scene in Papaua New Guinea...definitely credible to suggest it was real, it wasnt an AK IIRC, it was a shot gun or some form of old long rifle.
@TheRealYoda-ob7gd7 ай бұрын
@@interesting2491 it wasnt fake that is how the gang tests new people.he passed the test
@mephamjohnson44227 ай бұрын
Did you know they told him what SAS it stands for Super Army Soldiers
@will.420697 ай бұрын
Is this that scene where they were sprinkling cocaine on the floor to get rid of “bad juju” ? 🤣
@chefrowlet8 ай бұрын
"I'm a man of the people" immediately speaks latin good lord if a script writer put that in a movie people would say it was too unrealistic of a satire
@juliohidalgo8116 ай бұрын
Yeah, right! Cant believe people are not picking that!
@DodgyDaveGTX6 ай бұрын
Jacob Rees-Mogg is about an accurate portrayal of the quintessential British man, as Borat is of the typical Kazakhstani
@Bolognabeef6 ай бұрын
Come on that's a very well known Latin phrase, at least here in Italy
@jupitersnoot49156 ай бұрын
@Bolognabeef OK? Well it's not a well known phrase in England.
@Bolognabeef5 ай бұрын
@@jupitersnoot4915 damn y'all dumb af fr then
@Overlord997627 ай бұрын
Fuckin' hell, here I was a non-Brit seeing Ross Kemp's documentaries in Afghanistan and other parts thinking he was a journalist, I am now finding out he's an actor first.
@Desmond91007 ай бұрын
Check out Ultimate Force
@Naz-xk6hq7 ай бұрын
@@Desmond9100 that show was basically the prototype for Strike Back.
@SHVRWK7 ай бұрын
You should go
@ras76467 ай бұрын
@@Naz-xk6hq Damn, the good old days. They don't make shows like that and Banshee any more
@Naz-xk6hq7 ай бұрын
@@ras7646 Banshee was far better in my opinion, I got bored of Strike back towards season 5. Strike back was so excessive in gunfights and tits that you practically became desensitised to it. It didnt help that it happened in every episode, which didnt allow room for character development that wouldve benefited the show. The moment that made me think this was getting ridiculous was when Scott was talking to an FSB agent, that he had a prior fling before with, about getting raped by a man she was sent to infiltrate, and then they *immediately* have sex afterwards. This frustrates me because they could have had a good opportunity for character development here for Scott, who constantly shags every female character within a 10 meter vicinity , to compensate for his trauma aswell. He simply could have rejected it and it would have showed immense character growth.
@stalfithrildi53667 ай бұрын
Regarding the trope of everyone British in films being posh solidified the RAF's image too. Soldiers and sailors were known for being working class, but in the 30s and 40s airmen had no stereotype so the fifteen million posh actors all piled into RAF films, and everyone decided it was the posh branch. My grandad had a Yorkshire accent, and his pilot had an East Glaswegian accent and downed half a bottle of whiskey before getting in a balsawood plane and taking photos of Nazi industry. If they made a film about them they'd sound like the Eton common room.
@RedPhil876 ай бұрын
"East glaswegian" - my neck of the woods 😂
@mleszzor68666 ай бұрын
@@RedPhil87 What does that mean?
@notbadsteve6 ай бұрын
@@mleszzor6866 it means he lives in east glasgow (scotland). 👍
@mleszzor68666 ай бұрын
@@notbadsteve Thanks!
@PORRRIDGE_GUN6 ай бұрын
The RAF was the most diverse employer in the 1940s. Aussies, Saffers, Cariibbeans, Sikhs, Poles, French, Dutch, Belgians, Danes, Norwegians, Czechs etc. My grandad, an Irish citizen, started the war as an LAC, and finished as a Squadron Leader, offered Wing commander if he stayed in.
@veaceslavstoianov43788 ай бұрын
Jimmy never fails to rip my limb apart one by one as I scream in excrutiating pain and agony meanwhile my consciousness slowly fades away
@finlaywightman71268 ай бұрын
Wit
@craigslater82278 ай бұрын
You're cooked. Settle your crease 😅
@kai_plays_khomus8 ай бұрын
Maybe you should see a doctor?
@veaceslavstoianov43788 ай бұрын
@@kai_plays_khomus Not a bad idea
@Codsworth_8 ай бұрын
@@craigslater8227 'How'd you do, fellow kids'
@theopinionatedcharles27958 ай бұрын
It's such a shame that the cockney accent is a rarity nowadays as someone who's granddad had the accent and mannerisms of a geezer when he was younger, I love listening to him talk whenever I get the chance to speak to him, he has such a way with his words and how he speaks and it's one of the main reason I have a very southern accent as someone who grew up in the north east
@JimmyTheGiant8 ай бұрын
it has a lot of personality, you do sometimes here it but its dying. maybe a video in there
@rorz9998 ай бұрын
It's a shame, but it kind of lives on in Essex. Most of the white working class in east London have moved further east to Essex
@patmann93638 ай бұрын
@@rorz999Also lurking in Kent.
@BillyTheCheeseMonger8 ай бұрын
My whole British family are very very cockney and I live for it
@loolfactorie7 ай бұрын
Everyone wants to sound black now. West country, Manchester, Birmingham; they're all adopting the yardie-roadman accent.
@benyere8 ай бұрын
Really hope you could cover the rudeboy/skinhead of British/Jamaican culture as its heavily controversial from its two main groups as seen in like movie like "This is England" and also maybe a video covering punks/mods its really good to see a dive into British subcultures
@melb76558 ай бұрын
look up 'that uk sound - Jamaica connection'
@tastypymp12878 ай бұрын
Yawn.
@ZoZooZoooZoxxxx8 ай бұрын
Sounds very interesting too me as a German, did they mix with nazi ideology or was it that early skins when they still where leftist or so ? All that skins thing is a mysterious topic to me. So many layers of confusion 😅
@benyere8 ай бұрын
@@ZoZooZoooZoxxxx I think it has something to do with NF a english national political party and news/movie illustrations of what they think and slowly converted to neo-nazi skinhead but im not entirely sure on that side of history, it is confusing i agree
@brendanm69218 ай бұрын
@@ZoZooZoooZoxxxxbasically mate, it all really started as a purely musical thing. Back when a lot of the black population in the UK were very largely still immigrants who had come over from Jamaica, they lived in very working class areas alongside working class white folks and the two groups formed a subculture that was all centred around these two distinct demographics combining their different styles of music. This combination became known as two tone ska and was really spear headed by the bands The Selector and The Specials. It was all about spreading the message of love and community spirit through this music. And then after a while, the look and the sound was adopted by the National Front, the people who the person above referred to. Essentially they were neo nazis. And this then led to a huge cultural battle between the two different generations of skinheads. It's very sad as a subculture that was once all about poor people with different ethnic backgrounds coming together and making fun music with a loving message has now become tarnished by right wing thugs.
@rfcfanj79117 ай бұрын
He’s not talking about Cillian Murphy as in who he actually is but how his performance as Tommy Shelby has changed the hard man stereotype. Fun fact Tom hardy isn’t actually the cray twin but he played them in a movie
@JimmyTheGiant7 ай бұрын
Its insane how many people haven’t realised that 😂 cheers for ya comment
@mrbutty1437 ай бұрын
Cillian Murphy is Irish he is from Cork . Which is actually a sub culture within irisn culture
@rfcfanj79117 ай бұрын
@@mrbutty143 but where not talking about Cillian Murphy where talking about Tommy Shelby. Like how Christin bale isn’t American billionaire who’s parent where shot dead because he made them leave a play
@RuB0t6 ай бұрын
In fairness to them, it's an incredibly common occurrence to see British media claiming an Irish person as being British or foreign media incorrectly saying we're British (sorry lads, we're not) so seeing Cillian Murphy's character being claimed as British is a little too close to home (for some) I guarantee the only reason McGregor hasn't been claimed by the BBC is because he's such an insufferable ballbag
@mrbutty1436 ай бұрын
@@RuB0t spot on
@samurai-capybara8 ай бұрын
When people say 'the late 1900s', I feel about 100 years old.
@mongrel_977 ай бұрын
my man we're a quarter through the 2000s already
@GeometricPidgeon6 ай бұрын
@@mongrel_97username checks out
@hultonclint6 ай бұрын
Yeah, 1906-1909.
@freemantle2524 ай бұрын
Vinnie Jones was always a bit of a tough guy but Leeds United fans remember him as someone who had a real special place in his heart for the disabled fans at the matches. Rough but genuine.
@WarlordEnthusiast8 ай бұрын
The thing i like about "Hardmen" is that they're real, there's plenty of examples of people that are just like you've seen in movies like snatch. In some regards they're toned down compared to their movie counterparts. Shaun Smith is a prime example, the man basically invented drug terrorism in Ireland and the UK, you could easily write a movie just based on his experiences and it would look like fiction.
@Bob787 ай бұрын
sorry, his name is Shaun Smith. SHAUN SMITH??????
@Conorguill7 ай бұрын
Nah the movie hardman has the brutality of the real-life wannabes but with a charm / humour / propriety absent from the irl equivalents
@WarlordEnthusiast7 ай бұрын
@@Bob78 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iobdnaCNjMmde7Msi=2coTqd9Ng7N_dIUp He's a legend in his community for helping out locals yet he's built like a tank and has the firepower to back it up.
@jujutrini84127 ай бұрын
@@ConorguillReal old timer hardmen used to be a bit like that. The ones that were robbing banks and stuff in the sixties. They are all gone now though.
@pyrho18 ай бұрын
I'm American and I love the British Hardman trope. Especially Tommy Shelby and Daniel Craig's 007.
@moorshound32437 ай бұрын
007 is not hard he is just well trained
@The_Sleepiest_Socialist7 ай бұрын
How about Captain Price?
@anon24277 ай бұрын
007 doesn’t fit this archetype
@bubz3t1366 ай бұрын
I've never watched Peaky Blinders, but it's a joke that Cillian Murphy is playing a hardman in the first place. He looks like a lesbian. Real hardmen don't even have necks. He's just like Christopher Walken, who often played hardmen, even though he looked like Blanche from the Golden Girls.
@GeometricPidgeon6 ай бұрын
@@bubz3t136so you had all that to say about a show you never watched? Intelligent take, sir.
@connorriley75118 ай бұрын
Surprised you didn’t talk about “Essex Boys” or “The Rise Of A Foot Soldier” which is about a football firm that ran a huge ecstasy ring and the main members (the Essex 3) ending up getting murdered in the case known Rettendon triple murders amongst other popular monikers. Exact example of hard men transcending film into real life.
@50shadesofgday648 ай бұрын
The real carlton leach makes a cameo in it I think.
@MbisonBalrog7 ай бұрын
Did Hooligans sell drugs in real life?
@RobotronSage7 ай бұрын
You should research Dutch hooligans /skinheads >1000% drugs@@MbisonBalrog
@andreroswell15617 ай бұрын
@@MbisonBalrog The ICF - Inter City Firm did security for the raves.
@Greeny_3037 ай бұрын
@@MbisonBalrog Yep BIG time by the 90s rave culture also stopped loads of lads heading in that direction
@Wazza257 ай бұрын
Your videos make me proud as punch to be English. My dad used to say "Adam England's amazing kiddo. An island so small it can be fit into the corner of californa with an empire and whats the most spoken language in the world. English. People speak english not American. "
@Wazza257 ай бұрын
Have to add . Human traffic , green street, rise of the foot solider, football factory. Some of my favourite films there. Also the fsr superior and original UK shameless is a gem. Frank Gallagher a British treasure
@DodgyDaveGTX6 ай бұрын
@@Wazza25 Could we include Sacha Baron Cohen's character in 'Grimsby Brothers' as a comedic example - even if it is completely parodic?
@vanbeet5105Ай бұрын
Every English speaking country outside the USA speaks British English
@chriskjo16118 ай бұрын
Hmmmm talk about English tough guys without ever mentioning Ray Winstone. He's the original unstable confrontational brawling English houlihan. My favorite movie of his is 'Nil By Mouth' directed by Gary Oldman.
@fuzzydunlop19887 ай бұрын
That scene with Kathy Burke is hard to watch
@fred-a-stair7 ай бұрын
Ben Kingsley in Sexy beast. The most frightening character I've seen on tv
@pablogats46277 ай бұрын
Yes scum is one of my fave films ever
@wolfgangkranek3762 ай бұрын
"A British Tar", a song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1878 operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore
@StephenRyan19518 ай бұрын
Love these breakdowns of British culture. It was your chav video that made me subscribe.
@stevegriffey82557 ай бұрын
English rather than ‘British.’
@briton38517 ай бұрын
@@stevegriffey8255not with this video, hooligans are welsh english scottish manx cornish etc
@stevegriffey82557 ай бұрын
@@briton3851 I’m English… Watch it now! 😆
@ZP19938 ай бұрын
I'd also like to mention The Long Good Friday. Bob Hoskins playing an English gangster was a good example of an English hardman,I wouldn't be surprised if his role inspired some of the characters in later British gangster movies like Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
@northfield36547 ай бұрын
The Gentlemen is basically Guy Richies version of The Long Good Friday, it even loosely follows the storyline and the (near) ending is the same
@ange10987 ай бұрын
Awesome movie awesome cast
@MegaWoody19637 ай бұрын
Don't forget Michael Caine in 'Get Carter' in 1971, an absolute classic.
@jujutrini84127 ай бұрын
Spot on!
@reecechapman-spencer73097 ай бұрын
Gentleman sucked ass though. @@northfield3654
@aPol.016 ай бұрын
As a representative from Guinness World Records, it is with great pleasure that I inform you of a remarkable achievement associated with your video. I am delighted to announce that your video has been officially recognized for setting a world record. Specifically, your content has earned the distinction for the highest frequency of the term 'hardman' uttered within an 18-minute duration.
@DodgyDaveGTX6 ай бұрын
How the fuck does one even get a job working for the Guinness World Records, anyway? 🙃
@iamnotmrlebowski5 ай бұрын
Great video mate. Aussie here. Absolutely love British movies and shows over Hollywood. Bronson wasn't a fictional hard man. Bronson was terrifying.
@Mrmatthew43388 ай бұрын
This video isn't just genius because of the awesome editing and hilarious delivery. It's genius because of the very topic itself. I mean, just get a load of that title, "The Radical Overhaul of the British Hard Man," superb. You've done it again Jimmy old sport, God's speed dear boy, you really do wallop out a ruddy good video what what (you know what voice to use when you read that last sentence)
@natmanprime42957 ай бұрын
...and now he's changed the title
@Mrmatthew43387 ай бұрын
@@natmanprime4295 hahaha really? Maybe I freaked him out kissing his ass too hard. Such a clever idea for a video I couldn't help myself but get my internet smooch on. Silly me hehehe
@akilahcopeland5597 ай бұрын
What a sweet hit of nostalgia, bruhv. That Tom Hardy film, Legend, held me captive the whole way through. Feeling all the feels 😂 And Guy Ritchie is eternally one of my fav filmmakers.
@pyrho18 ай бұрын
The variety of have accents in Britain always astounds me, considering the entire island is relatively small.
@stalfithrildi53667 ай бұрын
My part of South Yorkshire pronounces our word for "You" in such a distinctive way that people from the other parts of South Yorks call us a nickname based on it. The word for "You".
@alkaholic48484 ай бұрын
@@stalfithrildi5366 Dee dar's?
@joegibbskins7 ай бұрын
When I was growing up in America in the 80s and 90s, there was a wide spread belief that Brits were smartest than us, their vocabularies were broader, and they spoke so quickly and effortlessly. Then Oasis became a big band over here as well and suddenly we got to hear Liam Gallagher speak and it was like “oh most of Britain is actually working class and barely literate”. After that it was a lot easier for Americans to accept that hooliganism and all the fist fights and stabbings that are a part of daily life in the UK cause you’re just like us except with less guns
@pevebe7 ай бұрын
well you actually still have more stabbings even with guns but i digress
@joegibbskins7 ай бұрын
@@pevebe yeah we’re the descendants of unruly people your crown couldn’t govern, so that checks out
@JackHGUK7 ай бұрын
Religious fanatics Europe kicked out you mean @@joegibbskins
@joegibbskins7 ай бұрын
@@JackHGUK don’t forget convicts in Georgia, and the Africans Europeans bought and sold and the indigenous survivors of diseases Europeans brought. over.
@insert_name_here64876 ай бұрын
then the republicans blew it out of proportion for whataboutism's sake
@OofHearted8 ай бұрын
You forgot about Begbie from Trainspotting.
@GR-cf4qh6 ай бұрын
Begbie was hard, but not so hard that he didn't shite it off 20 years in Sultan.
@Flintlockon5 ай бұрын
@@GR-cf4qh You win the comment and all comments. Well played sir.
@SmokeNUFC8 ай бұрын
Danny dyer was always shitting it on deadly mens and the real football factory it was comical 🤣🤣🤣
@turnip53597 ай бұрын
Apparently in real life hes a nice bloke and a bit of a softy and the cockney ardman thing is just an act
@fatdaddy19967 ай бұрын
Can you blame him. He's a posh boy and he's not a unit, plus a lot of genuine hard men are genuine nutters.
@scottwallace52396 ай бұрын
Think Kevin bridges bit on this is best when he's talking about the rangers vs celtic episode of footballs deadliest rivalries and it's like 12AM on a Sunday, people are just waking around in colours drinking coffee and tea and you got Danny trying to hype it up like the battle of Hastings is about to kick off
@Nantosuelta7 ай бұрын
I do have a major soft spot for the british 'ard man. Also, if it hasn't been said enough, Ross Kemp is truly a real life badass and a fantastic journalist.
@AtZero1388 ай бұрын
To me... Bullet Tooth Tony..all his lines are unchallenged, pure greatness
@DrtyALGreen8 ай бұрын
As an American who's seen Danny's show I laughed my ass off "and then there's Danny Dyer"😂
@pd41657 ай бұрын
He's funny on panel shaws. Standouts for me is when he does 'dictionary corner' on 8OOTCDC.
@JJ-qe1ls8 ай бұрын
i feel like the film Dead Mans Shoes, needed a shout out
@rael19996 ай бұрын
One of my all time favourite films !
@itsirrelephantman8 ай бұрын
Grants part in Extras with Vinnie was brilliant
@Mengha7 ай бұрын
SAS - Super Army Soldiers
@OneMancBanned8 ай бұрын
Let's Go ! That was a great watch.geeza ! Danny Dyer bit was spot on 🤣
@pm-55658 ай бұрын
I'm patiently waiting for the day we get a movie or series where the protagonist is a hard scouse, probably with subtitles because most won't understand a word.
@AthelstansSuccessor7 ай бұрын
Terry o'Neill would've played a good scouse hardman villain but he was a very well spoken scouser
@blizzardgaming70707 ай бұрын
Not even the scouser's know what they say half the time.
@fatdaddy19967 ай бұрын
Scousers, Mancs, Geordies, Weegies and Irish all tough as anyone.
@Harkness1977 ай бұрын
the Ross Kemp documentaries were insane! great video bro!
@paddyrobbo16837 ай бұрын
No film or show has ever done a better job of creating the “hard man” act dancing the line beteeen dani dyer and James Bond like Snatch with all the characters in it that was imo the peak of the uk “hard man” stereotype
@alastor80918 ай бұрын
Very cool. For some reason every stereotype gets this enhanced flavor if its a Brit. An American hardman is just some douche, but one with a British accent is something that catches your ear.
@nickgavis03058 ай бұрын
Haha as an American I can say this is true
@timwinterhalter52337 ай бұрын
our equivalent would be something like a tough-as-nails southerner
@richardhughes80956 ай бұрын
HUGE fan Jimmy. Really interesting videos, well researched and presented in such an engaging manner. Keep up the excellent work.
@TheOliClark3 ай бұрын
Facts
@huwguyver42085 ай бұрын
I'm Aussie and I'm really enjoying the deep dives into British culture from this channel. Danny Dyer was awesome in Human Traffic. It's a shame he seems to have turned into the UK equivalent of Malibu's Most Wanted if this video is anything to go by. Ross Kemp sounds like an absolute boss though.
@Pooknottin5 ай бұрын
I had other things to say, but your closing comment just made me laugh so hard, I don't need to anymore. Nice one mate.
@youcancallmejimbob.23268 ай бұрын
Love coming back every hour to see the new video title
@Bkesal142 ай бұрын
Phenomenal work as always. You're spot on in terms of differentiating the work of Danny Dyer and Ross Kemp.
@ldwp63958 ай бұрын
I think you've done alot of research and I do agree with all your points, but I do think you should of mentioned Harold Shand from The Long Good Friday, he was the tough guy that has inspired every single one of Guy Ritchies crime films, it was controversial at the time, but it was ahead of it's time, diving into the characters emotions such as pride, anger, hated and fear. Harold Shand felt like the British prototype of Tony Soprano. It came out in 1980, Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels came out in 1998 and The Sopranos came out in 1999, so it came along 20 years too early.
@itswilbur37478 ай бұрын
Definitely Long Good Friday, good call. I'd also throw in Scum by Alan Clarke and anything by Shane Meadows. Always felt that many (not all) of the Footie Hardmen type films were showbiz folk fetishizing the stereotype, rather than digging into it. Fun to watch, but little else.
@ldwp63958 ай бұрын
@@itswilbur3747 Scum is a good shout and something by Shane Meadows would be good, I'd say This is England over Dead man's fingers simply because it also had 3 series after.
@itswilbur37478 ай бұрын
@@ldwp6395 This is England is a and the following series really gets in to the culture/people of the time, in the way that Guy Ritchie/Nick Love types just caricature. Although Dead Man's Shoes really does a great job of showing those small town British bully boys. Knew plenty of them growing up.
@gunrock007 ай бұрын
I'm surprised that Terry (Dennis Waterman) from Minder and even before that, The Sweeney (hard men cops behaving badly) and even perhaps, The Professionals.
@ldwp63957 ай бұрын
@@gunrock00 That's also a good choice, especially Terry from Minder. His characterisation was different as he was someone who could of been the average hard man, but his morals had him try to do the right thing.
@ShornDunlevy6 ай бұрын
An excellent script expertly spoken. I imagine getting clearance for the clips was a headache! The team who put this together are very talented people. I cannot praise them too much. It's the 0.01% of KZbin that isn't marred by poor sentence construction, ugly wordage and/or excess verbage. That alone sets it apart. 10/10. Many thanks.
@arthurmorganhimself8 ай бұрын
would love to see a video discussing the north south divide and nuances and differences in culture
@bruhmoment111116 ай бұрын
I like that you did a Bri'ish accent the whole time, very authentic-sounding.
@jacksonwatkins64315 ай бұрын
It's so funny to hear Geezer explained this way because it means something very different in the states.
@jackclancy21893 ай бұрын
And that isssssss?
@enigmadrath17803 ай бұрын
@@jackclancy2189 Think in the US it just means an old man.
@cricketReviewChannel2118 ай бұрын
They don't make movies like Lock Stock anymore. It was so intricate and well put together
@JimmyTheGiant7 ай бұрын
Its less common but guy ritchie still is killing it - the gentleman was brilliant
@impguardwarhamer7 ай бұрын
the classic british tough guy couldn't survive the millions of new doctors and engineers arriving on the streets of British cities, such a shame
@MarcusBurkenhare5 ай бұрын
I'm no footie fan but the image of Vinnie grabbing Gazza by the knackers is iconic.
@PYGolf8 ай бұрын
🇨🇦 Here and I've learned so much. Well done, subscribed
@h-dawg9697 ай бұрын
Ross Kemp in Extras is on point…. Super, Army Soldiers.
@stooooogs87638 ай бұрын
I imagine Cillian Murphy wont be too happy being referred to as british
@eadweard.8 ай бұрын
I don't think he did, did he?
@funkyfranx8 ай бұрын
@@eadweard.He did include him in his list of British hardmen, but I think it’s obvious he means his character, wouldn’t exactly call Cillian Murphy a hardman in real life
@fuzzydunlop19887 ай бұрын
@funkyfranx sure he's from caaaark
@branko4033Ай бұрын
Isn't his character Thomas Shelby of Irish and Romani ancestry?
@kikichunt83227 ай бұрын
You need to watch "Performance" and "Get Carter" (both 1971) if you want to see something closer to the real roots of the trope . . .
@thomsboys777 ай бұрын
And the Long Good Friday
@RichardLissimore6 ай бұрын
@@thomsboys77 Without LGF and GC there's a huge history gap in this video.
@R1ck3stR1ck7 ай бұрын
Speaking as a guy who was born and bred in Luton, I definitely want that film to come out, then people can see what I used to put up with day after day 🤣😂
@andytidbury83344 ай бұрын
I'm a new subscriber, really enjoying the videos. So well presented and amusing, and you can see the research that has gone into them. Great stuff.
@c.antoniojohnson71147 ай бұрын
Britan was a superpower from the 1600s to the 1970s,of course they are going to have some tough customers that get to the business.
@letsdothis90634 ай бұрын
Too bad the West has been neutered.
@bartsimba48 ай бұрын
Lock stock and two smoking barrels is such a masterpiece! One of my favorite movies
@djwalker78238 ай бұрын
You should have referenced lenny mclean in your lockstock section . Seeing that he had a role in it . He was the original english HARDMAN . A real street fighter and debt collector . There is still alot of footage of lenny online in real fights and giving interviews.
@JimmyTheGiant7 ай бұрын
Might make a full vid on him - so i didnt wanna go on too much of a tangent
@edwarddavenport988112 күн бұрын
This channel is awesome. Really entertaining and informative. Keep up the great work, Jimmy!
@petekeuning8 ай бұрын
Hella insightful bud. Great piece.
@brownpunk17947 ай бұрын
Danny dyer is as tough as my grandmas slipper😂😂😂😂😂 What a laugh
@bazjr866 ай бұрын
Yup he was good in human traffic. That's it.
@leojohnson-lay40517 ай бұрын
Fuckin hell the Danny dyer bit has me creasing
@janpol4667 ай бұрын
Dude, you just spoke my mind. Great video.
@ahmedshaharyarejaz98868 ай бұрын
I want to see James Bond fight a British tough guy villain.
@bobbyscott21237 ай бұрын
There is a couple of 007movies where he fights British bad guys One of them is Sean bean The other is Robert Carlyle There is probably more Sorry can’t remember the names of these bond movie’s It was the later ones
@Elyseon7 ай бұрын
Bond on vacation getting caught in a pub brawl?
@ahmedshaharyarejaz98867 ай бұрын
@Elyseon Yeah, Bond walks into a Bar, orders a "Shaken not Stirred" and tries to flirt with a Tough Guy's girlfriend. Tough Guy calls him a posh tosser, and all hell breaks loose as they brawl. Later we learn the Tough Guy and Bond are either supposed to be partners or the Tough Guy is the Villain or his main enforcer. The Tough Guy and Bond try to one up each other and in the end they have a fight where perhaps the Tough Guy wins the Brawl but Bond completes the mission anyway through cunning and the Tough Guy and Bond go their seperate ways with mutual respect and an unfinished rivalry. Until the Next Movie! Roll Credits with Music and Graphics 🔫 💃 🎶 💥 🚘 💪 🚀 🌊⚓️🔎 . James Bond and the Tough Guy will return.
@justamanchimp5 ай бұрын
Another thing with the reason why British hard men tv was so big is that the reality is, most men just aren’t hard lol, so it taps into that desire a lot of men have to be hard men. It’s kinda the same as celeb Hollywood documentaries, ppl watch to get a sense of what it might be like to be rich and famous, a desire a lot of people have but will never get to experience
@Gvnglvnd_pharaoh8 ай бұрын
🔥🔥🔥🔥 ngl was hoping for a half hour video
@TheFamilyPodcast20244 ай бұрын
Great video mate! Glad I found this channel.
@SirSicCrusader7 ай бұрын
Danny Dyer as a "hard man" always made me laugh, he's about as hard as melted butter.
@smelkus7 ай бұрын
Danny Dyer reminds me of the people in the South park episode Super phun thyme where they go to a recreation of a pioneer village and the employees never break character
@EpohDerf7 ай бұрын
What a video, I've just found you and have a lot of catching up to do. Thanks. No Shane Meadows? He did some excellent telly and film with 'hard' characters that weren't just one dimensional. And of course we had Don in sexy beast - one if the best portrayals of unhinged menace ever from Sir Ben Kingsley...
@exbritishforcespatriotscha77235 ай бұрын
I knew a bloke who had phychiatric problems,was one of Britain's strongest men. I got to know him by chatting in a pub,Big bald and tatoos even on his head.A great friend to have.I was having a pint with him and only can describe some southern Gangsters turn up.He left with them for I do not know but imagine someone had a whole lot of hurt that afternoon.
@SmokeNUFC8 ай бұрын
Good video mate well researched and presented keep it up :)
@jim23mac5 ай бұрын
A little bit of pain never hurt anybody
@swamp_donkey8 ай бұрын
Can't wait for Luton the movie!
@fuzzydunlop19887 ай бұрын
Think there's a series called Stevenage and Luton the movie will be using a lot of the same actors.
@callumlambert65587 ай бұрын
Really great video mate! Very good editing and well spoken :)
@vpgnto8 ай бұрын
titles: (1) How The "Hardman" Redefined British Culture; (2) Britain's Forgotten TV Tough Guy Era; (3) The Radical Overhaul of British Men in Movies; (4) [Again] How The "Hardman" Redefined British Culture; (5) The British Tough Guy Trope, Explained
@chrishenniker59445 ай бұрын
The British hard man is portrayed as a cockney, South London, Scouse, Geordie, from Belfast or Glaswegian. He’s a possibly an ex-squaddie, a football casual or skinhead, maybe a combination of the above.
@olliestudio458 ай бұрын
Let's be honest, that hardman thing is also part of your youtube persona / brand... ain't it Jimmy da G? Great vid of course.
@MrKruger883 ай бұрын
If you do a deeper dive onto the Hayes code, there were a lot of silly examples where films had to tow the line. You had to show that "crime doesn't pay" and so you'd have films were the bad guy was the main character, shown in a sympathetic light; but then as the end credits begin to roll, a cop car rolls up and arrests the main character. That was enough to claim they paid for their crimes.
@jamesrobinsons80868 ай бұрын
Great video mate, but some classic British hardmen you missed: Terry mccann - Minder Oz - Auf wiedersehen pet Yosser- Boys from the blackstuff Regan & Carter- The Sweeney
@CIMAmotor7 ай бұрын
Even DelBoy was a bit feared.
@charliezobel5117 ай бұрын
Dennis Waterman RIP
@The_Caledonian7 ай бұрын
Some great and well written characters. Also great shows which actually depicted the real life people rather than the 80-90's films mentioned here.
@markbadger2657 ай бұрын
Bodie & doyle
@patmann93637 ай бұрын
Do you remember a BBC One program called Gangsters from the 70's?
@Burnitdownnn8 ай бұрын
Great job once more , Jimmy! keep em coming!
@DrHouseMusic6 ай бұрын
Alright algorithm, I've clicked on the video. You can stop showing it in my recommended now
@giantred7 ай бұрын
Good job man, you've got another subscriber with this one
@HectorLavoe-me4or8 ай бұрын
Ross Kemp interviewed us California gangs
@thevillainousqueenofhearts49767 ай бұрын
I gave a like simply because of your opening… it was beautiful
@KennyOspreay8 ай бұрын
Would love to see you do a video on the rise and fall of Bebo
@royfr81366 ай бұрын
Wasn't expecting much, but this was good
@kai_plays_khomus8 ай бұрын
I don't understand how you could fail to bring up Begbie from _Trainspotting_ - he's the perfect geezer. Admittedly he doesn't speak cockney though.. 😅
@Rr0gu3_5uture7 ай бұрын
Francis Begbie is your classic Scottish nutter, a psychopath. For me, I'd say the typical Geezer is more of a sorta, self-aggrandizing sociopath.
@deebo5474Ай бұрын
Remember your local geezas Gary and Steve decided 1 day to get on a boat and conquer the world, this tiny island has produced some of the hardest individuals to ever exist
@scorpzgca7 ай бұрын
Amazing video on this for real they need to bring this archatype back
@kierandoodykd8 ай бұрын
Cillian Murphy isn't British, home sprung
@PhoeniX1997777 ай бұрын
None said hes british...
@TheHypersonic557 ай бұрын
Mate, this was a cracking video. It's really well made, and I like the sprinkling of humour throughout. And when you mentioned Luton, I frigging lost it. Yeah if they make a film about my hometown, fuck that would be something else. 😂
@mixodorians127 ай бұрын
Don't use Britain and England interchangeably.
@elbertoz6 ай бұрын
You know Cillian Murphy isn't British, right? He's Irish. He's an Irish actor playing a British character in Peaky Blinders.
@kai_plays_khomus8 ай бұрын
Isn't Murphy irish though?
@ScottyDnB7 ай бұрын
Well this is the first vid i have seen of yours and it was superb! You have a new subscriber and i am looking forward to checking out your previous work.
@shia_labeouf7 ай бұрын
Really interesting piece. I didn't know the history with the Hays guidelines.
@loolfactorie7 ай бұрын
There is a Danny Dyer 'real football factories' pisstake on youtube from the early 2000s, it's brilliant and worth a watch. Massively underrated.
@simonboyce22356 ай бұрын
I live in New Zealand and a lot of people I have met still think British People are Posh, Fancy and upperclass