Snatch Dir. Guy Ritchie (2000)
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and unwatchable. At 15 years old, he dropped out of school and in 1995, got a job as a runner, ultimately starting his film career. He quickly progressed and was directing music promos for bands and commercials by 1995. The profits that he made from directing these promos was invested into writing and making the film The Hard Case (1995), a twenty minute short film that is also the prequel to his debut feature Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Once completed, ten British distributors turned the film down before the film eventually was released in the UK in 1998 and the US in 1999; the film put Ritchie on the map as one of the hottest rising filmmakers of the time, and launched the careers of actors Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, and Vinnie Jones, among others. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) was followed up by Snatch (2000), this time with a bigger budget and a few more familiar faces such as Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro alongside returning actors Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones and Jason Flemyng.
Snatch is a 2000 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots: one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter (Jason Statham) who finds himself under the thumb of a ruthless gangster (Alan Ford) who is ready and willing to have his subordinates carry out severe and sadistic acts of violence.
Performance is critical is this film and all the actors and actresses involved played their parts and got into character extremely well, this made the film even more enjoyable and interesting to watch. For example, Brad Pitt playing the Gypsy Bare Knuckle fighting champion Mickey O'Neil. Brad Pitt perfectly voices his character and plays him sensationally well. Brad Pitt convincingly plays a Gypsy throughout the entire movie, he stays in character and makes the film highly enjoyable to watch. The clip below is of a scene from the movie, it is the scene where he is asking for a caravan in exchange for him fighting.
Mise-en-scene is also important in this movie.The use of guns in Snatch is a conventional prop to have in a dark, gangster like film. This is because conflict is a stereotypical narrative theme to have and the popular choice of weapon to have in these types of films are guns. Diamonds seem to be the cause of the conflict in Snatch as the group of men shoot at the men in the office in order to steal the diamonds.
Lighting: Lighting is such an important aspect of Snatch. Low lighting adds to the dark and intimidating atmosphere that a action film or gangster film aims to create. We see the use of low lighting in Snatch several times,it is done to create and to enhance the audiences experience when watching the film.
The narrative structure of the film is cyclic, but also linear. This is because the films ends where it started, with two of the protagonists, sitting in chairs in a dark room waiting for someone. The structure is also linear because all the events that happen are in order and it is easy to understand what is happening in the movie.
In Snatch there is a lot of use of close-ups and mid-shots. This is to give the audience a sort of boxed in and trapped sense as in reality we are not used to seeing things like what happens in the movie so close up creating an uncomfortable atmosphere. High angles and low angles are used also, again this creates an uncomfortable atmosphere as an audience because we are not used to viewing things at eye level. As well as unusual camera shots and angles being used, unusual but effective use of editing is also used in Snatch. In the opening sequence we frequently saw editing taking the form of rotating into the next scene, again allowing the audience to feel uncomfortable as we are not used to viewing things upside down, but at the same time allowing smooth transitions into different camera shots and scenes.
Performance is critical is this film and all the actors and actresses involved played their parts and got into character extremely well, this made the film even more enjoyable and interesting to watch. For example, Brad Pitt playing the Gypsy Bare Knuckle fighting champion Mickey O'Neil. Brad Pitt perfectly voices his character and plays him sensationally well. Brad Pitt convincingly plays a Gypsy throughout the entire movie, he stays in character and makes the film highly enjoyable to watch. The clip below is of a scene from the movie, it is the scene where he is asking for a caravan in exchange for him fighting.
Mise-en-scene is also important in this movie.The use of guns in Snatch is a conventional prop to have in a dark, gangster like film. This is because conflict is a stereotypical narrative theme to have and the popular choice of weapon to have in these types of films are guns. Diamonds seem to be the cause of the conflict in Snatch as the group of men shoot at the men in the office in order to steal the diamonds.
Lighting: Lighting is such an important aspect of Snatch. Low lighting adds to the dark and intimidating atmosphere that a action film or gangster film aims to create. We see the use of low lighting in Snatch several times,it is done to create and to enhance the audiences experience when watching the film.
The narrative structure of the film is cyclic, but also linear. This is because the films ends where it started, with two of the protagonists, sitting in chairs in a dark room waiting for someone. The structure is also linear because all the events that happen are in order and it is easy to understand what is happening in the movie.
In Snatch there is a lot of use of close-ups and mid-shots. This is to give the audience a sort of boxed in and trapped sense as in reality we are not used to seeing things like what happens in the movie so close up creating an uncomfortable atmosphere. High angles and low angles are used also, again this creates an uncomfortable atmosphere as an audience because we are not used to viewing things at eye level. As well as unusual camera shots and angles being used, unusual but effective use of editing is also used in Snatch. In the opening sequence we frequently saw editing taking the form of rotating into the next scene, again allowing the audience to feel uncomfortable as we are not used to viewing things upside down, but at the same time allowing smooth transitions into different camera shots and scenes.
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