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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:1000:''"Oi. Don't snatch."'']] |
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| 5 | ->''"You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently, the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of 'em, 'cause it's no good leavin' it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it?"'' |
| 6 | -->-- '''Brick Top''' |
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| 8 | ''Snatch'' (stylized as ''snatch.'') is the second film by British director Creator/GuyRitchie; it was released in 2000. ''Snatch'' is a humorous crime caper featuring a trainwreck of villains in a cartoonish London underworld. |
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| 10 | The film's plot is essentially broken down into two mostly separate plot threads, both of which feature large ensemble casts. |
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| 12 | The film opens with Frankie "Four Fingers" (Creator/BenicioDelToro) stealing a huge 86 carat diamond in Antwerp. With the help of a section of [[TheMafiya the Russian Mob]] that his boss is working with, Frankie is able to smuggle the diamond onto a plane, but his gun is taken by the Russians so as to not cause problems. Frankie is advised to see Boris (Creator/RadeSerbedzija), a local fence in London if he wants a new gun. The Russian Gangster who took Frankie's gun, (who is actually Boris' brother) and Boris immediately begin conspiring on how to steal the diamond from Frankie before Frankie heads back home to America, without the deed leading back to them. |
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| 14 | At this point, we're introduced to Turkish (Creator/JasonStatham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham), who are the closest thing the film has to main characters. The two are shady but basically decent cockney entrepreneurs who dabble in unlicensed boxing and slot machines. Turkish, who has a reputation for running honest fights, has a bout coming up between his best fighter and one managed by monstrous local gangster Brick Top (Alan Ford). There's just one problem for Turkish: his boxer gets knocked out and seriously injured mere days before the bout by Mickey (Creator/BradPitt), a bare-knuckle boxing UsefulNotes/{{Irish Traveller|s}}. Without a fighter, Turkish recruits Mickey to fill the empty spot, but Brick Top forces Turkish to fix the fight as compensation for the change in boxers. Turkish is uncomfortable being in Brick Top's debt and doubtful whether he can trust Mickey to go down as instructed. Both of these fears prove to be well-founded. |
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| 16 | Meanwhile, Boris has decided that the best way to go about getting the diamond without seeming to be involved is to prey on Frankie's gambling addiction. Boris gives Frankie a tip about how the upcoming fight with Brick Top's fighter is supposed to be fixed, which sends Frankie off to the bookie to place a bet on it. Boris then hires a pair of pawnbrokers (Sol (Creator/LennieJames) and Vincent (Robbie Gee)) to ambush him at Brick Top's bookie. When Frankie disappears, his boss and New York crime kingpin "Cousin Avi" (Creator/DennisFarina) heads to London and recruits the enforcer-for-hire Bullet-Tooth Tony (Creator/VinnieJones) to find Frankie and the diamond. |
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| 18 | [[HyperlinkStory The two threads parallel each other and eventually converge in surprising ways before the dust finally settles]]. |
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| 20 | Not to be confused with ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}''. |
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| 22 | !!''Snatch'' contains examples of: |
| 23 | * AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Avi shoots Tony while trying to shoot the dog.]] |
| 24 | * ActorAllusion: |
| 25 | ** [[Film/FightClub This isn't the first time that Brad Pitt's been involved in bareknuckle boxing]]. |
| 26 | ** [[Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels Vinnie Jones is introduced slamming a man's head with a car door]]. |
| 27 | ** More like a writer/director allusion -- Tony hears Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Lucky Star" on the radio and comments, "I love this track!" Creator/GuyRitchie and Madonna, well, you know the story. |
| 28 | * AllThereInTheScript: The head clerk at the bookies who gives Sol and Vinny a hard time is named Pauline, the men Brick Top aims to impress are called Jack "The All-Seeing Eye" and Salt Peter and the guy who shot Bullet-Tooth Tony is called Charlie. |
| 29 | * AlterKocker: The Uzbekistani (Russian) and American gangsters in the opening credits dress up in Hasidic dress and put on Yiddish accents to infiltrate the Jewish diamond depot. They ''spend the entire sequence arguing Talmudic law'' before they drop their disguises and pull out the guns. |
| 30 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: It's implied that the two men who confront Brick Top about Mickey knocking out Bomber Harris are men who are much more powerful and ruthless than Brick Top (which is saying something), given his attempts to placate them. |
| 31 | * AMFMCharacterization: While interrogating Mullet, Bullet Tooth Tony puts on "Lucky Star" by Music/{{Madonna}}, saying that he loves the track. Also an in-joke, as she was Creator/GuyRitchie's wife at the time. |
| 32 | * AnachronicOrder: A car crash scene involving three different vehicles. Notably, we see Boris get run over by the Pawn Shop boys ''before'' we see how Boris manages to escape from the boot of Bullet-Tooth Tony's car. |
| 33 | * {{Angrish}}: When storming back to his house to get an assault rifle and encountering Tommy and Turkish, Boris cuts off Tommy's attempt to complain about the defective gun he was sold with a GroinAttack, all the while muttering furiously under his breath. Played with, since Boris is actually just speaking in his native language, but since it's untranslated the effect is more or less the same for the audience. |
| 34 | * AnArmAndALeg: Once Boris hears that only Franky could open the case cuffed to him, he decides to chop off Franky's hand with the case still connected. |
| 35 | * AntiHero: Turkish is definitely a shady character, and hardly a nice guy, but he's by far the most decent of the bunch. On account of being the only one who's not a violent criminal. Or a complete idiot. |
| 36 | * AnyoneCanDie: The only major characters who unambiguously survive the film are [[spoiler:Tommy, Turkish, Mickey, Sol, Vinnie, Doug and Avi]]. |
| 37 | * ArcWords: "Stay Down". [[spoiler: The whole plot is started, and ultimately resolved, with Mickey repeatedly refusing to actually stay down when is ordered, threatened or even advised to do so.]] |
| 38 | * ArchEnemy: Brick Top to Mickey O'Neil [[spoiler: after the latter botched the former's rigged match]]. |
| 39 | --> "Do you know what ''Nemesis'' means?" |
| 40 | * AskAStupidQuestion: Several times. |
| 41 | ** During Tony's interrogation of Mullet: |
| 42 | --->'''Mullet:''' What the fuck are you doin', Tone?\ |
| 43 | '''Tony:''' I'm driving down the street with your head stuck in my window. What do you think I'm doing, you pen-arse? |
| 44 | ** And later: |
| 45 | --->'''Avi:''' Why do they call him the bullet-dodger?\ |
| 46 | '''Tony:'''({{Beat}}) Because [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin he dodges bullets]], Avi. |
| 47 | ** And later, near the end: |
| 48 | --->'''Policeman:''' What's in the car?\ |
| 49 | '''Turkish:''' Seats and a steering wheel. |
| 50 | * AssassinOutclassin: [[spoiler:Brick Top's entire gang at the hands of the Irish Travellers.]] |
| 51 | * AwesomeButImpractical: The massive SPAS-12 the pawn shop gang brings to the betting shop robbery. Not only is it needlessly huge and unwieldy, it ends up being used ''against them'' by the clerk because they didn't bother to keep ahold of it during the robbery itself. |
| 52 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Brick Top organizes dog fights in addition to boxing matches and repeatedly jabs a dog with a stick to get it to fight. Creator/GuyRitchie included this scene after having a conversation with a Brazilian man who said that in his country, the worst kind of criminals are animal abusers (namely, dogs.) Additionally, Avi is willing to have a dog cut open to get a diamond out of its stomach, which horrifies Bullet Tooth Tony. Ironically, in real life, Brick Top's actor Alan Ford is an animal rights activist. |
| 53 | * BadassBystander: The girl behind the counter at Brick Top's betting shop. She stares down two armed robbers and manages to shoot at them ''with their own gun'' before escaping. |
| 54 | * BadassDriver: Subverted with Tyrone. He's introduced as an experienced getaway driver, but doesn't really live up to his hype. |
| 55 | -->'''Sol:''' He's a natural. Ain't you, Tyrone? |
| 56 | -->'''Tyrone:''' 'Course I am. ''[backs the car into a parked van]'' |
| 57 | -->'''Vincent:''' A natural fucking idiot! |
| 58 | * BaitAndSwitch: The first shot of the movie features Turkish and Tommy sitting spotlighted in a dark office, in front of an unidentified but intimidating-looking man, with the implication that they've been arrested and brought before the police or a powerful underworld figure to explain themselves regarding events that happened. [[spoiler: They're actually in Doug The Head's office, having found the diamond that was the cause of most of the trouble in the movie.]] |
| 59 | * BaldOfAuthority: Inverted for the Pawn Shop guys. The defacto leader Sol is the only one with hair. |
| 60 | * BaldOfEvil: Or at least Bald Of Criminal. Turkish and Gorgeous George are both bald, but neither of them are the villains. Brick Top's bookie receptionist has a shaved head, but she's not that malicious either. |
| 61 | * BatterUp: Turkish uses what looks like a lead-cored baseball bat to take out two similarly-armed thugs during the attack on his arcade. |
| 62 | * BattleStrip: Mickey has challenged Gorgeous George to a bare-knuckle match in exchange for returning the money he cheated from George and Tommy. After repeatedly taking Gorgeous George's physical blows throughout most of the match, Mickey stands up against George's warnings and pulls off his shirt and vest, revealing rippling muscles. Gorgeous George briefly appears frightened...and for good reason, because then Mickey immediately downs him. |
| 63 | * BeastlyBloodsports: Brick Top's dogfighting racket and the pikeys' hare coursing. |
| 64 | * BeautyInversion: The handsome Brad Pitt stars as a greasy Irish traveller chav with bad teeth, tattoos, and [[TheUnintelligible an accent so thick it's nearly incomprehensible.]] |
| 65 | * BeginWithAFinisher: Mickey likes to open his fights with devastating haymakers to the face. In his first two bouts, this results in him knocking down his opponent on the first swing, which is a problem when he's supposed to throw the match. |
| 66 | * BerserkButton: You don't ever want to hurt a pikey's family. [[BestServedCold It may not be immediate]], but your demise is a foregone conclusion. |
| 67 | -->'''Turkish''': For every action, there is a ''re''action. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge And a pikey reaction ... is quite a fucking thing]]. |
| 68 | * BeardOfEvil: Boris the Blade. |
| 69 | * BenevolentBoss: Avi, sort of. He has a seemingly fatherly relationship with Frankie, affectionately calling him "Bubi" and is genuinely concerned for his well-being when he disappears (though he's even more worried about losing the diamond). |
| 70 | * {{BFG}}: Vinnie brings a [=SPAS=]-12 shotgun to hold up a bookie. Sol remarks, "It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun!" Vinnie uses it to blow a massive hole in the wall and force the girl at the counter to lower the protective shield, but she ultimately ''snatches'' it and fires on the thieves before making her exit. |
| 71 | * BigBadEnsemble: Brick Top, Boris and Cousin Avi. [[spoiler:Only the last one -- not coincidentally, [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the least malicious]] [[SanityHasAdvantages and unhinged one]] -- gets to the end alive and well.]] |
| 72 | * BilingualBonus: The first two words uttered by Boris upon opening Tony's car trunk are [[PrecisionFStrike "Nu nakhuy!"]], Russian for (approximately) "for fuck's sake". |
| 73 | * BingeMontage: The "pikey funeral" for [[spoiler:Mickey's mother]]. |
| 74 | * BlackAndGrayMorality: The most sympathetic characters are Turkish, Tommy, and the Irish Traveller clan. Turkish and Tommy are shady characters in the London underworld who run unlicensed boxing matches, and an amusement arcade. Turkish in particular is a rather cutting DeadpanSnarker. The Travellers participate in the sale of fake gold and jewels, rip off their business partners in transactions, then intimidate them with force, and at one point consider killing Tommy over a misunderstanding. The least sympathetic character is Brick Top, who routinely kills off his own mooks, brutalizes dogs and puts them into lethal dogfights, kills people and feeds them to pigs to dispose of the bodies, sets fire to the caravan of one of the gypsies (burning her alive), and threatens to wipe out the rest of the clan if they don't cooperate with him. Mickey, though, seems to be portrayed as a lighter shade of grey. |
| 75 | * BlackComedy: Tons of it. [[spoiler:Brick Top's [[FedToPigs pig]] [[DissonantSerenity disposal]] [[SophisticatedAsHell speech]] and [[RasputinianDeath The final]] [[WhyWontYouDie moments of]] [[MadeOfIron Boris]]]] are the primary contenders to the crown. |
| 76 | * BlackGuyDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Inverted. Sol, Vinnie, Lincoln and Tyrone are on the very short list of people who ''don't'' die, although Sol and Vinnie get arrested and Tyrone sustains a gunshot wound.]] In the commentary tracks, Robbie Gee (who plays Vinnie) appreciatively notes this trope [[spoiler:and its aversion.]] |
| 77 | * BlatantLies: Boris telling people that the weight of any weapon he sells them is a sign of reliability. |
| 78 | * BladeEnthusiast: Seems to be a thing among criminals. Boris is known as "Boris the Blade" and carries what is apparently a butcher's knife on him. Rosebud later produces a chef's knife. Tony dismisses that, telling him to use his "proper knife" which is...a cavalry sword. |
| 79 | * BloodSport: Unlicensed, bareknuckle boxing matches and dogfighting seem to be Brick Top's two primary sources of income. |
| 80 | * BookEnds: Turkish and Tommy sat in front of a man. [[spoiler: Doug The Head, to whom they're selling the diamond.]] |
| 81 | * BoomHeadshot: After Vinnie [[HeKnowsTooMuch reveals Boris' name in the presence of Franky Four Fingers]], the Uzbek promptly shoots Franky in this manner. This is also how [[spoiler: Boris himself, Brick Top and possibly Bullet Tooth Tony]] all meet their ends, though in the last one's case it's ambiguous if his head was where he was shot, [[RecklessGunUsage and it was also an accident on the shooter's part]]. |
| 82 | * BottomlessMagazines: Averted and followed. Bullet Tooth Tony is unable to kill Tyrone because he runs out of bullets killing Boris — he pulls the trigger, the gun goes click, and he calls him a "lucky bastard". In this sequence, he reloads at least once, and each magazine holds 7 shots, exactly as many as the real Desert Eagle in .50 AE holds. Later on, however, Cousin Avi gets the gun and fires 10 shots at a dog without a reload. |
| 83 | * BountyHunter: Bullet-Tooth Tony is described as one, being hired to help Cousin Avi track down Frankie or his kidnappers through a mixture of brute force and investigative powers. However, he seems to be involved in plenty of other mercenary and criminal work. |
| 84 | * BreakThemByTalking: Tony does this to Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. |
| 85 | * BriefcaseFullOfMoney: The stolen diamond is placed in an attache case secured by wire to Franky's arm. When Franky is captured by Sol and Vinnie, Boris the Blade asks for Franky and his case for 10 grand. When they say no deal, Boris executes Franky and then asks for the case again. Vinnie then says that Franky was the only one who knew the combination to the case. Undeterred, Boris chops Franky's arm off, removes the wire, takes the case, and leaves them with Franky's body. |
| 86 | * BritsLoveTea: Brick Top is an avid tea drinker, and frequently has cups delivered to him. When Turkish asks if he wants sugar, Brick Top quips, "No thank you, Turkish. I'm sweet enough!" |
| 87 | * BullyingADragon: |
| 88 | ** Sol, Vinnie and Tryone attempt to intimidate Bullet-Tooth Tony with replica pistols. An unimpressed Tony sends them packing with his real gun. |
| 89 | ** Brick Top persuades Mickey to fight by burning his mother's caravan while she's asleep in it. This decision winds up dooming his whole operation. |
| 90 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: A deleted scene reveals that Bullet-Tooth Tony stabbed Errol's cousin. |
| 91 | -->'''Errol''': Did you know that it was my cousin Lorrie you stabbed? |
| 92 | -->'''Tony''': Yes, I know I stabbed a man called Lorrie, but no I didn't know he was related to a tub of shit. |
| 93 | * TheCameo: Creator/JasonFlemyng has a bit role as one of the Irish travelers. In the commentary, Guy Ritchie playfully notes how Flenyng managed to get himself a lot more screentime than Ritchie had originally intended. |
| 94 | * CaptainObvious: Common in result to a stupid question. It's especially egregious with Errol, Brick Top's Dragon. |
| 95 | * CardCarryingVillain: Brick Top proudly describes himself to Vinny as "an 'orrible cunt", which should make it perfectly clear he knows he's evil and doesn't try to hide it. |
| 96 | * CarFu: Tyrone [[spoiler:gets knocked over by John and Errol in their car so Brick Top can interrogate him,]] Frankie Four Fingers gets knocked out when Tyrone reverses into his van by sheer accident, and the Pawn Shop boys accidentally knock Boris the Blade over when they run into him after he escapes Tony's car boot. |
| 97 | * CassandraTruth: Played with by Errol -- in spite of being the DumbMuscle in Brick Top's eyes, the few utterances he makes of his own volition would have saved Brick Top a ton of grief if heeded. |
| 98 | * ChekhovsGun: Turkish mocks Tommy for buying a gun, then mocks him further when the gun turns out to be defective, but Tommy successfully uses it to hold off Brick Top's {{Mooks}} and secure their escape. |
| 99 | * ChekhovsGunman: The dog. Though he's initially introduced in the movie for some comic relief between Sol and Vinnie, [[spoiler:swallowing the diamond in the back of Sol and Vinny's shop sets up Turkish and Tommy to recover the diamond when they find the dog in the abandoned pikey camp at the end of the movie, connecting the two stories together.]] |
| 100 | * ChekhovsSkill: Again, the dog that can [[spoiler: swallow large objects without much effort. Both times are PlayedForLaughs but the second time is important to the plot.]] |
| 101 | * TheChessmaster: Of all people, [[spoiler: Mickey. There's a reason he kept winning those fights. He wanted to]]. There are two steps : |
| 102 | ** The caravan [[spoiler: scam and the FakeWeakness boxing.]] |
| 103 | ** After Brick Top's DisproportionateRetribution, the [[spoiler: killing climax.]] |
| 104 | * TheChewToy: Tyrone. [[spoiler: Both metaphorically and literally.]] |
| 105 | ** There's also an actual chew toy. |
| 106 | * ChromosomeCasting: Downplayed, but there are only four female speaking parts in the film in total -- Doug's twin daughters, Mickey's mum and the clerk at the bookies. |
| 107 | * ClusterFBomb: |
| 108 | ** Cousin Avi is waiting to explode into them at any time. |
| 109 | --->'''Doug the Head''': Avi!\ |
| 110 | '''Cousin Avi''': Shut up and sit down, you big bald fuck. I don't like leaving my own country, Doug. And I especially don't like leaving it for anything less than warm sandy beaches and cocktails with little straw hats.\ |
| 111 | '''Doug the Head''': We've got sandy beaches, Avi.\ |
| 112 | '''Cousin Avi''': So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em? |
| 113 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoPYFD9Eno Just watch this DVD extra]]. |
| 114 | ** Avi's tendency to drop a ClusterFBomb at any moment isn't too surprising when you consider that he's played by the same guy who brought us [[Film/GetShorty Ray Bones]]. |
| 115 | ** The word "fuck" is said 163 times in the movie. The movie is 104 minutes long so it's said about one and half times per minute. |
| 116 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Brick Top is a fan, as evidenced by the title card, gathering information from [[spoiler: Tyrone]] and his intended execution of [[spoiler: The whole Pawn Shop gang until Sol mentions the diamond.]] |
| 117 | * CollateralDamage: When Avi is trying to shoot the dog with the diamond in him, he ends up accidentally killing Bullet-Tooth Tony. |
| 118 | * CollectiveDeathGlare: When Turkish approaches Mickey about participating in a fixed fight for Brick Top after Mickey failed to go along with the first attempt at one, Mickey demands a caravan for his mom as payment. Turkish is so shocked by the sheer gall of Mickey (since Turkish and Tommy are lucky to be alive after Mickey didn't go through with the first fight, have already been cheated out of a caravan by Mickey, ''and'' can't afford to buy a caravan because Brick Top took Turkish's savings as punishment after Mickey didn't go down as planned in the first fix) that Turkish starts to go on an angry rant and insults Mickey's mom along the way. This earns him a ''very'' angry glare from Mickey and all his friends there, causing Turkish to hastily do a VerbalBackspace. |
| 119 | -->'''Turkish:''' Mickey, you're lucky we aren't worm food after your last performance. Buying a tart's mobile palace is a little [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] rich. ''[Mickey's gang of Irish Travellers all glare at him]'' [[OhCrap I wasn't calling your mum a tart]]. [[ThatCameOutWrong I just meant]]... |
| 120 | * CollidingCriminalConspiracies: The plot is driven by a variety of criminals vying over a diamond, intersecting with Irish Travelers clashing with an underground boxing promoter. |
| 121 | * ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted. Tony shouts through the wall for Avi to duck, then empties the magazine at body height through the wall. He successfully hits Boris and Tyrone, and Sol and Vinnie decide to scram. |
| 122 | * ConsummateProfessional: Bullet-Tooth Tony never loses his cool or acts stupidly throughout his time serving Cousin Avi. |
| 123 | * ContrivedCoincidence: |
| 124 | ** The car crash scene in a hilarious manner. Let's just say that one should always check their surroundings before they throw dairy products out of a moving car. |
| 125 | ** And earlier, Boris showing up in Doug's shop. |
| 126 | * CountryMatters: Brick Top shows how SophisticatedAsHell he is: |
| 127 | --> "Do you know what Nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt. Me." |
| 128 | * CreatorCameo: In the back of the pub when we are first introduced to Doug The Head, Creator/GuyRitchie is the man reading the newspaper. |
| 129 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: From his introduction, Mickey at first appears to be nothing more than a fast-talking, arrogant swindler whose boxing challenge to the much larger George appears to be a ForegoneConclusion. However, once he decides to stop playing around with letting George beat on him, he knocks him out with one punch. |
| 130 | * CurbStompBattle: ''Every'' fight Mickey gets into. A good trait in a boxer? Not if he's supposed to be throwing those fights... |
| 131 | * CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler:When Boris kills Frankie due to him possibly overhearing the former's name, he ends up simultaneously killing the only man who knew the combination to the briefcase housing the diamond. With the case still handcuffed to Frankie, an exasperated Boris just takes out a machete and gets to work cutting Frankie's arm off.]] |
| 132 | * DeadpanSnarker: Many characters. |
| 133 | ** "Well, c'mon. Before ''[[CallBack ze Germans]]'' get here." |
| 134 | ** Tommy is panicking about what to do if any of the countless things that can go wrong with the plan they're forced into go wrong. Turkish has no trouble working out the right thing to do but Tommy doesn't seem too happy with a plan involving "get murdered before we leave the building and I imagine we get fed to the pigs." |
| 135 | ** Bullet-Tooth Tony and Avi spend most of their part in the proceedings dealing with things via copious amounts of heavy sarcasm as well. |
| 136 | ---> '''Bullettooth Tony''': Boris the Bullet-Dodger?\ |
| 137 | '''Avi''': Why do they call him that?\ |
| 138 | '''Bullettooth Tony''': ...Because he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dodges bullets]], Avi. |
| 139 | ** "Anything to declare?" "Yeah -- don't go to England!" |
| 140 | * DeathByRacism: Very narrowly averted. After being established as having a hatred for Irish Travellers, Gorgeous George gets knocked out by one in a fight. Tommy is initially fearful that Mickey's killed George, but ultimately we learn he's still alive, [[spoiler: because he appears in Tommy and Turkish's old caravan later on, heavily-bandaged, while they're discussing what they're going to do for their rigged fight.]] |
| 141 | * DecoyProtagonist: Benicio Del Toro receives top billing as Frankie Four Fingers, but he's killed before the film is halfway through. |
| 142 | * DeerInTheHeadlights: {{Discussed}}, with Turkish remarking on the tendency of people to do this in the face of danger, offering the example of someone who accidentally steps in front of speeding car and freezes out of surprise while pulling a stupid face instead of trying to jump to safety. Moments after this is described, Brick Top ends up having a shotgun pointed right in his face and promptly freezes in shock while pulling a stupid face just before his head gets blown off. |
| 143 | * DefiantToTheEnd: |
| 144 | ** Boris curses at Tony even after being shot several times with a Desert Eagle. Tony finally decides to take his time to aim properly and puts in a point-blank headshot to make sure he doesn't get up again. |
| 145 | ** Just before that, Tony's boss Avi is confronted by the Yardies ''[[MeleeATrois and]]'' by Boris the Blade, both demanding to give them the diamond. Both sides receive only F-bombs for an answer. |
| 146 | * DisappearingBullets: After Tommy suggests that Turkish sign Mad Fist or John the Gun to replace the injured Gorgeous George, Turkish informs him that Mad Fist went mad (cut to Mad Fist in a padded room swatting imaginary flies) and The Gun shot himself (cut to John the Gun holding a gun to his head in the shower, with everything except the bullet hole). |
| 147 | * DisasterDominoes: As the film's plot unfolds it follows all the characters in an intricate double plot featuring numerous ironic twists of chance and causality at a fast pace. |
| 148 | * DispenseWithThePleasantries: Avi, as soon as he arrives at Doug's jewellers. |
| 149 | -->'''Doug''': (affectionately) Avi! |
| 150 | -->'''Avi''': Shut up and sit down, you big bald fuck! |
| 151 | * DismemberingTheBody: When [[LondonGangster Brick Top]] arrives at [[StupidCrooks Sol and Vinny]]'s pawnshop, he finds them haplessly trying to dispose of [[spoiler:Franky Four-Fingers']] body, and provides the pair with [[FauxAffablyEvil some friendly advice]]: since it's so tricky to lift a corpse, it's simpler to cut it up into six pieces for later disposal - Brick Top's method of choice being to [[FedToPigs feed the pieces to a pack of hungry pigs]]. Sol and Vinnie are nonplussed... up until Brick Top reveals that the bookies they robbed last night belonged to him. Outside, a gang of thugs armed with hacksaws are ready to dismember Sol and Vinny's bodies ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath while they're still alive]].'' |
| 152 | * DisposingOfABody: |
| 153 | ** Brick Top's very ''detailed'' description of how to [[FedToPigs feed a body to pigs]]. |
| 154 | ** Lincoln points out that "bad boy yardies" generally ''create'' the bodies without thought of ''erasing'' the bodies. |
| 155 | ** The Pikeys' other modus operandi[[note]]-see DoYouWantToHaggle-[[/note]] comes with the fact that they are nomadic people, meaning that they can drop a dozen bodies in their campsite, bury them and vanish from existence. This is mentioned repeatedly throughout the movie. [[ChekhovsSkill And what do you know...]] |
| 156 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Upon learning that Mickey won't fight unless his mother is bought a new caravan, Brick Top's response is to set fire to Mickey's mother's existing caravan... while she's still asleep inside of it. And plans to wipe out Mickey's entire clan if he doesn't throw the fight. [[spoiler:Which means that Mickey's own revenge on Brick Top in fact comes across as pretty well deserved.]] |
| 157 | * DistractedFromDeath: [[spoiler:When the dog eats the diamond, Avi is so distracted by first shooting at it and then starting to chase it that he doesn't even notice that his wild shots resulted in an IJustShotMarvinInTheFace scenario and killed Tony. It's not until Avi tries to give Tony a few orders and gets no answer that he looks around, and sees the body.]] |
| 158 | * TheDitz: Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone, as well as Tommy. |
| 159 | * DoYouWantToHaggle: The Pikeys' modus operandi. Every time either Tommy or Turkish deal with them, their arguments and demands get increasingly zanier and unintelligible. |
| 160 | * DodgeTheBullet: Boris The Bullet Dodger seems to have a talent for making bullets miss him. In Boris' death scene, Tony has to use every bullet from a Desert Eagle magazine before he manages to hit Boris, and that only works because he aims very carefully with the last shot. The .50AE Desert Eagle's absolutely hellacious recoil probably wasn't doing Tony's marksmanship any favours though. |
| 161 | * DogsAreDumb: Brick Top thinks this, or at least that they're sycophantic, which is why he compares his grassing employee Gary to a dog licking his bum before murdering him, and he also thinks they're cowardly, which is why he abuses them to get them to fight. |
| 162 | * TheDogBitesBack: After Brick Top has Mickey's mother killed, Mickey plays nice exactly long enough for his clan to put a plan to wipe out Brick Top and his men into motion. |
| 163 | -->'''Turkish''': It had previously occurred to me that the gypsy had taken the demise of his mother rather lightly. For every action, there's a reaction. And a pikey reaction is quite a fucking thing. |
| 164 | * DoorDumb: Sol and Vinnie make an unsuccessful attempt to rob a bookie. In retreat after the bullet-proof shutters have fallen over the counter, they are stymied by the shop's door. Needless to say, after they have given up hope of getting out and collapsed to the floor (revealing their unmasked faces to the CCTV), their getaway driver, Tyrone, opens the door the other way to see what's taking them so long. In a BrickJoke, you actually see them push the door to get in. |
| 165 | * TheDragon: Errol to Brick Top, being the leader of his goons. Avi has Bullet Tooth Tony as his right hand man, who's also arguably a {{Dragon In Chief}}. |
| 166 | * DramaticAmmoDepletion: Tony empties an entire magazine from his Desert Eagle into Boris to finally put him down. He's about to kill the wounded Tyrone, but his gun is empty. |
| 167 | -->You lucky bastard! |
| 168 | * DramaticDeadpan: "Now... we are fucked." Tommy chastises Turkish for being seemingly calm about their ordeal, only to be told angrily by the latter that if he's expecting solutions, there are none to find. |
| 169 | * DramaticGunCock: |
| 170 | ** First {{subverted}} when Vince wastes rounds robbing a bookies. And he doesn't even get to use it and has it stolen from him. And even worse, it's the only real gun they had. |
| 171 | ** PlayedStraight when Tommy saves Turkish from a vicious beating (or worse) by pulling a gun on the attacking thugs. When the leader tries to talk him down, Tommy cocks the hammer to show he's serious. Justified as it's a bluff, the gun is either damaged/defective and doesn't work. |
| 172 | * DramatisPersonae: Each major character gets a title card with a brief EstablishingCharacterMoment. |
| 173 | * TheDreaded: Brick Top and Boris are both this in different ways. Brick Top is in the sense that everyone is frightened of him because he's a powerful and vicious crime boss who tends to go for the most sadistic method of solving his problems. Boris, however, is this because he's so tough that no one wants to have to fight him if they get on his wrong side; he's not suggested to be particularly more evil or ruthless than most of the other characters (while he does do some nasty things throughout the movie, he certainly isn't on Brick Top's level), but he's tough, resilient, and a penchant for "disco biscuits" has left him on the unstable and unpredictable side. |
| 174 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: Several cases: |
| 175 | ** [[spoiler:Franky is set up as being highly addicted to gambling, and one presumes that this is going to play into his arc throughout the film. However, before he can ever even place a bet he's killed by Boris to ensure there were no witnesses that could tie him to the crime.]] |
| 176 | ** [[spoiler:After being set up as having been able to survive six bullets to the chest while still having the strength to kill his shooter, Tony is unceremoniously axed when a stray bullet from Avi wildly firing at the dog after it eats the diamond ends up killing him.]] |
| 177 | * DumbassHasAPoint: |
| 178 | ** The Pawn Shop Boys and Tyrone all take turns being the one who is competent or otherwise having a point. |
| 179 | *** After being completely useless up to that point and having inadvertently screw up the robbery by crashing into Frankie's van (both [=KOing=] Frankie and trapping him in the back) Tyrone is the one who shows Sol and Vince that the bookie's door opens inwards. Immediately after that, he spots Frankie stumbling out of the van, recognizes him as their target for the robbery, and completes their initial objective by punching Frankie out and stuffing him in the car with the rest of the gang. |
| 180 | *** Sol, for all the mistakes he makes during the attempt to rob the bookies, is correct in warning Vinnie beforehand that his massive shotgun is impractical for a simple robbery. |
| 181 | *** Vinnie points out the flaws in hiring [[FatIdiot Tyrone]] as their getaway driver, and the absolute foolishness in testing out their replica handguns while inside a moving car, which left everyone in the car deafened and blew out the car's windows. |
| 182 | ** Errol (who isn't actually a dumbass, but Brick Top insists on treating him as DumbMuscle), cautiously advises Brick Top to [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim kill Turkish and the Pawn Shop boys on separate occasions]] rather than involving them in further schemes or getting drawn into theirs. Both times he is chided, but his advice would have saved Brick Top a few headaches. |
| 183 | * DumbMuscle: John. Errol is believed to be this, but he is the more pragmatic of the two (even if it annoys his boss). |
| 184 | * DumberThanTheyLook: Avi ''acts'' and dresses a lot smarter than his clueless partner Doug the Head--knowing that letting his friend Frankie Four Fingers [[TheGamblingAddict gamble]] is a bad idea--but when it comes to actual criminal work, [[StupidCrooks he doesn't have a clue what he's doing]]. He actually has to [[AskAStupidQuestion ask]] where [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Boris]] the [[RedBaron Bullet Dodger]] got [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his name from]], addresses Boris as a Russian repeatedly, [[MistakenNationality despite people telling him that Boris is from Uzbekistan]], and once a dog eats the expensive diamond he's after, he starts [[RecklessGunUsage firing a gun furiously in every direction without looking at where he's shooting]], [[spoiler:which leads to him [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace shooting Tony by accident]].]] And then there's this lovely exchange between him and [[PsychoForHire Bullet Tooth Tony]]: |
| 185 | -->'''Tony:''' You. Want a [[BladeEnthusiast knife]]?\ |
| 186 | '''Avi:''' Me? No, not me. [[TooDumbToLive I wouldn't know what to do]].\ |
| 187 | '''[[HypercompetentSidekick Tony]]:''' ''It's a knife, for God's sake!'' What have you used to keep your fork company all these years? The sharp side, the blunt side. What do you want, a lesson? |
| 188 | * DwindlingParty: A non-lethal example with The Pawn Shop boys. Two members bail after separate incidents, the others are arrested with [[spoiler: Frankie Four Fingers and Bullet Tooth Tony's corpses in their car boot.]] |
| 189 | * {{Eagleland}}: Cousin Avi comes off as a stereotypical brash, crude American. Though to American audiences, he comes off as [[BrooklynRage a stereotypical brash, crude New Yorker]]. |
| 190 | * EarnYourTitle: |
| 191 | ** Boris the Bullet Dodger. He dodges bullets. Apparently, while lying on the ground. |
| 192 | ** Bullet-Tooth Tony, who earned his nickname by being shot six times, surviving[[note]]and killing the guy who shot him[[/note]], and having the bullets melted down into his false tooth. |
| 193 | * EpicFail: Pretty much anything Sol and Vinnie put their minds to. In their defining moment, Boris the Blade hires them to take a briefcase from Frankie Four Fingers, who had been sent to place a bet at a bookmaker's. They are to rob the bookie's place as well, so it wouldn't look too suspicious to Frankie when they steal the case from him. In the end, they'd get the cash from the bookie's, Boris would get the case. Unfortunately, their getaway driver, Tyrone, backs into the van Frankie had used to get to the scene, knocking him out and trapping him inside it. Later that night, they see someone carrying a case go inside, and without attempting to verify the target, Sol and Vinnie enter the bookie's, only to find that it's (obviously) the wrong person, and furthermore that the bookie's has no cash because all bets are off. Then the cashier lady deftly disarms Sol of his shotgun and trips the alarm. Then they attempt (and fail) to open the front door. Reasoning that it's a security door that locked when the alarm was pushed, they try to ShootOutTheLock. The door turns out to be bulletproof, and Vince gets his leg grazed by the ricochet. They fall down in exhaustion and take off their ski masks, at which point they notice the security camera that's just caught them both unmasked. And ''then'', to top it off, Tyrone shows up to get them...it turns out the reason they couldn't open the front door is because they tried to push the "pull" side of the door. The clincher is that the pair are completely unknown in that part of the underworld, and the camera fails to be of any use because the owner doesn't recognize them... but Tyrone is recognized. Epic Fail indeed. |
| 194 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: |
| 195 | ** Brick Top ordering a pair of {{Mooks}} tasered and suffocated to death with plastic bags...in full view of witnesses, whom he then effortlessly intimidates into silence. |
| 196 | ** Bullet-Tooth Tony repeatedly slamming a man's head in a car door, then pausing to answer his car phone with a jaunty, "Bonjour!" (doubles as an ActorAllusion to Vinnie Jones doing the same in ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels''). |
| 197 | ** The credits montage that opens the movie is essentially catching every single character in the middle of a split-second establishing moment, [[spoiler: and it [[SpoilerOpening spoils the very end of the film]] as soon as the TitleDrop.]] |
| 198 | * EstablishingCharacterMusic: Each main character is introduced in a quick montage set to the appropriately-titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl0AzVf74yI "Diamond" by Klint]]. |
| 199 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: |
| 200 | ** Mickey O'Neil, while not exactly a villain, is a manipulative, sneaky con-artist who cheats Tommy and Turkish out of their money repeatedly by selling them a shoddy caravan and tricking Gorgeous George into sparring with him so he can knock him out and ensure Tommy doesn't get his money back. That said, he cares deeply for his kindly mother, and agrees to participate in the rigged boxing match in order to buy her a new caravan. [[spoiler: So when Brick Top has his mother immolated within her own caravan, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Mickey gets even with him...brutally.]]]] |
| 201 | ** Also Errol, if Brick Top preventing him from responding to Turkish's taunt about having sex with her is anything to go by. |
| 202 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 203 | ** Boris the Blade and his brother, who tips him off about Frankie's arrival in London. |
| 204 | ** A deleted scene reveals that Bullet-Tooth Tony and Errol have bad blood, due to Tony stabbing Errol's cousin Lorrie. |
| 205 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Tony's reaction to Avi's command to "look in the dog." |
| 206 | -->'''Tony:''' What do you ''mean'' "LOOK IN THE DOG?!"\ |
| 207 | '''Avi:''' I mean open him up.\ |
| 208 | '''Tony:''' ... it's not a tin of fucking baked beans, ''what do you mean'' "Open him up"?!\ |
| 209 | '''Avi:''' You know what I mean.\ |
| 210 | '''Tony:''' That's a bit strong, ennit? |
| 211 | * EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Mickey is deliberately unintelligible as a response to complaints about hard-to-understand British actors in the director's previous film, and at certain points the film's subtitles resort to question marks. The DVD commentary reveals that Pitt came up with the gibberish on his own and even he has no idea what he is supposed to be saying. There is an option on the DVD to turn on "Pikey Subtitles", which explain what Mickey and other Pikey characters are saying, but at one point even ''they'' are stumped and resort to the aforementioned "???" |
| 212 | * EvilOldFolks: Brick Top. |
| 213 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: |
| 214 | -->'''Avi:''' Why do they call him the "bullet dodger"?\ |
| 215 | '''Tony:''' ...Because he dodges bullets, Avi. |
| 216 | ** Also Bullet Tooth Tony, so named because of his false teeth which are bullets set in gold (bullets he was shot with no less). |
| 217 | * ExtremeOmnivore: The dog eats a shoe, a rubber chew toy, and an 86 carat diamond...which has actually lost a couple of carats by the time it comes out of his digestive tract. |
| 218 | * FakeRussian: In-universe, Boris "the sneaking fuckin' Russian" is actually an Uzbek. Works as a meta example too, as Rade Šerbedžija, the actor who plays him, is actually Croatian. |
| 219 | * FakeShemp: When Vinny and Sol are sitting outside Brick-Top's Bookies, about to give him the diamond, the man that approaches the car is not really Bullet-Tooth Tony, it was a look-alike. Creator/VinnieJones didn't show up for shooting that day because he was in jail for fighting the night before. |
| 220 | * FakeWeakness: Tommy and Gorgeous George understand they got [[spoiler: ripped off by the pikeys]]. Things are about to get nasty if they don't flee. Suddenly, Mickey proposes a [[spoiler: boxing match to settle it down: Tommy falls for it without a second thought.]] |
| 221 | * FanserviceExtra: Those topless women in the bar where a Chinese Gangster tries to kill Bullet-Tooth Tony. |
| 222 | * FatBastard / FatIdiot: |
| 223 | ** Tyrone. He's more stupid than evil, though. |
| 224 | --->'''John and Errol:''' Ah. Tyrone. [[SpeakInUnison You silly fat bastard."]] |
| 225 | ** Gorgeous George too, but only towards the Irish Travellers. He comes to regret that when Mickey punches him. |
| 226 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 227 | ** Frankie Four Fingers' gambling addiction is exploited by Boris the Blade - he tricks him into placing a bet on the fight at the bookies so that Sol and Vinny can rob him and Boris can get the diamond. That said, Boris didn't actually plan on killing him. |
| 228 | ** Brick Top's ego, arrogance and perpetuance for violence cause him to greatly underestimate Mickey and his crew, which cost him dearly. |
| 229 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Brick Top at his friendliest is this. Look at his first scene in the film, where he has a civil, smiling chat with one of his men, Gary...right before suffocating him and sending him to the pig farm for betraying him at some point. |
| 230 | * {{Fauxshadowing}}: |
| 231 | ** The fake diamond that Lincoln tries to pawn to Sol was originally a plot point. In a deleted scene, Vinnie would give it to Brick Top, knowing that he doesn't know anything about diamonds. Brick Top would then give to Avi, who immediately recognises it as a fake. |
| 232 | ** The gun that Boris sells Frankie Four-Fingers originally had a payoff. In another deleted scene, the pawn shop gang tried to get him to open the briefcase. He does so, then would use try to use the gun to escape, only to discover that it's fake, like the one Boris sold Tommy. |
| 233 | * FedToPigs: This is what Brick Top does to anyone who really pisses him off. His monologue about the subject provides the page quote. |
| 234 | * FightClubbing: The unlicensed boxing scene in London is a major plot line, both gloved and bare-knuckle. Mickey is an Irish Traveler bare-knuckle boxing champion. This is TruthInTelevision, as England is a hotbed for underground boxing, particularly in the Irish Traveler community. |
| 235 | * FightingIrish: Or in this case, Fighting Irish Traveller, "One-Punch" Mickey O'Neil. |
| 236 | * {{Fingore}}: Franky Four Fingers. In Avi's own words to Doug: |
| 237 | --> '''Avi''': You have any idea why they call him Frankie Four Fingers Doug? |
| 238 | --> '''Doug''': No I have no idea why? |
| 239 | --> '''Avi''': Well, because he makes stupid bets with dangerous people. And when he doesn't pay up, they give him the chop, Doug! And I'm not talking about his fucking foreskin, either! |
| 240 | * FirstNameBasis: Only three characters' both first and last names are known (Boris Yurinov, Mickey O'Neil and Abraham Denovitz), and only the first two are said out loud in the film, the last of the three is always referred to as "(Cousin) Avi". |
| 241 | ** Doug The Head's surname is presumably Denovitz as well (as per the name of his store), and Brick Top's surname appears to be Paulton (as called by Gary) or Paulford (as called by Sol). |
| 242 | * FixingTheGame: Everyone knows that Brick Top runs crooked boxing matches and Turkish does not. Which means that secretly forcing Turkish to throw a fight could be very profitable for Brick Top and his underworld cronies...or very costly if Mickey doesn't go through with it. |
| 243 | * FlawExploitation: |
| 244 | ** Upon learning that Frankie has a bad gambling habit, Boris quickly finds a way to use that to make sure his pawns can ambush Frankie. |
| 245 | ** Boris also exploits the fact that Tommy, as a relative newcomer, knows exactly zilch about guns; he ends up selling him [[ReliablyUnreliableGuns a lemon]]. |
| 246 | * ForcedPrizeFight: A major subplot involves first getting Mickey into a fixed underground boxing match, and then forcing him to actually go along with the fix. |
| 247 | * ForcedToWatch: In retribution for refusing to throw a match, Mickey is forced to watch his mother's caravan burn down while she's asleep inside. |
| 248 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 249 | ** Tony's introduction establishes him as a polite man. Later, he talks down Vinny and Co. rather than resort to violence. It all set-ups his EvenEvilHasStandards scene. |
| 250 | ** It's subtle, and easy to forget in all the chaos and excitement, but Turkish's voiceover in the first scene effectively sets up the twist ending: why, exactly, would a London boxing promoter be thinking about diamonds...? |
| 251 | ** After the disastrous fight between Mickey and Gorgeous George, Tommy can be seen visibly terrified over the prospect of being murdered by the Travellers, with Turkish's narration stating that they can just dig two graves and up decamp to somewhere else rather have to explain to the police why a man died in their campsite. With different victims, this method of [[{{Pun}} troubleshooting]] will actually be put into practice. |
| 252 | * FormerRegimePersonnel: Boris is ex-KGB, which Tony notes will make him difficult to find. This really just sets up a joke in that as Tony states this, Boris walks into Doug the Head's jewellery shop. |
| 253 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: Brick Top is a brutal, sadistic gangster who wears a pair of thick rimmed glasses. His introductory shot is him bashing a man's teeth out with a hammer. All the characters in the film who know who he is are terrified of him, lest they get cut into pieces and fed to a pack of pigs. |
| 254 | * FromBadToWorse: When the bare-knuckle fight goes horribly wrong and Gorgeous George is hospitalized as a result, it puts Turkish and Tommy on thin ice with crime boss Brick Top, and makes them owe him due to the way it screws up betting on the fight that Gorgeous George was supposed to have with Brick Top's fighter. As Turkish can attest, Brick Top is ''not'' someone to whom you want to be indebted. Then their replacement fighter Mickey, instead of going through with the order to [[ThrowingTheFight deliberately lose the fight]], instead knocks Brick Top's fighter out with his first punch. This changes things from Turkish being in an uncomfortable spot to spending the rest of the film all but convinced that Brick Top is inevitably going to kill him. |
| 255 | * FunnyForeigner: Boris The Blade, between his funny accent, over the top mannerisms and [[{{Leitmotif}} constantly being accompained by a mandolin rendition of]] [[SoundtrackDissonance Korobeiniki]] while doing horrible things, manages to be very funny despite being a ruthless, incredibly dangerous gangster. |
| 256 | * GambitPileup: Made particularly amusing by the fact that the only two characters who had absolutely no idea about the existence of the diamond that prompted so many characters to try and come up with so many plans are the ones who end up with it at the end. |
| 257 | * TheGamblingAddict: Frankie Four Fingers. Every single character that knows about his gambling tries to either desperately keep him from it, or trick him into it. He's called Four Fingers for a reason. |
| 258 | * GamblingRuinsLives: Frankie has ''[[{{Fingore}} lost fingers]]'' as a result of his gambling addiction. |
| 259 | * GeniusDitz: Sol can't do a robbery to save his life, but he's really good at identifying Lincoln's fake diamond as a moissanite. |
| 260 | * GenreBusting: A Brazilian review stated it was hard to qualify. "Action? Not sure, but has some electrifying scenes. Comedy? If it's not, only God can explain all the laughter in my theater. Drama? Maybe, the comic side switches into scenes that could easily enter a yellow press tabloid." |
| 261 | * GetawayDriver: Tyrone is this despite his size causing his exits from the car to take long. But Sol says he's really fast when the situation calls for it. [[spoiler: He is much faster on foot than you'd think, [[ForegoneConclusion but against Errol and John in a car...]]]] |
| 262 | * GilliganCut: |
| 263 | -->'''Rosebud:''' I hate Russians. I'll take care of him.\ |
| 264 | '''Tony:''' He's all yours, Rosebud, me old son.\ |
| 265 | '''Rosebud:''' Not a problem.\ |
| 266 | ''(cut to Rosebud bleeding from his scalp)''\ |
| 267 | '''Rosebud:''' You gotta get me to a doctor! Shoot that fuck! And ''then'' get me to a doctor! |
| 268 | * TheGlassesComeOff: When Brick Top's on the phone to Turkish, right before he decides to send his men to wreck Turkish's arcade [[spoiler: and murder Mickey's mother]], he's not wearing his distinctive creepy old man glasses. |
| 269 | * GluttonousPig: Brick Top has an iconic monologue about pigs and the quantity of dead body they can consume in eight minutes, as he's happy to tell the Yardies. |
| 270 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Frankie Four Fingers smokes, but he's more neutral than evil. |
| 271 | * GorgeousGeorge: Turkish and Tommy are sponsoring a Yorkshire boxer called Gorgeous George. Ironically, there's not much gorgeous about him. See also IronicNickname below. |
| 272 | * GoryDiscretionShot: |
| 273 | ** Shown when Turkish says that "The Gun shot himself." We see him pointing a gun to his head, and then the camera pans to the right, showing the white bathroom wall. Next thing we know, there is a gunshot and a splatter of red blood on the wall. |
| 274 | ** [[spoiler:Same goes for Brick Top getting shot by one of Mickey's men at the end.]] |
| 275 | * GreaterScopeVillain: After Mickey refuses to throw the first fight, Brick Top is seen talking to a pair of men (who are [[AllThereInTheManual identified in the script]] as Jack The All Seeing Eye and Salt Peter, high-level London gangsters who are said to "make Brick Top look like a skirt-clinging thumb-sucker") and despite how ruthless, violent, and terrifying Brick Top is, he was clearly deferential to these men and worried about them being angry with him, to the point that he immediately began apologizing for Mickey not going through with the fix and promising that he would make it up to them. Considering that Brick Top has no compunctions against ordering murders in front of witnesses, one can only shudder to think how awful someone must be to make Brick Top uneasy around them. |
| 276 | * GreedyJew: |
| 277 | ** Cousin Avi is a Jewish gangster from New York who travels to London after his associate Frankie Four Fingers gets lost upon stealing a large diamond from Antwerp. Avi downplays this trope, however: he's certainly after the diamond for monetary gain as we can tell in the DramatisPersonae which shows he ends up getting it in the end, but he's equally concerned for Frankie's well-being, and Avi's more prominent negative qualities are profanity, kvetching, and being unbelievably incompetent. |
| 278 | ** Doug the Head is a subversion. He works at a jeweler's shop that inspects stolen gemstones, but he's not greedy, more AffablyEvil and incompetent. And he's not even Jewish. |
| 279 | * GroinAttack: |
| 280 | ** Suffered by Tommy when he attempted to complain to Boris about the defective firearm he'd been sold. Boris had recently been run over and was in no mood to listen. |
| 281 | ** Brick threatens a rowdy spectator with cutting his "fucking Jacobs off" if he ever shouts at him again, and then cuts him in the leg just to show that he is not kidding. |
| 282 | * [[GuileHero Guile Anti-Hero]]: |
| 283 | ** Turkish's default setting, although by the end of the film he can't outgambit the others. |
| 284 | ** In the end it's revealed that the true [[GuileHero Guile Anti-Hero]] was Mickey, who manages to correctly predict how everyone would react, profiting and taking revenge for his mother in one fell swoop. |
| 285 | * GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: When demonstrating that the replica 22 caliber pistols do indeed work, Sol fires one inside a 4-door sedan. Every window is blown out by the percussion, even though no bullet is actually fired (the replicas only fire blanks). The trio in the car then fall out of the damaged vehicle deafened and spend the rest of the movie asking people to speak louder (from lingering effects of this), which is the actual result of firing any weapon in a confined space. |
| 286 | * HairTriggerSoundEffect: Once the dahg swallows the chew toy, its presence is announced by noticeably squeaky breathing. |
| 287 | * HandCannon: |
| 288 | ** Tony's Desert Eagle. |
| 289 | ** Tommy's enormous, broken revolver. Boris even notes that it's really heavy as a selling point. |
| 290 | * HandcuffedBriefcase: An 84-carat diamond makes its way to London in a suitcase handcuffed to Franky Four Fingers. Once Boris hears that only Franky could open the case, he decides to chop off Franky's hand with the case still connected. |
| 291 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: Boris is forced to kill Frankie when Vinnie uses his name in front of him (he was planning on stealing the diamond from him in a way that wouldn't get back to his brother). |
| 292 | * HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:Avi]]'s arc ends with the same sequence that began it when he [[spoiler:flies back to London (after implicitly swearing never to go back) to retrieve the diamond]]. |
| 293 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Turkish and Tommy. |
| 294 | * HiddenDepths: Mickey initially seems like a cocky, impulsive, in-over his-head, LovableRogue with poor impulse control, but it turns out that he's quite TheChessmaster. |
| 295 | * HitStop: Two during the film's final boxing match: the first, an uppercut that sends Mickey flying; and the second, when Mickey recovers from said uppercut, and lays out his opponent with one punch. |
| 296 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Bullet Tooth Tony is done in by a stray round from his own gun.]] |
| 297 | * HowWeGotHere: Technically, the entire movie is this; the first scene is simply Turkish and Tommy, sitting in a dark office in front of an unidentified man, with Turkish beginning to reflect on things, and the entire film proceeds to take us through the events that led them there (although not always from their perspective). [[spoiler: It's Doug the Head, and they're there because they've unwittingly found the diamond that was the cause of all the trouble.]] |
| 298 | * HumiliationConga: |
| 299 | ** Basically what Avi is subjected to over the course of the movie. |
| 300 | ** Sol, Vincent and Tyrone are just everyone's chew toy. |
| 301 | * HuskyRusskie: Boris the Blade. He's Uzbek, not Russian and he's not a muscular powerhouse, but he's tough and unbelievably hard to kill. |
| 302 | * HypercompetentSidekick: |
| 303 | ** Doug's [[DaddysGirl twin girls]] are considerably more grounded and seemingly have more common sense than he does. |
| 304 | ** Tony as well. If Avi hadn't ended up [[spoiler: accidentally killing him]], Tony might have singlehandedly retrieved the diamond for him. |
| 305 | * IDontPayYouToThink: Brick Top doesn't like Errol to do any thinking. |
| 306 | --> '''Brick Top:''' He's been quite a busy little bastard, that [[Creator/JasonStatham Turkish]]. |
| 307 | --> '''Errol:''' I think you've let him get away with enough, Guv'nor. |
| 308 | --> '''Brick Top:''' It'll get you in a lot of trouble thinking, Errol. I wouldn't do too much of it. |
| 309 | --> (''later'') |
| 310 | --> '''Brick Top:''' What do you think, Errol? |
| 311 | --> '''Errol:''' I think we should drip dry 'em, Guv'nor. While we've got the chance. |
| 312 | --> '''Brick Top:''' (''exasperated'') It was a rhetorical question, Errol. What have I told you about thinking? |
| 313 | * IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: |
| 314 | ** The dog jumps up on Avi and grabs the diamond out of his hand, then runs out of the room. Avi responds by firing his gun wildly, trying to hit the dog without being mindful of what (or who) is in the line of fire. One of the shots hits and kills [[spoiler:Bullet-Tooth Tony]] by mistake. |
| 315 | ** And Rosebud, Avi's henchman, accidentally stabs himself. |
| 316 | * IJustWantToBeBadass: Rosebud comes off as a brick-faced mountain of a man with an attitude and a penchant for knifes, gets his ass delivered to him by Boris and ends up stabbing himself against the passenger seat with a cutlass when Tony gets in a car accident. |
| 317 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Upon seeing Mickey hungover before the fight, Turkish pulls out a flask. |
| 318 | -->'''Tommy''': You can't give him that. |
| 319 | -->'''Turkish''': It's not for him, it's for me. |
| 320 | * IWillShowYouX: |
| 321 | -->'''One of the Travellers:''' ''(to [[spoiler:Brick Top]])'' I'll give ya a fuckin' shooter, ya cunt. |
| 322 | * ImplacableMan: Even when not dodging bullets, Boris manages to survive being hit directly by a car traveling at high speed with no real injury, then taking almost a full magazine from a Desert Eagle at the hands of Bullet-Tooth Tony, all while yelling "fuck you!" with each bullet that Tony puts in him. It's heavily implied by his tenacity that he would have survived if the frustrated Tony hadn't used his last bullet for a well-aimed headshot. |
| 323 | * ImpliedDeathThreat: Brick Top's "What the fuck are you two lookin' at?!" to the boxers who've just seen him sentencing two of his men to death by pigs. |
| 324 | * InUniverseFactoidFailure: Tommy says to Turkish that he shouldn't drink milk because it's not in sync with evolution and that human digestion hasn't gotten used to drinking dairy products yet. Not only is this complete nonsense on every level (human infants nearly all drink milk, and lactose persistence is one of the best-known examples of divergent evolution between human populations after our exodus from Africa), but Turkish seems aware of it as well. |
| 325 | -->'''Turkish''': Well fuck me. What ''have'' you been reading? |
| 326 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: |
| 327 | ** Sol and Vinnie, the loser duo of pawnshop crooks who try their hand at the big(ger) leagues. It does not go well for them. |
| 328 | ** In any other film, Cousin Avi would probably be the BigBad. Here, he's a hapless ButtMonkey who's hopelessly out of his depth. |
| 329 | * InformedAttribute: |
| 330 | ** Tony's [[spoiler: borderline invincibility. While he's a very efficient hitman and a ConsummateProfessional, his ultimate demise comes from catching a single stray bullet from a Avi.]] There's also the fact that Doug The Head describes him as a liability despite him demonstrating otherwise onscreen. |
| 331 | ** For some reason, Solomon is convinced Tyrone is an excellent wheelman. He is not only all of 500 lbs.--as shown in the hysterical bit of him trying to get out of the stolen car at the gas station--but he can't parallel park in a space that could fit at least three cars, and instead reverses and crashes into the van that just so happens to contain Franky Four Fingers, which knocks him out and inadvertently causes the screwup when Sol and Vince go to rob the bookies. Lampshaded amazingly by Vince. |
| 332 | -->'''Vince''': ''(after watching Tyrone try to get out of the driver's seat, which takes almost a full 30 seconds)'' You said he's a getaway driver. What the ''fuck'' can he get away from, eh?! |
| 333 | * InformedFlaw: Doug's view of Bullet-Tooth Tony as 'a liability' doesn't seem entirely fair, since he's pretty much a paragon of [[TheAce efficient,]] [[TheStoic understated badassery]] throughout the film. Yes, in real life you'd probably get pulled in for driving along with an informant's head trapped in your car window or drawing a Desert Eagle in a pub - but [[PoliceAreUseless in a universe where one can apparently limp freely through London flourishing an assault rifle and muttering to oneself in Uzbek,]] that's not really relevant. Granted, Doug's reaction to the mention of Tony may just be an indication that, to him, the situation has escalated the possibility of Tony's involvement will make things too violent and dangerous for Doug's liking. Given that seconds later, Tony is shown slamming a guy's head against the door of his car, and how violent some of the events Tony is involved with will become, Doug's not exactly wrong. |
| 334 | * InformedJudaism: In a much different way than the trope usually goes. Doug the Head and Avi are constantly informing others that they're Jewish... even though Doug, at least, really isn't. |
| 335 | -->'''Turkish''': Wishes he was Jewish. Pretends he's Jewish. Event tells his family they're Jewish. But he's about as Jewish as he is a fucking monkey. He thinks it's good for business. And in the diamond business, it ''is'' good for business. |
| 336 | * IronicName: Sol (short for Solomon) has the same name as a Biblical king famous for his wisdom, but he makes several unwise decisions throughout the film. |
| 337 | * IronicNickname: Brick Top probably received his nickname ''before'' his hair went grey. Also, Gorgeous George is rather unattractive. |
| 338 | * {{Irony}}: To such a degree that 'Ironic Situations' could be a replacement title for the movie. Some notable examples include: |
| 339 | ** Sol, Vincent and Tyrone are hired by Boris to rob Frankie as he's putting a bet on at the bookies under cover of robbing the entire establishment. They sit outside for hours waiting for him to show up...completely unaware that he was in the van they rear-ended as they arrived and was knocked unconscious by the collision. |
| 340 | ** [[spoiler: Tommy and Turkish, the only two main characters who were not involved in the diamond plot and had no idea it even existed, end up acquiring and profiting from it.]] |
| 341 | ** Tony, Avi, Doug, and Rosebud discuss how difficult it will be to find Boris. Cue Boris calmly ambling into Doug's shop that very moment. |
| 342 | ** Sol and Vincent lie to Avi and Tony that the dog must have eaten the diamond when it's not in the place they claimed to have hidden it. Upon finally revealing that it was in Vinny's underwear the whole time, Avi sits down to inspect it only to have the dog immediately actually eat it. |
| 343 | * {{Jerkass}}es: Everyone to varying degrees, though Cousin Avi and (especially) Brick Top stand out in particular. |
| 344 | * JerkassToOne: Brick Top is violent and rude to practically everyone he meets, but he really seems to hold a specific dislike to Turkish's friend Tommy, repeatedly rebuffing innocent questions and comments from him. |
| 345 | --> '''Tommy:(observing Brick Top's pigs)''' ''Are they Lancashire pigs?'' |
| 346 | --> '''Brick Top:''' ''Who the fuck's talking to you, boy?'' |
| 347 | * JewishComplaining: Avi Denowitz is a Jewish-American criminal who has to travel over to London in order to obtain a diamond one of his men stole from Antwerp. He is not happy about having to be in England and makes it clear at every given opportunity. |
| 348 | -->'''Bullet Tooth Tony''': Brick Top's bookie's got blagged last night. |
| 349 | -->'''Avi''': "Blagged?" Speak English, Tony. I thought this country created the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it. |
| 350 | * JewishSmartass: Avi Denowitz, the American Jewish criminal, is not happy at having to spend time in England trying to find an expensive diamond that his ill-fated friend Frankie Four Fingers stole, and he voices his disappointment via biting sarcasm. |
| 351 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Avi manages to escape the entire situation no worse for wear other than not having gotten the diamond, and in the final few moments it's implied that he even ended up getting it after all once Tommy and Turkish retrieve it.]] |
| 352 | * KickTheDog: There's no real reason to dislike Avi until he gives a certain command involving a dog. Brick Top is also seen killing two {{Mooks}} and brutalizing dogs early in the film to establish him as a villain amongst villains. When he [[spoiler:orders the burning of Mickey's caravan with his mother still inside]], he crosses a MoralEventHorizon. |
| 353 | * KnuckleCracking: Tony does this, but Mickey takes the cake. He spends most of the fight against Gorgeous methodically cracking his entire skeleton, before laying him out with one punch. |
| 354 | * KosherNostra: The characters make several references to the involvement of Jews in the diamond trade. There are several crooked Jewish gangsters mixed up in it, namely Franky Four Fingers and Avi. |
| 355 | ** "Hava Nagila" (a traditional Jewish celebration song) also shows up multiple times in the soundtrack. Usually when something is about to go completely arse-end up for everyone involved. |
| 356 | * LandingGearShot: Shown as part of brief, frenetic montages of Avi's plane trips to and from London [[spoiler: and back again]], Avi downing a drink on the plane and a passport being stamped. [[spoiler: The third trip has his passport stamped with [[TheEnd "THE END".]]]] |
| 357 | * LaserGuidedKarma: By the end of the film, [[spoiler:Tommy and Turkish, the only people who didn't try anything more criminal or morally questionable than ''surviving'' and who didn't even know the diamond existed, end up profiting from it. Everyone else is either dead, arrested, or suffered a severe loss.]] |
| 358 | ** Except [[spoiler: Mickey, who actually out-gambitted everyone. Although his mom was killed...]] |
| 359 | ** Also, [[spoiler:it's implied that Avi will get the diamond, and therefore a big profit, which probably goes a long way toward making up for the losses of Frankie and Rosebud]]. |
| 360 | * LaughablyEvil: Even for a Creator/GuyRitchie movie, Brick Top is truly a complete monster, brutalizing dogs and people both, committing multiple cold blooded murders and threatening to wipe out an entire Traveller clan. He's also ''really'' funny, and gets many of the best lines in the movie. |
| 361 | * LawOfInverseRecoil: A Desert Eagle .50 Action Express doesn't seem to have a lot of recoil when fired one-handed by both Tony and Cousin Avi. |
| 362 | * {{Leitmotif}}: The film uses Leitmofs occasionally by sampling bits of songs from its soundtrack when it shifts focus to another group of characters. Perhaps most noticeable is the use of "Dreadlock Holiday" several times when focus switches to the pawn shop gang. Just as conspicuous is the Russian folk tune "Korobushka", which tends to follow Boris wherever he goes. As in, he walks into a room, the song plays, he walks out, it stops, he walks back in, it continues. |
| 363 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Cousin Avi is clearly a powerful Jewish mobster and not an incredibly nice person, but tends to earn more of the audience's sympathy both through not coming across like a vicious AxCrazy maniac who considers murder to be the primary-to-only solution to his problems and through being shoved into a hapless farce that makes him come across like an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. |
| 364 | * LikesOlderWomen: Tommy seems to have quite the soft spot for Mickey's mam... |
| 365 | * LittleUselessGun: Bullet Tooth-Tony is shown in a flashback to have been shot by an Asian gangster wielding a small pistol. After six shots, the gangster realises that Tony isn't dead and Tony just bum rushes him with a sword. [[spoiler:Later, Tony is killed when Avi accidentally shoots him with his own Desert Eagle, showing that it just takes a bigger gun to do the job]]. |
| 366 | * LondonGangster: Brick Top, and several others. |
| 367 | * LosingIsWorseThanDeath: Mickey ''will not'' take a dive, even when very explicitly and very credibly threatened with death. Subverted in two different ways. First, it's not honor, he's working his own angle. And second, Brick Top's retribution for the first non-dive turns out to be more brutal than he bargained for. |
| 368 | * MacGuffin: The 86 carat diamond. Several characters spend much of the film trying to get the diamond, [[spoiler:however by the end of the film, most of the bad guys end up in jail or dead. The diamond gets swallowed by a dog which in turn is adopted by Turkish and Tommy, the only main characters who were not involved with the diamond plot.]] |
| 369 | ** However, the other (much smaller, but way more numerous) diamonds stolen along with the big one are quickly forgotten. |
| 370 | * MadeOfIron: Tony having survived getting shot six times (in one sitting) in the past automatically qualifies him. Boris earned his nickname "The Bullet-Dodger" by, well, dodging bullets [[spoiler:and it takes a full magazine from Tony's Desert Eagle .50 to lay him out for good]]. And Mickey, who gives his first opponent about 8 free hits before laying him out. |
| 371 | * TheMafiya: Boris isn't actually a "sneaky fuckin' Russian," but a sneaky fuckin' Uzbek. |
| 372 | * MamaBear: Mickey's mother shows a lot of concern for him as he seemingly gets in over his head and is willing to speak defiantly to Tommy and Turkish. |
| 373 | * MathematiciansAnswer: See also AskAStupidQuestion above. |
| 374 | -->'''Customs Agent''': Anything to declare? |
| 375 | -->'''Avi''': Yeah. Don't go to England. |
| 376 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 377 | ** Played with. Boris' two nicknames (Boris the Blade and Boris the Bullet Dodger) actually aren't all that accurate. He's only seen using a blade once in the entire movie, and he doesn't dodge bullets so much as absorb them. His third name "Boris the sneaky fucking Russian" at least gets the ''adjectives'' dead-on right, but he's actually an Uzbek. |
| 378 | ** Rosebud is named so because he looks like Creator/OrsonWelles an awful lot. |
| 379 | ** Two of the other fighters Tommy suggests to replace Gorgeous George after Mickey nearly kills him go by the names "Mad Fist Willy" and "John The Gun." Turkish tells him that Mad Fist [[SanitySlippage went mad]] and the Gun [[DrivenToSuicide shot himself]]. |
| 380 | * MeleeATrois: The KosherNostra (Avi and Tony) vs. TheYardies (Sol, Vince and Tyrone) vs. TheMafiya (Boris) showdown in the bar backdoor hallway. [[spoiler:The Kosher Nostra wins the fight, Boris dies (but takes a ''lot'' of bullets to go), while Sol and Vince flee with the diamond]]. |
| 381 | * MenOfSherwood: The other male Travellers in Mickey's clan are a rowdy bunch of interchangeable petty crooks who are nominally allied with the protagonists and are subjected to ShameIfSomethingHappened threats by the villainous Brick Top. [[spoiler:Then they ambush and gun down Brick Top and all his goons.]] |
| 382 | * MobBossSuitFitting: There's a scene where Frankie Four Fingers talks with his boss Avi while being fitted for a suit in London. Played more for comedy than anything else, because Frankie is an underling rather than a boss, and some of the suits he is trying on are both a bit outdated and will change very quickly between takes. (For example, he'll be fully in a suit for one take, then a couple of seconds later he'll be half dressed in another, totally different suit from a different era). |
| 383 | * MobDebt: |
| 384 | ** The backstory of Frankie "Four Fingers" involves this. Frankie, who is TheGamblingAddict, apparently made some bad bets with the wrong people once upon a time and got a finger cut off as punishment. |
| 385 | ** Much to his chagrin, Turkish, who is [[BlackAndGrayMorality one of the least morally compromised characters in the film]], winds up in this position with the feared LondonGangster Brick Top. Both men run unlicensed boxing matches, but Turkish's fighter is injured on the eve of a fight, leaving Brick Top unable to take bets in advance at the bookies that he runs, and thus Turkish has to make it up to him by forcing the replacement fighter to [[ThrowingTheFight throw the fight]] so Brick Top's associates can make big money from bets placed at ringside on the night of the fight. When the fighter doesn't go through with the dive, this puts Turkish in an ''even worse'' position, since Brick Top is intent on making up his losses and wants to take it out of Turkish's hide... or kill Turkish and company if he can't make the money back. |
| 386 | * MommasBoy: A positive portrayal in Mickey's relationship with his mother, as he obviously loves her dearly. His cronies/friends also seem to think highly of her, [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge if their murderous reaction to her demise is anything to go by]]]]. |
| 387 | * MoralEventHorizon: Brick-Top ordering Mickey's mom, the only unambiguously good natured character in the film, [[DisproportionateRetribution to be burned alive inside her trailer]]. |
| 388 | * MortonsFork: Played with. Turkish is put in the position of having to either be in Brick Top's pocket or be killed by him; neither choice is delectable, they are equally dangerous and it all depends on a drunk, unreliable Pikey. What he doesn't know is that [[spoiler:said Pikey is also playing his own game.]] |
| 389 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: Cousin Avi's airplane flights to and from England use a Creator/DarrenAronofsky-style "hip-hop montage" for comedic effect. In two seconds of screen time, he's moved halfway across the world. |
| 390 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: |
| 391 | ** The dilemma faced by Tommy after Gorgeous George is laid out with one punch by Mickey at the Travellers' campsite. It looks as though Gorgeous is dead, and as Turkish's narration points out, since that the Travellers are nomads anyway there's absolutely no reason for them to hang around and answer awkward questions from the authorities about why a man died in their campsite when they can just bury ''two'' people and disappear to another campsite never to be seen again. Fortunately for both, George is seriously injured but alive, but for a moment there, [[OhCrap Tommy looks rather concerned]]. |
| 392 | --->'''Turkish:''' Tommy -- the tit -- is praying. And if he's not, he fuckin' should be. |
| 393 | ** {{Foreshadowing}} is at work here; [[spoiler: the Travellers end up doing just this, just to Bricktop's gangsters instead.]] |
| 394 | ** Killing people also appears to be Bricktop's preferred solution to problems as well. |
| 395 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: According to Turkish, Tommy was named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer. Presumably [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Hamblin Thomas S. Hamblin]]. |
| 396 | * NeverFoundTheBody: Brick Top guarantees this by feeding the corpses to pigs. In a scene, he describes the animal's eating process. |
| 397 | * NightmareFetishist: Tony's reaction to hearing the song that was playing when he got shot 6 times? "Oh, I love this track!". |
| 398 | * NobleDemon: Tony. He's AffablyEvil at worst, follows EvenEvilHasStandards, and never displays any prejudice, simply going about his job. |
| 399 | * NonIndicativeName: Despite the exchange under ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin above, none of Boris' nick names -- Boris the Blade, Boris the Bullet-Dodger, and Boris the Sneaky Fucking Russian -- are particularly accurate. He carries a large blade, but doesn't use it much. He doesn't so much dodge bullets as he absorbs them. And he's from Uzbekistan, not Russia. |
| 400 | * NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Turkish has screwed up a deal he had with Brick Top, which cost Brick Top a lot of money. Turkish runs back to his office, hoping he can get there and take all the money he has in his safe and flee the country. Brick Top and his goons are already there. Rather than killing Turkish, Brick Top has Turkish make everyone some tea, has a surprisingly civilized conversation where he explains what Turkish has to do to make up for this, and then, just before leaving, forces Turkish to open his safe and give everything inside to Brick Top. |
| 401 | * NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Several of the characters appear to be virtually immortal -- including Bullet Tooth Tony and Boris the Blade (aka "Boris the Bullet Dodger"). Shot over and over again they just won't die! [[spoiler:Until they do. Boris winds up the victim of a RasputinianDeath, while Tony, who became famous for getting shot 6 times by an enemy and being strong enough to kill the guy with a sword afterwards, gets killed by a stray bullet from a HandCannon.]] |
| 402 | * NotOnTheList: Avi and Doug stopped multiple times before gaining admittance to an unlicensed boxing match. Avi is annoyed, griping, "We're ''on'' the list!" |
| 403 | * NotQuiteDead: |
| 404 | ** "Why do they call him Boris the Bullet Dodger?" "Because he dodges bullets!" |
| 405 | ** The same can be said about Bullet-Tooth Tony who survived a clip being unloaded into him in a flashback. |
| 406 | * NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: A variation when Bullet-Tooth Tony points out that the guns being wielded by his would-be attackers have the word 'replica' written on them, while his has the words 'Desert Eagle'. |
| 407 | * OffhandBackhand: Boris barely seems to notice Tommy is even there when he walks to his door, does a GroinAttack without slowing down or stopping his angry muttering, and walks back out of his house with an assault rifle before Tommy stands up. |
| 408 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Rosebud manages to subdue Boris. (Apparently with at least some help from Avi and Tony, judging by how they're also disheveled and bloody.) He's heavily injured and bleeding profusely afterward, plus he's talking about needing to get to a doctor, but he beat Boris. |
| 409 | * OffscreenRealityWarp: Played for humour: Frankie Four Fingers is on the phone to Cousin Avi while being fitted by a tailor. The film cross-cuts between the two and Frankie is wearing a completely different outfit each time. |
| 410 | * OhCrap: There are plenty of examples of this in the film. |
| 411 | ** Bad Boy Lincoln when he recognizes Bricktop. |
| 412 | ** Turkish and Tommy's reaction when Mickey knocks out Bricktop's fighter (both times). |
| 413 | --->'''Turkish:''' Now, we are fucked. |
| 414 | ** Also lampshaded when the trio flee the boxing venue only to discover Bricktop waiting for them at their car, complete with a freeze-frame on Turkish, Mickey and Tommy's faces. Turkish notes in his voiceover that when you're faced with sudden, unexpected death, you freeze up and can't think to do anything, so just end up pulling "a stupid face", as Turkish and Tommy are demonstrating. He then notes that Mickey, interestingly, ''didn't'' have this reaction... |
| 415 | ** Sol, Vince and Tyrone's reactions to Bullet Tooth Tony's Desert Eagle, and Avi's reaction to [[spoiler: accidentally killing Bullet Tooth Tony.]] |
| 416 | ** Brick Top gets a retroactive one; at the climax, we see him hang up his phone with a troubled expression on his face. It's only after a flashback that we realize it's because his plan [[spoiler: to teach Mickey a lesson by killing his entire clan has gone badly wrong.]] He gets another one when [[spoiler:he realizes that Mickey's men have killed and replaced his own goons in the car waiting for him, and are just about to shoot him dead]]. |
| 417 | ** Related to the above example, one of the guys [[spoiler: Brick Top is using to ambush the Traveller camp]] has a freeze frame shot of the exact moment he realises, just a split second before it happens [[spoiler: that the Travellers are actually ambushing ''them''.]] |
| 418 | ** The guy who tried to shoot Tony six times in flashback also looks rather anxious when Tony [[WhyWontYouDie refuses to 'fucking die']] and comes at him with a sword. |
| 419 | ** Mickey gets one in the last fight in the movie, when he almost knocks the other fighter out in the first round. [[spoiler: He's worried because he knows that his friends haven't had enough time to take care of Brick Top's men, and if he won the fight that early, they'd all be fucked. [[RunningGag Proper fucked]].]] |
| 420 | ** Tommy looks a little bit concerned after Mickey knocks Gorgeous George out cold with one punch and it looks like he's dead. To be more accurate, he looks like he's holding back tears of pure panic and a desperate urge to scream "Oh God, please don't kill me as well." |
| 421 | ** Mullet gets the wide-eyed OhCrap look when Tony calls out to him. |
| 422 | ** Tony when he realises that Boris the Blade is involved. |
| 423 | ** Turkish is trying to get the hell out of dodge and tries to open the safe in his office, only to find Brick Top and his cronies expecting tea. |
| 424 | ** Avi immediately sits up and looks worried when, during their phone conversation, Doug mentions that Frankie told him he was planning on going to a boxing match. Because at a boxing match there's gambling, and Frankie is TheGamblingAddict... |
| 425 | ** In a deleted scene, Brick Top thinks he has acquired the diamond (it's actually a fake but he doesn't know that) and tries to sell it back to Cousin Avi. Avi immediately sees through it and explodes, thinking that Brick Top is trying to rip him off. As with the GreaterScopeVillain example, Brick Top looks ''incredibly'' unnerved by this, making it clear that for all that he's been presented as the most immediately dangerous man in the movie and Avi has been depicted in almost IneffectualSympatheticVillain terms, Avi is still an ''incredibly'' dangerous and powerful man, more so than Brick Top, and making an enemy of him is ''not'' a good idea. |
| 426 | * OneHitKill: "One Punch Mickey", Gypsy bare-knuckle boxing champion. Bonus points for doing it when he shouldn't. |
| 427 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Brick Top, though his surname, Pulford, is mentioned occasionally. |
| 428 | * OnlySaneMan: Mickey and Turkish seem to be the only main characters in the film who are not too greedy, crazy, or stupid. Mickey only [[ObfuscatingInsanity appears]] crazy. |
| 429 | * OopNorth: Going by his accent, Gorgeous George is from Yorkshire, [[ActorSharedBackground like his actor, Adam Fogerty]]. |
| 430 | * OrSoIHeard: Brick Top drops an "apparently" and an "I hear" into his FedToPigs monologue. |
| 431 | * OrderedToCheat: Turkish is under strict orders to make his boxer take the dive, which he passes on to Mickey... who is ''terrible'' at it. [[spoiler:Because he has his own game in play that involves ''not'' diving.]] 'Orrible things ensue. |
| 432 | * PantsPositiveSafety: Turkish points this out to Tommy: |
| 433 | -->"What's to stop it blowing your bollocks off every time you sit down?" |
| 434 | ** Then again, [[spoiler:the gun turns out to be useless]]. |
| 435 | * PaperTiger: Rosebud, Cousin Avi's bodyguard/goon, sure, he is big and intimidating, but his only actions in the film are getting his ass kicked offscreen by [[TheDreaded Boris]] [[SuicidalOverconfidence when he tries to take him by himself]] [[spoiler: and accidentally impaling himself on Tony's sword]] |
| 436 | * ParallelParking: Tyrone smashes hard into a van (ironically containing the guy his bosses are looking for) while backing into a space "big enough for a jumbo jet." |
| 437 | -->"It was a funny angle." |
| 438 | -->"It's behind you, Tyrone! When you reverse, things come from behind you!" |
| 439 | * ParkingProblems: Tyrone claims a parking spot is too tight when there's only one other vehicle on the whole block. Naturally, when the others convince him to park there, he crashes into that vehicle, leading to one of the funniest exchanges in the movie: |
| 440 | -->'''Tyrone''': I didn't see it there. |
| 441 | -->'''Vinnie''' It's a four ton truck, Tyrone. Its not as if it's a packet of fucking peanuts, is it? |
| 442 | -->'''Tyrone''': It was a funny angle. |
| 443 | -->'''Vinnie''': It's behind you Tyrone. Whenever you reverse, things come from behind you. |
| 444 | * PetTheDog: |
| 445 | ** Bullet-Tooth Tony, who has no problem whatsoever shooting, slicing or otherwise dishing out pain to human opponents, balks at Avi's suggestion to "open" the dog in order to obtain the massive diamond which said dog had swallowed. |
| 446 | ** [[spoiler: After Mickey's mother is killed by Brick Top,]] Turkish apologizes to Mickey for his loss. Considering how obnoxiously he's interacted with Mickey in every scene together beforehand, it's pretty heartwarming. Mickey, for his own part, tells Turkish not to apologize, because he didn't [[spoiler: kill Mickey's mother.]] |
| 447 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: A downplayed example with Mickey. While Brad Pitt isn't exactly pint-sized (and pretty shredded to boot), he ''is'' notably shorter and lankier than his three opponents. He's still very much capable of felling each and every single one of them with a single punch if he wants to. |
| 448 | * PistolWhipping: |
| 449 | ** Frankie Four Fingers pistol whips a man during the Antwerp robbery in order to get another man to tell him where the diamond is. |
| 450 | ** Vinnie attempts to pistol-whip Bullet-Tooth Tony, but Tony catches his wrist and notices that the gun has "Replica" written down the side of the barrel. |
| 451 | * PlethoraOfMistakes: Turkish and Tommy are only looking to buy a caravan from the Travellers and end up down money, hospitalising their fighter and in deep shit with Brick Top when they use Mickey as a replacement. This has the knock on effect of messing up Sol, Vincent and Tyrone's attempt at robbing Brick Top's betting shop, as there's no money there. |
| 452 | * PoliceAreUseless: The only time we even ''see'' any policemen comes after all the action is over and all the bad guys are dead. |
| 453 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: As noted below, the heroes aren't exactly paragons of political correctness, as both Turkish and Tommy are rather casual with the use of the term "pikey" (a derogatory term for the Traveller community) and tend to generally subscribe to the widespread stereotype that they're untrustworthy criminals and con artists. Then again, it's not as if the Travellers in this film don't all uniformly live down to that particular stereotype. |
| 454 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: |
| 455 | ** Believing that Boris is Russian, Avi constantly refers to him as a "Cossack," which is meant as an insult because of the Cossacks' perpetration of anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia. |
| 456 | ** Gorgeous George really doesn't like Irish Travellers. Then again, neither does anyone else, including our heroes Tommy and Turkish. |
| 457 | ** Bullet-Tooth Tony might be something of a homophobe, judging by his comments towards the three Yardies. |
| 458 | * PowderKegCrowd: The crowd during Mickey's second fight goes ape [[spoiler:when he wins yet again in spite of being told not to do so]] and a pitched fight begins at the ring. |
| 459 | * PreemptiveShutUp: Brick Top, to Errol: |
| 460 | --> '''Errol''': ''[to Turkish]'' Oi, fuckface, was he talking to you? |
| 461 | --> '''Turkish''': Fuckface, huh? I like that. I'll have to remember that next time I'm crawling off [[YourMom your Mum]]. |
| 462 | --> '''Brick Top''': ''[to Errol]'' Not now. |
| 463 | * PreMortemOneLiner: |
| 464 | ** Darren, the Traveller played by Creator/JasonFlemyng delivers a pretty good one to Brick Top before he blows away one of Bricktop's men: |
| 465 | --->'''Brick Top''': ''[On mobile]'' Pete, talk to me. |
| 466 | --->'''Traveller''': ''[On Pete's phone]'' If you want yer friend to hear ye, ye'll have to talk a lot louder than that. ''[BANG]'' |
| 467 | ** A bit less eloquent, but when Brick Top -- on seeing Turkish, Tommy and Mickey exit a door nearby -- tries to get a gun from [[spoiler:what he thinks is]] one of his men waiting in his car: |
| 468 | --->'''Brick Top:''' Gimme a fuckin' shooter!\ |
| 469 | [[spoiler:'''Traveller:''' I'll give ye a fuckin' shooter, ye [[CountryMatters cunt]] ye. ''[BANG]'']] |
| 470 | ** Tony does it to Tyrone -- or tries, [[SubvertedTrope as it turns out his gun's just run out]]. |
| 471 | --->'''Tony:''' Fuck you and all.\ |
| 472 | ''[CLICK]'' |
| 473 | --->'''Tony:''' ...You lucky ''bastard''. |
| 474 | * PsychoForHire: Bullet-Tooth Tony. He's not only one of the toughest guys in London, but he's willing to torture and kill people for a visiting American who will only be in town for a few days. |
| 475 | * PsychoSerum: Turkish attributes both Boris' near-invulnerability and his [[AxCrazy extreme]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer kookiness]] to "one too many disco-biscuits". |
| 476 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: |
| 477 | ** Attempted, poorly, by a wannabe badass, but it might have been better if it weren't aimed at Vinnie Jones. |
| 478 | ** Also, the bookie: |
| 479 | --->'''Bookie:''' All bets are off.\ |
| 480 | '''Sol:''' I'm not in here to make a fucking bet.\ |
| 481 | '''Bookie:''' 'Preciated, but all. Bets. Are. Off. If all bets are off, then there can't be any money, can there? |
| 482 | * PutOnABus: Gorgeous George is a fairly notable character for the first act but then vanishes for most of the time after being injured in a fight with Mickey. |
| 483 | * RapidFireComedy: It's best to watch this film on DVD so you can pause it to crack up laughing without missing another joke in the process. They're "blink and you'll miss it" at times. |
| 484 | * RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Boris, appropriately. He gets attacked by Rosebud, stuffed in the back of Tony's car, survives the crash, gets run over and is finally shot multiple times.]] |
| 485 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bullet Tooth Tony delivers one to Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone when they attempt to threaten him at gunpoint to get the diamond back. |
| 486 | -->'''Tony''': So. You're obviously the big dick. And the men on either side of you are your balls. There are two types of balls. There are big brave balls and there are little mincy faggot balls. |
| 487 | -->'''Vinny''': These are your last words, so make them a prayer. |
| 488 | -->'''Tony''': Now, dicks have drive and clarity of vision, but they're not clever. They smell pussy and they want a piece of the action. And you thought you smelled some good old pussy and have brought your two little mincy faggot balls along for a good ole time. But you've got your parties muddled up. There's no pussy here. Just a dose that'll make you wish you were born a woman. Like a prick, you're having second thoughts. You're shrinking. And your two little balls are shrinking with you. And the fact that you've got 'Replica' written down the side of your guns...''[they look in horror at their guns]'' and the fact that I've got ''Desert Eagle, point-five-oh'' written on the side of mine ''[They look at his with even more horror]'' should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now... ''[he picks up his drink]'' ...Fuck off. |
| 489 | * RecklessGunUsage: |
| 490 | ** [[spoiler:Firing off a series of rapid shots at a dog while not even looking in the same direction) results in Avi unintentionally killing the infamously unkillable Bullet Tooth Tony]]. |
| 491 | ** Subverted in the scenes where Boris the Blade sells pistols to Tommy and Franky Four Fingers; both engage in some stupid behavior (Tommy aiming a gun right at Gorgeous George, Franky scratching his temple with the gunbarrel). Boris shows no concern either time, despite being a trained gun professional. Because he knows the guns don't fire. |
| 492 | * RedBaron: Boris the Blade (a.k.a. Boris the Bullet-Dodger, a.k.a. Boris the Sneaky Fucking Russian), Doug the Head and Bullet-Tooth Tony |
| 493 | * RevolversAreForAmateurs: Nobody in this film uses revolvers with any real effectiveness. Boris sells [[ReliablyUnreliableGuns dodgy ones]] to unsuspecting customers like Tommy, while favouring a semi-automatic himself. Sol attempts to use a revolver to shoot the door off the bookie's to escape and ends up destroying the bag full of coppers he and Vincent have stolen. |
| 494 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Brick Top's EstablishingCharacterMoment, where he first has someone who's [[NoodleIncident betrayed him in some manner or other]] [[FedToPigs disposed of]]. He then turns to the man's sidekick, tells him he's a vicious little bastard but he's "got no time for grassers[[note]]British slang for 'snitch'[[/note]]", and orders him disposed of as well. |
| 495 | -->'''Brick Top:''' ''[To his boxers, who have just witnessed the whole affair]'' [[DefensiveWhat What the fuck are you looking at?]] |
| 496 | * RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Errol has this problem. Brick Top just wants him to be intimidating Dumb Muscle, but Errol has a tendency to answer rhetorical questions with pragmatic, ruthless advice. Eventually it leads Brick Top to get slightly fed up. "It was a rhetorical question, Errol. What have I told you about thinking?" |
| 497 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Brick Top has secured Mickey's cooperation in a rigged fight by having his mother's caravan set on fire while she's still in it. It occurs to Mickey's allies that he appears to be cooperating rather mildly, under the circumstances ... until the night of the fight. When it's revealed that as well as putting money on himself to win the fight and winning it, thus ripping Bricktop off completely, he and his fellow Travellers have arranged an ambush in which they bloodily wipe out pretty much all of Brick Top's organisation, including Brick Top himself. As Turkish notes: |
| 498 | -->'''Turkish:''' It had previously occurred to me that the pikey had taken the demise of his mother rather lightly. But for every action, there's a ''re''action. And a pikey reaction ... is quite a fucking thing. |
| 499 | * RobbingTheMobBank: Or in this case, the mob bookie. |
| 500 | -->"Do you know who this bookies belongs to?" |
| 501 | * RoguishRomani: Turkish and Tommy need to quickly find a replacement fighter and end up recruiting Irish Traveller bare-knuckle boxing champ Mickey O'Neil. The "pikeys" are supposedly all thieves and liars, but this is coming from a cast made up entirely of {{London Gangster}}s, jewel thieves, armed robbers, and ''unlicensed'' boxing promoters, and [[spoiler:Mickey and the other Travellers end up putting one over [[TheDon Brick Top]] and getting away scot-free, which is treated as a happy ending and well-deserved]]. |
| 502 | * RunningGag: |
| 503 | ** Mostly just repeated phrases like "sneaky fuckin' Russian", "Franky fuckin' Four Fingers", "I fucking hate pikeys", "proper fucked", and "ze Germans". |
| 504 | ** People keep getting killed in the back of Sol and Vincent's shop. The killers keep leaving Sol and Vincent to deal with the bodies. |
| 505 | ** Mickey and the other Travelers swindling people into buying them new caravans if they win bets. |
| 506 | * RunningGagged: The biggest DramaBomb of the film happens when Mickey (off-screen) tries to ask Brick Top to buy him a new caravan for his mother in exchange for taking a dive in an upcoming fight. Brick Top's response is [[KickTheDog to kill Mickey's mom by setting her caravan on fire while she was sleeping in it]] and [[MakeAnExampleOfThem telling Mickey]] it's the dive or he and everybody else in the trailer park dies. |
| 507 | * RussianGuySuffersMost: Boris the Blade (Uzbekistanian, though he might've been an ethnic Russian previously residing in Uzbekistan) is captured, run over, and takes an entire Desert Eagle clip to be killed. |
| 508 | * [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Men]]: Subverted by Sol, Tyrone and Vinnie. The white people they try stealing from are a lot scarier than them. |
| 509 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: |
| 510 | ** Gorgeous George ''tries'' to pull this on Mickey after the latter refuses to stay down during their fight. |
| 511 | ** After Brick Top lets the Pawn Shop boys out of a gruesome execution, Lincoln (seemingly the only one who is an actual [[TheYardies Yardie]]) wants no part of the trio and is not seen or mentioned again. Can you blame him, really? |
| 512 | ** Pretty much said word-for-word by Sol after Tony unloads his Desert Eagle into a hallway containing Boris (who was also about to shoot them with an AK assault rifle), Avi, Sol, Vincent, and Tyrone. After seeing both Tyrone and Boris are hit and realizing how close he just came to dying, (and might still die after Tony breaks through the door) Sol assesses the situation and comes to the following conclusion as to what course of action they should pursue: |
| 513 | --->'''Sol:''' Fuck it, we're outta here. |
| 514 | ** After being spared solely because Tony ran out of bullets, Tyrone makes no attempt to return to the Pawn Shop, and [[KarmaHoudini is ultimately the only member that avoids death and arrest.]] Granted, he's probably in the hospital recovering from being shot and is also likely being investigated by the police if U.K. laws are anything like those of the U.S.[[note]]U.S. law requires a police report for any injury resulting from a gunshot and the person injured gets interviewed by the police. If the police think the story is suspicious or you have a criminal history, it's a quick way to find yourself under serious investigation and being followed or otherwise monitored by the authorities. (Anytime a crook in a U.S. crime movie has been shot and refuses to go to a hospital, that's the reason behind it.)[[/note]] |
| 515 | ** When Avi realises he's [[spoiler:[[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace just accidentally killed]] Bullet-Tooth Tony]], he jumps on a plane right back to New York. |
| 516 | * SelfPlagiarism: To ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'': |
| 517 | ** In ''Lock Stock'', there is a scene in which Harry, Barry, and Chris have a conversation. Barry says the line. "No, Harry, you can't," which is shortly repeated by Chris, then by both together. This joke is carried over to this movie when Alex and Susi do the same thing with the line, "Yeah, Dad, you told us." |
| 518 | ** Boris the Blade pulls a large cleaver from his belt as Soap did. |
| 519 | ** Boris' brother advising him not to use idiots to kidnap Frankie echoes Harry telling Barry that he doesn't want to know who he hires to steal the shotguns so long as they're not complete muppets. |
| 520 | ** Brick Top telling Turkish and Tommy to fuck off after chewing them out for their failure as Barry did to the Scousers. |
| 521 | * SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Avi gets angry at all the British slang being thrown around, and at one point yells "Speak English to me, Tony. This country supposedly spawned the fucking language and so far, nobody seems to speak it". |
| 522 | * ShapedLikeItself: |
| 523 | -->'''Tony:''' Boris the Blade? As in, Boris the Bullet-Dodger?\ |
| 524 | '''Avi:''' Why do they call him the Bullet-Dodger?\ |
| 525 | '''Tony:''' [beat, then turns to look at Avi in disbelief] Because he dodges bullets, Avi. |
| 526 | * ShirtlessScene: Creator/BradPitt as a bareknuckle boxer spends a lot of time with his shirt off, exposing his numerous gypsy tats and chiseled abs. |
| 527 | * ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The bookie and Mickey's fellow Travelers adhere to this. |
| 528 | * ShoutOut: |
| 529 | ** [[Film/{{Psycho}} When Mickey "wins" a new trailer van for his mother from Turkish, he specifically picks out "periwinkle blue" as the color]]. |
| 530 | ** During the opening credits, the Hasidic-clad diamond thieves are discussing the Virgin Mary. This is a reference to ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', where during the opening scene the thieves are discussing [[Music/{{Madonna}} "Like a Virgin"]]. |
| 531 | ** One of the boxers is called Bomber Harris. "Bomber Harris" was the nickname of Arthur Harris, chief of RAF Bomber Command in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The name later appeared in a German Creator/MontyPython special as the name of a man who wrestles himself -- Colin "Bomber" Harris. |
| 532 | ** Just before Mickey and Bomber Harris begin their fight, Bomber Harris head-butts Mickey just after the bell rings. Mickey recoils checking for blood on his glove and then floors his opponent with one punch. This was a nod towards Lenny "The Guv'nor" [=McLean=] when he fought "Mad Gypsy" Bradshaw in an almost identical fight. Lenny [=McLean=] worked with Creator/GuyRitchie on ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'' and passed away in 1998. |
| 533 | * SlasherSmile: Tony has an unpleasant smirk when he's taunting the Yardies with the knowledge that he knows their guns are replicas. |
| 534 | * SophisticatedAsHell: |
| 535 | -->'''Brick Top:''' Do you know what Nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt. Me. |
| 536 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Mickey. He's consistently used and abused for the benefit of the other characters, but they learn to their cost that he's been busy making his own plans ever since [[spoiler:[[YouKilledMyFather Brick Top killed his mam]].]] |
| 537 | * SplitScreenPhoneCall: Creator/GuyRitchie's DVDCommentary reveals that in order to cut costs the two sides of the phone conversation between Cousin Avi and Doug the Head were shot at separate times on the same physical piece of film -- which is why the timing is slightly off. |
| 538 | * SpiritualSuccessor: For ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels''. Similar tone, subject matter, and some crossover in cast and crew. Creator/VinnieJones is shown crushing someone's head in a car door in both films. |
| 539 | * SpoilerOpening: [[spoiler:The title card ''starts with'' the eventual fate of the diamond -- Avi grinning while he stashes it in his safe.]] |
| 540 | * StealthPun: Mickey first appears performing the act that 'Brad Pitt' is [[http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/brad_pitt rhyming slang]] for. |
| 541 | * SteelEardrums: Both averted and played straight: |
| 542 | ** Boris puts in earplugs before shooting [[spoiler:Frankie Four-Fingers]], but no one else bothers with ear protection and they don't seem to suffer any ill effects. |
| 543 | ** Averted when Sol fires the replica gun in the car to prove they work. It damn near deafens everyone in the car and it bursts all the windows. Hell, if they fired those replicas off near Tony's ear, they probably could have stolen his gun. |
| 544 | * TheStoolPigeon: Mullet, a Scottish lad who Bullet Tooth Tony interrogates to find out who tried blagging Brick Top's bookies. A deleted scene has John and Errol interrogate him as well. |
| 545 | * StraightEdgeEvil: While Avi and Bullet-Tooth Tony are shown drinking alcohol, a deleted scene reveals that they both share a dislike of cocaine and addicts, which is why Tony dislikes Brick Top's goons. |
| 546 | -->'''Avi''': What exactly did you do to these guys. |
| 547 | -->'''Tony''': I had a run-in with a few of the chaps. They were too busy listening to white powdered angels sitting on their shoulders. |
| 548 | -->'''Avi''': You should never trust a man who puts anything but a finger up his nose. |
| 549 | * StupidCrooks: |
| 550 | ** Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. Apparently, everything they do was inspired by stories of real life stupid criminals shared on late night talk show monologues. |
| 551 | ** Also Avi. He doesn't even know how to use a knife, for goodness' sake! In his defence, he's not used to active criminal work himself. |
| 552 | * SuddenlyShouting: The one time Turkish demonstrably loses his cool is when Tommy's pestering him about how they're going to ensure Mickey does what he should in the second fight. |
| 553 | -->'''Tommy:''' So why are you so calm? ... I said--\ |
| 554 | '''Turkish:''' ''I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID, TOMMY! It isn't like we got a choice, now, is it?'' You show me how to control a wild fuckin' pikey, and I'll show you how to control an unhinged, pig-feedin' gangster! Fuck me, I'm going for a walk! |
| 555 | * SuddenMorbidMonologue: Brick Top comes across Vinnie and Sol (who had just robbed a bookie's belonging to him) carrying the body of Frankie Four Fingers. He gives them some extremely detailed advice on how to dispose of Frankie's body. Vinnie and Sol are both visibly disturbed when they hear this information; Vinnie asks Brick Top who he is, and Brick Top introduces himself as their nemesis ("A righteous infliction of retribution, manifested by an appropriate agent."). |
| 556 | * TakeAThirdOption: Mickey is given two choices: perform in a fixed fight that he has to lose by knockout in the fourth round, or watch as the gangsters forcing him to do this murder his entire clan. (And just to prove they will, they set fire to his mother's caravan — with her inside.) Instead, they decide on a third option. Mickey and the entire clan bet a shitload of money on Mickey knocking out his opponent, which he does, and before the gangsters can do anything about it the clan kills all the gangsters assassins and the head of the mob as well. Moral of the story: don't fuck with Irish Travellers. |
| 557 | * TemptingFate: Sol says this ''immediately'' before Bullet Tooth Tony taps on the window with his Desert Eagle: |
| 558 | -->"You're not from this planet are you, Vincent? Who is gonna mug two black fellas, who're holding pistols, in a car that's worth less than your shirt?!!" |
| 559 | * ThatCameOutWrong: Turkish describes the caravan Mickey wants for his mother as "A tart's mobile palace." Cue the DeathGlare from Mickey and the other travelers and Turkish quickly begins backpedalling. |
| 560 | -->'''Turkish:''' I wasn't calling your mum a tart. Just... |
| 561 | * ThatsWhatSheSaid: "In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary, come again?" |
| 562 | * ThatWasntARequest: "Of course, fucking of course. I wasn't asking I was telling". |
| 563 | * TheToothHurts: |
| 564 | ** In the DramatisPersonae, we see Brick Top's men pinning someone to a pool table while Brick Top hammers out their teeth. |
| 565 | ** Bullet-Tooth Tony got his name this way. One of the six ineffectual shots he's hit with blasts out two of his teeth, which has has replaced with two of the bullets lodged in his body from the shooting. |
| 566 | * ThereAreNoPolice: There are shootings, robberies, attempted robberies, kidnappings, hit and run, mob activity and no police until the very last few minutes. |
| 567 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Tony is noticeably distressed when, while questioning Solomon, he finds out he's up against [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Boris The Blade]]. Sure enough, Boris kicks the crap out of him and Avi's goon before being subdued. |
| 568 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Turkish and Tommy. |
| 569 | * ThoseWackyNazis: Referenced. When Tommy reveals he has bought a gun "for protection", Turkish replies "Who from? Ze Germans?" |
| 570 | * ThrowingTheFight: Mickey is told to take the dive, but refuses. Everyone thinks this is just him being deliberately contrary, but it turns out to be a thoroughly-planned revenge plot which includes placing a huge bet on himself. |
| 571 | * TitleDrop: The film's title only appears once throughout the entire movie, where Vinny tells the dog, "Don't snatch." as it takes the squeaky toy. It is said to the dog because it's the dog who eats the diamond. |
| 572 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Mickey's mother]] is the only member of the Irish Traveller camp that is not a walking example of their stereotype as back-stabbing con artists (seriously, [[EnfantTerrible even the kids are this]]) [[spoiler:and is the victim of Brick Top's biggest KickTheDog moment in the whole film by murdering her in her sleep [[MakeAnExampleOfThem to show Mickey who's boss]].]] |
| 573 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 574 | ** Tommy, Turkish's timid little sidekick, grows a pair of giant BrassBalls before the movie is over. [[spoiler:He saves Turkish's ass by walking in with his defective HandCannon and facing down a half-dozen of Brick Top's mooks armed with various bladed and blunt weapons. When Errol advances on him, does he back down, knowing his gun won't fire? Nope. He steps forward, shoves the gun in Errol's face and ''dares'' him to try anything.]] |
| 575 | ** Inverted with Sol and company, who get less badass with each scene. When they attempt to hold up Tony, they bottom out. |
| 576 | * ToThePain: Brick Top gives a detailed, step-by-step set of instructions for how to dispose of a body (it involves a pig farm) to a Yardie and a duo of Stupid Crooks- the latter of which unwittingly robbed one of his businesses. The Yardie- who knows Brick Top- is clearly intimidated; the other two are too stupid to worry up until they're escorted outside and find that Brick Top's thugs are ready to attempt step 1 on the three of them while they're still alive. |
| 577 | * TranquilFury: |
| 578 | ** For Brick Top, "loud and aggressive" is his default mode. When he gets ''really'' angry, he gets very quiet. |
| 579 | ** Mickey [[spoiler: when Brick Top kills his Mom, he doesn't hold Turkish and Tommy responsible and agrees to do the fight before anyone else gets hurt. All while plotting his own revenge on Brick Top.]] |
| 580 | * TrashyTrailerHome: Mickey and his fellow UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers live in an illegal trailer park. Turkish mentions in narration that these people have no trouble with murder (accidental or otherwise) because all they need to do is bury the corpses, pull stakes, and they will never be found because they live off the grid. [[spoiler:Sure enough, after they kill Brick Top and his men in retaliation for the murder of Mikey's mom, Turkish and Tommy arrive to the campground the morning after to find them all gone.]] Also, aside from Mikey's mother (who [[spoiler:becomes an unfortunate example of TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth [[KickTheDog courtesy of Brick Top]]]]), all of the people in the campground are showcased as loathsome con artists. |
| 581 | * TravelMontage: Happens when Cousin Avi travels from New York to London, and again when he returns to New York, and when he goes back to London in the end. All the three times, the footage is part of a brief, frenetic montage of the whole trip, including a passport getting stamped and Avi downing a drink on the plane. |
| 582 | * TreasureIsBiggerInFiction: The diamond has a diameter of about 4-5 centimetres (1.6 inches) and weighs 86 carats. Notably, everyone in the film who knows anything about jewelry makes a ''huge'' deal about its size. |
| 583 | * TrespassingToTalk: Brick Top's tactic (though he's not a monster: he asks Turkish to make some tea at least). |
| 584 | * TheTriadsAndTheTongs: A Chinese gangster makes a brief appearance in a flashback, attempting to murder Bullet-Tooth Tony. Key word is "attempting", because Tony shrugs off every bullet the gangster shoots him with, until he's left screaming "Why Won't You Die??!", and then Tony kills him with a sword. |
| 585 | * TrouserSpace: Done with a not ridiculously large object, but still lampshaded and spoofed. Sol and Vinny are going to turn over a huge diamond to Brick Top in order to get themselves out of trouble with him. When they're outside his headquarters, it turns out that Sol has hidden it in TrouserSpace. The following conversation takes place: |
| 586 | -->'''Sol:''' Well why did you put it down there? |
| 587 | -->'''Vince:''' In case we got mugged. |
| 588 | -->'''Sol:''' You're not from this planet are you, Vincent? Who is gonna mug two black fellas, who're holding pistols, while sitting in a car that's worth less than your shirt?!! |
| 589 | ** And then right after this, Bullet Tooth Tony taps on the window of their car with his [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]]. It turns out TrouserSpace actually keeps the diamond hidden a little longer. |
| 590 | * UmbrellaDrink: Avi appears to prefer these kind of drinks when he has to leave his home country. |
| 591 | -->I don't like leaving my own country, Doug, and I especially don't like leaving it for anything less than warm sandy beaches and cocktails with little straw hats. |
| 592 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: |
| 593 | ** Gorgeous George severely underestimates Mickey when they fight. |
| 594 | --->'''Turkish:''' (voiceover) It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey was a gypsy bare-knuckle boxing champion. Which makes him harder than a coffin nail. |
| 595 | ** Really, everyone continues to underestimate Mickey for the entire movie. Though usually it's his {{Chessmaster}} abilities that they underestimate rather than his fighting prowess. |
| 596 | * UnintelligibleAccent: Mikey O'Neil speaks with such a thick "Pikey" accent that outsiders have difficulty understanding him. His subtitles occasionally revert to "??????" |
| 597 | ** [[http://youtu.be/ySyBMTo-1sc Some people still managed to make out what he said.]] |
| 598 | * UnspokenRetort: [[FirstPersonSmartass Turkish]] gets in three jabs like this towards [[BigBad Brick]] [[LondonGangster Top]] when the latter is negotiating with him to use his prize boxer Gorgeous George in one of Brick Top's unlicensed fights, whilst they're both at Brick Top's private pig farm, [[FedToPigs where he feeds the chopped-up bodies of people who've displeased him to those pigs]]. |
| 599 | -->'''Brick Top:''' I hear he's a good fighter, so I'm gonna use him. [[FauxAffablyEvil I'll be doing you a favour, boy]]. |
| 600 | -->'''Turkish:''' (''narrating'') What he means is ''I'm'' doing ''[[ItsAllAboutMe him]]'' a favour. 'Cause everybody knows no-one [[ThrowingTheFight takes a dive in my fights]], unlike ''his''. |
| 601 | -->'''Brick Top:''' Here, [[TheDragon Errol]]. I [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter don't think he likes me]]. (''to Turkish'') You don't like me, do you, boy? |
| 602 | -->'''Turkish:''' [[BlatantLies Don't know what you mean]]. (''narrating'') I do know I can't wait to get out of here. [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck me]], it [[MessyPig stinks]]. |
| 603 | -->'''Brick Top:''' [[ScheduleFanatic I'd like my fights to finish prompt]] so we can get the punters out before the authorities find out. Now, play your cards right, and I'll sort you out |
| 604 | -->'''Turkish:''' (''narrating'') You can sort me out by [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere showing me out]]. |
| 605 | * UnusualEuphemism: |
| 606 | ** Minerals (fancy way of saying "stones"). |
| 607 | ** Tony shouting to Avi "Pull your socks up!" as a way to warn him to duck, before he shoots through the wall. |
| 608 | * VillainousBreakdown: |
| 609 | ** For a given value of 'villain' (he's certainly not nearly as bad as some in this movie), Avi spends most of the movie getting more and more edgy and irate with things until he's eventually reduced to firing a gun wildly at a dog. One gets the feeling he'd been wanting to shoot something/one for a while by that point. |
| 610 | --->'''''I HATE FUCKING DOGS!''''' |
| 611 | ** After getting beaten, kidnapped, then escaping a car crash only to be blindsided by another car, Boris marches home, LaughingMad, and muttering to himself in Russian the entire time. |
| 612 | * ViolentGlaswegian: Inverted. Mullet, the Scottish [[TheStoolPigeon informant,]] is more often the victim of violence than the instigator, as Bullet Tooth Tony is happy to show. |
| 613 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: The movie is primarily a wacky comedy focused on criminals and the hijinks the cast get into while trying to find a diamond. And then you have Brick Top, a ruthless and murderous crime boss played completely straight, and who is by far the most nasty and seriously played character in the movie. Even what little humor he brings in only further cements what an asshole he is. |
| 614 | * VitriolicBestBuds: |
| 615 | ** Turkish definitely has some pretty snarky and snide things to say about Tommy, but in his voice-over admits that he considers him like a younger brother. The two are pretty much inseparable throughout the film, and they even dress identically. |
| 616 | ** To a lesser extent, Vinnie and Sol, although the two definitely seem less close and don't appear to actually like each other very much at times. |
| 617 | * VocalDissonance: Tyrone, the fattest of the three Yardies, has a high-pitched voice. |
| 618 | * WatchingTroyBurn: Mickey's mom's trailer. |
| 619 | * WeakBossStrongUnderlings: Brick Top has his thugs (most prominently John and Errol), Turkish and Tommy used Gorgeous George for that purpose, Doug the Head hires Bullet-Tooth Tony both for this and for his abilities to find someone, and Avi has Rosebud. |
| 620 | * WeaponForIntimidation: |
| 621 | ** Despite Tommy's revolver being defective, he successfully uses it to hold up Brick Top's mooks when they have Turkish surrounded. |
| 622 | ** Vinnie brings a gigantic assault shotgun to the bookie robbery, saying that it's to "raise pulses." Sol doesn't approve. |
| 623 | ** Vinnie and Sol are forced to take a downgrade by using replica, blank-firing pistols in an attempt to mug Tony. |
| 624 | ** Averted with the [[HandCannon Desert Eagle, Point Five-Oh]]. Both because it is very much used for shooting and killing things, and because [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bullet-Tooth]] [[TheDreaded Tony]] doesn't need a weapon to be intimidating. That said, he does use it to get Sol, Vinnie, and Tyrone to back down, countering that their fake weapons for intimidation are trumped by his real one. |
| 625 | * WhamLine: The movie begins with a quick shot of Turkish and Tommy sat in a dark room in front of an unidentified man, which is forgotten about for the rest of the movie until the end, wherein this brief exchange reveals exactly who they are dealing with: |
| 626 | -->'''Turkish:''' So, what do you think? Know anyone who'd be interested?\ |
| 627 | '''[[spoiler: Doug the Head]]''': I might. |
| 628 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 629 | ** Tyrone's fate is not immediately clear; he appears to survive the showdown at the pub, but nothing more is mentioned of him after Sol and Vinnie desert him. |
| 630 | ** John, Brick Top's henchman is last seen long before the ultimate fight, but just prior to it or afterwards is not present at all. He's presumably killed off-screen by the pikeys. |
| 631 | ** Boris the Blade's Brother disappears after the opening scenes, although considering that Boris fails to hide his involvement in the robbery (something that they had decided was of great importance) it's likely that Cousin Avi would have connected the dots and either fired Boris's brother from his organization or had him killed. |
| 632 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Mickey's "pikey" accent is a bizarre mix of English, Irish, Scottish, and gibberish. |
| 633 | -->'''Turkish:''' There is a problem with pikeys or gypsies. You can't really understand what's being said. It's not Irish. It's not English. It's just....well, it's just ''pikey.'' |
| 634 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Turkish explains his name: |
| 635 | -->My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My parents to be were on the same plane when it crashed. That's how they met. They named me after the name of the plane. Not many people are named after a plane crash. |
| 636 | * WhyWontYouDie: |
| 637 | ** Screamed at Tony by (presumably) a Chinese Triad member in a flashback. |
| 638 | ** Tony himself says "Don't take the piss, Boris" before shooting Boris for the umpteenth time. |
| 639 | * WorryingForTheWrongReason: On the day of the second fight, Tommy is scared that Mickey will knock out the other fighter and that they'll all be killed by Brick Top as a result, and is surprised to see that Turkish is relatively calm about it. Turkish, however, isn't bothered by that. The day in question is also the day of a funeral, [[spoiler:specifically Mickey's mom's]], and Irish gypsies are known to drink ''very'' heavily at funerals, which will no doubt include Mickey himself. What ''Turkish'' is worried about is whether Mickey will drink so much that he doesn't even make it to the fourth round of the fight, when he is meant to take the dive. Because both have the same consequence, and are dependent on Mickey and Brick Top, Turkish feels that there is nothing either he or Mickey can do to stop either scenario: |
| 640 | -->'''Turkish:''' (irritated) It's not as though we've got a choice now, is it? You show me how to control a wild fucking gypsy, and I'll show you how to control an unhinged, pig-feeding gangster! |
| 641 | * TheYardies: Lincoln (played by Goldie) is described as "a bad boy Yardie". Funnily enough, Goldie is of Jamaican descent, like the original definition of "Yardie". |
| 642 | * YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: About Boris the Bullet Dodger: |
| 643 | -->'''Avi''': Why do they call him the Bullet Dodger? |
| 644 | -->'''Tony''': ...'cause he dodges bullets, Avi. |
| 645 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Brick Top, upon hearing Turkish declaring that Mickey's not going to throw the fight unless they buy a caravan for his mother, coldly declares, "You're not very useful to me alive, are you, Turkish?" and sends his men down to Turkish's arcade armed to the teeth. [[spoiler: Subverted, because Turkish survives, and has to worry more about [[YouHaveFailedMe Brick Top punishing them for not getting the desired fight outcome instead.]]]] |
| 646 | * YourMom: |
| 647 | -->'''Errol''': Oy, fuckface. Was he talking to you? |
| 648 | -->'''Turkish''': Fuckface? I like that one, Errol. I'll have to remember that one next time I'm climbing off your Mum. |
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