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Actors: Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Snatch |
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Guy Ritchie (Mr. Madonna) wrote and directed this 2000 followup to his moderately successful "Lock, Stock and Two Barrels," on much the same themes. Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter, arranges with vicious crime boss Brick Top (Alan Ford, doing a nice Albert Finney-as-monster turn) to have his fighter purposely lose a fight. But the Pakistani gypsy fighter whose English is nearly incomprehensible (show-stealing performance by Brad Pitt!) inexplicably wins the fight and gets Turkish in deep trouble. Meanwhile, a gang disguised as Hasidic Jews steals a huge diamond from Holland and bring it to London where several different parties try to get their hands on it. (Watch for such characters as Boris the Blade and Bullet Tooth Tony.) This is not just a hilarious and extremely violent and profane caper film; there are also mesmerizing visual tricks of the music video/magic realism school. (Every time Jewish New York crime boss Dennis Farina crosses the ocean, there's a quick whap of pills in the mouth/whoosh of the jet that remind me of nothing so much as the repeated heroin-shooting sequences of "Requiem for a Dream.") Fast, funny, and bracing.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Very hard to explain this film; it's about a bunch of different people who are trying to obtain a diamond which is worth a whole lot of money. A lot like Tarantino films.
--Diane, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Snatch |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- criminals stealing from honest people
Kind of comedy
- bungling criminals
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Irish/McCourt
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- mastermind
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- Ireland
City?
Yes
City:
- London
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- A huge amnt of foul language
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