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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
The director's screenplay for one of the hottest British films this year, "a hilariously twisted, razor-sharp, comedy gangster thriller" that broke box-office records in Britain and won rave reviews in the U.S. when it opened this March. Streetwise charmer Eddy walks into the biggest card game of his life with
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160 pages, Paperback
First published September 17, 1998
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Guy Ritchie
20 books26 followersGuy Stuart Ritchie is an English screenwriter and film director.
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April 28, 2017
It gets at times pretty confusing as it's got a shitton of characters- which takes quite a bit away in terms of memorability. You tend to identify characters rather in terms of groups than as individuals. That said, that's more or less to be expected, as the film doesn't have a sole protagonist that takes center stage and has the rest of the characters revolve around him, but a group.
Apart from that, we've got profane language, and whip-smart and funny dialogue that totally hits the mark, a fairly complex structure, and all in all one hell of a ride.
Apart from that, we've got profane language, and whip-smart and funny dialogue that totally hits the mark, a fairly complex structure, and all in all one hell of a ride.
September 30, 2017
This book is literally the movie script to Lock, Stock and so if you’ve seen it before then you know roughly what to expect. I used to love the film back in the day but I’d pretty much forgot about it until I discovered that this book existed and scooped it up for a bargain price. I’m glad I did.
You get the same great story that you see in the movie, but you also get the benefit of a few extras here and there such as the introduction from the author/director and the occasional mini scene or line of dialogue that was cut from the movie. Worth reading whether you’re a fan or not, in my opinion – and it also worked well as a standalone script.
You get the same great story that you see in the movie, but you also get the benefit of a few extras here and there such as the introduction from the author/director and the occasional mini scene or line of dialogue that was cut from the movie. Worth reading whether you’re a fan or not, in my opinion – and it also worked well as a standalone script.
June 17, 2025
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels by Guy Ritchie http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/02/s...
9 out of 10
Guy Ritchie is one of the most talented film makers we could find, although looking at some of his creations you might think that he does have it, but something is not quite right, maybe he does not put in all that effort (at times at least) something we may think, if we read Outliers http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/o... one of the classics by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is maybe the most influential psychologist of the age, however much detractors would attack him, and although we have Daniel Kahneman http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/t... with his fantastic Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman is the only psychologist to have won the Nobel Prize, there is no such recognition for psychology, but he won it for economy and from his majestic book, I have learned about ‘regression to the mean’
Among other things, of course…now, let us return to Malcolm Gladwell (alert here, not a spoiler, for I will not say how Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ends, except to insist that it has an exhilarating dénouement, where everything is in limbo, extraordinarily inventive, but other than this, I may not say anything more about the alleged subject) and his masterpiece, Outliers, which is phenomenal
The luminary looks at famous creators, from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Steve Jobs, Beatles, Bill Gates and others, finding that they have spent a lot exercising, practicing, and the formula we get is ten thousand hours of work over ten years is likely to get you to the very top, unless you want to be a basketball star and your height is 156 centimeters, or some other situation where the goals are clearly too grandiose to reach
Furthermore, Malcolm Gladwell looks at cultures in general, and in Asia, the basis is the rice fields, which demand attention throughout the year, he mentions a Chinese (if this is not wrong) saying which goes something like ‘if you rise with the sun for 360 days every year, you should be alright’ which is quite relevant
In the Far East, one has to be plugged in for all the year, except for those five days missing above, and this is because rice is really demanding, it requires constant attention, if you put too much water, then the crop is gone
Similarly, if you have too little, no rice for you, and this fundament for the Eastern culture explains how they are used with working hard, ‘if there is a problem, they through more activity at it’ and they have had tremendous success
South Korea is a clear example and demonstration, it has had a level of poverty that was similar with Africa, this realm here, and now it is at the forefront, leads in technology, culture and so much more, but they have a culture of immense effort there, students learn well into the night and there is no repose, it seems
The Economist has published this week (September 9) a study about sleep, and if the Nordic countries lead the way – I mean god damn, these people have it all…fuck it, they lead in happiness levels, trust in one another and authorities –actually, that is connected, if you have a land where folks do not trust one another, then your levels of depression rise, and the reported wellbeing is also low
At the bottom of these charts you find the Asians, in other words, they sleep much less than the rest of the world – on average, for somebody was telling me otherwise at the sauna, which the equivalent of the medieval market square, this is where we talk, gossip and debate over the latest research or myth…
This fellow was telling me about his Chinese colleagues, who take a…nap, no matter what, sometime around noon, or in the middle of the day; on the other hand, they leave the office at…ten or so in the evening
The striking thing is we are talking about…Huawei, which is clearly a big (if not huge) thing here, contrary to what our status as NATO members might suggest – I mean the USA is very clearly against this phone company that is somehow controlled by the Chinese state aka the communists, and frankly, anything Chinese is, well, at least dubious
They have banned their presence (Huawei) in places like New Zealand, and many other realms, so what about here…they have their name on one of the towers that rise in an important business district
Just the other day actually, they had had a symposium or something, for which they closed the parking lot at this bizarre Caro hotel, putting on the property some big hall for a shindig, beano or something
What the hell, they do not even go ‘pe burta’ discreet about it, thy just flaunt their big presence here - now that I have exposed this flaw, the conclusion is that they do have a major operation here, and what am I doing talking to you, instead of leading a campaign of boycott of Huawei aka China…long live Taiwan anyway!
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
From To The Heritage:
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life. As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality. Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
9 out of 10
Guy Ritchie is one of the most talented film makers we could find, although looking at some of his creations you might think that he does have it, but something is not quite right, maybe he does not put in all that effort (at times at least) something we may think, if we read Outliers http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/o... one of the classics by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is maybe the most influential psychologist of the age, however much detractors would attack him, and although we have Daniel Kahneman http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/t... with his fantastic Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman is the only psychologist to have won the Nobel Prize, there is no such recognition for psychology, but he won it for economy and from his majestic book, I have learned about ‘regression to the mean’
Among other things, of course…now, let us return to Malcolm Gladwell (alert here, not a spoiler, for I will not say how Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ends, except to insist that it has an exhilarating dénouement, where everything is in limbo, extraordinarily inventive, but other than this, I may not say anything more about the alleged subject) and his masterpiece, Outliers, which is phenomenal
The luminary looks at famous creators, from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Steve Jobs, Beatles, Bill Gates and others, finding that they have spent a lot exercising, practicing, and the formula we get is ten thousand hours of work over ten years is likely to get you to the very top, unless you want to be a basketball star and your height is 156 centimeters, or some other situation where the goals are clearly too grandiose to reach
Furthermore, Malcolm Gladwell looks at cultures in general, and in Asia, the basis is the rice fields, which demand attention throughout the year, he mentions a Chinese (if this is not wrong) saying which goes something like ‘if you rise with the sun for 360 days every year, you should be alright’ which is quite relevant
In the Far East, one has to be plugged in for all the year, except for those five days missing above, and this is because rice is really demanding, it requires constant attention, if you put too much water, then the crop is gone
Similarly, if you have too little, no rice for you, and this fundament for the Eastern culture explains how they are used with working hard, ‘if there is a problem, they through more activity at it’ and they have had tremendous success
South Korea is a clear example and demonstration, it has had a level of poverty that was similar with Africa, this realm here, and now it is at the forefront, leads in technology, culture and so much more, but they have a culture of immense effort there, students learn well into the night and there is no repose, it seems
The Economist has published this week (September 9) a study about sleep, and if the Nordic countries lead the way – I mean god damn, these people have it all…fuck it, they lead in happiness levels, trust in one another and authorities –actually, that is connected, if you have a land where folks do not trust one another, then your levels of depression rise, and the reported wellbeing is also low
At the bottom of these charts you find the Asians, in other words, they sleep much less than the rest of the world – on average, for somebody was telling me otherwise at the sauna, which the equivalent of the medieval market square, this is where we talk, gossip and debate over the latest research or myth…
This fellow was telling me about his Chinese colleagues, who take a…nap, no matter what, sometime around noon, or in the middle of the day; on the other hand, they leave the office at…ten or so in the evening
The striking thing is we are talking about…Huawei, which is clearly a big (if not huge) thing here, contrary to what our status as NATO members might suggest – I mean the USA is very clearly against this phone company that is somehow controlled by the Chinese state aka the communists, and frankly, anything Chinese is, well, at least dubious
They have banned their presence (Huawei) in places like New Zealand, and many other realms, so what about here…they have their name on one of the towers that rise in an important business district
Just the other day actually, they had had a symposium or something, for which they closed the parking lot at this bizarre Caro hotel, putting on the property some big hall for a shindig, beano or something
What the hell, they do not even go ‘pe burta’ discreet about it, thy just flaunt their big presence here - now that I have exposed this flaw, the conclusion is that they do have a major operation here, and what am I doing talking to you, instead of leading a campaign of boycott of Huawei aka China…long live Taiwan anyway!
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
From To The Heritage:
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life. As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality. Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
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February 20, 2008loved the movie... let's see how the book goes...
December 27, 2022
Been quite a while since I had seen the movie. The direction of actions and shots in the screenplay really brought back a lot of it. Interesting to see how the more complicated scenes and rapid editing style were handled in screenplay form. Really helps one appreciate the tight and tense story when reading it out.
April 22, 2022
SNATCH IS BETTER (IN MY OPINION), BUT DAMN GOOD!!!!!!!!!
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