History Film / RocknRolla

* UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: Towards the climax of the film, after having sex with [[FemmeFatale Stella]], One-Two the Scottish criminal leaves her a painting his friend Cookie gave him as a token of appreciation. Later on, Stella's boss Yuri the [[TheMafiya Russian gang leader]] visits her house to propose to her, as he has long wanted to do, only to find the painting in her flat, which [[BlatantLies she claims to have owned for years]]. Because the painting used to belong to ''Yuri'' (it's his "lucky painting", the theft of which kicked off the film's main plot), he does not find this funny, and [[KickTheSonOfABitch orders Stella to be killed for supposedly stealing from him]].

* 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 UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} 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.

* DragonInChief: Archy is initially Mob Boss Lenny Cole's intelligent, competent, pragmatic, loyal, NobleTopEnforcer, and a major player in Lenny's everyday operations. [[spoiler:However, having witnessed several instances of Lenny's abhorrent conduct, after being betrayed by Lenny, Archy finally retaliates against his employer and usurps him.]]

** In comparison to the seemingly heartless Lenny Cole, Archy definitely qualifies as one of these. Of course, that doesn't mean that he's a ''nice'' man. Just ask [[spoiler:Lenny]].

* DragonInChief: Archy is initially Mob Boss Lenny Cole's intelligent, competent, pragmatic, loyal, NobleTopEnforcer, and a major player in Lenny's everyday operations. However, having witnessed several instances of Lenny's abhorrent conduct, after being betrayed by Lenny, Archy finally retaliates against his employer and usurps him.

** 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.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: June, Mickey and Roman's secretary comes across as more effective and resourceful than her bosses (who spend a lot of time ineffectually blustering and fretting) in her few scenes. She is the one to suggest using street informants to find Johnny Quid and knows exactly how much money they stand to lose if any of their clubs get shut down.

** 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).

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Uri's [[TheDragon dragon]] Victor and his two [[ImplacableMan unstoppable men]] were all part of Spetznaz, the general name for Russian special forces.

''[=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/BlakeRitson.

* NoSell: Johnny is the only person to immediately recover from Archy's ArmorPiercingSlap.

* 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!

* TheBeard: Stella, to her gay lawyer husband, whose sexuality she knows about and doesn’t mind hiding.

* 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]].

* PetTheDog: Archy has no love for Johnny, but when the newspaper reports that he is "missing, assumed dead," Archy offers his heartfelt condolences to Lenny.

* BlackAndNerdy: Tank, the heavyset informant contacted by Archy, played by Nonso Anozie.

%%* BadassDriver: Handsome Bob's job in the Wild Bunch.

%%* TheBeard: Stella, to her gay lawyer husband.

%%* CampGay: Stella's husband, although he is on the more subdued side of the trope.

%%* ChaseScene: A particularly long and epic one.

%%* TheDriver: Turbo, for Archy.

%%* 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]].

* IHaveNoSon: How Lenny views Johnny (who, technically, is his step-son).

%%* ImplacableMan: The Russian mercenaries.

* TheBeard: Stella, to her gay lawyer husband.

* CampGay: Stella's husband, although he is on the more subdued side of the trope.

* TheDriver: Turbo, for Archy.

* 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]].

* FaceCam: When One-Two is fleeing the scene of the second robbery.

* ImplacableMan: The Russian mercenaries.

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

* LogoJoke: Spray-stenciled by Johnny.

* MacGuffin: The painting. We only get to see the back of it.

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Tank, very much so. Lenny tries to be, but it's mostly posturing.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: It's a Guy Ritchie movie. It pretty much goes without saying.

* TooDumbToLive: Stella, Stella, Stella. Ripping off seven million dollars from her employer once was incredibly dangerous and foolhardy (and if Uri had listened to Victor, suspicion would have fallen on her almost instantly), but then she does it ''again'', once more only evading being traced as the security leak because Uri likes her too much to suspect her. [[spoiler:Ironically, while her plan did get Victor waiting for a reason to act against her, what did her in was simple bad luck of accepting the painting from One-Two and leaving it out where Uri could see it... although not realizing it was Uri's lucky painting if she's been working with him all this time is arguably ALSO too dumb to live.]]

* 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 UsefulNotes/((Playstation)) 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.

->''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 [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] lot.''

* 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 UsefulNotes/Playstation 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.

* BadassCrew: The Wild Bunch, particularly the main three.
* BadassDriver: Handsome Bob's job in the Wild Bunch.

* BadassLongcoat: Archy wears a black one.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Pete, to Johnny.

* ChaseScene: A particularly long and epic one.

* SassySecretary: June, to Roman and Mickey.

* RealityEnsues:
** Mumbles and One-Two have criminal records, which make their attempted real estate purchase troublesome.
** No matter how MadeOfIron they are, [[spoiler:the Spetznaz are not wearing any body armor and go down from a few bullets from Archy's men. Even if it takes a bit.]]

* 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 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.