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Author: Hu Shi
Guy Richie returned with his Gentleman.
In fact, the plot of "Gentlemen" is not gentle at all, more like a British version of "Old Cannon". The contradiction between the middle-aged underworld and the degenerate young generation, a big drama of the underworld fight, but it is interesting to be filmed by Guy Richie, and it is indeed the style of this Guy director.
Although the content of the film contains various elements such as blood, violence, drugs, and racial discrimination, it makes the audience very addicted. This time, Guy Richie returned to his hometown in England and used the routine he was most familiar with to make a gangster movie that he was best at. So Guy Richie, who made "Two Big Smoking Guns" and "Kidnapping and Robbery", is back.
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When "Crazy Stone" came out, the audience who was not familiar with the world exclaimed: It is possible to tell stories like this! However, the old fans who have watched "Two Big Smoking Guns" and "Kidnapping and Robbery" earlier are dismissive: Ning Hao is not learning To Cover Richie! What's so strange!
In 1998, thirty-year-old MV director Guy Ritchie wrote and directed a small-budget film, Two Big Smoking Guns. Many of the actors in the film are still amateurs, including a well-known "evil man" in the Premier League, retired player Winnie Jones, playing a thug.
The cast of the film is not strong enough, and the plot is still quirky. Multi-line narrative structure, fast editing, and great amount of information. If the audience looks down at the movie and plays with their mobile phones, they can't keep up with the rhythm of the story, as if they bent down to pick up a pen in the math class, and after sitting up, they could no longer understand what the teacher was saying.
Although the careful design of the plot structure makes people indigestible for a while and a half, it does not affect the progress of the story in the slightest, and finally moves towards the finale of the cool film. When all the clues come together, people suddenly realize that the movie can still be made like this!
The multi-line narrative was not the first of Gai Dao, but such an exquisite design as Gai Dao was only quentin's "Pulp Fiction" at that time. Compared to the 271 F-prefixed words in Pulp Fiction, Guy Ritchie's black comedy "Two Big Smoking Guns" is relatively elegant, probably because the main characters in the film all speak an authentic London accent, which seems very gentlemanly.
This is the style of Guy Richie's debut, and it's hard to define his style, except to say that there's probably no one in the world who knows black humor better than Guy Richie. When it comes to playing with multi-line narratives, it's hard to get past Guy Ritchie.
The great success of "Two Big Smoking Guns" has also attracted the attention of Hollywood. An unknown British small director can actually make such a delicate work. This has hollywood blockbuster stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt both praising Gai's talent. Pete even called Director Gai and said that he wanted to participate in his film and could not be paid.
Two years later, "Kidnapping and Robbery" was released, this time it was still Gai's own director, and he also pulled Brad Pitt, which was a return for his affirmation and praise. The film continued its multi-line narrative style and was still well received, breaking the highest box office record in British film history that year.
That year, the gai director, just in the spring breeze triumphant horseshoe disease, married the American singer big sister Big Madonna, and also tailored a movie for his wife. It can be said that she is a talented woman, and Gai Dao has since begun to devote herself to hollywood commercial productions.
However, it is not so easy to develop in Hollywood, British black humor, if you are not careful, will become a bad comedy. How many praises Guy Ritchie received in the UK back then has today in Hollywood. When the movies directed by Gai are more mediocre than one, the queen of popularity is still doing her own thing as a big sister. The gap in the careers of the two people eventually destroyed the marriage of the two people.
However, the cover guide after the divorce seems to have a second spring. The two "Sherlock Holmes" have both received word-of-mouth and box office successes, of course, thanks to the two powerful actors Robert Downey Jr. and Joo Delore Jr. After the divorce, the gai director seems to have suddenly opened his mind and figured out the aesthetic standards of female audiences. Anyway, Sherlock Holmes's IP has no new ideas, so it is better to sell corruption!
So the story becomes the story of Holmes and Watson pulling and pulling, entangled, and finally solving the case together. At this point, Guy Ritchie has finally made a comeback in Hollywood.
Fans who like to direct him regard him as a god, but also hate that he digs holes and does not fill them, and the third part of "Sherlock Holmes" is far away. With Robert Downey Jr.'s character completely transformed into Iron Man in the Marvel Universe, Gai's Sherlock Holmes series may have come to an end.
Perhaps after filming Disney's live-action version of "Aladdin", I made enough money. Gai Dao recalled his experience of breaking into Hollywood for many years, and seemed to be gradually drifting away from the self who made "Two Big Smoking Guns". So he returned to his hometown and made a gangster movie he was most familiar with, "Gentlemen".
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Just by looking at the cast, "Gentlemen" is attractive enough. Oscar-winning Matthew McConaughey, British national god Hugh Grant, plus Colin Farrell, Charlie Hannum, Michelle Dockery... It is not easy to get this group of big-name actors together.
Eight main characters, four story lines, this is the most familiar routine for Guy Richie. After experiencing box office poisons and elixirs, people finally figured out that he was not good at linear plot advancement at all, so the screenwriting work must be left to himself. Only a story structure so complex as a spider's web can Guy Ritchie master it.
In the film, matthew McConaughey, the drug lord prepares to wash his hands of the golden basin and transfer the business to a Jew, resulting in several forces fighting over the deal. In the film, Chinese and Russian gangsters joined forces, and finally blackened the Jews, and even used lines to discuss the racist vocabulary of black people.
In Hollywood, which has always been politically correct, such obvious racial discrimination is absolutely not allowed. But perhaps Guy Ritchie is trying to rebel against this excessive political correctness and subvert the bottom line that hollywood does not dare to violate in one fell swoop. Violent crime and racial discrimination don't disappear because they are avoided in the movie. Black humor movies themselves are satires of reality, and it is better to list the illegal acts in violent movies than to watch the main theme movie.
The story of "Gentlemen" is not the first perspective of the big drug lord, and soon after the opening, Matthew seems to be headshot. Of course, the audience understands that things are not so simple, and the protagonist will not die so early. The main plot of the big drug lord is described by Hugh Grant, the former male god's bearded shape is difficult to recognize for a while, and the drug lord's assistant played by Charlie Hannham is also bearded. Two bearded men chatting and describing the story, the lines sounded very emotional.
Hugh Grant plays the role of a paparazzi who wants to extort money. But I have never seen such a nagging fraudster, and I have to use movie terminology to restore the crime scene. Nag, this is the original style of the cover guide, absolutely can not be quiet down to put PPT. After listening to Hugh Grant's chatter, we have some understanding of the big drug lord, but how much of the story described by the third perspective is true and how much is false is unknown. However, the climax of the story is only just beginning.
After watching this film, you will find that "Gentlemen" and "Old Cannon" do have some similarities, which are the conflicts between old-school gangsters and young gangsters. Matthew McConaughey is facing the new gang forces, does not pay attention to the predecessors, and even dares to plot against his boss. Charlie Hannham was confronted with unreasonable street thugs, failed to negotiate, and was forced to draw his gun and rob him. And the blessed Colin Farrell suddenly appeared as a spoiler, the shape is really funny, he not only has to teach the bear children who cut in the line, but also to take responsibility for the catastrophe caused by his little brothers.
The gangsters in "The Irishman" are all elderly, the gangsters in "Gentlemen" are middle-aged, and Guy Richie has also moved from a hairy boy to a stage of knowing his destiny. This midlife crisis-style setting seems to be the director's reflection on his own life, and it is also a stubborn resistance to reality. Nowadays, gangster movies are no longer even the mainstream theme of the industry, and people prefer to watch Marvel.
The movie may be to express the fatigue of middle-aged people under this sad reality. It is no wonder that the big drug lord has retreated after many years of mixing. The of that year grew into big men, but now they have to wear suits and use guns and slaps to teach young people to respect the rules and respect the morality of the jianghu. This may be the British black humor implied in the title, allowing a group of gangsters to teach bear children in a serious way, rather than real gentlemen.
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