"Two Big Smoking Guns".Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a British 1998 crime comedy film directed and written by Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Fleming, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Winnie Jones and Sting. The plot tells the story of a young man who is set up in a card game and accumulates a lot of money from a crime boss, and for 500,000 pounds, he and his friends decide to rob a small gang that happens to live in the apartment next door.
Two Smoking Guns is the debut film starring former Welsh international footballer Jones and former diver Statham. Released on August 28, 1998, it was a box office success to general acclaim, with Ricky, Jones and Statham all gaining international fame.
Guy Rich(September 10, 1968—) is an English male director, screenwriter and producer. Richie is best known for his gangster films and the Sherlock Holmes films Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes 2: The Shadow Game.
Rich was born in 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, the second son in his family. During his school years, he was sent to Stanbridge Earls School for dyslexia, but was expelled at the age of 15.
Richie met Madonna in 1999, and the following year Richie began dating Madonna, and their son Rocco was born on August 11, 2000. Richie then married Madonna in Scotland, and the two divorced in 2008. He married British model Jerge Einsley in 2015 and they have three children.
Petty offendersAddand friendsTomSoapBakken£100,000 was raised so that Eddie, the millennial genius, could enter the shop of boss Harry "Axe" Lonsdale for a high-stakes bragging game. But it was a game, with Eddie losing to Harry and a massive debt of £500,000. Harry then sends his debt collector Big Chris and his son Chris Jr. to make sure Eddie pays back the money within a week, otherwise he will cut off the fingers of four young men and run into Eddie's father's bar.
Intrigued by an expensive pair of antique guns, Harry sends his accomplice, Berry the Baptist, to hire a pair of thieves, Gary and Dean, to steal them from a wealthy bankrupt merchant. The two thieves were very incompetent and inadvertently sold two guns to a local stolen goods collector, "Greek" Nick. Upon learning of this, an enraged Berry threatens the two to get their guns back.
Eddie comes home one day and eavesdrops on his neighbor – a gangster group led by "Dogzi" planning to rob ** growers with large amounts of cash and drugs. Add and his friends plan to rob the dogs when they return from their operations. In preparation for the robbery, Tom visits the Greek Nick to buy **, both of whom are illiterate, and finally Tom buys the two antique guns that Berry asked for at a low price. The dog and his party successfully robbed the group of ** growers, and in the process, one of them was killed by the counterattacking growers who picked up their own Bren guns, and at the same time, they also accidentally provoked a traffic policeman and knocked him unconscious and stuffed into the car in order to prevent defeat. After they returned home with multiple bags of ** and a bag of cash, Eddie and the others ambushed them as planned, and then drove away from the dog van containing ** and the traffic police. They transferred the loot to their van and returned home. They then have Nick sell drugs to the infamous Rory Blake. Rory agrees to buy ** at half price, but two of Rory's men visit the grower's home and find that they have been robbed and that what he just bought was stolen by robbers from his own grower. An angry Rory threatens Nick with Eddie's address and brings a grower Winston to identify the robbers.
Eddie and his friends celebrate at Eddie's father's bar for the night. At the same time, the dog and his party unexpectedly learn that their neighbor Eddie is the one who robbed them and ambush Eddie's apartment. Rory and his gang arrive at the scene and engage in a shootout with the dogs. The dog's men, Rory and his men, all died; Winston, who was not involved in the shootout, drove away with the drugs from the scene, while the dog fled with two antique guns and the bag of cash, but was intercepted by Big Chris and took the two things. Gary and Dean happen to bump into Chris with an antique gun, but they don't know that Chris works for Harry, so they follow Chris to Harry's house. Chris gives Harry the money and guns, but when he gets back to his car, he finds the dog holding little Chris hostage with a knife and demanding to pay it back. Chris complied and started the car. Meanwhile, Gary and Dean burst into Harry's office and engaged each other in an exchange of fire unaware that Harry and Berry were accomplices, resulting in the deaths of both of them, Harry and Berry.
When Eddie and the others return to the apartment building to see the tragedy of the big ** and the missing stolen goods, they go to Harry's house to ask for forgiveness, but when they find Harry's body, they decide to take the bag of cash themselves. Before they can leave, Big Chris crashes into Eddie and the others' car so that he has a chance to brutally kill the dog with the door. He then retrieves the cash from the soap he was unconscious in the car accident to hand it over to Harry, but in Harry's office, Tom is seen standing next to Harry's body with an antique gun, and the two leave after a brief confrontation.
After the traffic police identified the dog and his men as the culprits, Eddie and the others were released from the police station and acquitted. Back at the bar, they ask Tom to dispose of the only evidence that would implicate them - two antique guns. After Tom left, Big Chris arrived and returned the duffel bag to the trio, and all the money in the duffel bag was given to himself and his son, except for an antique gun catalog. Add, Soap and Beacon rummaged through the catalogue and learned that the two guns were worth a lot of money (£250,000 to £300,000), and then scrambled to call Tom; At this time, Tom was throwing the antique gun into the Thames by the bridge when he bit his phone and rang.
"Two Big Smoking Guns".The main technique is to use the interlocking style, that is, the narrative is composed of multiple independent links that are connected to each other and together constitute the main content of the narrative. Richie places six stories led by six sets of characters in seemingly unrelated scenes; The amount of information and characters that appear at the beginning of the film can confuse first-time viewers, so it is difficult to get into the story from the beginning of the film.
How do these six story elements in the film fit together? In addition to the coincidence designed by the director, there are also the core plot and the important props that connect the plot: money and two shotguns, which continue throughout the development of the story.
Money (including **).: The underlying driver of every group behavior is "money". Greedy people, under the influence of endless desires, always want to pursue more material accumulation. And this is the most fatal point of them, often when they accumulate at a certain point, they will collapse and never be the same.
"Two Big Smoking Guns".: Harry wants to get it for nothing—Barry orders the Liverpudlians to steal it—Resells it to Nick—Nick sells Tom—A gang of four uses it to rob it—Dogg robs and takes it away again—Doug meets Chris to collect the debt, and he takes it again—Finally, it goes to Harry's hands (still not satisfied)—And the Liverpudlians follow it and don't know their master, Harry—Shootout.
1. A small gang of four people composed of Eddie (gambling cards), Bakken (selling stolen goods), Tom (making small profits), and Soap (cook). The four guys have their own strengths, and the four of them scraped together 100,000 pounds to find the big boss Harry and gamble. Harry's actions cost them their chips and leave them in debt, and Ed decides to give it a go.
2. Harry and his subordinate Barry.
Harry was a gambler, a lending, and other types of **, greedy for money and good things, which eventually led to him being in trouble. He set up a plot to frame the four boys, and ordered Barry to steal guns and Chris to collect debts, but the gains outweighed the losses.
3. Two gun-stealing gangs of Liverpudlians Gary and Dean.
Stupid thief", on Barry's orders, steals two large smoking guns, only to steal Harry's large smoking guns in a self-defeating manner.
4. Big and small Chris.
Responsible for helping Harry collect debts, recover the four guys and other creditors, show up at a critical moment, and get out of the way.
5. A gang of drug lords dominated by Rory.
Winston, Charles, Willy, and others, active in the residence where Rory made ** (not directly stated). Rory is teased and decides to take revenge.
6. Doug and Blank's drug gangs (neighbors with Eddie's four guys).
Very greedy, one of the initiators of the shooting farce, aimed at Rory's ** and Pound.
The film builds a loop-like closed story through six subplots, with each character having their own ending. The story is arranged to show six groups of objects one by one, but with reservations. Switch back and forth between different characters according to the development of the plot; However, in addition to the serendipitous plot setting, the effect of reversal is often presented in the next moment. One of the highlights of the film is the design of the three gangs - Encounter. That is, B grabs A, C grabs B, and B regrabs C; A thought that he had been robbed by C, so he decided to take revenge. but met B, who had been in ambush for a long time, and AB was in a scuffle; c. Fishermen profit. This reversal makes the audience have a stronger sense of interaction with the film.
In 2000, Richie created a spin-off TV series of the same name.