Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Overview
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998
British
crime film
directed and written by Guy Ritchie
. The story is a heist film
involving a self-confident young card sharp
who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag
. In order to pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. The film brought Guy Ritchie international acclaim and introduced actors Vinnie Jones
, a former Welsh
international footballer, and Jason Statham
to worldwide audiences.
A television series, Lock, Stock...
, followed in 2000.
Long-time friends Bacon (Jason Statham
), Soap (Dexter Fletcher
), Tom (Jason Flemyng
), and Eddy (Nick Moran
) put together £100,000 so that Eddy, a genius at cards, can use the money to pay the entree fee into one Harry "The Hatchet" Lonsdale's (P. H. Moriarty
) weekly high-stakes three card brag
game.
British films of 1998
A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1998 :-1998:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...
British
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
crime film
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...
directed and written by Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English screenwriter and film maker who directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, RocknRolla and Sherlock Holmes.-Early life:...
. The story is a heist film
Heist film
A heist film is a film that has an intricate plot woven around a group of people trying to steal something. Versions with dominant or prominent comic elements are often called caper movies. They could be described as the analogues of caper stories in film history...
involving a self-confident young card sharp
Card sharp
A card sharp is a person who uses skill and deception to win at poker or other card games...
who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag
Three card brag
Three card brag is a 16th century British card game, and the British national representative of the vying or "bluffing" family of gambling games...
. In order to pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. The film brought Guy Ritchie international acclaim and introduced actors Vinnie Jones
Vinnie Jones
Vincent Peter "Vinnie" Jones is an English film actor and retired Welsh footballer.Born in Hertfordshire, England, Jones represented and captained the Welsh national football team, having qualified via a Welsh grandparent. He also previously played for Chelsea and Leeds United. As a member of the...
, a former Welsh
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
international footballer, and Jason Statham
Jason Statham
Jason Statham born 12 September1967) is an English actor and former diver, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Revolver, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels...
to worldwide audiences.
A television series, Lock, Stock...
Lock, Stock...
Lock, Stock... was a 2000 television series off-shoot from the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The series was shown on Channel 4 and starred Ralph Brown, Daniel Caltagirone, Del Synnott, Scott Maslen and Shaun Parkes. Lock, Stock... was Ginger Productions' first commission...
, followed in 2000.
Long-time friends Bacon (Jason Statham
Jason Statham
Jason Statham born 12 September1967) is an English actor and former diver, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Revolver, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels...
), Soap (Dexter Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher is an English actor. He is best known for his role in Guy Ritchie film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels as well as television roles in such shows as the dramedy Hotel Babylon, the critically acclaimed HBO series Band of Brothers and earlier in his career, the children's show...
), Tom (Jason Flemyng
Jason Flemyng
Jason Iain Flemyng is an English actor. He is known for his film work, which has included roles in British films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch , both for Guy Ritchie, as well as Hollywood productions such as Rob Roy along with the Alan Moore comic book adaptations From...
), and Eddy (Nick Moran
Nick Moran
Nicholas James "Nick" Moran is an English actor, writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Eddy the card shark in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels...
) put together £100,000 so that Eddy, a genius at cards, can use the money to pay the entree fee into one Harry "The Hatchet" Lonsdale's (P. H. Moriarty
P. H. Moriarty
P. H. Moriarty is an English actor.Perhaps most well known for his role as Hatchet Harry in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , he later portrayed Gurney Halleck in the Sci Fi Channel's 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and its 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of...
) weekly high-stakes three card brag
Three card brag
Three card brag is a 16th century British card game, and the British national representative of the vying or "bluffing" family of gambling games...
game.
Quotations
The entire British Empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going to war without one, mate, you're mistaken.
[To Tom about the guns] So, the only thing connecting us to the case is in the back of your car, which is parked outside?
I fucking hate traffic wardens.
Anyway, fuck it. The battle is over and the war is won.
No, fuck that. You can think about it. I am panicking and I'm off.
Soap, stop being such a mincer.
There's no money, there's no weed. It's all been replaced by a pile of corpses.
They're lacking in a criminal credibility, ain't they? I might get laughed at.
It's a deal, it's a steal, it's a sale of the fucking century. In fact, fuck it, Nick, I think I'll keep it!