In 1999, "Two Big Smoking Guns" came out, bringing a strange boy Guy Richie into Hollywood's vision and making a name for himself. It makes Hollywood curious about which stone slit this kid jumped out of.
Guy Richie didn't jump out but came out of the twists and turns, Gage changed 10 schools when he was young because his thinking was too active and his interests were too extensive, and it is estimated that the alumni of that year should be very happy to be alumni with Guy Richie, after all, the latter is already a world-renowned director.
When Guy Riche made his debut in a film company in 1993 as a little brother running errands and delivering tea and water, no one knew what earth-shattering big things this guy would do, let alone that he would create a peak in the history of cinema, a peak that he himself could never climb again.
In 1995, Richie filmed a 20-minute short film "The Hard Case" at his own expense, which attracted the attention of Dutie Taylor, the wife of music superstar Sting, and decided to invest in the filming of "Two Big Smoking Guns", which was also Sting's matchmaking, Richie and the pop music "Big Sister Big" Madonna met, the two married in December 2000, but the marriage lasted only 8 years, and finally ended in a breakup.
Guy Richie does not fly is already, a soaring sky, it is estimated that this sky rushed too high, from then on not only others, but also himself can not surpass the first debut show "Two Big Smoking Guns", this film is also Jason Statham and Winnie Jones's screen debut, in the film also shows Jason Statham's pry action is crisp and clean, which is the foundation of the future action star, he entered the show business circle with this film, and later continued to play in Guy Richie's "Kidnapping and Robbery", and eventually went farther and farther, becoming a Hollywood first-line action star.
Winnie Jones is now as popular in Hollywood, but when it comes to masterpieces, it is not "Two Smoking Guns" and "Kidnapping".
As the media commented, "Two Big Smoking Guns" is director Guy Richie's absurd story of coincidence and coincidence from the perspective of 5 groups of group portraits, with British humor cannon and fast editing, it is difficult for people who can't keep up with the rhythm not to faint.
In order not to faint to people who have seen or not seen it, try to analyze how the film is narrated.
The four little bastards (the four-person mixed group) led by Ed have pooled a sum of money and are ready to participate in the gambling game of harry and barry (Harry's group), hoping to profit from their own skills. But he didn't know that Harry had already taken a fancy to Ed's father's bar, so as a thousand, Ed failed miserably and returned the 500,000 owed to Harry, which needed to be paid off within a week, otherwise the father's bar was not guaranteed.
Ed's next door is a group of drug dealers, because the walls are not soundproof, as long as you open the large wardrobe you can hear what is being said next door, the cabinet is closed, basically soundproof, which is why Ed can hear the drug dealers plan to rob the marijuana foursome, the four groups have not yet started to think of selling stolen goods, ready to find fat Nick to sell marijuana by the way to get a few guns, Nick found the gun is two of the two most valuable smoking guns stolen by the two thieves group and sold to him ($700 sold, The actual valuation was $250,000 to $300,000 each), but the four-man mix did not know its value.
Harry's group wanted to steal Sir Upton's two large smoking guns and asked his assistant Barry to find someone to do it, Barry found two little thieves to do the job but took the wrong gun, and sold the most valuable gun to Nick, who sold it to four to wait for the rabbit.
Curious, the two little thieves ask who the boss behind the scenes is, and in order to keep Barry secret, they did not tell them, so the two stupid thieves did not know Harry as their big boss behind the scenes, but only knew how to do things for Barry, which can be called the hair thieves group.
The Eldest Chris takes his son to help Harry with his work, mainly for debts, a debt collection duo, and later threatens Ed's father with the task of handing over the bar to save his son.
On this side, the foursome who grow marijuana make a fortune, growing marijuana at home, counting money to hand cramps, and are ready to buy money counters to count money. In fact, these four-person cannabis group is working for another gang leader, Roy, just a farmer who grows marijuana, which can be called the cannabis gang led by Roy.
So far we see that there are Ed Four Gangsters, Harry's Group, Drug Dealers Group, Hair Thieves Group, Marijuana Gangster Group, and the middleman Buck (who is scared to run away).
At this point, a black multi-narrative classic story unfolds, director Guy Richie is indeed active in thinking, leaving all of them in an invisible net, but most of them do not know each other, such as the four-person gangster group and Roy meet each other in the bar, the hair thief is concerned by Harry but only heard that his reputation does not know him, and the result is to fight each other to death; the drug dealer group and the marijuana gangster group because the four people come back late to fire each other, etc., everything seems so coincidental but logical.
When Ed goes to gamble, the other three go to the bar to drink and see a man on fire running out, but it is a fierce Roy who sets the fire because the other party grabs the TV remote control.
Roy is confronted with the marijuana being robbed, and then encounters Buck sending marijuana to the door to sell the stolen goods, which makes Roy very angry, not knowing whether this is a coincidence or the other party is too stupid, in fact, it is really a coincidence.
In addition to the ingenuity of the multiple narrative structures, the other two features of this film are endless mouth cannons, a thick London accent, with interesting British foul language, a serious book that makes people feel black humor, and another feature is the classic soundtrack, the music and the scene are harmonious, and the music replaces the subtext to express the ups and downs of the characters' mentality in the play, and the fusion is not abrupt.
The soundtrack in the movie is always just right, and when Ed loses everything, the soundtrack becomes "why did you do it": why did you do it, why did you do that thing to me. The lyrics are puns, one is that he did something sorry for his friends and lost all his money, and the other is that Harry calculated them. Through music alone, it shows its inner black humor.
Finally, an open ending is left: did Tom throw two large smoking guns into the river?
It is said that Guy Ritchie only filmed for more than 40 days in total, but after clearing up such complex characters and clues one by one, the final intersection burst out of a huge dramatic tension and had to sigh at his prodigy.
Perhaps it was overexertion, and in the end the peak of his self-building has not yet been re-erected.
Art comes from life and is higher than life, this coincidence originally existed in many historical moments, some people say that it is precisely because Guy Richie's hand touched the ass of Madonna, the daughter of a generation of singers, that seems to be true, it is estimated that Guy Richie is active in the season of love, and the passion has finally reached its peak.
"Two Big Smoking Guns" is both a film noir and a classic work of multiple narrative structures, and since then, as a shining pearl in the history of film, it has illuminated the newcomers, and many directors have also attracted inspiration from this film and created no small miracle.
Many years later in China, director Ning Hao absorbed nutrition and borrowed from this film, creating two dark horses in the history of Chinese film,"Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", of which the previous film cost more than 3.5 million yuan to produce and 23.5 million yuan at the box office; the latter leveraged more than 100 million box office at a cost of 10 million, and the overall narrative structure is still multiple narratives, "Crazy Racing" The story revolves around a frustrated bicycle racer who was only 0.01 seconds away from the gold medal, 6 clues related to the story in the same time and space, 7 different sets of character settings, although intricate, but hilarious coincidences and accidents, reproducing the charm of multiple narrative structures.
The charm of multiple narrative lies precisely in its complexity, the audience always expects to see a perfect story when watching the movie, the story is not only complete but also complex, if it is too simple, it loses the charm of telling, a movie guesses the beginning and guesses the end of the movie is like a cup of boiling water, light and tasteless, and a black humor multiple narrative can make the audience think hard, and if you accidentally give up one, you may not be able to figure it out.
Another multiple narrative before Guy Richie is "Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino, which is also a classic multiple narrative structure, each with its own advantages, the former can be seen as a multi-line process from beginning to end, while the latter draws a circle with multiple lines, with different styles, compared to the coincidence of the former.
Guy Richie is a strange director, creating a peak when he first debuted, "Two Big Smoking Guns" has also been explained many times, and has been borrowed by many directors, and after more than 20 years of watching, it still shines brightly and makes people recall the classic charm.
Some singers are proud to sing only one song in their lives, but Guy Richie is lucky that he can sing two classic songs, one is "Two Big Smoking Guns" and the other is "Kidnapping and Robbery", with which he deserves to be called a wizard.
Text: Ding Ming read