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->''People ask the question... what's a [=RocknRolla=]? And I tell 'em -- it's not about drums, drugs, and hospital drips, oh no. There's more there than that, my friend. We all like a bit of the good life -- some the money, some the drugs, other the sex game, the glamour, or the fame. But a [=RocknRolla=], oh, he's different. Why? Because a real [=RocknRolla=] wants the fucking lot.''

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->''People ask the question... what's a [=RocknRolla=]? And I tell 'em -- it's not about drums, drugs, and hospital drips, oh no. There's more there than that, my friend. We all like a bit of the good life -- some the money, some the drugs, other the sex game, the glamour, or the fame. But a [=RocknRolla=], oh, he's different. Why? Because a real [=RocknRolla=] wants the fucking [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] lot.''



* Kneecapping: [[spoiler:Uri orders Victor to cripple Lenny this way after the gangster makes the mistake of insulting him when he's already in a bad mood from the theft of his painting. Lenny spends the rest of the film confined to a wheelchair.]]

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* Kneecapping: {{Kneecapping}}: [[spoiler:Uri orders Victor to cripple Lenny this way after the gangster makes the mistake of insulting him when he's already in a bad mood from the theft of his painting. Lenny spends the rest of the film confined to a wheelchair.]]
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The most sympathetic characters are Archy, Johnny Quid and the Wild Bunch. Archy is TheDragon for an underworld boss who kills or beats people without hesitation. Johnny is a drug addled rock star who routinely steals from people, (and threatens them with a knife if they protest) hands out NoHoldsBarredBeatdowns to bouncers who try to stop from getting into clubs, (and keeps going long after they have stopped being able to resist) and constantly physically and verbally abuses the people around him. The Wild Bunch are a trio of career criminals. The least sympathetic character is Lenny, (Archy's boss and Johnny's step-father) an arrogant man, abusive step-father, PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, a crime boss who lowers victims into water to drown/be eaten alive by voracious crayfish, rips off the people who make deals with him so that he can get them in his debt, and has secretly [[spoiler:given testimony that has put most of his men and partners into jail at one time or another in order to save himself from prosecution]].

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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The most sympathetic characters are Archy, Johnny Quid and the Wild Bunch. Archy is TheDragon for an underworld boss who kills or beats people without hesitation. Johnny is a drug addled rock star who routinely steals from people, (and threatens them with a knife if they protest) hands out NoHoldsBarredBeatdowns {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}s to bouncers who try to stop from getting into clubs, (and keeps going long after they have stopped being able to resist) and constantly physically and verbally abuses the people around him. The Wild Bunch are a trio of career criminals. The least sympathetic character is Lenny, (Archy's boss and Johnny's step-father) an arrogant man, abusive step-father, PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, a crime boss who lowers victims into water to drown/be eaten alive by voracious crayfish, rips off the people who make deals with him so that he can get them in his debt, and has secretly [[spoiler:given testimony that has put most of his men and partners into jail at one time or another in order to save himself from prosecution]].
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* AnachronismStew: When we first meet Johnny, he flashes back to his childhood, singing in his bedroom. We are indicated it is fifteen years earlier by an on screen note. As the scene progresses and we see more of the boy's room, a UsefulNotesPlaystation1 can clearly be seen under the boy's television. If the movie took place in the year 2008, this scene would be taking place in 1993, but this console was not released until the end of 1995.

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* AnachronismStew: When we first meet Johnny, he flashes back to his childhood, singing in his bedroom. We are indicated it is fifteen years earlier by an on screen note. As the scene progresses and we see more of the boy's room, a UsefulNotesPlaystation1 UsefulNotes/Playstation1 can clearly be seen under the boy's television. If the movie took place in the year 2008, this scene would be taking place in 1993, but this console was not released until the end of 1995.
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* IOwnThisTown: Lenny Cole says this of London, and it appears to be true, he having control of much of the building consent process and able to torture and possibly kill people at will, [spoiler:although then he is grievously wounded by a man who decides to circumvent him and then he is killed by his right hand man when it turns out Lenny is also an informer]].

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* IOwnThisTown: Lenny Cole says this of London, and it appears to be true, he having control of much of the building consent process and able to torture and possibly kill people at will, [spoiler:although then [[spoiler:although later he is grievously wounded by a man who decides to circumvent him and then he is killed by his right hand man when it turns out Lenny is also an informer]].
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''[=RocknRolla=]'' is the fifth film by British director Creator/GuyRitchie. Much like ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'' and ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', ''[=RocknRolla=]'' is a crime film set in the London underworld, populated with colorful gangsters. Actors include Creator/GerardButler, Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/TobyKebbell, Creator/ThandieNewton, and Creator/TomWilkinson.

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''[=RocknRolla=]'' is the fifth film by British director Creator/GuyRitchie. Much like ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'' and ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', ''[=RocknRolla=]'' is a crime film set in the London underworld, populated with colorful gangsters. Actors include Creator/GerardButler, Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/TobyKebbell, Creator/ThandieNewton, Creator/TomWilkinson and Creator/TomWilkinson.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Russian ex-Special Forces soldiers that are part of Uri's gang. Their introductory scene has them checking each other's battle scars.


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Lenny Cole is a powerful underworld figure, who, through an immense web of bribery, controls most of the land deals in London. A Russian businessman by the name of Uri seeks his services in procuring the permits to build a new stadium, which would take nearly a decade otherwise. However, their mutual accountant, Stella, is plotting to rip both of them off. With the aid of a trio of local hoodlums known as "The Wild Bunch" -- One-Two, Mumbles, and Handsome Bob -- she twice steals the seven million Euros intended for Lenny's payoff. The first time goes off without a hitch. The second time doesn't quite go as planned. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]] (and awesomeness) [[HilarityEnsues ensues]].

In the midst of it all is a (presumably rare and valuable) painting that holds sentimental value for Uri. It is stolen by Lenny's estranged stepson John, AKA Johnny Quid (the eponymous [=RocknRolla=]), and both of their respective [[TheDragon Dragons]] (Victor for Uri; Archy, TheNarrator, for Lenny) are following a trail of junkies and hustlers in order to find it.

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Lenny Cole is a powerful underworld figure, who, through an immense web of bribery, controls most of the land deals in London. A Russian businessman by the name of Uri seeks his services in procuring the permits to build a new stadium, which would take nearly a decade otherwise. However, their mutual accountant, Stella, is plotting to rip both of them off. With the aid of a trio of local hoodlums known as "The Wild Bunch" -- One-Two, Mumbles, and Handsome Bob -- she twice steals the seven million Euros intended for Lenny's payoff. The first time goes off without a hitch. The second time doesn't quite go as planned. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]] {{Hilarity|Ensues}} (and awesomeness) [[HilarityEnsues ensues]].

In the midst of it all is a (presumably rare and valuable) painting that holds sentimental value for Uri. It is stolen by Lenny's estranged stepson John, AKA Johnny Quid (the eponymous [=RocknRolla=]), and both of their respective [[TheDragon Dragons]] (Victor for Uri; Archy, TheNarrator, the CharacterNarrator, for Lenny) are following a trail of junkies and hustlers in order to find it.



* CharacterNarrator: The film makes use of this by having the GenreSavvy Archy explain to the audience how his boss and London's underworld works.



* {{Narrator}}: The film makes use of this by having the GenreSavvy Archy explain to the audience how his boss and London's underworld works.
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Revolver is set in Las Vegas


''[=RocknRolla=]'' is the fifth film by British director Creator/GuyRitchie. Much like ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', and ''Film/{{Revolver}}'', ''[=RocknRolla=]'' is a crime film set in the London underworld, populated with colorful gangsters. Actors include Creator/GerardButler, Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/TobyKebbell, Creator/ThandieNewton, and Creator/TomWilkinson.

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''[=RocknRolla=]'' is the fifth film by British director Creator/GuyRitchie. Much like ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'' and ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', and ''Film/{{Revolver}}'', ''[=RocknRolla=]'' is a crime film set in the London underworld, populated with colorful gangsters. Actors include Creator/GerardButler, Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/TobyKebbell, Creator/ThandieNewton, and Creator/TomWilkinson.
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* StupidCrooks:
** The Wild Bunch are a downplayed example (they are definitely in over their head throughout the whole film).
** The dumb crackheads invited by one of Johnny's friends to the pad are the definitive article. They steal the painting (which is in Johnny's pad for safe-keeping) the moment Johnny and Pedro turn their backs and take it to the closest pub for selling (they probably expected to sell it for a lot of money, but the people there, who care neither for art or for the two crackheads bothering them, interrupt their attempt at an opening speech to the "auction" and offer them 50 quid, which they immediately accept). The man who buys the painting is one of Stella's employees, who gives it to her [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom and is the direct instigator of her death]] at the hands of Yuri.
** Stella, for all of her going around the plot acting like a FemmeFatale, proves to be one of these and it ends with her (probably thankfully censored) doom. You'd think that someone who works for weeks or months on end on seducing a target would have at least made some casual notice of the very distinct painting that the man is so obsessed over that he swears he will kill whoever was responsible for stealing it (which [[NotWhatLooksLike it's what Stella looks like]] by placing it in her living room).
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* {{Adorkable}}: Archy can't help but sing a little tune when in Roman and Mickey's recording studio. He's even pleased with himself. When he realizes the others are staring at him, he takes a moment to put his tough guy face back on.
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* BlackBestFriend: Mumbles, played by Creator/Idris Elba, describes himself as One-Two's "best fucking mate".

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* BoomerangBigot: Johnny Quid is a drug addict, but he furiously drives the two junkies who his friend Pedro invited to his house out of there. In this case, however, Johnny acts not out of hatred, but because he doesn't want them to reveal that he's alive to the world.



* Kneecapping: [[spoiler:Uri orders Victor to cripple Lenny this way after the gangster makes the mistake of insulting him when he's already in a bad mood from the theft of his painting. Lenny spends the rest of the film confined to a wheelchair.]]



--> '''Lenny''': What are you, boy, if you are not poison? Your real dad couldn't stand the sight of you. No wonder he fucked off and left me to pick up the pieces. But that wasn't enough for you, was it? You had to drive your poor old mum mad too. And when she got to the asylum, all they had to offer her [[SuicideByBath was a hot bath and a cold razor]]. So what are you, boy, if you are not poison?

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--> '''Lenny''': What are you, boy, if you are not poison? Your real dad couldn't stand the sight of you. No wonder he fucked off and left me to pick up the pieces. But that wasn't enough for you, was it? You had to drive your poor old mum mad too. And when she got to the asylum, all they had to offer her [[SuicideByBath [[BathSuicide was a hot bath and a cold razor]]. So what are you, boy, if you are not poison?



* ToThePain: Lenny gives a speech like this to an unfortunate person he's torturing in his warehouse.
--> '''Lenny''': Right, let me tell you how this works. [[WaterTorture You're going in the drink,]] and I'm going to have a cup of tea. Beneath your feet is the famous River Thames. I just hope for your sake that you can hold your breath for as long as it takes my kettle to boil. After that, I'm gonna ask you a question, just one question. You're gonna give me a name. And if it's the right name, I'm gonna send you home warm and dry in a fresh set of clothes. If it's the wrong name, you'll be [[FedToTheBeast fed to the crayfish]]. They're American, these crayfish. Big, hungry bastards. And like most things American, they've eaten all the natives...[[IAmAHumanitarian but they've still got room for more. ]]



-->'''Mumbles:''' If I could be half the ''human'' that Bob is, at the price of being a poof, I’d have to think about it. [{{Beat}}] Not for very long, of course, but there would be a pause!

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-->'''Mumbles:''' If I could be half the ''human'' that Bob is, at the price of being a poof, I’d have to think about it. [{{Beat}}] Not for very long, of course, but there would be a pause!I'd have to pause, you know?
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* EvilCripple: [[Spoiler: Lenny spends the rest of the film as this after he insults Uri at the wrong moment, and the enraged Russian has Victor break his kneecaps with a golf club]].

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* EvilCripple: [[Spoiler: Lenny [[spoiler:Lenny spends the rest of the film as this after he insults Uri at the wrong moment, and the enraged Russian has Victor break his kneecaps with a golf club]].
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* BaldOfEvil: BaldING Of Evil, in Lenny's case (and a flashback to Johnny's childhood implies he wasn't much nicer back when he had hair), and in Archy's case, though Archy is more morally grey than Lenny.

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* BaldOfEvil: BaldING Balding Of Evil, in Lenny's case (and a flashback to Johnny's childhood implies he wasn't much nicer back when he had hair), and in Archy's case, though Archy is more morally grey than Lenny.

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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: [[FemmeFatale Stella]] is near-constantly smoking cigarettes.



* IWillTearYourArmsOff: Lenny threatens Archy with this when his enforcer appears to be casting aspersions on Lenny's reign of power over London.



--> '''Lenny''': What are you, boy, if you are not poison? Your real dad couldn't stand the sight of you. No wonder he fucked off and left me to pick up the pieces. But that wasn't enough for you, was it? You had to drive your poor old mum mad too. And when she got to the asylum, all they had to offer her

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--> '''Lenny''': What are you, boy, if you are not poison? Your real dad couldn't stand the sight of you. No wonder he fucked off and left me to pick up the pieces. But that wasn't enough for you, was it? You had to drive your poor old mum mad too. And when she got to the asylum, all they had to offer her [[SuicideByBath was a hot bath and a cold razor]]. So what are you, boy, if you are not poison?
** He also delivers a pretty brutal one to Johnny as a child after he catches him playing loud rock music in his room, about how he'd better show some gratitude and keep the music down until Lenny sends him to boarding school in the summer, because Lenny can't bear the sight of him.


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* SmokingHotSex: Downplayed. Stella smokes after having sex with One Two [[spoiler: right before he leaves her in the house with Uri's painting and Uri finds her and kills her]], but she was smoking before the sex as well. She smokes a lot, let's leave it at that.


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* ViolentGlaswegian: Subverted with One-Two, the Scottish gangster played by Creator/GerardButler. He's foul-mouthed, and goes on an enraged rant at Handsome Bob after he [[spoiler: comes out to him]], but he's more socially-awkward than violent. The most violent he ever gets is when he's fighting off the [[HuskyRusskie Spetnaz thugs]], and they can tank his attacks and dish them back out.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: Lenny addresses Johnny's DJ managers Roman and Mickey as "Greek and Minnie".



* BaldOfEvil: BaldING Of Evil, in Lenny's case (and a flashback to Johnny's childhood implies he wasn't much nicer back when he had hair), and in Archy's case, though Archy is more morally grey than Lenny.



* BlackAndGrayMorality: The most sympathetic characters are Archy, Johnny Quid and the Wild Bunch. Archy is TheDragon for an underworld boss who kills or beats people without hesitation. Johnny is a drug addled rock star who routinely steals from people, (and threatens them with a knife if they protest) hands out NoHoldsBarredBeatdowns to bouncers who try to stop from getting into clubs, (and keeps going long after they have stopped being able to resist) and constantly physically and verbally abuses the people around him. The Wild Bunch are a trio of career criminals. The least sympathetic character is Lenny, (Archy's boss and Johnny's step-father) an arrogant man, abusive father, PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, a crime boss who lowers victims into water to drown/be eaten alive by voracious crayfish, rips off the people who make deals with him so that he can get them in his debt, and has secretly [[spoiler:given testimony that has put most of his men and partners into jail at one time or another in order to save himself from prosecution]].

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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The most sympathetic characters are Archy, Johnny Quid and the Wild Bunch. Archy is TheDragon for an underworld boss who kills or beats people without hesitation. Johnny is a drug addled rock star who routinely steals from people, (and threatens them with a knife if they protest) hands out NoHoldsBarredBeatdowns to bouncers who try to stop from getting into clubs, (and keeps going long after they have stopped being able to resist) and constantly physically and verbally abuses the people around him. The Wild Bunch are a trio of career criminals. The least sympathetic character is Lenny, (Archy's boss and Johnny's step-father) an arrogant man, abusive father, step-father, PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, a crime boss who lowers victims into water to drown/be eaten alive by voracious crayfish, rips off the people who make deals with him so that he can get them in his debt, and has secretly [[spoiler:given testimony that has put most of his men and partners into jail at one time or another in order to save himself from prosecution]].prosecution]].
* BlackAndNerdy: Tank, the heavyset informant contacted by Archy, played by Nonso Anozie.
* BlackBestFriend: Mumbles, played by Creator/Idris Elba, describes himself as One-Two's "best fucking mate".



* EvilCripple: [[Spoiler: Lenny spends the rest of the film as this after he insults Uri at the wrong moment, and the enraged Russian has Victor break his kneecaps with a golf club]].



* HypocriticalHumour: Lenny Cole is pretty foul-mouthed when interacting with the Councillor, but when the Councillor swears back at him, he subjects him to [[GroinAttack a brutal testicle-squeezing]].



* IOwnThisTown: Lenny Cole says this of London, and it appears to be true, he having control of much of the building consent process and able to torture and possibly kill people at will, [spoiler:although then he is greviously wounded by a man who decides to circumvent him and then he is killed by his right hand man when it turns out Lenny is also an informer]].

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* IOwnThisTown: Lenny Cole says this of London, and it appears to be true, he having control of much of the building consent process and able to torture and possibly kill people at will, [spoiler:although then he is greviously grievously wounded by a man who decides to circumvent him and then he is killed by his right hand man when it turns out Lenny is also an informer]].


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** Subverted by One Two, after finding out Handsome Bob has a crush on him. He initially goes on a homophobic rant, but then he feels guilty, apologises, and takes him to a slow dance at a gay club to make up for it.


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The [[spoiler: recently-crippled]] Lenny delivers one of these to his stepson, Johnny Quid, when they meet up at Lenny's warehouse hideout:
--> '''Lenny''': What are you, boy, if you are not poison? Your real dad couldn't stand the sight of you. No wonder he fucked off and left me to pick up the pieces. But that wasn't enough for you, was it? You had to drive your poor old mum mad too. And when she got to the asylum, all they had to offer her
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* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Handsome Bob]], enough so that One Two had ''no idea'' (granted, he was the only one). Might border into BiTheWay, since he's known as a ladykiller with lots of girlfriends.

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* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Handsome Bob]], enough so that One Two had ''no idea'' (granted, he was the only one). Might border into BiTheWay, be bisexual, since he's known as a ladykiller with lots of girlfriends.
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''[=RocknRolla=]'' is the fifth film by British director Creator/GuyRitchie. Much like ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', and ''Film/{{Revolver}}'', ''[=RocknRolla=]'' is a crime film set in the London underworld, populated with colorful gangsters. Actors include Creator/GerardButler, Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/TobyKebbell, Creator/ThandieNewton, and Tom Wilkinson.

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''[=RocknRolla=]'' is the fifth film by British director Creator/GuyRitchie. Much like ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', and ''Film/{{Revolver}}'', ''[=RocknRolla=]'' is a crime film set in the London underworld, populated with colorful gangsters. Actors include Creator/GerardButler, Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/TomHardy, Creator/MarkStrong, Creator/TobyKebbell, Creator/ThandieNewton, and Tom Wilkinson.
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* BodyguardBetrayal: A sympathetic, or at least morally gray, version when [[spoiler: Archy and the rest of Lenny's men kill him for being an informer]].


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* DidNotGetTheGirl: One-Two and Stella have some ShipTease, but she might be using him and [[spoiler: the fact that she's implied to die doesn't help things]].


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* StrangerBehindTheMask: Subverted, When Mumbles and Handsome Bob finally get the file revealing the informant whose been betraying the gangsters, they open it and find the strange and unfamiliar name Sydney Shaw inside. One-Two speculates that the is a pseudonym to protect the informant, though, and he's right.
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%%* BritishRockstar: Johnny Quid.

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%%* * BritishRockstar: Johnny Quid.Quid really, really wants to be one. Archy makes clear that being a "Rock and Rolla" is more than HookersAndBlow, though.



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* BriefsBoasting: [[spoiler:When Archy enters One-Two's pad, he encounters One-Two tied down to his bed and about to be tortured by the two ex-Spetznaz Mafiya soldiers, who for some reason have decided to strip down to only their briefs and are dancing around to Russian rock as foreplay.]]

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* AnArmAndALeg: Uri, though we can't be sure if it is to be taken literally.

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* AnachronismStew: When we first meet Johnny, he flashes back to his childhood, singing in his bedroom. We are indicated it is fifteen years earlier by an on screen note. As the scene progresses and we see more of the boy's room, a UsefulNotesPlaystation1 can clearly be seen under the boy's television. If the movie took place in the year 2008, this scene would be taking place in 1993, but this console was not released until the end of 1995.
* AndThisIsFor: Once [[spoiler:Lenny's treachery as TheInformant is revealed, Archy sends him into his favorite torture trap, angrily reading off the sentences various criminals got, culminating with his own]].
* AnArmAndALeg: Uri, though This is implied to have happened to Uri. The phrase is spoken verbatim. Archy may have said it in a light, even joking tone, but considering what we can't be sure if it is to be taken literally.just watched him do in the previous scene...



* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The majority of the Russian lines in the movie don't correspond to the translation shown. Mostly the overall approximate meaning of a passage or dialogue is preserved, but even that is not always the case.



* BlackAndGrayMorality: The most sympathetic characters are Archy, Johnny Quid and the Wild Bunch. Archy is TheDragon for an underworld boss who kills or beats people without hesitation. Johnny is a drug addled rock star who routinely steals from people, (and threatens them with a knife if they protest) hands out NoHoldsBarredBeatdowns to bouncers who try to stop from getting into clubs, (and keeps going long after they have stopped being able to resist) and constantly physically and verbally abuses the people around him. The Wild Bunch are a trio of career criminals. The least sympathetic character is Lenny, (Archy's boss and Johnny's step-father) an arrogant man, abusive father, PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, a crime boss who lowers victims into water to drown/be eaten alive by voracious crayfish, rips off the people who make deals with him so that he can get them in his debt, and has secretly [[spoiler:given testimony that has put most of his men and partners into jail at one time or another in order to save himself from prosecution]].



%%* BritishRockstar: Johnny Quid.



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* ClusterFBombChromosomeCasting: There are three female speaking roles in the film - Stella, June and Jackie.
* CreatorCameo: Creator/GuyRitchie is the man on bicycle riding past Roman and Mickey as they approach Johnny's crack house.



* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Archy]], if the ending dialogue is anything to go by.

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* DisappearedDad: According to Lenny, Johnny Quid's real father hated his son, so he left.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: In a flashback, we briefly see Lenny Cole getting ready to take his belt to his rebellious son, the future rock'n'rolla Johnny Quid.
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Archy]], if It's heavily implied that Archy took over things for Lenny after his untimely demise. (Having Lenny's old driver, Johnny calling him a real [[TitleDrop rock n' rolla]], the ending dialogue is anything bit with [[AnArmAndALeg The Russian]] and so forth.) Kind of a subversion as [[spoiler:Archy was the one to go by.kill Lenny. Not out of a HeelFaceTurn so much as [[BerserkButton really not appreciating]] being lied to or sent to jail]].



* EveryScarHasAStory: Two Russians are introduced talking about their various scars, which come from things like bullet wounds, grenades, barb wire, and even getting caught in tank tracks. One quickly gets the idea that they will be more than the misfit criminal protagonists have bargained for.



* FakingTheDead: It's implied that Johnny Quid faked his own death after anticipating that the news of his demise would cause his music sales to go up.



* {{Gayngster}}: [[spoiler:Handsome Bob.]]

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* {{Gayngster}}: [[spoiler:Handsome Bob.]]Handsome Bob provides one of the more hilarious scenes of the movie when he comes out to his co-worker One Two. Turns out One Two was the only person who ''didn't'' know, and also the only one who had a hard time accepting it. For everyone else, the fact that Bob is awesome overrode the fact that Bob was gay.
-->'''Mumbles''': I'll tell you something, Mister One Two. If I could be half the human that Bob is at the price of being a poof, I'd think about it. ''[beat]'' Not for too long, but I'd have to pause, y'know?
** [[spoiler: If it wasn't for Bob's quick thinking in Lennie's hideout, the whole Wild Bunch, Johnny and possibly Archy would be dead. He puts two-and-two together when Johnny mentions Lennie "grassing Archy up", to realize A: that "Sidney Shaw" is Lenny, and B: that Archy must know about "Sidney".]]



* HuskyRusskie: See the entry below.

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* HuskyRusskie: See Uri's two psychos for hire who guard his money. One of them is stocky, while the entry below.other is tall and ripped. They compare scars they've received in Chechnya and prove to be quite implacable.



* IOwnThisTown: Lenny Cole says this of London, and it appears to be true, he having control of much of the building consent process and able to torture and possibly kill people at will, [spoiler:although then he is greviously wounded by a man who decides to circumvent him and then he is killed by his right hand man when it turns out Lenny is also an informer]].



* InformedAttractiveness: Handsome Bob, played by Creator/TomHardy.

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* InformedAttractiveness: Handsome Bob, played TheInformant: The London underworld is puzzled by Creator/TomHardy.he identity of an informant whose testimony has been putting away multiple well connected gangsters. At the very end of the film [[spoiler:it's revealed to be TheDon himself, [[LondonGangster Lenny]]. Lenny's men quickly and ruthlessly turn on him, especially since some of them, including TheDragon have gone to prison based on that testimony]].



* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Lenny is fond of WaterTorture. Fittingly, Archy lowers him into the Thames and drowns him]].



* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain:
** Archy shows Lenny a newspaper showing Johnny Quid's death. Lenny brusquely states that they never mention it again and then moves on to something else.
** One Two doesn't want it known that Handsome Bob made a pass at him.



* TheNarrator: Archy.

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* TheNarrator: Archy.{{Narrator}}: The film makes use of this by having the GenreSavvy Archy explain to the audience how his boss and London's underworld works.



* PlotHole: [[spoiler:How did Johnny Quid know that Lenny was the one who made a deal with the police in court? It has never been explained. Archy and the others couldn't figure it out for years as well as Mr. One-Two and Co. having to go though lots of effort to find that info. Which they did by bribing Stella's gay husband, who was a lawyer in criminal cases, a date promise from Handsome Bob. While Johnny somehow knew that secret all along. What is twice weird is that he didn't tell anyone about Lenny. He at least could've told Archy who was suppose to be his friend]].



* PrisonRape: Handsome Bob has just confessed his romantic feelings towards One Two on the eve of a possible five years in prison.
-->'''Handsome Bob''': It's fine, it's fine. Five years, you know, I don't know if I can handle it.
-->'''One Two''': I don't know what I was thinking, Bob. I mean, there's nothing wrong with being a poof or being a gay, or whatever it is you call it, I don't know. I mean, there's gonna be plenty of your lot in there. You'll probably love it.



* RussianGuySuffersMost: Subverted. Being former ''Spetznaz'', they can take it. Their introductory scene features them comparing scars from Chechnya.

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* RussianGuySuffersMost: Subverted. Being former ''Spetznaz'', they can take it. Their introductory Taken to hilarious extremes with the two Russian goons. A whole scene features them comparing scars from Chechnya. is devoted to their hideous ScarSurvey. One Two shows his utter disbelief at their seeming indifference to massive physical damage.



* ScarSurvey: Two Russian mobsters compare their scars while waiting in the car. Culminating with the tougher one presenting a scar he claims to be left by the tank track.
* SelfDefenseless: One Two gets maced, point-blank, in the face by Mumbles. It's certainly shown to hurt, and he needs nursing along for a minute or so, but he seems fine shortly afterwards and it never seems to affect his breathing. Also worth noting that the guy he was grappling with at the time, quite possibly within splashing range under the circumstances, suffered no apparent ill effects.



* ShoutOut:
** The Russian gangsters share their stories on the scars they have on their bodies, a nod to the famous scene in ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. Their conversation is cut short by a truck smashing into the side of the car, in Jaws 'our shark' interrupts by smashing into the side of the boat.
** When Lenny Cole and Uri are talking business after the first payment of money has been stolen, there are oranges on the table they are having a drink at. The presence of oranges foreshadows the death of a character, much like they do in ''Film/TheGodfather'' trilogy.



* StockingMask: The Wild Bunch use this disguise to perform the cash heist on the Russians.



* AndThisIsFor: Once [[spoiler:Lenny's treachery as TheInformant is revealed, Archy sends him into his favorite torture trap, angrily reading off the sentences various criminals got, culminating with his own]].
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Russians.

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* AndThisIsFor: Once [[spoiler:Lenny's treachery as TheInformant TakeOurWordForIt: The painting that is revealed, Archy sends him into his favorite torture trap, angrily reading off a main plot point of the sentences various criminals got, culminating with his own]].
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film is ''never'' shown. From the reactions of several of the characters, one would assume that it is very beautiful, even to serious gangsters.
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* WickedStepfather: Lenny Cole treated Johnny Quid with open contempt, smacking him and telling him that his father hated him.
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-->'''Mumbles:''' If I could be half the ''human'' that Bob is, at the price of being a poof, I’d have to think about it. {{Beat}} Not for very long, of course, but there would be a pause!

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-->'''Mumbles:''' If I could be half the ''human'' that Bob is, at the price of being a poof, I’d have to think about it. {{Beat}} [{{Beat}}] Not for very long, of course, but there would be a pause!
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** Uri's [[TheDragon dragon]], Victor, might qualify as well. It is mentioned by one of the Indestructible Russians that Victor saved his life during the war.

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** Uri's [[TheDragon dragon]], Victor, might qualify as well. It is mentioned by one of the Indestructible Russians that Victor saved his life during the war.Chechen War.



* RussianGuySuffersMost: Subverted. Being former ''Spetznaz'', they can take it.

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* BulletproofVest: To a ridiculous degree. One of the Russians gets shot about six times with a big machine gun, and is up chasing the Wild Bunch on foot for a prolonged period moments later.

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* BulletproofVest: To a ridiculous degree. One of the Russians gets shot catches about six times with a big machine gun, rounds from an AK at close range[[note]] Top-of-the-line ballistic plate armor can often stop as many as three (sure as Hell not five or six) rounds of 7.62x39mm FMJ before it fails (bigger bullets, armor-piercing ammo, and other variables notwithstanding). However, it's only ''guaranteed'' to stop the first one...[[/note]], and is up chasing the Wild Bunch on foot for a prolonged period moments later.

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* ArmourPiercingSlap: Archy's expertise; so powerful, it can even make you flashback to grade-school!
** It does just that to Bandy, even though he didn't even go to school!

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* ArmourPiercingSlap: Archy's expertise; so powerful, it can even make you flashback to grade-school!
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grade-school! It does just that to Bandy, even though he didn't even go to school!



** Granted, Lenny's operation runs a tighter ship than most. Archy even advises his men to keep the receipts if they pay anyone off, as "this ain't the mafia." He doesn't want any tax evasion slip-ups.



* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: It's a Guy Ritchie movie. It pretty much goes without saying.
** Since this film deals with upper-class criminals, it's more apparent than ever. The Wild Bunch is sharply dressed, and when we see One-Two's house it's quite tasteful.

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* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: It's a Guy Ritchie movie. It pretty much goes without saying.
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saying. Since this film deals with upper-class criminals, it's more apparent than ever. The Wild Bunch is sharply dressed, and when we see One-Two's house it's quite tasteful.



* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Councillor.
** Among his many other bribes, Lenny gives him a thousand-Euro lighter (actually worth about a hundred) that's inscribed "THE COUNCILLOR".

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Councillor.
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Councillor. Among his many other bribes, Lenny gives him a thousand-Euro lighter (actually worth about a hundred) that's inscribed "THE COUNCILLOR".



* IAmTheNoun: A variant. When Stella's husband asks if Handsome Bob is part of the Wild Bunch, Mumbles tells him that "[Bob] '''is''' the Wild Bunch."

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* IAmTheNoun: A variant. When Stella's husband asks if Handsome Bob is part of the Wild Bunch, Mumbles tells him that "[Bob] '''is''' ''is'' the Wild Bunch."



* InformedAttractiveness: Handsome Bob, played by Creator/TomHardy.



* LondonGangster: Where would a Guy Richie film be without several of these? Tom Wilkinson plays the ShoutOut to the Krays, as per usual.
** There is another shout out to "the Jew twins" who Lenny [[spoiler:put in prison for a lengthy turn after betraying them.]]

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* LondonGangster: Where would a Guy Richie film be without several of these? Tom Wilkinson plays the ShoutOut to the Krays, as per usual.
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usual. There is another shout out to "the Jew twins" who Lenny [[spoiler:put in prison for a lengthy turn after betraying them.]]



* MadeOfIron: The Russian spetznaz. They survive their car being smashed by a truck, being shot, hit with bats and golf clubs, being thrown off the the hood of a car when it crashed, and still chase after the Wild Bunch in a prolonged chase scene. Lampshaded when Butler's character asks "What are these guys made of?!"

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* MadeOfIron: MadeOfIron:
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The Russian spetznaz. They survive their car being smashed by a truck, being shot, hit with bats and golf clubs, being thrown off the the hood of a car when it crashed, and still chase after the Wild Bunch in a prolonged chase scene. Lampshaded when Butler's character asks "What are these guys made of?!"



* TheMafiya: Uri and Victor are heavily implied to be gangsters trying to go legit. Uri is at least a corrupt oligarch, which is TruthInTelevision. See NoCelebritiesWereHarmed.

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* TheMafiya: Uri and Victor are heavily implied to be gangsters trying to go legit. Uri is at least a corrupt oligarch, which is TruthInTelevision. See NoCelebritiesWereHarmed.oligarch.



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Uri. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich How did they not get sued?]]

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Uri. Uri is basically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich Roman Abramovich]]. How did they not get sued?]]sued?



* NotSoStoic: Archy isn't quite an emotionless man, but when in Roman and Mickey's office/recording studio, he accidentally speaks into an on microphone. Intrigued, he sings a quiet lyric into it before smiling at himself. When he sees the two producers and his own boss stare at him confused, he takes a few seconds to compose himself and get his intimidating face back on.

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* NotSoStoic: Archy isn't quite an emotionless man, but when in Roman and Mickey's office/recording studio, he accidentally speaks into an on a hot microphone. Intrigued, he sings a quiet lyric into it before smiling at himself. When he sees the two producers and his own boss stare at him confused, he takes a few seconds to compose himself and get his intimidating face back on.



* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Handsome-Bob]], enough so that One Two had ''no idea'' (granted, he was the only one). Might border into BiTheWay, since he's known as a ladykiller with lots of girlfriends.

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* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Handsome-Bob]], [[spoiler:Handsome Bob]], enough so that One Two had ''no idea'' (granted, he was the only one). Might border into BiTheWay, since he's known as a ladykiller with lots of girlfriends.



* ThoseTwoGuys: The junkies. "Selling stolen fur coats in the middle of summer, would not seem unusual to the average junkie mind."

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* KickTheDog: Would be easier to say when Lenny ''isn't'' doing this on-screen, but the one act that stands out (because it hits Archy's RageBreakingPoint) is [[spoiler:him having sold out about half of London's criminal underground (including a good chunk of the cast--and ''especially'' Archy) to the police for the amnesty, because he's racist and for the sake of DisproportionateRetribution (he put Archy in HellholePrison for four years just because he felt Archy was "getting full of himself").]]
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* FemmeFatale: Stella. [[spoiler:Deconstructed. She was a TooDumbtoLive SmugSnake that got in [[KilledOffForReal fatal]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath trouble]] the moment she did a move that she couldn't seduce her way out of, and only managed to pull a "PlayingBothSides" for so long because Uri was attracted to her.]]

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* FemmeFatale: Stella. [[spoiler:Deconstructed. She was a TooDumbtoLive TooDumbToLive SmugSnake that got in [[KilledOffForReal fatal]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath trouble]] the moment she did a move that she couldn't seduce her way out of, and only managed to pull a "PlayingBothSides" for so long because Uri was attracted to her.]]
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* ForbiddenFruit: Johnny makes an extensive speech at the middle point of the film about how cigarettes, because of the government-mandated advertisement on the boxes about how potentially dangerous they are, have become much more of a refuge for the DeathSeeker that wants to go out looking "cool"... which is the very same reason he won't give back the stolen painting, now that he owns it.

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