June 16-21 FOMO is taking a tour through some of the most distinctive films to emerge from the United Kingdom over the last fifty years. Punk manifestos. Social realism. Gangster films. Cult classics. Coming-of-age stories. Music culture. Working-class Britain. Films that helped define entire generations, alongside newer works that show where British cinema is heading today.
SNATCH
Guy Ritchie | 2000 | United Kingdom | 1h44m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
If LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS was the breakthrough, SNATCH was the film that convinced everyone Guy Ritchie wasn't a fluke.
The plot is almost impossible to explain without a whiteboard. A stolen diamond disappears into London's criminal underworld. Promoters try to fix a boxing match. Gangsters chase money. Criminals chase each other. Somewhere in the middle of it all is a caravan-dwelling bare-knuckle boxer played by Brad Pitt whose accent is so impenetrable that half the characters can't understand him either. "Do YoU LikE DaGS?"
The cast is ridiculous when you stop to think about it. Benicio Del Toro. Dennis Farina. Jason Statham. Vinnie Jones returns. Alan Ford. Brad Pitt. Every character arrives fully formed and memorable enough to anchor their own film.
The movie also gave us Brick Top, one of the great villains of modern British cinema. Alan Ford plays him with such effortless menace that he somehow manages to be terrifying and hilarious at exactly the same time. "In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?" This a comedy first and a genre film second.
I've paired SNATCH with LOCK, STOCK because together they represent one of the most successful one-two punches in British cinema history. Most directors spend years refining their style between films. Ritchie took what worked in LOCK, STOCK and somehow made it bigger, funnier, and even more entertaining.
Whenever people talk about British gangster films, SNATCH is usually one of the first titles mentioned. After all these years I think that's entirely deserved. It's funny, endlessly quotable, and about as much fun as you can have at FOMO for 104 minutes.
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