Guy Ritchie, let me talk about my impressions of this director first. When I was in college, I watched him "Two Smoking Guns" and "Stealing and Snatching". It was the first time I was caught by Guy Ritchie’s multi-linear and complex narrative. To be fascinated.
At that time, Guy Ritchie, most people including me, used "ghosts" to describe him. Everyone in Guy Ritchie’s films felt good enough to be a little ironic, and all kinds of weird and weird things happened. A dumbfounding story.
However, after "Detective Sherlock Holmes", Guy Ritchie has changed from a maverick and talented director to a popular commercial character director. Although the later works can still feel the linear narrative of Guy Ritchie, and The ability to quickly edit and change the narrative, but since then, the film works are less amazing at the beginning. In my eyes, the word "ghost" belongs only to the earliest Guy Ritchie.
This is not derogatory, nor is it a compliment. At least, Guy Ritchie is stationed in Hollywood, trying various themes and stories. In the case of high production, the quality and style can be maintained at a certain level of quality, which can be regarded as allowing the audience to enjoy There are more levels of excitement in the entertainment experience.
Today, let’s talk about Guy Ritchie’s new film "Gentlemen". Whether this movie is played by Guy Ritchie or is the old one. This program focuses on the discussion.
Let’s talk about the perception first, "Gentlemen" is still full of Guy Ritchie’s strong male hormones. The film revolves around a British cannabis drug dealer named Mickey who suddenly wanted to wash his hands into the upper class while his cannabis business was booming. Identity, so I found a rich American Matthew, ready to resell his cannabis industry.
But in this main-line incident, a variety of strange secondary-line accidents have spawned, and all kinds of accidents are intertwined with the main-line, and it has become another cool entertainment film with multiple linear narratives by Guy Ritchie.
Usually we go to talk about Guy Ritchie’s work. We can’t say it clearly in one or two sentences. In the end, we can only conclude that this matter is pretty messy and there is no focus, but it seems to be the focus. . Features of Rich's work.
In this "Gentlemen" movie, it feels like Guy Ritchie dreams of returning to "Two Smoking Guns" and "Stealing". Not only is there a lot of details in the film that pay tribute to the previous work.
What's more important is the tone and routine of "Gentlemen" and the previous two works. They all talk about the so-called law of the jungle. Everyone in the film lives in blind self-confidence, but in the end they are all exploded by the domino and butterfly effect. The uncontrolled state of affairs made me feel dizzy, and the black humorous words and deeds that everyone dealt with during the incident were the biggest attraction of the film.
Many people think that this is Guy Ritchie's dazzling skills. The rapid display of imagination and the fancy editing are all the old tricks of Guy Ritchie, nothing new. In terms of human settings, it just turned the former "Two Big Smokers" and "Stealing and Robbery" into a battle between high-end and upper-class "gentlemen".
This reminds me of Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman". Similarly, "The Irishman" is also associated with Martin's early "Goodies", and there are still people who call Martin to eat his own money.
Today, whether it's "Gentlemen" or "The Irishman" or other movies, it seems that some people are accusing the directors of not making progress.
I have to expand on the discussion about the director's style. I believe everyone has heard a sentence. In fact, the director only makes one movie in his life, and all movies are the derivation and expansion of virgin works.
Whether it's the splicing of Quentin's violent aesthetics and various classic tributes, or the collision between Li Ang's Eastern and Western cultures, or Nolan's research on the disrupting and reorganization of events and brain holes.
So what I want to say is that the maverick and perseverance of a director’s style is actually the important impression that we can remember a director better.
For Guy Ritchie, multi-line complex narratives, domino chain reactions, and the butterfly effect increase dramatic conflicts. These are the unique labels of Guy Ritchie’s works. From this perspective, there is no such thing as a director’s laurels. Don't ask for innovation.
In my impression, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, etc. can play the role of movie genre, style, and innovation. Director.
Speaking of "Gentlemen", the film is still a familiar formula, with the same blending, for me, the whole viewing experience is actually very cool and exciting, and the viewing degree is very high.
The film starts from the perspective of private detective Fletcher. Fletcher uses the structure of the movie script to introduce to Mickey’s army strategist Lei what he understands the ins and outs of the entire cannabis acquisition incident. This method directly allows the audience to cut into the theme, and at the same time, it is more clear and comprehensive. Understand all the intricate relationships between characters.
The film borrows this script structure model, and at the same time makes fun of this model. For example, this time needs a turning point, this time needs an action scene, even Fletcher and Ray played the script dialogue presentation midway, adding more movies Interesting and rich visibility.
The superposition of these imaginations also fits Guy Ritchie's usual directing style very well. "Gentlemen" is also Guy Ritchie's work with the highest comprehensive score at home and abroad after "Two Smoking Guns". Guy Ritchie is back to the pinnacle of creation after 20 years!
It can be said that Guy Ritchie has done a good job of quality control of "Gentlemen", although some of the previous works were also uncomfortable (UNCLE), and there were even times when the car was overturned (King Arthur), but I have to say, Guy. With the trade-off between art and business, Rich is more and more able to pinch the audience's taste.
Next, let's review the spoiler and try to rationalize this bizarre and complicated story to help everyone understand it more clearly and completely.
Of course, spoilers will be involved, 3, 2, 1.
One night, Fletcher sneaked into Ray’s home secretly, and wanted to sell Ray a script for 20 million. This script was closely related to the acquisition of Ray’s boss Mitch, and the story was also unfolded by Fletcher’s so-called script.
At the beginning of the script, Mickey was a gangster when he was a child, but Mickey's clever business mind started his fortune as a cannabis broker, and finally became a self-sufficient cannabis business empire, almost monopolizing the entire UK cannabis business.
Mickey’s secret to growing large amounts of marijuana without being discovered is to plant marijuana underground in various aristocratic estates in the UK. As a reward for the aristocracy, the aristocrats regularly receive generous commissions. , Renovation of the castle roof and so on.
Just as the Mickey cannabis empire was on the rise, Mickey had the idea of reselling the entire cannabis business and retiring. The reason was that he wanted to formally join the list of members of the European aristocracy. At this time, a wealthy American businessman valued Mickey’s cannabis industry, and the two went back and forth. The transaction is tentatively scheduled for 400 million yuan.
But at this moment, a Chinese local snake named Ganyan came out halfway and wanted to buy Mickey's marijuana industry, but Mickey refused.
Just after Mickey refused to dry his eyes, one of Mickey's underground marijuana bases was robbed, and it was robbed by a group of young boxing youths who wanted to be popular and crazy. The whole process of the robbery was also put on the Internet by this group of youths.
Upon learning of this, the young boss coach decided to do his best for Lei in order not to cause trouble, in order to compensate the group of young apprentices for robbing the cannabis base.
At the same time, Mickey wanted to help one of the nobles retrieve the daughter who took drugs, so Lei went to the gambling den to bring the people back, but on the way accidentally got a son of the boss of the Russian black society to fall to his death, adding later Hidden dangers.
After a so-called precise investigation, Mickey identified all the behind-the-scenes is a Hong Kong boss George in Chinatown. In his maverick gentleman way, Mickey gave George the medicine for vomiting and diarrhea, threatening George not to interfere with him. Cannabis industry.
But then George was shot by a dry eye, and the dry eye went directly to Mickey's wife's office, trying to threaten Mickey, but Mickey was rushed back to the rescue temporarily and killed the dry eye.
After Fletcher's investigation, it turned out that things were far from simple, and it was not George but Matthew that was behind all this.
Matthew initially colluded with Dry Eye, let Dry Eye intentionally buy Mickey's marijuana industry, disturbing their business, and then used the thrilling character of the boxing youth to rob the marijuana base, which caused the market value of the marijuana industry to decline.
But in the process, Ganyan was unwilling to be the second-in-command behind the scenes, and Ganyan fell out with Matthew, and then Ganyan made trouble with Mickey's wife's car dealership, and Ganyan was shot and killed.
After some tossing, Matthew thought that he had severely damaged Mickey’s cannabis production and reduced the market value of the cannabis industry. He wanted to sell Mickey’s cannabis empire at a low price of 100 million. Who knew that Mickey would reverse his plan and tell all of Matthew’s plans to force him. Matthew spat out money and asked Matthew to cut off a pound of his body as compensation.
Mickey won the battle in this acquisition battle. Fletcher assumed that his intelligence should be rewarded handsomely, but Ray had arranged anti-reconnaissance surveillance for Fletcher and took all Fletcher’s intelligence in his hands, Fletcher. You can't get a penny.
I thought that everything ended perfectly, but remember that the former Russian black society boss son fell to his tragic death? Fletcher kept a hand and sold the information to the Russian boss, which led to the Russian black society assassination of Mickey and Mickey repeatedly. Thunder.
At the end of the film, just as Mickey got on the car and was ambushed by the Russian gang, the group of boxing youths also had their own plans. The group of youths couldn't stand themselves and their masters being at the mercy of Lei. They decided to kill Mickey.
But this happened to help the kidnapped Mickey escape, and the group of youths shot to death the Russian killer who wanted to kill Mickey.
Watching the movie "Gentlemen", the whole viewing process is like an onion being slowly peeled off layer by layer, but in the end, it is found that another onion is wrapped in the onion.
Of course, if you carefully use logical reasoning, the connection between some characters' motives and events is difficult to withstand scrutiny, and the film does not have much depth of thinking at all.
However, the various stalks of the film are flying all over the sky, as well as Mickey and Ray who have been deprived of the gentleman's face by various accidents, and the sections filled with all kinds of irony and black humor. The most important thing for the audience is to watch it well. , Exciting enough, hilarious enough! Then the purpose of "Gentlemen" has been achieved!
In fact, looking at all the works of Gerich, isn’t it the same? We can feel joy in Gerich’s work, experience the high-level itching and funny laughs, and at the same time, we can see the director himself from the works, which is also very Enjoy this kind of shooting pleasure.
This kind of movie can be considered a win-win situation.
This reminds me of director Jiang Wen. In the movies he made, we can also feel that the director is playing with Sa Huan. We can see the director’s infinite energy and passion in Jiang Wen’s works. However, after Jiang Wen’s "Let the Bullets Fly", The later works are not so friendly to the audience, but one of the works of Gairich is more pleasing to the audience than the other.
This "Gentlemen" is just such an original and entertaining film by Guy Ritchie!
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