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Guy Ritchie is an amazing director.
There may be no director’s career that is more suitable for these four words than Guy Ritchie’s. The debut work "Two Smoke Guns" in 1998 and "Stealing and Snatching" in 2000 are their true debuts and peaks. The stylized methods of fast editing, multi-line narration, and rock music are combined with black humor and authenticity. The anger and aura from the streets have allowed these two works, which are deeply branded with Guy Ritchie’s label, to redefine the crime genre. They have become a template for many new directors to learn from. Guy Ritchie was also taken by the school at the age of 15. After being expelled, the British bastards who were not from a major class came to the altar.
Guy Ritchie, who was in his early 30s, instantly became a new hope for British cinema, and was frequently compared to another ruffian on the other side of the strait. However, when Quentin, the video store kid, slowly grew into one of the most influential writers and directors today, constructing a unique aesthetic and a carefully laid-out sequence of works, the "British version of Tarantino" Guy Li Qi has embarked on a very different career path with bumps and undulations like a roller coaster. This grass-rooted British spokesperson was ironically ruined once by celebrity marriages and once again by Hollywood.
For a long time, Guy Ritchie has been holding the sign of "Madonna Husband (ex-husband)" and was drawn into the vulgar discussion about the strength of women and the weakness of men under the spotlight. The aura of Madonna, a global pop culture icon, is naturally greater than that of Guy Ritchie, who has only made two movies. During this marriage, Guy Ritchie only handed over one film for his wife and won At that time, Jin Sumei's "The Catastrophe My Enemy", and "Revolver" and "Rock Gangster" which are relatively mediocre in the eyes of film critics.
From Christopher Nolan to Danny Boyle, when the British fellows have achieved both artistic and commercial success in Hollywood, Guy Ritchie also ushered in a turning point in his career: the "Detective Sherlock Holmes" series. Following the big rot series fire, Guy Ritchie began to jump back and forth between box office panacea and box office poison. "Secret Agent" was tepid and "King Arthur: Battle of the Beasts" completely hit the street. However, when everyone began to worry about the guide During his life, Guy Ritchie turned the live-action version of Aladdin into Disney’s most successful live-action film as a contractor, and returned to the UK to film the "Gentlemen" with the money he earned on his knees. .
In the ten years since he devoted himself to marriage and then ran away from Hollywood, Guy Ritchie’s favorite story type and narrative technique are no longer popular, and Guy Dao himself, in addition to being no longer handsome and chic, has also started shooting movies. The street boy who started his career and relied on the help of the nobles to piece together to make his virgin work turned into a Hollywood business director who has received a huge divorce fee, and returned to the comfort circle in the year of knowing the fate. Guy Ritchie’s career is full of drama. Some people lament and lament. Some people despise his talents too early to run out. But some people can find the shadow of Gai’s past talent and aura in his works that have been criticized for being too commercial. Find a different and lasting pleasure.
This is the magic of Guy Ritchie as a director. Unlike so many great directors who live on the set and in the backstage footage, Guy Ritchie relies on these twists and turns and the audience’s complex feelings for himself to jump out of his work alone. Established as a character full of character and stalker. The works that cover the absence of female characters are full of subtle and tense ambiguities between men. The Sherlock Holmes series is not without reason, but from Fuhua to Meisu, the works produced by the cover He has become a (small) half of the European and American colleagues CP; his cross-border friendship with Beckham and the friendship with Statham's development department are praised, and the relationship with the actors who have cooperated is also very good. Every filming can make Everyone feels at home.
These word-of-mouth works but with loyal fans, these extended cp and gossip, together make Guy Ritchie the director who bears the most reminders. Countless fans all over the world, no matter what the reason, are eagerly expecting Guy Ritchie to be able to conscientiously discover that a sequel will fill in the hole, and thus was born "Guy Ritchie will not be counted two/ "Count three" "Guy Ritchie is not worthy of roast duck" These stalks that make people smile and feel bitter.
YouTube film blogger Jeremy Jahns described his feelings for Guy Ritchie like this: He seems to be in a 20-year loveless marriage, but he still has firm convictions. Disappointing, pitiful, joyful and appetizing, Guy Ritchie is such a magical existence.
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This "Gentlemen", which is a collection of luxury casts, marks Guy Ritchie's return to the crime genre that made him famous in the first place. It is also Guy who has been directing classic IP for a long time and restarted writing his own script. Audiences who are familiar with the guide can relive the tricks commonly used by Guy Ritchie in "Gentlemen" with joy, and they can also find a different Guy Ritchie in this not-so-novel story.
Like his other crime-themed films, the complicated story lines of "Gentlemen" cannot be summarized in one sentence. The following is the result of the hard work: The story of "Gentlemen" revolves around the cannabis dealer Mickey Pearson played by Matthew McConaughey. The American has spread his cannabis empire underground in the British aristocratic manor, and now he is retreating. He intends to sell the business to Jewish businessman Matthew.
This originally simple transaction slowly involved Dry Eye, the grumpy Chinese gangster who also coveted Mickey’s marijuana business, and the Chinese forces behind him, the editor of the newspaper and the paparazzi, drug addicts and Russian gangsters, and a boxing gym. The coach and a group of students who are good at singing, dancing and rap. Mickey, the old lion in the jungle, must bring his glamorous wife and equally glamorous subordinate Raymond to deal with blackmail, threats, dangers in the dark, and new troubles from the sky.
The narrative structure built up by such multiple story lines and the role setting that rationalizes violence are not new, but they can make Guy Ritchie feel comfortable and rest assured. So in "Gentlemen", quick cut, chasing, rock music, black humor (one of them is Phuc), dirty words starting with f and c, and slapped slaps of bad taste, without the restraints and restrictions of Disney. ·Rich finally returned to his happy hometown.
Guy Ritchie's first release was his nostalgia and fascination with Britain in his mind. Although he has been in the United States for a long time, Guy Ritchie is quite British in his bones, so in "Gentlemen" you can hear the authentic and cute Cockney accent, and see the glamorous noble manor underground is a few miles of marijuana. In heaven, men wear jam-colored suits and flat peaked caps. They add a pickled egg when ordering at a bar, crouching tigers, hidden dragons in Chinese restaurants, and street teenagers doing nothing under the hazy sky. Regardless of how real the Britain constructed by Guy Ritchie is, this stubborn and frank depiction is somewhat romantic.
Guy Ritchie’s previous works have always been criticized for lack of female characters, and even Guy himself has been labeled as "misogynistic", but he seems to have no intention of repentance. Once there is no need to portray the image of a feminist princess, he turns his head. Immediately wrote another (almost) all-male story. Not only is it difficult to write female characters well, Guy Ritchie even ignores basic racial and political correctness in "Gentlemen". The portrayal of Jews, Chinese, and Russians will certainly be defined by many people as fostering stereotypes, and even worse. There was a serious discussion about whether "black c*unt" was a racially discriminatory line.
Having been scolded for so many years, and having been up and down in politically sensitive Hollywood for so long, Guy Ritchie shouldn't be ignorant of these thundering spots, but he seems to have a disregard of mixed energy, and he has to use his own. To deal with characters and stories in the same way as twenty years ago and the concepts that have been upheld all the time. This is Guy Ritchie's limitation and his special feature.
Of course, Guy Ritchie's Hollywood for so many years is not for nothing, "Gentlemen" also provides some new things. The whole story about Mickey is reflexive. From the very beginning, the audience saw it on the screen as an indistinguishable script written by the intelligence dealer Fletcher for the purpose of extortion, and then added fuel and vinegar to Raymond, Mickey's subordinate. , And speak with eloquence.
This setting is very clever, because it's a script, it can naturally bring out Mickey's character biographies and pre-love stories, and can freely and reasonably change perspectives to complement the side plots of different characters on each clue. The most important thing is that because it is a "story" written by others, this crime story can no longer care about the authenticity and rationality, and play with violence and dramatize it. If there is something that does not conform to the logic of reality, it is all blame. Fletcher's script is not well written.
This new method of storytelling by people in the story makes the entire narrative structure of "Gentlemen" more complicated, and it also gives enough space for bad fun. You can insert a Hu-bian plot from time to time to tease the audience, or insert new narratives. Method, let Fletcher and Raymond play role-playing and dubbing shows.
Although lagging behind his peer Quentin for so many years, Guy Ritchie finally began to think about reflexivity and film media in "Gentlemen." In addition to the script’s self-knowledge of the film and the egg lines that pay tribute to Coppola’s "Dialogue", Guy Ritchie finally even asked Fletcher to walk into Miramax’s office with the script and stand in "Secrets" where he also appeared. In front of the "Special Agent" poster, there was a big talk about the sequel. Although it is totally unreasonable for the "Secret Agent" poster to appear there (after all, "Secret Agent" paid Warner's money at the time), but this little surprise carries a kind of solid or fan narcissism, which is further blurred. The boundary between the real and the truth in the story of "Gentlemen".
In addition to movies, "Gentlemen"'s thinking on media also includes traditional newspapers and Youtube new media. The attitude of the filming MV was very clear. He relentlessly threw the newspaper editor to Sleeping Pig. In the face of the new media, he did not hesitate to shoot an additional hip-hop MV, and he also happily put it on the end of the subtitles.
But apart from the progress that made fans feel a little gratified, the most obvious difference between "Gentlemen" and the previous game may be the sense of age. Guy Ritchie is 51 years old, he is no longer the hairy boy of the year, and the young people who lit their ears in the bar for partying all night in the story turned into middle-aged "gentlemen". The protagonists in "Gentlemen" are almost always old vs. young in crisis. Mickey meets Dry Eye who is arrogant and doesn’t put his predecessors in his eyes. When Raymond is dealing with drug addicts, he still has to chase street teenagers, boxing. The coach not only had to teach the bear kids who jumped into the team, but also clean up the mess for the hip-hop singers in the hall.
In these pursuits and violence, the protagonists almost experienced a certain degree of powerlessness, showing the slight sorrow and sorrow brought by age. Mickey, an American who has integrated into the United Kingdom, seems to be a projection of Guy Ritchie himself. His fatigue and retreat, as well as the powerlessness engulfed in chaos, seem to reflect the midlife crisis that Guy Ritchie himself is experiencing. The gangsters in "The Irishman" are old, and the criminals in "The Gentlemen" are no longer young. But behind this sorrowful portrayal, there seems to be a bright layer of complacency and uplifting. The gentlemen eventually broke through their difficulties and assumed the responsibility of instructors, regained control with guns and slaps, and defended their own construction. Order up.
Guy Ritchie, behind "Gentlemen", no longer advocates the causelessness of violence, and no longer expresses gratitude and enmity. He became a group of middle-aged gentlemen in suits, holding a gun to teach young people to abide by the rules and order. It is okay to smoke marijuana, but never touch heroin.
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Every movie of Guy Ritchie can basically achieve a kind of bizarre "host and guest enjoyment". The director has fun and the actors have fun. The sparks between the characters on the "Gentlemen" screen are probably an excellent proof of this happiness. After all, Guy Ritchie can put the leg warming and barbecue table he designed as an important prop in "The Gentlemen". Take it to sell, and use this movie to bring together Matthew McConaughey's mother and Hugh Grant's father.
In addition to this kind of cheerfulness, another reason that Guy's film can fool a good cast is Guy Ritchie's very powerful (male) character creation ability. Although there are many characters in each of his works, which leads to less screen time for a single character, Guy Ritchie is always able to create unconventional characters with a subtle one-liner that will make the actors behind the characters stand out and achieve the role and the character. The realm of mutual achievement between actors. It's no wonder that Pete scrambled to play "Smuggling and Robbery" after watching "Two Big Smokers".
The most prominent performance in "The Gentlemen" came from Hugh Grant unexpectedly. Uncle Hugh is probably one of the rare actor who ushered in a rising career in his later years, and Fletcher in "The Gentlemen" came after "Paddington 2". Once again proved that Hugh Grant does not need to rely on the strength of beauty. It’s a very interesting casting to let Hugh Grant, a person who hates paparazzi the most in his life, play Fletcher, a two-sided paparazzi, and when Fletcher’s exaggerated colorful glasses cover Hugh Grant’s iconic drooping eyes, Hugh Grant may It was the first time that he completely disappeared after the character.
Colin Farrell was also a big surprise in "The Gentlemen". In this story, his eyebrows finally became inflexible and became flexible, and he took on the role of "Archie's Palm" for Guy Ritchie. Important responsibilities. The boxing gym coach in "Gentlemen" is like the most moral expert who is free from the world, and Colin Farrell's glasses are supported, his neck is retracted, his hands are raglanks, and this role is immediately established.
In addition to always giving good roles, another contribution of Guy Ritchie’s movies is that Guy Ritchie’s good eyesight and aesthetics that are not as good as straight men are selected by the actor, so that he can make all the actors look beautiful and make them become more beautiful. The bald Jude Law turns into a flower again, which can turn the Prince of Petroleum into a chic male. The Texas man wears a turtleneck sweater and exquisite earrings. Under Guy Ritchie’s conscience, Charlie Hannum, who had been cheated once by him, finally had a masterpiece worthy of his appearance, although he had to take on the task of selling corruption in "Gentlemen". To say that makes a good wife, but also to talk about the top and bottom easter eggs lines, Charlie Hannum's treasure can finally be unearthed by the world.
Although it is superficial, the contribution in this area alone has to say that Guy Ritchie is amazing.
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Guy Ritchie is an amazing director. People will always regret the so-called "high driving and low walking" life story, but like Gai, he still has artistic ideals after taking detours. There are high-quality old books to eat, a lot of beautiful actors to use, and a group of people. Fans are waiting for him to count, which is an interesting and unique career.
As long as you have fun, it is a good story. It's the same for "Gentlemen" and Guy Ritchie.
2.12 Update: Today, "Aladdin 2" was officially announced, and it is still directed by Guy Ritchie. Gai's next career path still seems to be very interesting, but it feels like such a long love letter to Gai is completely written in vain.
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