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A GUY RITCHIE FILM FESTIVAL
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Table of Contents Road Mapping Guy Ritchie Biography
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Film Style / Moodboard
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Buckets Photo Style
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Graphic Style
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Typography Style
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Format/ Material Style
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Language Style
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Creative Brief Guy Ritchie Film Festival
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Master Moodboard Level 1
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Level 2
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Level 3
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Title/ Subtitle Title
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Subtitle
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Logo Option Phase 1
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Phase 2
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Phase 3
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Final logo
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Identity Typography
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color Pallet
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Poster Final Poster
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Catalog
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Ad’s
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Media Packaging
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Website
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Phone Application
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Business System
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Soundtrack
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Game of Chance
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ROAD MAPPING
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Guy Ritchie Biography Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English filmmaker known
Richie knows how to make interesting energetic
for his crime films. He dropped out of secondary
characters, and they are the heart of his films. He
school and got a low paying job for a film studio.
is also known for using color tones on his movies
Over time he made commercials and short films.
which is used to differentiate between different
In 1998, he was able to get investors in his first
settings. Until a few years ago, Ritchie was known
feature, “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,”
only to a select cinema buff crowd for his stylish,
which was well received, and an international
low-budget British gangster movies such as
hit. Guy Ritchie injects his films with hard-hitting
“Snatch,” “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.”
fast-moving action sequences. They are not
He then entered mainstream movie, by directing
only violent and bloody, but typically involve
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in the 2009
hand-to-hand combat. Characters frequently fight
megahit “Sherlock Holmes,” which grossed more
each other without resorting to guns, and those
than $524 million worldwide.
sequences are often choreographed much like martial arts in which he has been trained as well.
Sherlock holmes has been one of my all time favorites. The entire plot of the movie is one
The movie branded the director as an English ver-
giant loop. The film starts off with Holmes and
sion of Quentin Tarantino. Many critics enjoyed
Watson successfully completing a case which
Lock, Stock’s colorful characters and playful
ends up leading to an even bigger crisis, which is
approach to violence, and the film received
the focus of the film. At the end, though, Holmes
mostly positive notices. Guy Ritchie’s films are full
has to explain what really happened during that
of vibrant and memorable characters. There is
initial event in order for the audience to fully
rarely anyone, who you could consider normal. It
understand everything else that has happened
doesn’t matter what side of the law they are on or
up to the end. The aftermath of this initial catalyst
how low or high in the ranks of the organization
is what sets up the rest of the film, and in the
that they are.
end, is somehow related to the climax.
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Film Style/ Moodboard Keywords: violence, drugs, profanity, thriller, color, tones, character, martial arts, England, cockney accents, games, chance, uncertainty
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BUCKETS
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Photo Style Vintage, grungy, London streets, guns, violence,
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night scenes, game scenes, poker, clubs, pubs
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Photo Style Vintage, grungy, London streets, guns, violence, night scenes, game scenes, poker, clubs, pubs
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Graphic Style Illustration, Dual style, Blood, Grunge, textures,
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shadows, contrast, tension
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Typography Style Vintage, grungy, broken, violent, condensed, sans serif, distress
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Format/ Material Style Wood, Stainless Steel, Cardboard
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Language Style Cockney Language
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CREATIVE BRIEF
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Guy Ritchie Film Festival Who and What Guy Stuart Ritchie is a British filmmaker who was born on September 10, 1968, in the town of Hatfield, England. While growing up, he struggled with dyslexia and attended a number of different schools. He dropped out of secondary school and got a low paying job for a film studio. Over time he made commercials and short films. In 1998, he was able to get investors in his first feature, “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” which was well received, and an international hit. The film, a crime caper, was applauded for breathing new life into that genre, and found a wide audience. The popularity of his first film also brought Guy Ritchie to Hollywood’s attention. His next film, Snatch (2000), was another darkly humorous look at gangsters in London. However, this time the cast included stars like Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro and Dennis Farina. Snatch was also a critical and commercial success. Guy Ritchie injects his films with hard-hitting fast-moving action sequences. They are not only violent and bloody, but typically involve hand-to-hand combat. Characters frequently fight each other without resorting to guns, and those sequences are often choreographed much like martial arts in which he has been trained as well.
Films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Swept Away
Revolver
RocknRolla
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows The Man From U.N.C.L.E
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Thread [Misfits] A [finding their way] B [through luck, irony and coincidences] C [barely escaping from the clutches of peril] D [with an ambiguous culmination] E
History The festival works toward providing a forum for new film-makers first of its kind, follow up of “#MyUnseenCity,” which is a competition about an “urban movie challenge” centered around 15-second short films exhibited on Instagram. The movie challenge will conclude with the 10 most liked films which will then be viewed by a panel, including Guy Ritchie. It is the first installment of a series of yearly festivals.
Audience Audience would be passionate film makers who are looking to be recognized and starting their journey in this field. They would include young college graduate students and older adults who are looking forward to pursue their passion in this field. Students would be the primary target.
Location The movies would be screened at London’s Stamford Bridge, which is the stadium of Guy Ritchie’s favorite soccer team. The indoor events would take place at the The Punch Bowl, the pub owned by him. The events will be held over 4 days in the beginning of January.
Events Poker and Chess game
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MASTER MOODBOARD Guy Ritchie Film Festival 20–23march, 2017 www.schemingscoundrels.info
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Guiding Narrative I am a gambling addict feeding my addiction in a small dimly lit pub in central London. I am recognized as a fraud and am asked to leave, the next pub I enter isn’t as friendly and I am thrown out but it doesn’t matter for I am an addict. With that in mind, I enter the next pub.
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Title Options Blind man
Stinking Soundrels
Spanking paddles
Hapless Soundrels
Filthy Bastards
Woeful Soundrels
Fight Night
Shocking Soundrels Lousy
Franky Four Fingers
Soundrels
Slick
Pitiful Soundrels
Unlucky Bastard
Wretched Soundrels
Ganga
Awright geeezzaa! Stinkin’
Gambler
Soundrels
Breaking Bones
Unlucky Blimey Bastard
Dangerous combinations
Miserable Bastard
Chess and cons
Jeopardy
Filthy Bastards
Desperate Times
Unlucky Bastard
Conniving Scoundrels
Unexpected turns
Cunning Scoundrels
Gambling bets
Slippery Scoundrels
Breaking Bones
Sneaky Scoundrels
Dangerous combinations
Twisted uncertainty
Chess and cons
Scheming scoundrels
London nights Lets rock and roll The greatest Con Game of Chance
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Subitile Options F*** the consequences The longer you listen the sweeter the pitch Lets Rock and Roll The greatest con Questioning your intelligence Lets have a game Elegant little game Admire your opponents elegance Get good at your game Find your way through the cockney’d world with guy ritchie Crime fighting with guy ritchie films Follow the lives of misfits and action with guy ritchie films Misfits of the underground world Scheme with the misfits Escape with the misfits Experience the cluthes of peril with guy ritchie films Get a glimpse of the criminal life as guy ritchie guides you through the dark working of the underworld. Escape into the dark world of crime and corruption with guy ritchie Watch the action as guy ritchie depicts how luck and coincidence plays their part in the fight against crime. Walk with guy ritchie through the damp and darkness of Londons Underground Luck and coincidence in the lives of misfits of guy ritchie Luck and coincidence playing a part in the dark workings of the underworld Luck and coincidence of the world of crime and corruption in guy ritchie films Misfits manvering the clutches of peril through luck and coincidence in the films of guy ritchie Misfits evading the clutches of peril through luck and coincidence in the films of guy ritchie Misfits eluding the clutches of peril through luck and coincidence in the films of guy ritchie
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Festival History
THE DIRECTOR
Scheming Scoundrels is a festival that works toward providing a forum for new film-makers first of its kind, which is a follow up of #MyUnseenCity, a competition about an “urban movie challenge” centered around 15-second short films exhibited on Instagram. The movie challenge will conclude with the 10 most liked films which will then be viewed by a panel, including Guy Ritchie. It is the first installment of a series of yearly festivals. The festival will be held in London and the movies would be screened at London’s Stamford Bridge, which is the stadium of Guy Ritchie’s favorite soccer team. The indoor events would take place at the The Punch Bowl, the pub owned by him. The events will be held over 4 days in March, as it works perfectly with the football season break.
“My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I’m not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.” –Guy Ritchie
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I got into film making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
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Guy Ritchie Early Life Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire,
He soon began helming commercials and music
The film put Ritchie on the map as one of the
UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch
videos, and then broke into film with his short The
hottest rising filmmakers of the time, and launched
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child,
Hard Case (1995) a twenty minute short film that
the careers of actors Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng,
Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make
is also the prequel to his debut feature Lock, Stock
and Vinnie Jones, among others. Lock, Stock and
films. He left secondary school and got entry-level
and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Sting’s wife, Trudie
Two Smoking Barrels (1998) was followed up by
jobs in the film industry in the mid-1990s.
Styler, saw The Hard Case (1995) and invested
Snatch (2000), with a bigger budget and a few
He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and
in the feature film. Once completed, ten British distributors turned the
unwatchable. At 15 years old, he dropped out
film down before the film eventually was released
of school and in 1995. Ritchie, who is dyslexic,
in the UK in 1998 and the US in 1999. His short
was expelled from Stanbridge Earls School at
movie was well-received, but Ritchie still found it
the age of 15. He has stated that drug use was
difficult to get backing for a full-length feature and
the reason for the expulsion; his father has said
hence was put on hold. After years of trying, he
that it was because his son was caught “cutting
succeeded: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
class and entertaining a girl in his room. With
came out in 1998. A crime caper, was applauded
few qualifications, Ritchie ended up taking a series
for breathing new life into that genre, and
of low-level jobs, including work as a bricklayer
found a wide audience.
more familiar faces such as Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro alongside returning actors Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones and Jason Flemyng. The popularity of his first film also brought Guy Ritchie to Hollywood’s attention. His next film, Snatch (2000), was another darkly humorous look at gangsters in London. However, this time the cast included stars like Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro and Dennis Farina. Snatch was also a critical and commercial success. At the end of 2000, Ritchie married the
and as a bartender. When he was 25, a friend
pop superstar Madonna in Scotland, and
who directed commercials hired Ritchie as a
proceeded to work with his famous wife on
runner. That position gave Ritchie an entry into
a variety of film and
the world of directing.
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Schedule Day 1 March 20th,2017 11:00 am - Opening Ceremony 01:00 pm - Lunch at The Punch Bowl 04:00 pm - Screening of “Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” at the London’s Stamford Bridge 09:00 pm - Drinks, Dinner and Poker game at The Punch Bowl
Day 2 March 21st,2017 11:00 am - Talk With Guy Ritchie followed by Instagram contest entries 01:00 pm - Lunch at The Punch Bowl 04:00 pm - Screening of “RocknRolla” at the London’s Stamford Bridge 09:00 pm - Screening of “Revolver” at the London’s Stamford Bridge 11:00 pm - Drinks and Dinner at The Punch Bowl
video projects, including the short Star (2001),
On 15 December 2008, it was announced by
Ritchie’s career took off once more with his film
made for BMW and co-starring Clive Owen, and
Madonna’s spokeswoman that the singer had
adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (2009), as well as
the controversial video “What It Feels Like for a
agreed to a divorce settlement with Ritchie, the
its sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Girl,” which was called out for its violence. In 2002
terms of which grant him between £50 million and
(2011). Both films, starring Robert Downey Jr.
the couple embarked on a remake of the 1974
£60 million, a figure that includes the value of the
and Jude Law, were successes at the box office,
Lina Wertmüller film Swept Away (2002); the new
couple’s London pub and residence and Wiltshire
earning more than $1 billion combined worldwide.
film was a critical and commercial flop, winning
estate in England.
Day 3 March 22nd,2017
five Razzie Awards. Unfortunately for Ritchie, his
01:00 pm - Screening of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E”
then-wife Madonna, was panned by critics and
next feature Swept Away (2002), which starred his largely avoided by audiences. It was the nadir of
at the London’s Stamford Bridge
Ritchie’s directing career.
04:00 pm - Screening of “Snatch” at the London’s Stamford Bridge
On 22 December 2000, Guy married American
09:00 pm - Drinks, Dinner and Speed Chess game at The Punch Bowl
Day 4 March 23rd,2017 of the movies
a solid blockbuster hit that grossed more than $520 million dollars worldwide and spawned a
and divided the children’s time between Ritchie’s
sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
London home and Madonna’s in New York, where
(2011). Ritchie is tentatively scheduled to direct
2000 in Los Angeles) and adopted a Malawian
the two will be joined by her daughter, Lourdes,
an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s
baby boy in 2006, David (born 24 September
from a previous relationship.
Treasure Island. In the fall of 2013, Ritchie began
Ritchie and Madonna.
08:00 pm - Closing Cermony
The split was confirmed by their spokesperson
11:00 pm - Drinks and Dinner and fun games
and Ritchie and Madonna went public with the
at The Punch Bowl
Watson. The film received mostly good reviews but, more importantly for Ritchie’s career, was
entered into a compromise agreement for Rocco and David, then ages eight and three respectively,
singer Madonna at Skibo Castle in Scotland. They
reported that a split was “imminent” between
04:00 pm - Winner announced
Holmes (2009), starring Robert Downey Jr. in the title role and Jude Law as his cohort Dr.
the clinical Principal Registry of the Family Division in High Holborn, London. Madonna and Ritchie
have a son, Rocco John Ritchie (born 11 August
2005). On 15 October 2008, British media
01:00 pm - Instagram contest entries, Screening
The next year saw the release of Sherlock
Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s marriage was dissolved by District Judge Reid by decree nisi at
On 30 July 2015, Ritchie married model Jacqui Ainsley, whom he has been dating since 2010. They have three children: son Rafael, daughter Rivka, and son Levi.
filming a big screen adaptation of the spy TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., featuring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. The film is slated for a mid-August 2015 release.
split because they “can’t bear to live with the pretense any longer”.
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Filmography Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - 1998 Snatch - 2000 Mean Machine - 2001
Fulham Rd, London, United Kingdom
Swept Away - 2002
Azteca Latin Lounge
Revolver - 2005 RocknRolla - 2008
London SW6 1TB.
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The Imperial
The Blackbird
577 King’s Rd, Fulham, London SW6 2EH.
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The Malt House
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17 Vanston Pl, Fulham, London SW6 1AY.
1-3 Parsons Green, London.
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The Sands End
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Brasa
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158 Old Brompton Road, London.
Sherlock Holmes - 2009 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 2011
Awards Tokyo International Film Festival
Nominations Torino Film Festival
1998 - Won - Best Director Award - “Lock,
1998- Nominated - Best Feature Film - “Lock,
Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)”
Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)”
1998 - Nominated - Tokyo Grand Prix - “Lock,
British Independent Film Awards
Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)” London Critics Circle Film Awards 1999 - Won - British Screenwriter of
1998 - Nominated - Best British Director of an Independent Film - “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)”
the Year - “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
1998 - Nominated - Best Original
Barrels (1998)”
Screenplay by a British Writer of a Produced
Evening Standard British Film Awards 1999 - Won- Most Promising
Independent Film - “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)”
Newcomer - “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
MTV Movie Awards
Barrels (1998)”
1999 - Nominated - Worst Screenplay “Swept Away (2002)”
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - 2015
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - 2017
2000 - Won - Best Motion Picture - “Lock,
Dinard British Film Festival
Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)”
2000- Nominated - Golden Hitchcock
Empire Awards, UK
- “Snatch (2000)”
2001 - Won- Best British Director
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy &
- “Snatch (2000)”
Horror Films, USA
Razzie Awards 2003 - Won - Worst Director - “Swept Away (2002)”
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The trends he’d single-handedly kick-started were
and replaced by two Sherlock Holmes films with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, both of which
– football hooligan films and gangland massacre
were international hits. Next came The Man From
movies, with Danny Dyer replacing Statham as the
UNCLE, with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer,
genre’s figurehead.
which is released next week, followed by Knights
Nick Love stayed the course with films like The Football Factory and The Business. Danny
Article by Matt Patches “Cool” is a delicate cachet. It can’t be forced, but must be owned. Cool emerges from effortless effort. One overeager demonstration can sour the stature in an instant. Director Guy Ritchie stresses over this balancing act. “The danger of being cool is when the shine becomes a shade of smug,” the director tells Esquire. “I’m obsessed with not
The DC projects were moved to the back burner,
also turning sour. The Lock, Stock-aping crime capers had morphed into sullen “geezer-pleasers”
of the Roundtable: King Arthur in 2016. As such, Ritchie is a survivor of his own success.
Boyle broke free by parlaying his hyperactive
Even more than Boyle, his style translates well
style into genre cinema – first horror, in 28
to a blockbuster canvas – we just have to push
Days Later and Sunshine, then triumphs of the
through the muddy memories of TFI Friday,
human spirit stories (Slumdog Millionaire, 127
Loaded magazine, the Primrose Hill set and Tracy
Hours) that made him an Oscar-winner. Shane
Emin’s bed to realise it’s a style worth cherishing.
Meadows and Edgar Wright kept doing what
If you’re at a loose end tonight, and the DVDs
Shane Meadows and Edgar Wright always had,
are close to hand, put on Lock, Stock or Snatch.
and their fans remained faithful. British cinema
They’re more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
was in dire need of a rebirth. When Joanna
becoming smug. And I’m obsessed with my actors
Hogg made the haunting, angular family drama
not being so cool that they become, for lack of a
Unrelated in 2007 – arguably the first film of
better word, ‘cunts.’”
the present golden age of independent British
Ritchie makes cool movies. Not in the I’m-too-lazy-
film – its title said it all.
to-summon-a-specific-adjective way, but in the
Ritchie needed a rebirth, too, and to the surprise
maybe-this-is-the-definition-of-slick way. Cool. In
of some, it came quickly. The prolific American
films like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels,
producer Joel Silver reached out to him in early
Snatch, and Sherlock Holmes, Ritchie flips the bird
2007, with a view to bringing him into the fold at
to relentless style-over-substance criticisms. For
Warner Bros. to work on planned adaptations of
the 46-year-old Brit, style is substance. It’s not
the DC Comics properties Lobo and Sgt. Rock.
just what men do in his films, it’s how they do it.
Ritchie’s relationship with Warners began with
“I happen to think visual aesthetic is fundamental
what was effectively a soft reset of his film making
because I want to be nudged out of prosaic reality
circuits: he was given £10 million and came
into some version of poetic expression,” Ritchie
back with RocknRolla, a serviceable, London-set
says to me over lunch at New York City’s fittingly
ensemble mob caper in the style of his early work.
sleek Bowery Hotel garden.
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Ask Ritchie once what gives his movies a
“He’ll make gestures that are silly, but
while Kuryakin, seen only through the
rewriting the rulebook on cool.” Which he’s doing
center of cool gravity and he’ll chalk it up to
simultaneously cool. We debated: Is that silly or
reflection of a truck window, outruns a
at this very moment—with the movie’s New York
gut instincts. Ask him twice (again, not cool)
cool? As long as [the gestures] are manifested by
fleet of speedboat-enabled bad guys who
premiere behind, Ritchie is readying to resume
and the director’s calculations come to light.
the right agent, they become silly and cool.
want him dead. Cool.
work on his in-production fantasy film Knights of
For U.N.C.L.E., it was all about Napoleon Solo. But unlike every other lead character from Ritchie’s career, Solo was American. That was a problem for the director.
Silly is what keeps cool from having the
The period setting also gave Ritchie the freedom
unpleasant odor of smug.” Ritchie wouldn’t have
to luxuriate in a different walk of life. There
the Roundtable: King Arthur. It’s been a challenge. King Arthur is a good guy.
made U.N.C.L.E. if he couldn’t embed the action
were the film making perks—as a lover of early
Good guys are boring, he says. So how do you
in 1960s Italy. On one hand, he wanted to force
Bond movies, the director wanted to give his
give Arthur an edge? Tether his tale to kids
“We made a conscious effort to make him
himself to change his act. Super slow-motion is
movie the same cobbled-together feel of the
coming out of canceled flats in London. Make
European cool.” European cool? “Table manners,
one of Ritchie’s go-to maneuvers. In U.N.C.L.E.
Sean Connery entries—and the pace that
life harder. He may not fit in a fancy suit or sip
really.” Ritchie gets American cool—the James
there was a conscious effort to avoid it, replaced
made European Cool.
Dean vibe, maybe a blue-collar ruggedness—but
by mod split-screen, shaggy zooms, and,
it doesn’t appeal to him. He wanted his Solo
occasionally, nothing at all. After deciding that a
to be a man with a sense of style, a dash of
majority of boat chases look awful, Ritchie decided
camp, and a few world destinations stamped
to modify the one he wrote for the movie.
in his passport. “I love Americans who spent time in Europe”.
Once, while staying at George Clooney’s Lake Como villa during a commercial shoot, Ritchie watched several Italian builders on their lunch break. “Their lunch spread was so sophisticated,”
“The idea of being out for a week, shooting
he recalls in awe. There were tablecloths, there
something that no one gave a cuss about,
were linen napkins, there were three types of
It was moments like when Solo performs the
quickly became about something else—I
bread, there were cheeses from various regions,
classic tablecloth trick that kept Ritchie up at
wasn’t interested in an action beat.” What
there was specificity. He could only dream of making Napoleon Solo that cool.
night. Cool or smug? “It was important that a man
he designed instead is the movie’s shining
is prepared to look like a tick because he’s got
moment: a lively sequence in which Solo dines
swagger,” the director says.
on a picnic lunch
Campari and grapefruit by the racetracks, but he can still be cool. “We’re trying to capture something that we think the Arthur parable was about,” Ritchie says. He snaps his fingers. There it is. That’s the tone. Cool.
Ritchie insists there is no objective cool, no matter how much U.N.C.L.E. seems to own it in the eyes of this less-than-cool reporter. “It
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Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Plot/ Synopsis Director
Guy Ritchie
Writers
Guy Ritchie
Producers Stars
Matthew Vaughn Benicio Del Toro Dennis Farina Vinnie Jones Brad Pitt Jason Statham Rade Serbedzija
Music Cinematography Editor Release date
John Murphy Tim Maurice-Jones Jon Harris 23 August 2000
Long-time friends; Bacon, Soap, Tom and Eddie decide to put together
Prior to the card game, a pair of lowlife criminals, Gary and Dean, were hired
£100,000 to play 3 card brag against “Hatchet” Harry Lonsdale - a porn king
by Barry to rob a bankrupt millionaire for Harry, who wanted a specific pair
of notorious disposition - in a high-stakes card game in the hopes of winning
of antique shotguns from the stolen pile for his personal collection. The two
easy money. Aided by Barry “the Baptist”, Harry’s personal bodyguard and
guns that Harry wanted, however, were the ones that Gary and Dean sold
counselor, the game is fixed so that Eddie, the card shark representing
prematurely to Nick after the robbery. An enraged Barry then threatens the
the group, loses to Harry and is forced to pay a £500,000 debt within one
two into getting them back. The neighbors’ heist goes underway; Dog, the
week, citing the loss of fingers and Eddie’s father’s bar if he fails to pay.
leader of the gang, learned of the weed chemists from one of the members,
To Eddie’s fortune, and the dismay of his friends, all four of the group are
and uses his connections to the group to catch them off guard. Despite
tasked with honoring this debt, as they were all responsible for fronting the
having a gang member killed by his own Bren Gun, and an incriminating
stake money. Harrys loyal and violent debt collector, Big Chris - who often
encounter with a traffic warden, the job is otherwise a success. Unfortunately
brings his son and apprentice, Little Chris, to his work - is assigned to collect
as they come back to the hideout, the four friends ambush the neighbors
the payment on the due date.
and take the loot, who later return that night to stash the goods next door,
After several days and no ideas to come up with the money, Eddie returns home and overhears his neighbors, a gang of thieves known for robbing drug
and then celebrate with a wild night of drinking. The various characters finally collide when Rory discovers that the weed he
dealers, planning a heist on some marijuana growers supposedly loaded with
was going to purchase was in fact his; the weed chemists that were robbed
cash and drugs. Eddie relays this information to the group, intending for all
were under his employ. Rory interrogates Nick into revealing where the four
of them to rob the neighbors as they come back from their heist, therefore
friends live, and uses one of the chemists to identify the robbers.
solving the debt. Tom uses his connection with an underground dealer, known as Nick “the Greek”, to provide them with guns for the job, and to find someone to help them move the drugs. Nick then manages to acquire a pair of antique shotguns, and arrange a deal with Rory Breaker, a gangster and sociopath, to purchase the stolen weed.
Ritchie’s colour-desaturated style, use of unusual background music, scattershot slang (some subtitled) and mostly tasteful black comedy give the whole film the feel of an altered state of perception, whether it be Eddy’s shaky devastation at running up the debt or the various spells of drunkenness, dope trancing or adrenalin rush that smite all characters. And it ends with the best bit of dangling since The Italian Job.
That same morning, Dog has become furious at having been cheated and, during a tirade, he launches one of his men into a wall, who discovers (through the hole he makes as a result) various sound recording equipment;
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Its bravura and backbone came from swaggering
But they were leaner, scrappier, almost exclusively
The bursts of slow-motion and fast-motion,
dramas of alpha-male-hood like Alfie and
masculine, far more badly behaved, and
freeze-frames and quick cuts were ideal for
Performance, but it was softened with the same
working-class down to the marrow. The most
Ritchie’s purposes. They were visceral fun, but
kind of infectious energy of Richard Lester’s
persistent criticism levelled at Ritchie’s work is
they also allowed him to keep his characters’
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Beatles films – and perhaps even brushed by the
that the director is a “mockney”, with roots in
hearts and souls at arm’s length. When Vinnie
Review by Roger Ebert
manic comedy of the BBC radio series,
a far more elevated social strata than his East
Jones’s mob enforcer Big Chris solemnly intones
Guy Ritchie made a smashing directorial debut
The Goon Show, with its thickly accented cast of half-recognizable grotesques. It’s his irony-free affection for popular mid-century movie culture that makes Ritchie’s The Man From UNCLE makes perfect sense. He might be the only director
“It’s been emotional” at the end of Lock,
with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The film
What to do? Eddy and his mates eavesdrop on
Stock, the moment works as a self-aware
centered around four low life protagonists ( Jason
neighbors in the next flat--criminals who are
both married into the aristocracy after their
punchline – because, of course, it hasn’t.
divorce. You can’t imagine this being a source of anxiety anywhere other than Britain.
But the lack of emotional depth to Lock, Stock’s storyline was more than made up for by the
working today who’s capable of warming up
What Boyle also brought to the party, which
brio of its telling. Ritchie’s screenplay juggles
the source material.
Ritchie went on to gleefully pilfer, was the
four separate gangs, plus various supporting
Back in the Lock, Stock days, Ritchie’s contemporaries were Danny Boyle, Nick Love and Shane Meadows – and, to a lesser extent, Edgar Wright, Jonathan Glazer, and Ritchie’s old producing partner Matthew Vaughn. He started work on Lock, Stock in 1995, adapting it from his own 20-minute short film Hard Case, with money invested in part by Trudie Styler (which explains the presence of husband, Sting, in the film). By this point Boyle and Meadows were already in business: Boyle’s first feature, Shallow Grave had won a Bafta that year, while Meadows was shooting his own debut, a crime comedy called Small Time, in Nottingham.Those films felt as intensely British as the likes of Four Weddings and a Funeral and a run of genteel period dramas crowned by Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility,
over a pub belonging to Eddy’s father (Sting).
End-based characters: he grew up in the Home Counties, was privately schooled, and his parents
aggressively snappy visual style that was
hoodlums and scumbags, with total ease. And
flourishing in the British TV advertising and
his dialogue, with its boozy blend of street slang,
Statham & co.) who get entangled in a high stakes
planning to rob a rich drug dealer. Meanwhile,
card game. Guy Ritchie uses a rapidly paced
Barry assigns two dimwits to steal a couple of
narrative , multiple characters , great dialogue to
priceless antique shotguns for Harry.
give us a memorable movie . With this movie he established a definitive style of his, which he used to great effect in his other movies as well. The card game which is the turning point of the
The shotguns end up in the hands of Eddy and friends, who steal the drug money from the other thieves, and then--but you get the idea. Or maybe you don’t. The movie, which is an enormous
music-video businesses in the early Nineties. The
patter and patois, is endlessly quotable and
film is brilliantly shot with a dizzying editing effect
hit in Britain, had its American premiere at the
style was pioneered in part by Jonathan Glazer
frequently hilarious.
aptly summing up the protagonist’s perplexed
Sundance Film Festival, where I lost track of
– Blur’s Clockwork Orange-inspired video for The Universal and the iconic Guinness surfer ad were both his – and Glazer would make his own Cool Britannia film, Sexy Beast, in 2000, before Birth and Under the Skin took him into stranger, more threatening territory.
Even the character names were jokes: Lock, Stock and its 2000 follow-up, Snatch, introduce us to the likes of Barry the Baptist (so-called for his penchant for drownings), Boris the Blade (a.k.a. Boris the Bullet-Dodger), Franky Four Fingers, Bullet-Tooth Tony, Bacon and Soap. Lock, Stock’s story is a moral one, but it finds a rich seam of black humour in its characters’ moral failings, and its cliffhanger ending – a proud callback to The Italian Job’s teetering bus – leaves them suspended, like the East End gangland equivalent of Schrödinger’s Cat, between glorious success and even more glorious failure.
state of mind. Ritchie should also be credited for
the plot and some of the dialogue. Seeing it
introducing us to two charismatic actors Jason
again recently, I found the dialogue easier to
Statham and ex-footballer Vinnie Jones. Vinnie
understand, and the labyrinthine plot became
Jones is particularly memorable in his role as
a little clearer--although it’s designed to fold
‘Big Chris’ the hit-man who takes his son ‘Little
back upon itself with unexpected connections.
Chris‘ for some on the job training. The film also
The actors seem a little young for this milieu;
features a host of other shady characters who
they seem to be playing grown-up. Tarantino’s
represent a part of the seedy London underworld.
“Reservoir Dogs’’ had characters with mileage
The movie is about a poker player named Eddy
on them, played by veterans like Harvey Keitel,
(Nick Moran), who is bankrolled by three friends
Lawrence Tierney and Michael Madsen. But
for a high-stakes game with Hatchet Harry (P.H.
the heroes of “Lock’’ (Jason Flemyng, Dexter
Moriarity), a gambling and porn kingpin. Harry cheats, Eddy runs up an enormous debt, and Harry’s giant enforcer, Barry the Baptist
which had been box-office hits in the early
Fletcher, Jason Statham and Moran) seem a little downy-cheeked to be moving in such weathered circles.
Eddie: “They’re armed.” Soap: “What was that? Armed? What do you mean armed? Armed with what?” Eddie: “Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster… what do you think they’re gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!”
And as the cast expands to include the next-door
where you naturally play Spot the Influence:
neighbors and the drug dealers, there are times
Tarantino, of course, and a dash of Hong
when, frankly, we wish everybody would wear
Kong action pictures, and the old British crime
name tags (“Hi! I’m the effete ganja grower!’’)
comedies like “The Lavender Hill Mob.’’
I was convinced, however, by Harry and
The director, Guy Ritchie, says his greatest
Barry--and also by Harry’s collector, Big Chris,
inspiration was “The Long Good Friday’’ (1980), the
who is played by a soccer star named Vinnie
Cockney crime movie that made a star out of Bob
Jones who became famous for squeezing in his
Hoskins. Lurking beneath all the other sources,
vice-like grip that part of an opponent’s anatomy
I suspect, is “Night and the City’’ (1950), Jules
that most quickly gains his full attention. They
Dassin’s masterful noir, also about crime in the
seem plausible as East End vice retailers--seamy,
East End, also with a crime kingpin who employs
cynical, middle-aged professionals in a heartless
a giant bruiser. By the end of it all, as you’re
business. I also liked the movie’s sense of fun. The
reeling while trying to make sense of the plot,
soundtrack uses a lot of rock music and narration
“Lock, Stock, etc.’’ seems more like an exercise
to flaunt its attitude, it keeps most of the violence
in style than anything else. And so it is. We don’t
off-screen, and it’s not above throwaway gags.
care much about the characters (I felt more actual
While Eddy plays poker, for example, his three
affection for the phlegmatic bouncer, Barry the
friends go next door to a pub.
Baptist, than for any of the heroes).We realize that
A man on fire comes staggering out of the door. They look at him curiously, shrug, and go in. The pub is named Samoa Joe’s, which
the film’s style stands outside the material and is lathered on top (there are freeze frames, jokey subtitles, speed-up and slo-mo).
seems like a sideways nod to “Pulp Fiction’’. I sometimes feel, I confess, as if there’s a Tarantino reference in every third movie made these days. “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’’ is the kind of movie of
(Lenny McLean), explains that he will start
Cool Britannia days.
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Editor Release date
there, and Cruise walked in. He saw them all
the guns was added because, someone forgot
sit up and pay attention,all getting on their
to bring the guns!
phones and suddenly all these senior executives
“Have you forgotten those guns, you dozy prat?”
joined the screening … At the end, Tom got up
Bacon (Jason Statham) asks when the guys are
U.S., and the instigator of a new cycle of rough
in front of everyone and said ‘This is the best
preparing to rob the other gang of robbers, about
British crime comedies. Not bad for a guy’s
movie I’ve seen in years, you guys would be
73 minutes into the film. As it turns out, someone
first feature film. Grab a cup of tea and enjoy
fools not to buy it.’
these tidbits about some of London’s most unsavory characters.
Ritchie had Statham make a joke out of it.
When Mr. Jolie sees a movie he loves, he’s been
6.Jason Statham was selling fake perfume
known to call the person who made it. That’s
on the street when Guy Ritche found him.
Sting, found the screenplay in the mid-1990s and
exactly what he did with Guy Ritchie. “He called
Statham was doing some modeling work in the
basically loved it. What she didn’t love was the
me and told me that he wanted to be part of
mid-1990s, but to supplement his income he
presentation: “It wasn’t an easy read,” she said. “It
whatever I was doing next,” the director said. That
also sold fake jewelry and perfume on street
was a very long, rambling screenplay with terrible
turned out to be Snatch. Pitt and Ritchie remain
corners—“hustling,” as he put it. It was in this
typos, and really poorly presented.” Fortunately,
friends to this day (or to the day of that 2013
capacity that he was introduced to Ritchie,
the substance of what Ritchie was trying to
Esquire interview, anyway).
who needed a con artist for Lock, Stock and
achieve shone through his inelegant presentation. He’d also made a short film, “The Hard Case,” that showed Styler his potential.
Two Smoking Barrels, and who’d already cast
4. The budget started at £20,000,000 and was
Statham’s friend, Vinnie Jones. It was the
gradually reduced to £800,000.
beginning of Statham’s acting career, and
The initial budget was probably unrealistic for a
2.Tom Cruise helped get it released in
first-time filmmaker anyway, though it’s indicative
the United States.
of how highly regarded Ritchie’s screenplay was
presumably the end of his fake-perfume-and-jewelry-vending career.
The film was having trouble finding an American
After a flurry of excitement, and even some
7. Ray Winston was supposed to play
distributor when Trudie Styler called an acquain-
auditions and casting, much of the financing fell
Hatchet Harry.
tance of hers, a movie star named Tom Cruise.
through and the project was postponed. Ritchie
The English character actor was originally
Cruise went to the screening, surrounded by
started making cuts and found new backers,
cast in the role, but had to drop out when the
suits and number-crunchers, and was a vocal and
but it took a couple years. By that time, the slick
aforementioned delays screwed up the schedule.
enthusiastic viewer. Producer Matthew Vaughn
production had become a scrappy, low-budget
He was replaced by P.H. Moriarty.
later recalled, “It was hysterical.
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None of the movie’s cast members were involved,
test screenings.
and all of the characters except Bacon were
The movie originally left things open-ended, with
renamed (or maybe it’s a different Bacon, who
the four main characters walking off with the
knows?). Guy Ritchie co-wrote the pilot but
money and Big Chris (Vinnie Jones) and his son
otherwise was not heavily involved.
about to follow them to get it back. Test audiences didn’t care for it. Scrambling, Ritchie came up with the new, more elaborate finale (written “on the back of a [cigarette] packet,” according to star Nick Moran, who played Eddy), and the cast was reassembled to film it some months after the initial shoot had ended. One problem: Jason Flemyng, who plays Tom, had grown his hair out for another project and couldn’t cut it, which is why Tom wears a stocking cap in the last several minutes of the movie.
10. Madonna liked the soundtrack so much she released it on her record label (and then married the director) The Queen of Pop was among the movie’s famous fans, and was particularly fond of its eclectic Brit-rock soundtrack. She contacted Ritchie and producer Matthew Vaughn and asked if her label, Maverick, could release the film’s soundtrack in the U.S. Ritchie said she “wined and dined” them in Hollywood a few times, but that it was Vaughn she was romantically
9.Supermodel Claudia Schiffer was left on
interested in, not him. Madonna and Ritchie did
the cutting room floor.
start dating, though. They were married in 2000
She played Eddy’s girlfriend but was cut from the film entirely after test screenings. (The movie doesn’t have much use for female characters in general.) Happy ending, though: it was here that she met producer Matthew Vaughn, whom she later married. 10. It was turned into a TV show.
(and divorced in 2008) 10.Of the 44 speaking roles, at least 17 were played by people who’d never acted before
Mickey O’Neil (Brad Pitt), referred to as a “pikey”, arms-dealer Boris “the
Tim Maurice-Jones Niven Howie
inexpensive) fledgling actors. A handful of them,
centering on the occasionally criminal adventures
Jones, went on to have acting careers. Several
of four friends who run a London pub called The
others didn’t, either staying behind the scenes or
Lock, just like the movie.
leaving the business altogether..
Boris gives Franky a revolver in exchange for a favour: Franky is to place a bet on Boris’ behalf at Brick Top’s bookies. Avi, knowing Franky has a gambling problem, flies to London with his bodyguard “Rosebud” to claim the diamond
Bullet-Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones). It is also distinguished by a kinetic direction
personally. Boris hires Vinny and Sol, two small-time crooks, to rob Franky
and editing style, a circular plot featuring numerous ironic twists of chance
while he is at the bookies. The robbery goes awry and Sol, Vinny, and their
and causality, and a fast pace. The film shares themes, ideas and motifs with
driver Tyrone are caught on-camera, but manage to kidnap Franky.
Ritchie’s first film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It is also filmed in the same visual style and features many of the same
Instead of throwing the fight, Mickey knocks his opponent out with a single punch. Infuriated, Brick Top robs Turkish of his savings and
actors, including Jones, Statham, and Ford .After stealing an 86-carat (17.2
demands that Mickey fight again, and lose this time. Meanwhile, Boris
g) diamond in a heist in Antwerp, Franky “Four-Fingers” goes to London
retrieves the diamond and murders Franky with a pistol. Brick Top tracks
to see diamond dealer Doug “The Head” on behalf of New York jeweler
down Sol, Vinny, Tyrone, and their friend, Yardie “Bad Boy” Lincoln and
“Cousin Avi”. One of the other robbers advises Franky to obtain a gun
plans on killing them for robbing his bookies. Sol bargains for their lives
from ex-KGB agent Boris “The Blade”. Unbeknown to Franky, Boris and
by promising Brick Top the stolen diamond, and is given 48 hours to
the robber are brothers and plan to steal the diamond from him before
retrieve it. Avi and Doug hire “Bullet-Tooth” Tony to help them find Franky.
he can turn it over to Doug.
When the trail leads to Boris,
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Franky Four Fingers: “So the Biblical scholars mis-translated the Hebrew word for “young woman” into the Greek word for “virgin,” which was a pretty easy mistake to make, since there is only a subtle difference in the spelling. But back then it was the “virgin” that caught people’s attention. It’s not every day a virgin conceives and bears a son. So you keep that for a couple of hundred years, and the next thing you know, you have the Holy Catholic church.”
Eddy: “They’re armed.” Soap: “What was that? Armed? What do you mean armed? Armed with what?” Eddy: “Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster... what do you think they’re gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!”
they kidnap him and retrieve the diamond, closely pursued by Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. Coincidentally Turkish and Tommy are driving on the same stretch of road at the time. When Tommy throws Turkish’s carton of milk out of their car window; it splashes over Tony’s windscreen, causing him to crash and killing Rosebud in the process. Boris escapes from the wreck only to be hit by Tyrone’s car. Tony and Avi are confronted by Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone at a pub where Tony realizes that the trio’s pistols are replicas, which he contrasts with his real handgun and intimidates them into leaving. The wounded Boris arrives with an assault rifle with a grenade launcher looking for the diamond back but is shot and killed by Tony, wounding Tyrone at the same time. Sol and Vinny leave a wounded Tyrone and escape with the diamond, which Vinny hides in his pants. When Tony catches up to them, they tell him that the diamond is back at their pawn shop. Once there, they produce the diamond, but it is promptly swallowed by a dog that Vinny got from the travelers. Avi fires at the fleeing dog, accidentally killing Tony. He gives up and returns to New York. Mickey refuses to fight again unless Turkish buys a better caravan for his mother, but Turkish has no money left since Brick Top stole his savings. Furious, Brick Top has his men vandalize Turkish’s gambling arcade and burn down Mickey’s mother’s caravan while she is asleep inside. Mickey agrees to fight to avoid more carnage, but gets so drunk after his mother’s wake that Turkish fears he will not make it to the fourth round. If he fails to go down as agreed, Brick Top’s men will execute Turkish, Tommy, Mickey, and the entire campsite of travelers. Mickey makes it to the fourth round, when he suddenly knocks out his opponent. Outside the arena, Brick Top and
camera. He also cast a lot of unknown (read: like Statham and former soccer player Vinnie
a new caravan for Mickey’s mother. Brick Top agrees to the change on the condition that Mickey throws the fight in the fourth round.
Franky “Four-Fingers” (Benicio del Toro), American gangster-jeweller Abraham Denovitz known as “Cousin Avi” (Dennis Farina), and bounty hunter
Doug the Head: “Avi!” Avi: “Shut up and sit down, you big, bald fuck. I don’t like leaving my own country, Doug, and I especially don’t like leaving it for anything less then warm sandy beaches, and cocktails with little straw hats.” Doug the Head: “We’ve got sandy beaches...” Avi: “So? Who the fuck wants to see ‘em? I hope you appreciate the concern I have for my friend Franky, Doug. I’m gonna find him, and you’re gonna help me find him, and we’re gonna start at that fight.”
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Lock, Stock (as it was called) ran for seven
The film features an assortment of characters, including Irish Traveller Blade” Yurinov (Rade Šerbedžija), professional thief and gambling addict
John Murphy
even put crew members to work in front of the
episodes in the U.K. in the summer of 2000,
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his partner Tommy and Gorgeous George to purchase a caravan from a group of Irish Travelers, George gets into a fight with Mickey O’Neil, a
gangster (Alan Ford) who is ready and willing to have his subordinates carry out severe and sadistic acts of violence.
I don’t care if he’s Muhammad “I’m hard” Bruce Lee. You can’t change fighters.
had indeed neglected to bring the prop guns to
1.Mrs.Sting helped get it made. Trudie Styler, a producer, actress, and wife of
persuades gangster “Brick Top” to put boxer “Gorgeous George” in a matchup against one of Brick Top’s boxers. However, when Turkish sends
with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter (Jason Statham) who finds himself under the thumb of a ruthless
Steven Mackintosh
David A. Hughes
Meanwhile, boxing promoter and slot machine shop owner Turkish
directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots: one dealing
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3.Brad Pitt was a fan, thats why he’s in Snatch!
Snatch (stylized as snatch.) is a 2000 British crime comedy film written and
Vinnie Jones
23 August 1998
5.The joke about someone forgetting to bring
You had all these mid-level executives sitting
guy who made Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
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his men are killed by the travelers. Mickey has bet on himself to win, and waited until the fourth round to allow the travelers time to ambush and kill Brick Top’s men at the campsite.
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Film Review by Elvis Mitchell Apart from its (barely) double-entente title,
They include Boris the Blade (Rade Sherbedgia),
Mr. Pitt shoplifts the mumbling throwaways that
There’s no getting past Mr. Ritchie’s visual
‘’Snatch’’ qualifies as unusual because it’s a
who’s such a legendary figure that he has an
made Mr. Del Toro’s reputation in ‘’The Usual
trickery. This director uses punchy music-video
film in which Brad Pitt’s accent is better than
additional sobriquet, Boris the Bullet Dodger;
Suspects.’’ It’s a self-conscious device, Mr. Pitt’s
techniques as storytelling aids, and they seem
Benicio Del Toro’s. This spicy comic strip without
Cousin Avi (Dennis Farina); Bullet Tooth Tony
mockery of himself and the responses to his
less compulsively exhibitionist than in his debut
an ounce of fat is Guy Ritchie’s return to the
(Vinnie Jones); and Franky Four Fingers (Mr. Del
less-than-successful attempt at an Irish brogue
feature. ‘’Snatch’’ includes more entrances than
milieu of his debut feature, ‘’Lock, Stock and Two
Toro). Franky’s hunger for and ineptitude at
in ‘’The Devil’s Own.’’ His brio is a reminder of
Joan Crawford made in her entire career.
Smoking Barrels’’: the London streets of guys,
gambling explains his nickname and his injury.
guns and ill-gotten gains. ‘’Snatch’’ seems almost anachronistic now, a relic of a bygone era when the Brits again ruled pop culture, when the music of Oasis was everywhere and ‘’Trainspotting’’ was all the rage. (Ewen Bremner, from that film’s cast, has a brief role in ‘’Snatch.’’)
When you hear names like these, you wonder if Mr. Ritchie picked the pockets of Damon Runyon
how adept he is at low comedy; Mr. Pitt has a scene-stealing bit close in style to his turn as a toasted stoner in ‘’True Romance.’’
and Chester Gould got the contents all mixed up
‘’Snatch’’ scurries through its paces like a con on
and used them anyway. Snatch’’ follows the path
the lam, though the film seems less pleased with
of a stolen diamond through the hands, pockets
itself than ‘’Lock’’ and gives the actors a bit more
and minds of a group of criminals from all walks
room. This movie toys with cartoon violence and
By bringing back actors from ‘’Lock’’ and revisiting
of the lower depths: pawnbrokers, gun brokers
shows its repercussions, as when Tommy finds
the not-so-mean streets of London, Mr. Ritchie
and jewel merchants.
himself trapped in a nightmare in the Gypsy
seems to be stepping backward when he should be moving ahead. He gives this picture a little more emotional weight, but not so much that it gets in the way of its entertaining swagger. This is ‘’The Long Good Friday’’ as conceived for
The complicated twist of a plot mainly centers on Turkish (Jason Statham) and his pal, Tommy (Stephen Graham), a pair of small-time hoods and illegal boxing promoters who just want to buy a trailer in a misadventure that inevitably intersects
camp: a tear rolls down this would-be tough guy’s cheek as the Stranglers’ song ‘’Golden Brown’’ plays for counterpoint. And Mickey has the tables turned on him in a horrific scene. There are moments when Mr. Ritchie exploits
the men’s magazine Maxim, with a special music
with all of the other nefarious goings-on. At a
the plot’s comic and dramatic possibilities: for
remix; the restless soundtrack ranges from the
Gypsy camp, where they go to buy the trailer, they
example, any time the magnificently ferocious
Massive Attack to Oasis to Maceo and the Macks.
meet Mickey (Mr. Pitt), a hustler whose scams
Mr. Ford surfaces. Actors wait a lifetime to
Mr. Ritchie seizes the bespoke machismo of
drag them into a circle that includes Brick Top
get material this good, and he chomps down
British gangster movies and gives it an action
(Alan Ford), a proudly bloodthirsty thug with a
hard on it; you can almost see the remains of
picture’s ferocity.
menacing expanse of teeth that may be the finest
Brick Top’s foes between his teeth. And Mr.
The effort is hyper-real, and he plays it for comic potential. Everything clicks into place by the end, though, in what is literally a shaggy dog story, with
example of dentition in England.
Tommy: “Are you saying I can’t shoot?” Turkish: “No Tommy, I’m not saying you can’t shoot. I know you can’t shoot. I’m saying that six-pound piece of shit stuck in your trousers would do more damage if you fed it to him.”
Jones, the soccer player Mr. Ritchie made a star in ‘’Lock,’’ has a fussiness that offsets his gargantuan presence.
a cast of characters with florid names.
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Fun Trivia The word “fuck” is said 163 times. Franky Four-Fingers changes into four different outfits during the short telephone conversation to cousin Avi. Throughout the movie, Turkish (Jason Statham) makes comments to Tommy (Stephen Graham) about his getting a gun for protection from “Ze Germans”. Graham also played Sgt. Myron
Boris the Blade pulls a large cleaver from his belt. Soap did the same thing in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), another Guy Ritchie movie.
Film Review by William Thomas
Jason Flemyng joked that the working conditions on this film were so terrible that Brad Pitt’s trailer was picketed by Amnesty International as not being fit for someone to live in.
On the face of it – well, if you believe the movie
Problem is, he spectacularly fails to communicate
posters, anyway – Guy Ritchie’s returned to his
exactly what those ideas are. It’s all got something
comfort zone with Revolver, after a disastrous
to do with the con as a game – one that
sojourn beyond very edge of credibility with
also follows the rules of business – and
‘Mike’ Ranney in the series Band of Brothers
The producers couldn’t afford enough extras for
2002’s Swept Away. Revolver’s populated with the
the importance of knowing who your worst
(2001), although Snatch was released a year
the boxing match sequences. Whenever a camera
same breed of fast-talking, sharp-suited criminal
opponent/enemy is. Or understanding that your
prior to the series. Brad Pitt, who was a big fan of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), approached
angle changed, the extras had to move around to
that entertained so many of us in Lock, Stock and
worst enemy is actually you. And convincing
create an impression of a crowded house.
Snatch, the story hinges on gambles and cons and
them/you that they’re/you’re not. Or really
the violence is strong and stylish. Plus, of course,
are. Or something.
When Guy Ritchie told Brad Pitt that he would be
director Guy Ritchie and asked for a role in
playing a boxer, Pitt became concerned because
this film. When Ritchie found Pitt couldn’t
he had just finished shooting Fight Club (1999)
master a London accent, he gave him the role
and did not want to play the same type of role
of Mickey the Gypsy.
again. Pitt took the role anyway because he
The film’s title only appears once throughout
Ritchie’s favorite leading man, Jason ‘Transporter’ Statham is back, too, albeit with the kind of hair/’tache combo that makes him look like an extra in a Spaghetti Western.
wanted to work with Ritchie so badly.
the entire movie, where Vinny (Robbie Gee) tells
Lennie James actually hit himself in his private
the dog, “Don’t Snatch!” as it takes the squeaky
parts with the shotgun while blasting a hole in the
toy. It is said to the dog because it’s the dog who
wall at the bookies, but continued the scene. That
eats the diamond.
footage was used in the film.
fun, skewed characters, like André Benjamin’s chess-dabbling loan shark and Mark Strong’s stuttering, balding hitman.
then, just for good measure, a final one from Machiavelli. Some of which are repeated later in
During the opening credits, the Hasidic-clad
To keep things in order during production,
the movie, just in case you missed them first time
director Guy Ritchie introduced a system of
around. He’s been doing a lot of reading, that Guy
This is a reference to Reservoir Dogs (1992),
fines on set. There were fines for mobile phones
Ritchie. Yup, he’s certainly been filling his head
where during the opening scene the thieves are
ringing, arriving late, taking naps during shooting,
with some very complex ideas, and has admitted
discussing the Madonna song “Like a Virgin”.
being “cheeky”, being unfunny, and/or moaning
even he found it tough to weave them all together
and complaining. One staff member was even
and turn them into his Revolver script – a process
charged for letting the craft service table run
that took him 18 months.
Every mistake that Sol, Vincent and Tyrone make about real-life crimes gone horribly wrong.
repeated references to a Keyser Soze-esque underworld phantom), introducing us to some
Followed by another from the Fundamentals Of Chess. Then another from a business guide. And
diamond thieves are discussing the Virgin Mary.
were inspired by various late-night TV shows
It kicks off intriguingly enough with no doubt deliberate echoes of The Usual Suspects (via
Good news, no? Wellll… The first warning sign comes with an opening quote from Julius Caesar.
But it’s not long before an overload of red herrings start stinking up a show already hindered by Statham’s overused voiceover, Ritchie’s
Jake Green: “A part of me dies every time I think about it. These sick bastards are making me pay, pay for my own pain. Why are they dragging this on…Why don’t they just clean me out in one hit,They want me to suffer.”
tiresomely tricky editing and Ray Liotta’s seeming desire to shout himself to death. By the final act, all pretense at logic is shrugged off, Revolver’s plotline contorting itself into the cinematic equivalent of a scribble on a maze in a child’s puzzle book. You’d do better to skip attempting this conundrum and stick with your Su Doku.
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Interview with Guy Ritchie Where did the inspiration for
Plot/ Synopsis Director
Guy Ritchie
Writers
Guy Ritchie Luc Besson
Producers Stars
Virginie Beson Silla Jason Statham Ray Liotta Vincent Pastore André Benjamin Terence Maynard Andrew Howard
Music
Nathaniel Méchaly
Cinematography
Tim Maurice-Jones
Editor
Romesh Aluwihare Ian Differ James Herbert
Release date
11 September 2005
Jake Green (Jason Statham) is in prison in solitary confinement for seven
Jake enters Macha’s casino with his brothers in tow, and is swiftly summoned
years. He has two mysterious characters serving solitary in cells on either
before Macha to play a game of chance. En route to Macha’s game, they
side of him (one a con man, the other a chess master). While in solitary,
must take an elevator up 22 floors, where it is revealed Jake suffers from
Jake and the other two exchange thoughts on chess and the perfect con via
extreme claustrophobia following his years in solitary, and must suppress an
handwritten messages slipped inside of provisional books that the three
anxiety attack to make the journey. At the game, Jake beats him in a game of
share. Jake comes to learn the makings of a perfect con, but never fully
chance, humiliating Macha. Fearing more of the same, Macha wants revenge
grasps its depth and relevancy to him until much, much later. In the course
and orders a hit on Jake. As Jake and his brothers leave the casino, Jake is
of these exchanges, Jake reveals a lot about himself to the other two. Jake
approached by a mysterious man (Zach), who offers him assistance and
never meets these two men face to face. The two prisoners plan to break out of prison and agree to break Jake out as well. The next day, the two escape, leaving Jake behind. He feels cheated.
hands him a note reading “take the elevator.” Jake cannot face the return journey and opts to take the stairs, but blacks out unexpectedly, falls down the stairs and is rushed to the hospital. The
Jake remains in prison while the two escaped convicts steal all the money
doctors report he is very ill but do not disclose why he had the blackout.
Jake had hidden “on the outside”. They trusted Jake with the formula; Jake
Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake, asking professional killer Sorter
trusted them as to the whereabouts of his money...a LOT of money. They
(Mark Strong) to take care of things. Jake arrives home, without Billy, to be
take the money, leaving in its place, a message on a card: The first rule of any
welcomed by one of Macha’s hits. Jake is the only one who survives, being
game, you can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent. Cut to two years later. When Jake gets out of prison, broke and penniless, he starts to practice what he understands of the formula and of the con he learned from his time in solitary. Its very successful and he does very well in
rescued by the mysterious Zach. Sorter is confounded by Jake’s escape and survival, unaccustomed to his hits going wrong, which instigates a quiet, intense process of self-questioning in the otherwise passionless killer. Zach takes Jake to his equally mysterious partner, Avi, who produces the
world of gambling, he seemingly learned a valuable lesson from the two con
results of his hospital tests and informs him that he is in desperate physical
men inside. Once Jake is up on his feet again (financially speaking), he takes
trouble from an internal disease, with only three days to live. He tells Jake he
on his nemesis the power hungry Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta).
and his partner can save him from both Macha and his physical aliment.
“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”
allegory for life? It’s funny, I never expected as a writer-director
sounds cool. So I like the name but I also like
to end up talking about high-falutin’ concepts. I
the concept that, if you’re in a game, it keeps
got into filmmaking because I was interested in
how you can trick the mind and the individual,
revolving until you realize that you are in a game
making entertaining movies, which I felt there
and this concept was so audacious, so radical,
and then maybe you can start evolving. The
was a lack of. Jake Green isn’t just Jake Green.
that I was attracted to say the least. The formula
film is based on the formula of a game: where
Jake represents all of us. The color green is the
of the con is quite simple – you seduce people
does the game start, where does it stop and
central column of the spectrum and the name
by their own greed. We can all be conned but at
who’s conning who.
and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned. There was a famous book called The Big Con, which works on the formula that it is impossible to con an honest man. I was attracted to that idea too. The great challenge then was
“The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.”
to take an intellectual concept and clothe it in an exciting, action-packed narrative because concepts are not necessarily interesting to look at. It’s important that the film delivers on an
—Fundamentals of Chess 1883
entertaining level. What you want in the cinema
“First rule of business, protect your investment.”
is entertainment but I like to be intellectually titillated while being sensorially stimulated. It took me three years to write this film whereas
—Etiquette of the Banker 1775
Snatch took me three months. Fundamentally, it’s not a very complicated film, it’s actually quite
“There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.”
To that extent, are his experiences an
I’ve always been surprised that no other movie has ever been called Revolver because it just
germ got stuck in my mind about one particular concept: the con of all cons. I’m fascinated by
what point do we realize that we’re being conned
—Julius Caesar 75 BC
Why did you call it Revolver?
Revolver come from? It was a culmination of concepts really, but a
simple, but to clothe it within a narrative was quite complicated.
Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film’s world of cons
Is it a film with a message?
and games. Jake’s on a journey of how to play the
I don’t think there is a message in the movie.
game. He’s very good at playing games and he’s
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an
done very well out of playing by a certain formula
external enemy. Jake Green is playing against
but he didn’t realize how big and consistent
Jake Green. That’s quite a hard concept to get
that formula is. He only saw the formula in
your head around initially of course, if there is
its microscopic form and didn’t realize that it
only an internal enemy, he wouldn’t want you
could be macroscopic.
to get your head around it. So it’s based on the formula that you can only get smarter by playing a
Where is the film set?
smarter opponent. Who is the ultimate opponent?
The movie is set in no-man’s land. It’s a kind of
Yourself. Then comes the principle that your
transatlantic destination that is really supposed
enemy will always hide in the last place that you
to be illustrative of East meets West somewhere
would ever look. The last place you would look
in the middle of the Atlantic. In fact, we shot
is inside your head and the last place you would
most of it in London and the Isle of Man,
look inside your head is behind fear. I’m not
which isn’t quite the middle of the Atlantic but
saying that formula’s correct, it’s just a formula
it’s going that way.
and I’m interested in formulas. In this particular
How does he get drawn into the game?
instance, the only opponent Jake Green has to
One of the first rules of business is to protect
challenge is himself by doing exactly what he
—Niccolo Machiavelli 1502
your investment. I like the idea that we do the
doesn’t want to do.
same with our personal philosophies.
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Or there’s the other way of thinking, that it’s all
Is there any limit to how violent a
Besides Jake’s name, there is an abundance
It just seemed like the perfect environment
his masters, ask Jake to shoot a man that didn’t
chaos and there’s absolutely no order and it’s all
scene can be?
of symbols in the film. What purpose
in which to meet your demon. A number that
pay a debt. Jake refuses, going against the voice in
chance. You either subscribe to one or the other. I
I think there’s a natural system in your own head
do they serve?
doesn’t exist that is also the number of liberation.
female representative Lily Walker (who represents
his head. This is the turning point and just when
subscribe to the idea that there is order although
about how much violence the scene warrants.
I think it’s fun that films have depth. I’ve left a
That scene is one of the most impressive in the
the queen on the chess board).
Jake has had enough he forces the two mysterious
it may look like total chaos, but I’ve no idea if I’m
It’s not an intellectual process, it’s an instinctive
whole snail trail of clues and symbols for those
whole movie. It’s my favorite scene in the film
characters to reveal their game.
right. In the film, Jake’s niece is a good example.
process. I like to think it’s not violence for the
who care to indulge themselves. But is it integral
and I actually shot it three times. It initially had
Macha is warned if he does not come through on the deal that Sam Gold will be very disappointed.
Is he ready for the answer? What is the point of
Macha is after the reward of being in business
putting him through all this pain? Avi and Zach
with Gold (who represents the opponent) and
simply repeat the treasured formula that Jake
foresees no problem.
learned in prison and which the audience is told
The deal is for some white powder, which represents vice of multiple manifestations, in other words, false ways to escape the wrath of Gold or win the game, but perversely these just bring you closer to him. Jake agrees to do whatever the two mysterious
at the start of the film. The first rule of any game: you can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent.
She represents innocence and I liked the idea that
sake of violence and in this particular film, it’s
to your enjoyment of the film? I think not. There
four lines written for it. When we got in there, we
she could ride a roller-coaster that’s collapsing
actually violence for the annihilation of violence.
are simply different levels that the film tries to
spent two hours messing around, trying to draw
all around but still land on a bed of cotton wool
It’s about not letting the internal enemy, the
against all the odds because innocence protects
real enemy, have his way because the more he
her. There are infinite examples, of course, where
does the stronger he becomes. The film’s about
innocence is not nurtured or cared for, but it all
the devastating results that can manifest from
comes back to chance.
Jake now realizes that he has fallen
victim to this “perfect con”, that he is actually
What’s the role of violence in your films?
the pawn in the game, and his opponent (“Sam
My approach to violence is that if it’s pertinent,
the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos. As a writer-director, which aspect of
serve. Chess is a prime example…
as much as I could out of Jason. I realized we’d got
The rules in chess are consistent with the rules of all cons. I like the idea that the characters could all be different pieces on a chess board. I think
into something that was very interesting and in the end I could probably have filmed 45 minutes of him screaming at himself in there.
we all embody the attributes of pawns, bishops,
The film opens with Jake Green getting out
knights and castles, kings and queens. It’s just a
of jail. Would you say that it ends with him
question of do we decide to be a pawn or do we
enjoying another kind of liberation?
Gold”), resides inside Jake’s head - “the last place
if that’s the kind of movie you’re making, then it
filmmaking do you enjoy most?
decide to be a queen. I didn’t choose to be the
The film starts off with a jailbreak and ends with
he would ever look” (another component of the
has a purpose. There’s quite a lot of violence in
You get a different kick out of all aspects of
latter particularly but there are different aspects
a jailbreak because all the skulduggery going on
characters tell him to do (a gun to the head so to
perfect con formula) Sam Gold is a metaphor
this film but I like to think that it serves the story,
filmmaking. I suppose directing on set is the
to our personality and nature that the chess
inside his head didn’t allow him to know he was
speak - he has three days to live), there is no time
camouflaged as fear, ego, evil, the Devil. Now
that it illustrates the point we’re trying to convey.
most fun because it’s a good crack and you feel
board represents, which is maybe why chess
still incarcerated. That’s what the film is about,
to haggle, and he is prepared to do whatever hes
armed with this information which has been
Jason doesn’t take his shirt off and beat anyone
you’re on the battlefield whereas writing is a
is such a popular and ancient game. I’m a very
the ultimate jailbreak and the radical actions
told by these characters. Avi (André Benjamin) and
so elusive, Jake goes to war with himself. He
up, which would seem to be the kind of thing that
fairly solitary undertaking. It’s not easy to strap
bad chess player, by the way. Jason Statham has
one needs to undertake to liberate oneself from
Zach (Vincent Pastore) appear to be loan sharks
realizes the game Avi and Zach have made him
Jason would do as he’s quite good at it, because
yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard
probably been blowing his own trumpet about
this jail. It tells the story of the skulduggery and
and gradually force Jake to give away all his money
play has been to diminish the Sam Gold within
it didn’t seem to serve his character and the
when you know you can direct lots of films,
what a qualified chess player he is. In fact, he’s an
trickery and head-trickery that accompanies
that he made using the con, much to his despair.
himself - and that is why he felt like he was dying,
narrative. I quite like the idea of Jason keeping
because directing films is fun and interactive
This is so painful that it seems to be killing a part
because a part of him was.
his shirt on anyway.
and gregarious. Writing isn’t. It’s very solitary and
This game it seems is back to front. Jake gives
Does Jason still do all his own stunts?
of him, as Avi and Zach force him to do whatever he hates to do. Jake is repeatedly forced into elevators, taking him on a physiological and psychological ride from hell. They also sabotage Macha’s deal with Gold,
away his remaining money to a charity in Dorothy
Jason’s game to do all his own stunts. I wouldn’t
Macha’s name and Macha takes the credit. At
allow him to because if he broke his leg or
this point we understand that the voice we
something I’d be screwed for eight weeks. He’s as
hear in the film as a voice over is not a voice
game as a train to throw himself down flights of
you need to exercise a great deal of discipline to do it. I think it’s in the exercise of disciplining yourself to do it that the most profit lies. I love dialogue and I suppose writing dialogue is certainly the most fun.
appalling chess player.
Jake on his journey, and the seemingly
And the fact that the face-off between Jake and himself, his internal enemy, takes place
putting Macha in jeopardy with Gold and forcing
over at all, it’s the Sam Gold in each of the
stairs. I am not so enthusiastic, so I threw other
Of the various formulas that make
its unpopular reputation is a mystery and one I
character’s heads.
people down the stairs.
up the rules of the game, do you
would quite like to have solved. Mythologically, it’s
Lord Jon (Tom Wu). To make matters worse, they that each gang is responsible for the treachery. These two gangs begin to destroy one another through their ignorance and greed.
break out of his jail.
and 12. In America, buildings still don’t have a 13th floor. 13’s a curious number. Quite how it got
Macha to seek the powder from a rival crime boss, sabotage the deal with Lord Jon to make it appear
unlikely actions our hero has to undertake to
on the 13th floor? The elevator starts at 32 and stops between 14
have a favorite?
the luckiest number, it’s the number of liberation.
My favorite line is, “You can only get smarter
From a point of view of Jake’s incarceration, what
by playing a smarter opponent.” My next one
better place to liberate yourself than floor 13,
would be, “The greatest enemy will hide in
which doesn’t even exist in an elevator.
the last place you would ever look.” The third one would be, “The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
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Macha is being fattened up by the voice in his
Jake makes a large donation of money to a charity
They promised they would break him out of
head that encourages Macha to take the credit. To
in Macha’s name, further conquering the Sam
prison and they did, its just Jake didn’t realize
conquer the game that Jake now realizes he is in,
Gold within him, while augmenting the Sam Gold
it was the prison of his mind and how big that
he goes to Macha and humiliates himself, begging
within Macha, who happily takes the credit and
prison was. Avi and Zach confide they did not help
for forgiveness at the foot of his bed.
public acclaim. Macha is at first magnanimous
him because they ARE him- they are aspects, or
towards Jake following this gesture, however on
projections, of his own higher self.
This goes completely against the voice in Jakes head, which is now in major agony. Leaving Macha’s bedroom, Jake takes an elevator that gets stuck, (his worst nightmare, as he is claustrophobic) but here is where a real battle takes place.
learning that Jake had orchestrated the sabotage on the ‘powder’ deals, Macha orders him dead with renewed vigor. Macha’s men find Jakes brother and niece
Meanwhile, Jake’s Sam Gold persona grew from Jake’s activities on emerging from prison, fooling his enemies into thinking he was making them rich when instead he was siphoning their money
Jake induces the pain “Sam Gold” hides behind.
at his home. While Macha’s henchmen are in
away from them, just as the ego grows rich from
Sam Gold tries every technique to control and
the process of torturing Jake’s brother and
encouraging excess and a sense of entitlement in
debilitate Jake, but Jake is now detached enough
threatening his little girl, the previously passive
from the voice to fall for it.
Sorter concludes his process of self-questioning
“Embrace the pain and you will win this game” -- in doing this, Jake completely sheds himself of Sam Gold. Immediately upon doing so, the elevator starts up. He realizes that though free from the physical prison he knew for seven years, he was
and steps in, methodically executing all of Macha’s men only to be out gunned in the end by the last surviving member of the gang, who takes Jake’s niece back to Macha. Jake, now understanding that the mysterious
can’t kill someone who’s already dead.” Ultimately, his pride and fear lead Macha to suicide rather end it’s a story about realizing that the prison is
casino with Avi. Here it is revealed that Avi could
environment. The only real enemy to have ever
have beaten him at any time.
existed is within; it is fear. The external world is
Avi tells him one of the rules again, the art is for
gun, Jake walks straight past Macha. Because Jake
them believe they took those pieces because they
no longer fears him, Macha breaks down.
are smarter and you are dumber. Jake realizes
His ego can’t handle this, he falls prey to the voice he hears inside his head, the voice of his own “Sam Gold”. Still unaware of who Sam Gold really
After watching Richard S. Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, squirm before the House Oversight and
than kill Jake or his niece. Sam Gold wins. In the the mind and the ego is the hidden master of that
the opponent to feed pieces to the victim to make
stealing a trillion bucks of real estate? British gangsters may dress better than Wall Street overlords and be more colorful, but they just
characters Avi and Zach are not who he thought
He can’t understand what game Jake is playing,
make a movie about stealing a parcel of London real estate, when you could make a movie about
don’t think big.
they were, finishes a game of chess in Macha’s
but Jake no longer cares about Macha. Gun or no
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those within whom it resides. Macha is convinced Sam Gold is coming to kill
defeating his fear, he is profoundly free.
confused and angry Macha with a gun in his hand.
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Government Reform Committee (HOGREFORM) as he explained why he deserved $350 million for guiding his company into bankruptcy, I found it refreshing to watch hoodlums squirm because they might get personally kneecapped without
determined, to great degree, by ones fear.
even so much as a golden hang-glider. Guy Ritchie’s latest movie is about some very hard cases from the London and Russian underworlds who are all trying to cheat on one another, and
that these are the two associates from Solitary
about an accountant who the term femme fatale
confinement that he spent seven years living
has been hanging around waiting to describe. It’s
between while in prison.
one of those rare circular con jobs where you can
is, and where he resides, Macha agonizes over his
more or less figure out what’s going on, and you
knowledge that Sam Gold is going to come and
can more or less understand why nobody else
get him. What he doesn’t realize is that Sam Gold
does, although at various times, they all think they
is already getting him - from the inside.
do, and at other times, you’re wrong.
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While they engage in these miscalculations, they
She hires One Two and Mumbles to steal Cole’s
act terrifically dangerous to one another -- so
$7 million, which she doesn’t know was briefly
smoothly you’d swear they were in the second
their $7 million, from which they can pay $2
year of a repertory tour. You know who Tom Wilkinson is. You may not recognize him here, for reasons I won’t describe because then you would. He’s funny and terrifically dangerous as Lenny Cole, a gangster with the memory of a tax collector. He owns or has leveraged great swaths of London, including one swath urgently required by a Russian gangster named Uri Obamavich (Karel Roden),
million to Cole and he won’t kill them, but they lose the money and Cole doesn’t have the $7 million to pay Uri, and meanwhile, the invaluable “Good Luck” painting has been stolen, so at this point I’m not sure who has the money, maybe the femme fatale, but Cole needs it to give Uri, and Uri desperately needs it for harrowing reasons of his own, councilman needs it to save his career.
who comes to Cole. Now follow this attentively.
Uri may not give a damn about his priceless
One Two (Gerard Butler), Handsome Bob (Tom
painting but Cole doesn’t know that, and he sends
Hardy) and Mumbles (Idris Elba), whose parents
Archy (Mark Strong) and Mickey (Chris “Ludacris”
may have been Dick Tracy fans, borrow $7 million
Bridges) to find out who stole the painting, and
from Cole to buy some land. Cole secretly owns the land and won’t sell it to them, and arranges to steal the money back and demands to be paid. So he has the money and still has his land. Ken Lay would be proud. But that’s the simple part. Now Uri pays Cole $7 million to put the fix in on his own swath deal through Cole’s tame London councilman, offering Cole his “good luck painting” as security. The femme fatale (Thandie Newton), Uri’s accountant, sees a way to sidetrack the money herself.
ohmigod! it’s in the hands of Cole’s own stepson, the druggie rocknrolla Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell), and Cole discovers that if there’s anyone harder to deal with than a Russian mafioso, it’s a druggie rocknrolla stepson. The bottom line is, all these people chase the same money around with the success of doggie tail-biting, and it’s a lot of fun, and it’s not often in these con films that everybody is conning everybody, and they’re all scared to death, and nobody knows which cup the pea is under.
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Day 1
The Festival Scheming Scoundrels is a
It is the first installment of a series
festival that works toward providing
of yearly festivals. The festival will be
March 20th,2017
a forum for new film-makers first
held in London and the movies would
of its kind, which is a follow up of
be screened at London’s Stamford
11:00 am - Opening Ceremony
#MyUnseenCity, a competition
Bridge, which is the stadium of Guy
01:00 pm - Lunch at The Punch Bowl
about an “urban movie challenge”
Ritchie’s favorite soccer team. The
centered around 15-second short
indoor events would take place at
04:00 pm - Screening of “Lock Stock and Two Smoking
films exhibited on Instagram. The
the The Punch Bowl, the pub owned
movie challenge will conclude with
by him. The events will be held over
the 10 most liked films which will
4 days in March, as it works perfectly
then be viewed by a panel, including
with the football season break.
Barrels” at the London’s Stamford Bridge 09:00 pm - Drinks, Dinner and Poker game at The Punch Bowl
Guy Ritchie.
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The movies would be
Heritage. It is a Georgian
and Tarquin Gorst, from
The Bridge. The capacity
screened at London’s
building and, although
Greg Foreman, father of
is 41,663, making it the
Stamford Bridge, which
altered over the years,
actor Gregory Foreman.
eighth largest ground
is the stadium of Guy
retains many period
In Ritchie and Madonna’s
in the Premier League.
Ritchie’s favorite soccer
features including a dog-leg
November 2008 divorce
Opened in 1877, the
team “Chelsea”. The indoor
staircase, internal cornicing
settlement, Ritchie gained
stadium was used by the
events would take place
and dado paneling. The
ownership of Madonna’s
London Athletic Club until
at the The Punch Bowl,
pub featured in the
share of the pub.
1905, when new owner Gus
pub owned by him. The
documentary film I’m Going
events will be held either
to Tell You a Secret, which
from March 20th to 23rd
followed Madonna in 2004
or in the beginning of
and showed her and her husband Guy Ritchie on a
The Punch Bowl, at 41 Farm Street, Mayfair, is a London public house, dating from circa 1750. It is listed as Grade II by English
night out at their “local”. In March 2008 the pub was bought for a reputed £2.5 million by Ritchie and Madonna.
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The Venue
June 2017.
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Stamford Bridge is a football stadium located in Fulham, London. It is the home ground of Chelsea Football Club. The stadium
March 21st,2017 11:00 am - Talk With Guy Ritchie followed by Instagram contest entries 01:00 pm - Lunch at The Punch Bowl 04:00 pm - Screening of “RocknRolla” at the London’s Stamford Bridge
Mears founded Chelsea
09:00 pm - Screening of “Revolver” at the London’s
Football Club to occupy
Stamford Bridge
the ground; Chelsea have
11:00 pm - Drinks and Dinner at The Punch Bowl
played their home games there ever since.
is located within the Moore Park Estate also known as Walham Green and is often referred to as simply
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Day 3 March 22nd,2017 01:00 pm - Screening of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E” at the London’s Stamford Bridge 04:00 pm - Screening of “Snatch” at the London’s Stamford Bridge 09:00 pm - Drinks, Dinner and Speed Chess game at The Punch Bowl
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Day 4 March 23rd,2017 01:00 pm - Instagram contest entries, Screening of the movies 04:00 pm - Winner announced 08:00 pm - Closing Ceremony 11:00 pm - Drinks and Dinner and fun games at The
Punch Bowl
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Places To See The Chelsea Museum/Tour
Cineworld Fulham Road
Stamford Bridge , Fulham Road, Fulham,
Fulham Road, London, United Kingdom
London SW6 Brompton Cemetery Fulham Road, Fulham, London SW10 Square One Gallery 592 Kings Road, SW6 Earls Court Exhibition Centre Warwick Rd, Kensington, London SW5 9TA, UK The Troubadour 263-267 Old Brompton Rd, Earls Court, London SW5 9JA, UK Virgin Active Fulham Pools The Norman Arms, 197 Lillie Rd, London SW6 7ST, United Kingdom
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Natural History Museum
River Thames
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London
Westminster Pier, Victoria Embankment, London,
SW7 5BD, England.
United Kingdom
The Chelsea Pensioner
Madame Tussaud’s
358 Fulham Road, London SW10 9UU, England
Marylebone Road, London NW1 5
Day Tours London 87 Gloucester Road, London SW7 4SS, England
King’s Rd
Grosvenor Square
Sloane Square, London
Mayfair, London W1K 2HP, United Kingdom
Eel Brook Common Park
Berkeley Square Gardens
Kings Road, SW6 2TJ, United Kingdom
Mayfair, London W1J 5AX, United Kingdom
The Sweatshop
London Eye
2-8 Dawes Road, Fulham
Lambeth, London SE1 7PB, United Kingdom
Buckingham Palace
Churchill War Rooms
London SW1A 1AA, United Kingdom Piccadilly Circus Piccadilly Circus, London W1D 7ET,
St James’s Park Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2BJ Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, United Kingdom Kensington Gardens West Carriage Drive, London W2 2UH London Zoo Outer Circle, London NW1 4 United Kingdom
Clive Steps, King Charles St, London SW1A 2AQ,
Carnaby Street
United Kingdom
31 Carnaby Street, London, United Kingdom
Roca
United Kingdom
Station Court, Imperial Wharf, SW6 2PY
Camden Town Camden Town, Greater London, United Kingdom
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Places To Eat
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Bars, Nightlife
Frankie’s Sports Bar & Diner
El Metro
The Elk Bar
Stamford Bridge, Fulham Rd, Fulham, London SW6
10-12, Fulham Broadway, Effie Rd, London SW6
587-591 Fulham Road, London, United Kingdom
1HS, United Kingdom
1TB, United Kingdom
The Butcher’s Hook
The Imperial
477 Fulham Rd, Fulham, London SW6 1HL,
577 King’s Rd, Fulham, London SW6 2EH,
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Kishmish
The Malt House
448-450 Fulham Rd, Fulham, London SW6 1DL,
17 Vanston Pl, Fulham, London SW6 1AY,
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
55 Restaurant
Tommy Tucker
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, Stamford
22 Waterford Rd, Fulham, London SW6 2DR,
Bridge, Fulham Rd, Fulham, London SW6 1HS,
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The Chelsea Ram 32, Chelsea, United Kingdom Chelsea Arts Club 143 Old Church Street, London, United Kingdom Earls Court Tavern 123 Earl’s Court Road, London, United Kingdom Maggie’s Fulham Rd, London, United Kingdom Azteca Latin Lounge 329 King’s Road, London SW3 5ES,
Brasa
Nando’s
474-476 Fulham Rd, Fulham, London SW6 1BY,
Fulham Broadway Shopping Centre, Fulham
United Kingdom
United Kingdom The Blackbird 209 Earl’s Court Road, London SW5 9,
Broadway Retail Centre, Fulham Rd, Fulham,
United Kingdom
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