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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
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Director:
Writer:
Guy Ritchie (written by)
Release Date:
5 March 1999 (USA)
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Tagline:
A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere. more
Plot:
Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 13 wins
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6 nominations
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(97 articles)
Ritchie To Direct Musical?
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The essence of late 90's cinema -- hip, highly stylized, VISUAL
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jason Flemyng | ... | Tom |
 | Dexter Fletcher | ... | Soap |
 | Nick Moran | ... | Eddie |
 | Jason Statham | ... | Bacon |
 | Steven Mackintosh | ... | Winston |
 | Nicholas Rowe | ... | J |
| Nick Marcq | ... | Charles |
| Charles Forbes | ... | Willie (as Charlie Forbes) |
 | Vinnie Jones | ... | Big Chris |
| Lenny McLean | ... | Barry The Baptist |
| Peter McNicholl | ... | Little Chris |
| P.H. Moriarty | ... | Hatchet Harry |
| Frank Harper | ... | Dog |
| Steve Sweeney | ... | Plank |
| Huggy Leaver | ... | Paul |
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality and drug content.
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Runtime:
107 min | 120 min (director's cut)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) |
Singapore:R(A) |
Brazil:18 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:MA |
Canada:16+ (Québec) |
Canada:18A (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Chile:14 |
Denmark:15 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Germany:16 (bw) |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Iceland:16 |
Ireland:18 |
Japan:PG-12 |
Netherlands:16 |
New Zealand:R18 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/16 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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The music that plays just before Hatchet Harry shoots Gary with the antique shotgun is from Per qualche dollaro in più (1965). It's from a pocket watch that Del Indio would play, and when the music stopped he would draw and shoot someone.
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Continuity: When Tom is explaining the cheque scam to Soap and Bacon, in the last shot of Soap and Bacon the liquid level has lowered in the glass in front of Bacon but you don't see Bacon drinking from it. In the same shot there is also an extra cigarette butt in the ashtray although Soap doesn't stub out his cigarette.
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Hundred Mile City
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Guy Ritchie's hip, highly stylized 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' is a truly remarkable film, not only for its appropriately pyrotechnic camera work, but also for its seemingly flawless, puzzle-perfect script/screenplay. While the picture's main focus is on a group of lads who invest money in a high-stakes, rigged card game and lose, the broader story concerns approximately eight different groups of criminals whose paths cross (more> than once, in some cases) during various illegal pursuits: money, guns, drugs, even revenge. The film is quite violent, both on and off screen, but it's also uniformly humorous throughout. It's important to note that the four central characters (a cook, a card sharp, and a couple of guys who sell "discounted" items) are interested only in acquiring the money to pay off their enormous debt; they kill no one. The same applies to the laid-back college boys who "grow copious amounts of ganja".
The cast is comprised of mostly young, veteran, male actors. In fact, the only female in the film doesn't even speak, though she handles a machine gun fairly well. Sting appears briefly in several scenes as a bar-owning father figure. While his secondary performance is solid, as usual, it is also unmemorable. The soundtrack is first-rate, from the 60's hits of James Brown to the contemporary beats of London's underground. The groovy, pulsating music and lyrics are often succinctly synchronized with the action and dialogue in the film, creating a theatrical rhythm that is fairly uncommon in cinema (from any period).
Critics and audiences over the years have often dismissed stylized camera work as pretentious and unnecessary, stating that it detracts from the story, bogs it down, or pads it; however, the film medium has the luxury of actually "displaying" a story for its audience, unlike the written word alone. It's what the medium is all about -- it's VISUAL. Hence, one of the reasons a filmmaker chooses such visual displays is to "brand" his or her work, in the same way as writers like Cummings, Hemingway or Joyce did with their medium. It's hard to imagine a cinema without Hitchcock, Kubrick, or Scorsese to represent it. To this end, Ritchie has taken his first step in establishing his own brand. His energetic, ultra-contemporary camera work incorporates (through a fresh perspective) such devices as slow motion, fast motion, and freeze-frame coupled with narration. It is at times reminiscent of (and actually expands upon) Martin Scorsese's patented visual stylistics and camera movements, like those found in 'Mean Streets' and 'Goodfellas'. But the similarities with Scorsese's work end there.
Critics' endless comparisons of Ritchie's film with the works of Quentin Tarantino and Danny Boyle's 'Trainspotting' stand mostly unwarranted, as these comparisons take away from the inventiveness and originality of 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. Ritchie's film is a much more involved, complex, layered work than the aforementioned comparisons. While Tarantino's films are very strong on dialogue, screenplay, and editing, they often lack creative camera work and direction. Boyle's 'Trainspotting' does have a resembling "feel" to 'LS&TSB', but aside from its Great Britain origins, there really is no need for comparison. 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' is essential viewing.