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A GUY RITCHIE FILM FESTIVAL

Misfits evading the clutches of peril through luck and coincidence in the films of Guy Ritchie

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NANDITA RAJAN Integrated Communications_Fall 2016 Academy of Art University, San Francisco

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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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Tickets/ Schedule

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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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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 12

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Snatch 13

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Revolver 14

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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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Bars, Nightlife The Elk Bar 587-591 Fulham Road, London.

The Chelsea Ram 32, Chelsea, United Kingdom Chelsea Arts Club 143 Old Church Street, London.

Earls Court Tavern 123 Earl’s Court Road, London.

Maggie’s

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.

329 King’s Road, London SW3 5ES.

The Imperial

The Blackbird

577 King’s Rd, Fulham, London SW6 2EH.

209 Earl’s Court Road, London SW5 9.

The Malt House

White Horse

17 Vanston Pl, Fulham, London SW6 1AY.

1-3 Parsons Green, London.

Tommy Tucker

The Sands End

22 Waterford Rd, Fulham, London SW6 2DR.

135-137 Stephendale Road, London SW6 2PR.

Brasa

Eclipse

474-476 Fulham Rd, Fulham, London SW6 1BY.

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.

Crucially, it made a profit.

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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.

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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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8.It got a new ending after the

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.

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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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Simultaneously, Macha is trying to get into business with the infamous, but apparently invisible Sam Gold. He makes a deal with his

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Jake’s journey climaxes when Avi and Zach, now

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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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still a prisoner - of his own mind. Upon facing and

As the elevator doors open, there stands a

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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.

Jake Green: “Gradually they thought they’d found a formula to the con. A formula to win the ultimate win.”

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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.

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Pete: “He tickled me, if that’s what you mean.”

Johnny Quid: “You see in psychological circles there’s a technical term for that scenario.”

Pete: “There is?”

Johnny Quid: “Monsteroustickalotis.”

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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Miss Rachel, The Guy Ritchie Film Festival, is honored and very proud to welcome you to the Scheming Scoundrels Film Festival. The festival 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.

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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.

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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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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

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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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Guy Ritchie Film Festival

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20–23march, 2017

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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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