``The Gentlemen'' Everyone has grown up since then. “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” like 20 years later

“Rock, Stock” 20 years later, when everyone has grown up

So far, I have been following the structural plans and the charm of the characters and lines in "The Gentlemen," so I would like to conclude this article by pointing out the points that have changed the most over the past 20 years. This means that everyone has grown up, whether it's Guy Ritchie himself or the characters he portrays.

For example, Mickey, who used to be a violent man and stained his hands with blood to do his job, is now in middle age and starting to think realistically about retirement. His business is very thorough, and he has an eye on what will happen after marijuana is legalized, and he negotiates with the people he sells to. The cannabis plantation used the land of an aristocrat, and they had a hand-in-hand relationship. Mickey moves through gray areas politically, ethically, and even business-wise. Unlike young people, they don't go out of control in a moment of anger.

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The troubles that befall Mickey can no longer be solved with just a gunfight. The media that monitors Mickey, the independent detectives, and the Chinese and Russian mafia that monitor Mickey and his friends' movements across countries and cultures, and there is a whiff of politics in his advances and retreats, as well as the internal probing over territory. be. Like ``Lock, Stock~'' and ``Snatch,'' there are incidents that lead to incidents, but the story behind the scenes is more complex than in both films, and the events are more realistic. Does this mean that problems faced by adults are more difficult to deal with than problems faced by young people?

What Guy Ritchie once depicted in his early works was, to put it roughly, ``the runaway and rebellion of young people.'' There were adults standing in front of the young people, and they were definitely frightened. The main characters in ``The Gentlemen'' are such ``scary adults.'' Young people also appear in this work, but from an adult's perspective, they are childish, inconsiderate, and makeshift, and yet they make fun of adults. That's why adults are so confused, but this is a reversal of the structure of Guy Ritchie's past stories. In depicting young people who frantically make a fuss every time something happens, whether as humorous objects or as a source of trouble for adults, we get a glimpse of the past 20 years of Guy Ritchie's work, when ``everyone has grown up.''

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Text: Takatoshi Inagaki

Writer/editor/dramaturg. His writing activities span across fields such as movies, dramas, comics, theater, and art. Contributes to theater programs such as the movies ``Tenet'' and ``Joker,'' edits web media, edits exhibition catalogs, and appears on radio. Major stage works include dramaturg for PARCO's productions of ``Kengyo Yabuhara'', Tristone Entertainment's ``Shoujo Kamen'', prosthetic assistant for Kinoshita Kabuki's ``Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan'', ``Sannin Kichizo'', ``Kanjincho'', and KUNIO's ``Greeks''. ”Literature.

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