Thursday, February 6, 2014

"Snatch"

One of my favorite movies to watch would have to be Snatch.  It is a very well directed movie that revolves around 4 or 5 groups of people and one diamond the size of your fist.  They aren't aware of it, but all of their paths cross each others at least once, and everything they do effects the others.  The closest that this movie gets to having a protagonist would have to be Jason Stathem and his partner, and just about everybody is an antagonist since they are all trying to steal a diamond.  The amount of mind numbing violence would make just about any guy happy.  If that wasn't enough, there are accents and puppies.  Stathem just wants to buy a new caravan which gets him mixed up with a band of gypsies, who sold a dog to a pair of 'gangsters'.  The dog ate the diamond that the gangsters had stolen from Freddy 'four fingers'.  Freddy had taken the diamond from a bank and was selling it to a guy named Bricktop in New York.  Bricktop is friends with Addie who is a fake Jewish Jewelry seller (he is just a jewelry seller, but not Jewish).  Addie deals with Borris the bullet dodger, who sells guns to all of the other characters, and has a boxer fighting against Stathem.  The boxer that Stathem has was knocked out by Mickey the Gypsie during a bet for the trailer that Stathem wanted because his was old.  It is one of my favorite movies because it keeps you interested to see who gets the diamond in the end and what happens to every character, as well as has some very interesting humor.  I would definitely say it is a movie you should see at least once, and if not that movie, then I would also reccommend "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" which is a similar movie.

1 comment:

  1. Guy Ritchie certainly knows his genre. It's been a while since I've seen it so I can't say much in the way of directing and editing, but the interactions between characters are as memorable as the nicknamed characters themselves. Especially in the case of "Lock Stock..." and in Snatch all the elements fall into place in the 3rd Act as the stories begin to overlap. Part of what's impressive is how it keeps the viewer gripped as well as aware of everyone's conflicting motives in the ever changing scenes. That's really where the coherence of the editing shines.

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