"Ambitious" is an awkward word

Westley 2022-03-18 08:01:01

Ambition is said to be an embarrassing word in the UK.

But today's mainstream is American culture. Americans are not ashamed of this. When the young gangster sat on the sofa with his arms outstretched and his legs crossed, I didn't think anything was wrong with the peaceful evolution. On the contrary, the boss Freddie's sitting position is very girly: twisted half body, although he was arrogant at that time.

The gangster took off his suit and started hacking people. Brits would think there's some sad dark humor in it. When Patrick Bateman in American Pyscho put on a raincoat and started hacking people, Americans thought it was absurd black humor.

The gangster took off his suit and started hacking people. The British would deliberately use the camera to capture the youthful, youth-specific body, revealing a hint of ambiguity. Bateman in American Pyscho shows his naked hormones in front of the mirror without hesitation.

The little gangster screamed to himself from the bottom of his heart, with white teeth and red gums, hysterical to the point of terror. Bateman stared at the other party's perfect business card in a daze, angry but not hysterical. At this point, it seems that the British have been repressed for too long.

In the end, if Americans made this film, they would probably end up with that mirror shot of Citizen Kane, making the protagonist stubbornly stubborn. Thirty years of narration makes people mistakenly think that this is another godfather: he finally got the status of a legitimate business.

The British with a clear concept of hierarchy will let him take off all disguises and stare desperately at the other side he can never reach. Even the only youth he once had is gone.

The British are really artistic.

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Extended Reading
  • Clarabelle 2022-04-23 07:05:28

    [2020] [David Thewlis] Help, David Thewlis, who lit a cigarette with his tail ring in his suit and leather shoes in the London night fire, is so charming! No matter how arrogant the younger brother is, it is just a loud personal carnival, and Fred's style can never be learned. (Let me shout again, David Thewlis! There is laziness and inadvertence in the tone of the name.) (20210405 added: 1. The heroine Saffron Burrows is bisexual. I feel that this largely explains why in the play Her rivalry with David Thewlis has no romantic atmosphere; 2. Jamie Foreman, who plays the role of Lennie Taylor, whose father Freddie Foreman used to be a gangster in south London (same name as the film's leading actor freddie mayer... screenwriter, you did it on purpose ?), checked Freddie's photos, Jamie's glasses in the film are probably imitating his dad...)

  • Soledad 2022-03-21 09:03:29

    This is a very positive film. Yes. It tells us that being a gangster has no future, and that marrying a wife and having children is the pinnacle of life.

Gangster No. 1 quotes

  • [Young Gangster and Roland are at the door]

    Eddie Miller: Who is it?

    Young Gangster: It's the big bad wolf.

  • [last lines]

    [voiceover]

    Gangster 55: One day I'll catch up with you. You want a war? I'll give you a fucking war one arm tied behind me back. I'll shoot you - blow you to kingdom come. They'll need a dustpan and brush to scrape you off the walls. Make mincemeat out of ya. Pie and mash, puddles of blood. I'll leave you lying there. Go rot, the lot of you. Calling me a cunt?

    Young Gangster: Calling me a cunt? You calling me a cunt? You cunt. I'll fucking kick you. I'll kick fuck out of ya. I'll kick you to- fuck you. F... Fuck you!

    Gangster 55: Rip your face off. I'll fucking... I'll, I'll fucking... burn ya.

    [scene shifts from apartment to rooftop - voiceover continues]

    Gangster 55: Freddie Mays. Freddie Mays! I don't need ya, Freddie. Who am I?

    Gangster 55: [shouting out loud] I'm Superman! King fucking Kong! I can pick you up and throw you a million miles. I'm number one. Number fucking one. I'm number one. Number fucking one. Number one! Number one! Number one!

    [scene flashes back and forth between the rooftop and the night of Lennie's murder]

    Young Gangster: [screaming] Aaaarrrrhhhh!

    Gangster 55: Number one! Number one! Number one! One One One One! Number fucking one! I'm number one.

    Young Gangster: Fuck you!

    Lennie Taylor: [sound of gunshot] Ahhhh! Oh God!

    Gangster 55: Number one.

    [song "The Good Life" begins as scene fades out]